Tagged: The Tough Alliance
By the Numbers: Service
In By The Numbers, FADER looks at a big record release and breaks it down in basic digits. In FADER #82, we actually took on a record label: Gothenberg, Sweden’s Service, which, with 19 albums … read more »
Video: Martin Luuk, “A Gentleman’s Story”
Martin Luuk, the 40-something Swede behind one of the year’s most strangely sweet love songs (and most endearing press photos) has commemorated the track with a lovely music video, directed by Kristian Bengtsson and edited … read more »
Download Service’s 10-Year Anniversary Compilation
One of the past decade’s secretly most influential labels, Service, home to impossible-to-appreciate-enough drivers of the experimental pop sea change like The Tough Alliance, The Embassy and Jens Lekman, celebrates their tenth anniversary with a … read more »
Video: Korallreven, “As Young as Yesterday”
Swedish director Marcus Söderlund’s video for Korallreven’s propulsive and gorgeous “As Young as Yesterday” resembles the Söderlund-directed video for The Tough Alliance’s “A New Chance,” which trails the band’s two members (and a rose bush) … read more »
Daily Inspiration: The Tough Alliance, “Koka Kola Veins”
Tomorrow is my last day at FADER after four years, and I’ve been trying to think of the one song that embodies my time here. This is as close as I can come. I’ve forced … read more »
Video: ceo, “Illuminata”
Both ceo and The Tough Alliance have a strong habit of making songs that are more or less built on a foundation of pure joy. Running through wide open fields, picking a flower and then … read more »
Young Galaxy, “Queen Drum” (Henning Fürst Remix) MP3
Whoa whoa whoa hold on a second, Henning Fürst of The Tough Alliance basically made a Timbaland beat from before Timbaland started making music to soundtrack a particularly long stay at the mall. There’s not … read more »
CEO (Eric Berglund of Tough Alliance), “Come With Me” MP3 + Video
If you missed it the first time around, CEO, aka Eric Berglund of The Tough Alliance, described his new solo project thusly: ceo arises in 1981 and 1891. in 3064 and tomorrow. after ibrahimovic and … read more »
If You Love Swedish Pop, This is Your New Homepage
Some of us (no need to name names) are mildly obsessed with Swedes and their music, specifically the incredible incubator that is Gothenburg, home to The Tough Alliance, jj, Air France, The Embassy, Love Is … read more »
Freeload: The Tough Alliance, “Hung Up on a Dream” (Zombies cover)
The dream we are presently hung up on is being in Tulum, Mexico, drinking tequila out of a coconut and exploring Mayan ruins, not only because we are D-Y-I-N-G for the unpredictability of spring to … read more »
