love is all

139.

noreply@blogger.com (Love is all) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:34:00 +0000

Pitchfork says 'Nine Times That Same Song' is the 139th best album of the decade.

Nice.

This is how they put it:

Quick to fall in and out of love, and with a bit of an obsessive streak, the shouty Swedish-pop five-piece both suited and deserved their instant crit slobber. What's more remarkable is how Nine Times That Same Song has endured and even thrived where so many similarly lauded contemporaries have begun to sound-- well, not "fresh and young" anymore. From the cowbell-clattering "one more time" dance-skronk of "Talk Talk Talk Talk" to the smoldering alt-ballad TV confessional of "Trying Too Hard", Love Is All had the funny, affecting, tellingly detailed songs to render comparisons to Life Without Buildings, X-Ray Spex, or the Yeah Yeah Yeahs all but irrelevant; along with its lo-fi elbow grease, that 10-times-great-songs spirit gives 9 Times common cause with a resurgent Slumberland's latter-decade roster. Not falling out means never having to make up.--Marc Hogan

Simply one of the 200 best songs!

noreply@blogger.com (Love is all) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:18:00 +0000

Hey,

this has been up for a few days now, but just in case you didn't see it: We are very proud to let you know we are on Pitchforks list of the best 200 songs of the last ten years!

"Love Is All may specialize in songs that sound sharp and jagged, but their best single is more like a series of rounded upward curves, building up and crashing down like tidal waves confined to a kiddie pool. While the verses in "Make Out Fall Out Make Up" throb like a hangover headache, the choruses blare to the point of nearly collapsing into atonal cacophony, with Josephine Olausson's trebly yelping rising above the din to absolutely nail the tune's feeling of overwhelming romantic anxiety".

Here's the link: http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7686-the-top-500-tracks-of-the-2000s-200-101/

Love is all in the studio.

noreply@blogger.com (Love is all) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:15:00 +0000

Hello all,

********** Turn the sound off on that video from Spin (below) first!!!! ***********************

We are really sorry for being terrible in updating this. The past month or so we've been hiding in our studio, recording what will be our next album. Here's a little film Markus made to prove it:

More details as soon as we have such.

Love,

Josephine/Love is all

VANS VANS VANS.

noreply@blogger.com (Love is all) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:37:00 +0000

Here's a little video that tells the story about our nightmarish European tour last year, when drove four different vans in just over a week:

Last Choice video!

noreply@blogger.com (Åke Strömer) — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:52:00 +0000

Here's our new video for the song Last Choice!

Right now we're in Rotterdam in Holland. Tonight we're playing our last show of our european tour. It's been fantastic and only one car broke down! (it's not over yet though...) It did get towed once though after we parked it in the middle of a road overnight...

But due to the van breaking down we did have to cancel our first show ever and we're extremely sorry about that!

noreply@blogger.com (Love is all) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:57:00 +0000

hello everyone, a while back we had some time to kill so we decided to do something different; namely record a bunch of covers of some of our favourite swedish classics. songs by tant strul, bob hund, di leva, philemon arthur and the dung and magnus uggla.

just like we did for our first cover ep we decided that each member would pick a song with no other member getting a say in the matter. we recorded them all in a hurry at our space, just to avoid things getting too complicated...

we've screen printed 200 sleeves here in my kitchen and will include a small fanzine in the little cdr package we will bring to our upcoming shows in europe. but, since a lot of you don't live anywhere near those venues we decided to give the songs away as well. so, HERE you go. feel free to spread and share as you wish. we really hope you like them.

also, we will be back for a few shows in the usa this summer, if all goes well. we are currently trying to decide on which great american classics might receive the love is all mistreatment. please feel free to write us with suggestions.

'til then, josephine/love is all

EUROPE RELEASE AND TOUR!

noreply@blogger.com (Love is all) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:43:00 +0000

Buongiorno, Guten Tag, bonjour, etc etc,

We are happy to announce that our latest full length "A Hundred Things Keep Me Up Night" is (finally) released in Europe this week!

