Artist: The Radio Dept.

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The Radio Dept. heading south (update)

Updated tourdates for The Radio Dept.'s South American tour in July:

07/02 - Bizarro Club, Lima (PE)
07/04 - Centro de Eventos Cerro Bellavista Santiago (CL)
07/06 - Beco 203, Sao Paulo (BR)
07/08 - Teatro Odiessa, Rio de Janerio (BR)

The Radio Dept. heading south

The Radio Dept. will be heading to South America in July:

07/04 - Centro de Eventos Cerro Bellavista, Santiago (CL)
07/06 - Beco 203, Sao Paulo (BR)
07/07 - Teatro Odisseia, Rio de Janeiro (BR)

This Vision - 20th century (video)

New shoegazey electro/pop/fuzz from Sweden ala The Radio Dept.. This Vision's new album "The golden age we lost" will be out on May 11 via /.

3:25,290 - En subjektiv berättelse om svensk indie 1999-2009

Swedish webzine Throw Me Away is publishing a multi-part series by Billy Rimgard on the history of Swedish indie from 1999-2009 and the first part which focuses on The Radio Dept. can be found here: http://www.throwmeaway.se/svensk-indie/kapitel-ett-against-the-tide/
New chapters will be posted weekly.

The Radio Dept. cancel tour

The Radio Dept. have cancelled their upcoming US tour, citing "family related matters." Instead, the band will remain at home in Sweden and will begin work on their next album.

Interview: Korallreven

Interview: Korallreven

The Radio Dept. return to the US in November

The Radio Dept. are coming back to North America in November for a few weeks of live dates:

11/03 - Fitzgerald's (Upstairs Room), Houston, TX
11/04 - Club Dada, Dallas, TX
11/05 - Fun Fun Fun Fest, Austin, TX
11/07 - Club Congress, Tucson, AZ
11/08 - El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
11/09 - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA
11/11 - Doug Fir Lounge, Portland, OR
11/12 - Neumos, Seattle, WA
11/15 - Varsity Theatre, Minneapolis, MN
11/16 - Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL
11/17 - The Mod Club, Toronto, ONT
11/18 - Corona Theatre, Montreal, QC
11/19 - Paradise, Boston, MA
11/20 - Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
11/21 - First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia, PA
11/22 - Black Cat, Washington, DC

Early Radio Dept. gets vinyl treatment

For vinyl nerds who like their shoegaze dreamy and underwhelming, has reissued the first three albums from The Radio Dept. on 180g vinyl: http://www.labrador.se/shop.php3

This week's Last.fm chart

Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week unique to our group:

01. Jonathan Johansson
02. Anna Järvinen
03. Jens Lekman
04. Acid House Kings
05. Fredrik
06. Holy Ghost!
07. The Radio Dept.
08. Syket
09. Lykke Li
10. Palpitation

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Säkert! - Heaven's on fire (video)

Watch Säkert! cover The Radio Dept.'s "Heaven's on fire" for Klubbland: http://klubbland.se/2011/04/13/sakert-tolkar-radio-dept/
The full Säkert! episode goes up on Friday.

This week's Last.fm chart

Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week unique to our group:

01. Bob Hund
02. Anna Järvinen
03. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
04. The Concretes
05. Jenny Wilson
06. Kent
07. Peter Bjorn and John
08. The Radio Dept.
09. Glasvegas
10. Lykke Li

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This week's Last.fm chart

Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week unique to our group:

01. Bob Hund
02. Jens Lekman
03. Lykke Li
04. Håkan Hellström
05. Anna Järvinen
06. Kurt Vile
07. The Bear Quartet
08. The Radio Dept.
09. Austra
10. Rubik

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This week's Last.fm chart

Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week unique to our group:

01. Andreas Mattsson
02. Håkan Hellström
03. Kent
04. Syket
05. Säkert!
06. The Radio Dept.
07. The Bear Quartet
08. Bright Eyes
09. Veronica Maggio
10. Lykke Li

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Pitchfork says The Radio Dept. is best new music

Pitchfork gives high marks to The Radio Dept.'s singles collection "Passive aggressive", though I'm not so sure about them ever being regarded as underdogs: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15035-passive-aggressive-singles-2002-2010/

This week's Last.fm chart

Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week unique to our group:

01. Håkan Hellström
02. Familjen
03. Bright Eyes
04. Veronica Maggio
05. Those Dancing Days
06. The Radio Dept.
07. Cut Copy
08. Säkert!
09. James Blake
10. Broder Daniel

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