Freeload: Love is All, “Pappas Tant” (Tant Strul cover)
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It takes a group with an identity as refined as FADER #37 cover stars Love is All to be so deeply into cover songs (i.e. their precociously lewd interpretation of “Darling Nikki”). Every prefab track they take on gets splayed and quartered through wacky impressionistic sax and kewpie-pie vocals (i.e. the devastatingly dramatic “I Ran”). But it feels like Tant Strul’s “Pappas Tant” was actually written for them, its punk cheer perfectly fits their wild lovely spirits. Oh yeah, Tant Strul is Lykke Li’s mom’s old punk band and this song is from 1980! And she sounded like Lykke, Bjork and the Nina Hagen-y singer from the German band MIA kinda! But it’s all in Swedish!
Download: Love is All, “Pappas Tant” (Tant Strul cover) (via Gorilla vs. Bear)
Exclusive Video: Love is All, “Movie Romance” HALLOWEEN EDITION
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A couple weeks ago, Sweden’s Love is All breezed through Heathers to play a quick set of new music for FADER TV’s Open Bar. When sax player Fredrik Eriksson hopped on the counter so a fan could dramatically blow his hair around, we realized the band was into theatrics and thus were in no way surprised when this special Halloween video for “Movie Romance” came across our desktops. Besides being an incredibly infectious song, the video features the band dressed as a bunch of stuff that we can’t really see because of the fog machine and the low lights. But the bear(?) on the right playing the guitar looks like he’s having a pretty good time. Love is All’s A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night will be released November 11th on What’s Your Rupture. And Happy Halloween!
FADER TV: Open Bar with Love is All
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Every couple of weeks we meet up with some of our favorite artists at Heathers Bar in the East Village. They play songs while everyone else ties on one.
Since putting Sweden’s Love is All on the cover of FADER 37, we’ve seen them perform on the beach, street corners, basements and subway platforms, so we weren’t sure what to expect from these veterans of unusual performance spaces when we invited them to come hang out with us. What we got was an internet video epic featuring a tiny keyboard, a “surprise” saxophone performance, a hurt hand and creative use of props found in the bar. Love is All are currently making the rounds to promote their sophomore album A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night, which will be released through What’s Your Rupture? on November 11th.
Secret NYC Show Announcement: Love Is All and Abe Vigoda in Brooklyn Tonight
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Through intense internet sleuthing (looking at MySpace), we’ve discovered that tonight’s super extra secret musical guests at Secret Robot Project’s Art Makes Eye Contact week in Williamsburg are no other than FADER 37 cover stars Love Is All and FADER 55 feature subject Abe Vigoda. There have been parties all week at Secret Robot to for the exhibit, but this is an especially good reason to put your best ratty sneakers and v-neck tee on and head down there. After your done listening to music, try to buy some art, as sales benefit Transformazium, whose mission it to use the “creative process and locally identified resources to transform ideas into tangible social and economic benefits. Our collaborative arts programming and skill-building workshops connect communities stratified by class, race and age and expand upon existing community networks and resources, while rendering models of possibility for other post-industrial cities.” See the exhibit poster and more pertinent info after the jump.
Video: Love Is All, “Wishing Well”
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Why did Love is All never become the biggest band ever? We put them on the cover of FADER Number 37! That’s usually a guarantee of worldwide acclaim. While the band didn’t exactly achieve unheard of success, 9 Times That Same Song is something of an office classic, so we were amped-and-a-half when our copies of A Hundred Things That Keep Me Up At Night came through the mail slot. The new album sounds a lot like the old album, but considering, like, 92 people heard that one, that shouldn’t be a problem. Up above, watch “Wishing Well,” featuring the beach (our favorite), hanging out (our favorite) and having fun (our favorite).
Video: Love Is All, “I Ran” (Live at Popfest)
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This is a video of Love Is All covering Flock of Seagulls’ “I Ran” last night during the opening night of NYC Popfest 2008. It makes our pits sweaty just watching it. Is using the deodorant of someone you haven’t been sleeping with for more than six months gross?
Audio: Love Is All, “Darling Nikki”
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FADER cover alumni (and currently awesome Swedish rock combo) Love Is All will be leaving Gothenburg for a week of stateside shows next month, including a stop at NYC’s own miniature jam palace Cake Shop on the 12th. Check the full schedule on their MySpace. If you need another reason besides “We said so!” to leave your internet cave and see Love Is All in person, keep in mind that their luggage will be stuffed not only with Coppertone and madras shorts and other vacation essentials, but a grip of hand-printed, five song cover CDs. Their shambolic takes on Dire Straits and Flock Of Seagulls are bound to be major, but we’re hung up on this version of Prince’s “Darling Nikki” because of the way Josephine Olausson mumbles the purple one’s lyrics (”mashtrubating with a magoozeen…”) and also because it gives us an excuse to remind you that TIPPER GORE STILL SUCKS. Smash the PMRC!
Video: Love Is All, “Wishing Well” For The Hand Held Show
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Did you know we put Love is All on our cover? (Issue 37!) We gotta be honest and say that they never really took off like we clearly hoped, but they did gain a cult following (especially among FADER-staffers. “Busy Doing Nothing” is our shit on Saturday mornings when it’s raining and cold but we still want to wake up and not feel like we are wrapped in like seven blankets of gauze). Annnyyyyywayyy, We thought the band fell off the face of the earth for a minute, but it turns out they didn’t! After a date in DC, they’re hitting New York for a show at Cake Shop on June 12th, then hopping on over to Philly for a night before coming back to NY on the 14th for a show at the Market Hotel. Both New York shows will be stifling hot, but we’ll be there regardless because we love Love Is All. Check out a video of them performing for Hand Held Shows outside with a really loud keyboard above.