We have a bunch of new recordings as well, waiting to be released in a little while. And some shows:

Mar 28 Umeå Open, Umeå
Apr 4 Strand, Stockholm
Apr 18 Prinzenbar, Hamburg
Apr 24 Din Mamma, Linköping
Apr 30 Rust, Copenhagen
May 1 Pop Revo, Århus
May 2 Madness, Dresden
May 3 Babalu, Munich
May 4 La Casa, Milan
May 5 Init club, Rome
May 6 Covo Club, Rocker Festival, Bologna
May 7 ISC, Bern
May 8 Point Ephemere, Paris
May 9 Proud Galleries, London,
May 10 The Lexington, London
May 11 Paradiso, Amsterdam
May 12 The Rotown, Rotterdam
May 23 Debaser, Malmö

Spinning and scratching?

noreply@blogger.com (Åke Strömer) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:05:00 +0000

Videothing thing...

noreply@blogger.com (Åke Strömer) — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:06:00 +0000

When we were in LA a couple of months ago playing at the great venue "the smell" videothing filmed this. It's pretty neat!

Fitch Pork

noreply@blogger.com (Love is all) — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:39:00 +0000

Hey,

there's a new interview with Josephine on Pitchfork!

HELP US OUT HERE PLEASE!

noreply@blogger.com (Love is all) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:35:00 +0000

Hey friends,

please help us achieve world domination by voting for our album A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night and our single Wishing Well in this Pitchfork poll...

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/147763-the-2008-pitchfork-read
ers-poll

Also, it would make our day if you vote for Love Is All A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night in the 2008 Stereogum Gummy Awards!!!

You can vote for Best Album, Music Video, Live Act, Indie Rock Hotties and more.

Click here to vote: http://stereogum.com/gummys/

today's the day!

noreply@blogger.com (Love is all) — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:02:00 +0000

hello all,

i woke up way too early today, sort of like you would being a kid and knowing that you were waking up to your your birthday. well, today is the day our second record is finally out and i feel sort of excited in that same birthday way.
soon i'm going to run to amoeba here in san francisco to see if the record really exists. finally hold a copy. possibly buy one.

i've done some google-ing and found a whole bunch of nice words about the album. had i known it would be this smooth it might not have taken us three years to make a sequel...

love,
josephine

"A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night is as good as indie rock gets in the late 2000s"
the allmusic blog: http://blog.allmusic.com/2008/11/10/love-is-all-a-hundred-things-keep-me-up-at-night/

4/5 blender:
http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=5373

8/10 popmatters:
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/63848-love-is-all-a-hundred-things-keep-me-up-at-night/

"Agoraphobia rarely sounds this much fun"
la times: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2008/11/album-review-lo.html

3.5/5 spin:
http://www.spin.com/reviews/love-all-hundred-things-keep-me-night-whats-your-rupture

artist of the day in spin:
http://www.spin.com/articles/love-all

"They’re a perfect Scandinavian house party band with their jumpy all-at-the-same-time production"
Crawdaddy:
http://crawdaddy.wolfgangsvault.com/Review/Love-Is-All-A-Hundred-Things-Keep-Me-Up-at-Night.html

oh, and this guy really can't stand us:
"This is annoying, generic, insipid "rock music" at its worst. To call this band incredibly annoying would be an understatement. They're an earsore."
http://www.411mania.com/music/album_reviews/89993

Swedish radio!

noreply@blogger.com (Åke Strömer) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:12:00 +0000

This will be in swedish since the radio program I'm talking about is in swedish...

Nästa vecka ska vi vara med i P3 pop. Vi pratar en massa strunt & spelar upp några låtar från skivan. Det kommer bli sköj!

Så alltså nästa måndag (10 november) 22.00-24.00 på P3. Vilken tid exakt vet jag inte...
Här kan man lyssna: http://www.sr.se/sida/default.aspx?ProgramId=2945

/Åke is all

noreply@blogger.com (Love is all) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:10:00 +0000

hello everyone,

this is not being updated nearly as often as intended.
but, well... it's sunday afternoon here in sunny and cold gothenburg. i've just finished screen printing some new tote bags for our next tours. some of us are leaving for san francisco on tuesday already. there are at least two good reasons for why we want to get over there so early:
1. our friends from cause co-motion and crystal stilts are playing tuesday night at bottom of the hill and we want to be there.
2. also, we have a feeling tuesday could be the best party of the year if everything goes well in the election.
...and then of course we are really looking forward to spending some time in san francisco again. it's been much too long since we hung out with our friends over there.

it's now only just over a week until our new record is out. pretty exciting.
and the two weeks we've spent at home since our last tour have been spent recording and mixing five new tracks that should be out early next year. one song is about the danger of early mornings, another about all that van trouble we had on our last european tour.

actually i have to go now, need to approve the final changes to the mixes of those mentioned songs.

see some of you very soon.

love,
josephine

European cars hate love is all!

noreply@blogger.com (Love is all) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:49:00 +0000

Hi, just a quick update to tell you about our horribly unlucky (but still pretty damn fantastic!) european tour.

