Paper Thin Walls talks with lykke li and goes over every song on her album "Youth novels": http://www.paperthinwalls.com/listeningparty/index?id=89

lykke li is in a bit of hot water for supposedly saying she hates Sweden: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=45075548&blogID=422283374
The Aftonbladet article in question: http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesliv/musik/article3055497.ab

The video for the latest lykke li single "Breaking it up" is on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXmQiGHbz5o

Check out a new Takeaway Show episode featuring lykke li and El Perro Del Mar: http://www.blogotheque.net/Lykke-Li-et-El-Perro-Del-Mar

lykke li's show at Hotel Café in LA on August 25 is sold out, but don't despair - she'll be back in November for a show on the 3rd at the El Rey.

New UK dates for lykke li:

09/29 - The Plug, Sheffield
10/01 - Scala, London
10/02 - Concorde 2, Brighton
10/05 - Glee Club, Birmingham
10/06 - Thekla, Bristol
10/08 - Academy 2, Liverpool
10/09 - Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh
10/10 - The Duchess, York

Kleerup
s/t
EMI

Pop music can be about a lot more than shifting hundreds of a thousands of records and continuously rotating overly-glitzy music videos, and Andreas Kleerup's self-titled debut is verification of this idea. Holding more in common with The Knife's songwriting approach than that of Max Martin, and reveling in similar production tricks to that of Justice, Kleerup's compositions seem almost "accidentally" radio friendly; too much effort has been put into these tracks for them to be dismissed as pop fluff, and yet too much pop sensibility has gone into their writing for the songs to feel pretentiously avant-garde -- the album's strengths exist somewhere in between these two judgments. While the record is rather star-studded with tracks featuring numerous well-known artists: Robyn, lykke li, Neneh Cherry, and Marit Bergman, to name a few, Kleerup's own tracks stand up well on their own. "Thank you for nothing" runs cleverly between Europop-like catchiness and the allure of well-produced remixes of bands like Phoenix, and opener "Hero" is an engaging first look at the album, evoking a strange mix between Vangelis and Röyksopp. "With every heartbeat", the Robyn-featured single, is my favorite track, though the Marit Bergman led "3am" and lykke li's "Until we bleed" are not far behind. Overall, "Kleerup" is a skillfully produced pop record that's as much fun as it is expertly written and executed -- a pleasant departure from the soulless gloss of so many other pop albums.
- Lars Garvey Laing-Peterson

New North American dates for lykke li:

08/25 - Hotel Cafe, Los Angeles, CA
08/28 - Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY
08/28 - Richards on Richards, Vancouver, BC
10/19 - Black Cat, Washington, Washington DC
10/23 - Paradise, Boston, MA
10/24 - Mod Club, Toronto, ONT
10/25 - Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL
10/28 - Richards on Richards, Vancouver, BC
10/29 - Neumo's, Seattle, WA
10/30 - Doug Fir, Portland, OR
11/01 - Independent, San Francisco, CA

Here is the It's a Trap! Last.fm listening group top 10 albums of the week:

01. MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
02. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
03. Sigur Rós – Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
04. Feist – The Reminder
05. Band of Horses – Cease to Begin
06. Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
07. Hot Chip – Made In The Dark
08. Familjen – Det snurrar i min skalle
09. Håkan Hellström – För Sent För Edelweiss
10. lykke li – Youth Novels

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Festival report: Hultsfred 08 (pt. II)

Watch lykke li cover A Tribe Called Quest live in London: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqh-8H6fhAg

Festival report: Hultsfred 08 (pt. I)

Here is the It's a Trap! Last.fm listening group top 10 artists of the week:

01. Death Cab for Cutie
02. Radiohead
02. Sigur Rós
04. The Radio Dept.
05. Jens Lekman
06. Håkan Hellström
07. MGMT
08. Coldplay
08. lykke li
10. José González

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Pitchfork reviews lykke li's "Youth novels": http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/49939-youth-novels

The London Observer talks to lykke li: http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/story/0,,2283217,00.html