Thank you very much to Kaninkanon for a brilliant Saturday night! What a great arrangement. And such hospitality! I've got a lot of Kaninkanon V fanzines with compilation CDR's - let me know if you'd like one - the price is set by you (i.e. not too little and not too much!).

And thanks to Sara Martinsson for having the good judgement to make a great interview with After-School Sports - and for the kind words about Cosy Den. Listen here! The interview with Alice starts 14 minutes into the second hour (after the first 57:01 minutes, the second hour starts automatically).

On Monday the 17th, P3 Pop on Swedish radio will be about challenges, and the people interviewed are Kevin Drew from Broken Social Scene and Alice Luther Näsholm from After-School Sports. Don't miss out on it! 10 PM. Read more here.

I'm very proud to announce that Elenette, the incredible four-piece from Stockholm that combine synth pop with saxophones and intelligent lyrics (how often does that happen, huh?), will release an EP on Cosy Recordings pretty soon - hopefully in November!

More news on this will follow soon!

Love,

Mattias

Think Small, the Dutch blog that's given me a LOT of great music over the years, wrote some nice words about After-School Sports and Johan Hedberg. Read it HERE!

A bit late this, but nygubbe4 was played on the show Gumdrops & Lollipops on the 31th of July.
Pretty good playlist I'd say!

Johan Hedberg/ nygubbe4
Helen Love/ Love and Glitter, Hot Days and Music/ Does Your Heart Go Boom
The Tough Alliance/ New Waves/ Silly Crimes
The Gore Gore Girls/ Get the Gore/ All Grown Up
The Crabs/ Jackpot/ Maxamillion
The Ladybug Transistor/ Can't Wait Another Day/ I'm Not Mad Enough
Pelle Carlberg/ In a Nutshell/ I Love You, Imbecile
The Clouds/ The Sound of Leamington Spa v. 4/ Get Out of My Dream
35 summers/ The Sound of Leamington Spa v. 4/ Really Down
The Clientele/ God Save the Clientele/ Carnival on 7th Street
The Lucksmiths/ Hiccup in Your Happiness/ Rue Something
Boat/ Let's Drag Our Feet/ Period, Backslash, Colon
Knock Knock Ginger/ Hurry!/ Looks and Books
Chris Bathgate/ A Cork Tale Wake/ Serpentine
The Rubinoos/ Son, You Can Call Me Pop/ I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
Free Loan Investments/ Ever Been to Mexico?/ I Don't Love You
Kocky ft. Jens Lekman/ Kingdom Came/ Be Part of It All
Charles Aznavour/ Entre deux rêves/ Emmenez-moi

First to play it though, was Tandem Pop in Lund, Sweden on the 27th of February. Yay for the Siddeleys and the Tartans!

Gaetano Fabri vs. Taraf de Haïdouks - Go East
Tunng vs. Taraf de Haïdouks - Homecoming
Micah Blue Smaldone - More Than I Can Bear
Micah Blue Smaldone - A Winter's Truce
Siddeleys - My Favourite Wet Wednesday Afternoon
Siddeleys - Are You Still Evil When You're Sleeping?
Tartans - Your New Obsession
Tartans - Last Night
Johan Hedberg - Nygubbe4
120 days - Keep on Smiling
120 days - Come out (come down, fade out, be gone)
Kleenex - Heidi's head
Kleenex - Die Matrosen
Liliput - In a mess
Liliput - Étoile

P3 Pop, Swedish national radio, soon caught up on the 9th of april.

22.05 Beach Boys Wouldn't it be nice
22.09 Cocorosie Rainbow warriors
22.13 Sally Shapiro I'll be by your side
22.17 Johan Hedberg Nygubbe4
22.21 Brunettes Mars loves venus
22.26 Ruby Suns Masai mara
22.30 Ruby Suns Look out SOS!
22.34 Ruby Suns My ten years on autopilot
22.38 The Shins Australia
22.42 TTA Sailing is not a crime by Nicole Divers

Japanese blog Music Is The Scenery gave "A short melodrama" 6 out of 10 (bosom oak?), and Johan Hedberg a mention (pretends ignorance a little?).
According to babelfish (sic!), it said:

2007-08-12 the new artist who is found with 13:06:44 nets After-School Sports < Photograph > Yesterday Johan Hedberg which is introduced similarly Swedish Cosy Recordings (Cosy Den) from, on July 20th album "A Short Melodrama" is sold with 300 limited copies. Alice Luther of Gothenburg graduate N ? it seems like one person unit of the woman, holm, but it seems like the woman duo and details are unclear. Sound is the ??? -- pop of super ?????, but at all we are not skillful, the line it is thin, lovely the vocal which seems is dreamy. Name the bosom oak it is and it is feeling. As in album -- title, it seems that ????? which is average 1 minute 20 seconds lines up. Http: //www.myspace.com/afterschoolsports grade: * * * * * * * * * *

One side Johan of the pop duo Suburban of Labrador Kids With Biblical Names Hedberg < Photograph > Has sold the solo work of 4 tune entering from the small label, Cosy Recordings on July 20th. Numbering of 300 copies, you have sung with all the tune Swedish. It meaning that the photograph is the photograph, Johan Hedberg being said, either one it was not understood, but it is he of the left-handedness which used the glasses and pretends ignorance a little. 2 tune under inside of 4 tunes which is MySpace seems like recording tune, but SKWBN in the same way ???? sound, being light electronics is adopted the melody ground the place seems that does not change. The MySpace ? http: of Johan Hedberg //www.myspace.com/hedbergj (reference) SKWBN "Rent a Wreck" ? http: //www.youtube.com/watch? V=jCGGdIfhJh8

Or, you can read for yourselves...