Right now we're in Milano in Italy. A couple of minutes ago our rental van broke down right outside the venue so we had to push it into a parking space.

That is our SECOND rental van. We had to rent a new one in Münster, Germany after that one had broken down. And we had to push that van up to enough speed so it would jump over a curb! Wyatt had the time of his life flying that van.

So, the next day we got a new van. And drove to Switzerland. The morning after our second show there in Aarau the new van refused to start. So once again we had to push it to get it going.

In Zürich we finally got the car fixed. Happy and ready for some italian sun we reached Ravenna and had some amazing food and good times. Played on a beach and partied like it was 199999.

And here we are in Milano with car trouble again! Last show of the tour at the awesome venue Rocket.
And once again we're gonna have to speak with the rental company and probably a non-english (or pretty much any other language) -speaking mechanic.

We'll tell you more when (or if) we get home. Show you some pictures and let you in on all the details!

In other news pitchfork is streaming one of the songs from the new album:

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/145518-premiere-love-is-all-big-bangs-black-holes-meteorites-mp3-stream

LUV

/Åke is all

TOUR UPDATE!

noreply@blogger.com (Love is all) — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:33:00 +0000

Some more US dates in October... and more to come!

Sep 10 Gleis 22, Münster, GER
Sep 11 Kulturwerk 118, Sursee, CH
Sep 12 Kiff, Arau, CH
Sep 13 Queen Kong Club Neuchatel, CH
Sep 14 Stall 6, Zürich, CH
Sep 16 Hana Bi, Ravenna, IT
Sep 17 Rocket, Milano, IT
Oct 8 The Orange Peel, Asheville, NC (w Of Montreal)
Oct 9 9.30 Club, Washington DC (w Of Montreal)
Oct 10 Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY (w Of Montreal)
Oct 11 The Barbary, Philadelphia, PA (w Time New Viking)
Oct 12 SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY (w Times New Viking and Abe Vigoda)
Oct 13 Maxwell’s, Hoboken, NJ (w Abe Vigoda)

Here is a clip from when Josephine and Markus visited Uncensored Interview in New York City earlier this summer... just chatting a little about what the word Indie means to us.

See the whole interview here: http://uncensoredinterview.com/artists/309-Love-Is-All

Tour dates update

noreply@blogger.com (Love is all) — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:28:00 +0000

Hey,

here's some new dates... and more coming soon!

Aug 5 Madam JoJo’s - London, UK
Aug 7 Debaser, Malmö, SWE
Aug 8 Prinzenbar, Hamburg, GER
Aug 9 Twisted Robot, Berlin, GER
Aug 18 Röhsska Museet, Gothenburg, SWE
Sep 10 Gleis 22 Münster, GER
Sep 11 Kulturwerk 118 Sursee, CH
Sep 12 Kiff, Arau, CH
Sep 13 Queen Kong Club, Neuchatel, CH
Sep 14 Stall 6, Zürich, CH
Sep 16 Hana Bi, Ravenna, IT
Sep 17 Rocket, Milano, IT
Oct 8 The Orange Peel, Asheville, North Carolina, US
Oct 9 9.30 club, Washington DC, US
Oct 10 Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY, US

EURO TOUR DATES!

noreply@blogger.com (Love is all) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:11:00 +0000

Get ready for this!

Aug 5 Madam JoJo’s - London, UK
Aug 7 Debaser, Malmö, SWE
Aug 8 Prinzenbar, Hamburg, GER
Aug 9 TBA, Berlin, GER
Aug 10 TBA
Aug 18 Röhsska Museet, Gothenburg, SWE
Sep 10 Gleis 22 Münster, GER
Sep 11 Kulturwerk 118 Sursee, CH
Sep 12 Kiff, Arau, CH
Sep 13 Queen Kong Club, Neuchatel, CH
Sep 14 Stall 6, Zürich, CH
Sep 15 TBA, GER

July 7

noreply@blogger.com (Åke Strömer) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:47:00 +0000

Hi everybody, this is Ake (that new saxamaphone player) again. I just feel like writing something here since it's been a while since the last post.

Thought I'd start with a brief update. We came back from the states a couple of weeks ago, we had such an amazing time and we'd like to thank everybody who made it so awesome!
All the people who let us stay at their houses and all the great bands we got to play with and, yeah, you know. All you great people out there! Thanks!
Here's some videos I found on youtube from the tour. If you have any more videos or pictures please feel free to email links to us!

Cake Shop:

Market Hotel:

In other news... That little Cover-CDR thing we made for the tour is now available on emusic, where you can also get our new single Wishing Well. Download it here.
And it will soon be available on vinyl. Wishing well is now also available for streaming on our myspace page!

We also have some shows coming in London, Malmö, Hamburg and maybe something more in the beginning of august. More info on that later!

Talk to you soon!

/Åke, l.u.v. is all

The show at Cakeshop, NYC, June 12th

noreply@blogger.com (Love is all) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:58:00 +0000

IMPORTANT!

The Cakeshop have asked us to let you know the following: you need to rsvp with your name to cakeshopnyc@gmail.com. Limit two
tickets per person (and you still have to pay at the door).

LIVE ON THE RADIO

noreply@blogger.com (Love is all) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:25:00 +0000

We are playing some songs, mostly new ones, on P3 Live Session tonight, 9.30 PM Central European Time... if you can't find it on the FM, check out this website!

http://www.sr.se/p3/

US update from the new guy...

noreply@blogger.com (Love is all) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:22:00 +0000

Hey, Åke here! (the new guy...)
So ok, the visa thing worked out, so we're set and ready to go west!
I get there on friday, ready to get in a cab as soon as possible to go to the knitting factory where I'll be doing a solo show opening for the incomparable Gary Wilson.
(Of course the new guy promotes himself with his first blog entry...)

After that we have a couple of days to hang out in new york and get ready and PUMPED for our shows. First up is Otto bar in Baltimore on the 10'th.
So it's:

10'th - Otto bar, Baltimore, MD
11'th - Black cat club, Washington DC
12'th - Cake shop, New York, NY
13'th - the Barbary, Philadelphia, PA
14'th - Market hotel, Brooklyn, NY
15'th - Great scott!, Boston, MA
16'th - Bowery ballroom, New York, NY

We're all very excited and judging from last nights rehearsal, it's gonna be good!

We're also bringing our new cover CDR's.
These include five cover songs we recorded a few weeks ago.
We all got to choose one song by another artist that we then recorded in our rehearsal space.

The songs are:

1. Kung-fu on the internet by Lung leg (picked by Josephine)
2. I ran by a Flock of Seagulls (picked by Åke)
3. So far away by Dire Straits (picked by Johan)
4. Golly gosh by Jed Dmochowski (picked by Markus)
5. Darling nikki by Prince (picked by Nicke)

Ok, we'll be back soon with more info and stuff.
L U V
/Åke

bowery and visas.

noreply@blogger.com (Love is all) — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:23:00 +0000

so yesterday we all got up at 3.30 am to drive to the american embassy in stockholm in order to get our visas. that meant three hours of sleep. the interviews went fine and our visas will most definitely be approved. but maybe not in time. there's some new system that is delaying everything. markus, who was supposed to leave on tuesday will probably have to reschedule his flight. i'm concerned about mine too, leaving dead early on thursday. i'm so nervous my stomach is turning.
oh, well, fingers crossed everything will work out. the people at the embassy are really helpful and have promised to keep us updated.

i was really supposed to write and let you know that we have another show booked in new york. it's at bowery ballroom. i have never been there, but it sounds huge to me. the tickets are apparently pretty pricey, but we promise to try and make ut up to you. we'll play some extra songs if you want to hear extra songs... and we will sell our merch a little cheaper in case you want to buy some souvenirs. please let us know if there are any special songs you want to hear and we will try to find time to rehearse them.

okay, i think that's all for now. off now for some bbq, beers and wiffle ball in the park.

hopefully see some of you soon.

love,
josephine

bag it.

noreply@blogger.com (Love is all) — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:35:00 +0000

last night sophy and i stayed up until 3 am and printed tote bags at valand art school. we will bring those bags to the shows we're playing this summer, which means you'll have the chance to bring your groceries home in a stylish love is all bag.

Radio Session

noreply@blogger.com (Love is all) — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:04:00 +0000

hey,

on monday may 19th we are recording a live session for sveriges radio (swedish national radio) here in gothenburg. they have some kind of a competetion where you can win tickets in case you want to come to the studio and watch the session... just check it out here (swedish only): sr.se/p3/livesession.
Hopefully see you there!

the show will be broadcast and webcast the following wednesday.

/Markus