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20 years ago Nirvana released their last studioalbum, the almighty In Utero. Now Swedish starlet Jens Wennberg makes a great cover of the opening song Serve The Servants.

It´s Mr Wennbergs ninth single in nine months. Keep it up, lad.

Son of Dave – Benjamin Darvill – made his name as a one-man band with a shaker, his voice, a stomping foot and a looping pedal. This is groovy shit. A modern day bluesman, ex-Crash Test Dummie, a growing cult.

The new single precedes his upcoming LP Blues At The Grand. And man, the harmonica alone makes our friday worth living.

Kentuckyseven brings you the wonderful debut single from space invader TDeL2 – the remarkable song Fearless Youth. The song is a great wide open, massive sound, subtle guitar, epic and uplifting. An auspicious beginning for this new artist.

TDeL2 is the alias of Tony DeLuca, based out of Omaha, Nebraska and he is the first artist Monkey Records has signed from the USA. The debut album, Barnegat, will be out early November.

It´s a don´t miss.

This fine Friday it´s back to the roots, back to the dear Joe Pug. Here´s an oldie goldie from the americana man with the AA (aggressive acoustic) guitar, live and direct, ’Nation of Heat’.

Giddiyup!

This friday, the music comes out of Nashville, from a band with a very loose and unclear bio. But the sound is nowhere near unclear, it is clear and unpretentious.

Night Beds, it’s americana at its finest.

Listen:

It´s all over, baby blue. Way out West deliveres year after year, it´s like an old shoe that fits better for every step we take. Thank you for the music!

On the last day Phosphorescent (check the vid below – love this guy), Iris DeMent (country-gospel-school-church-dirt-boots, perfect tent stuff) Goat (what a smoking rocknroll show) swept us of our feet. The ending with Alicia Keys was as powerful as a holy mighty powerballad back in the days. R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

• Thursday came and went with the awful news of Ponchos hand. The Crazy Horse guitar man broke his fingers and Neil Young cancelled the show. Too fucking bad. In our humble opinion Mr Young could´ve picked up a acoustic guitar, lit up a small bonfire on stage and given the audience a solo show of the ages. But hey, hey. Shit happens.

So thank god for the Alabama Shakes. The voice of Brittany Howard mesmerized us and the garden of lunatics back at Slottsskogen. A rocking sweating emotional gig to remember.

Then friday came. Or should we say Håkan Hellström. The swedish all star just slammed dunked his hypnotic eyes in the super bowl of love. Songs like ’Valborg’, ’För sent för edelweiss’, ’En midsommarnattsdröm’  and the ending, evergrowing ’Du är snart där’. Tears in our eyes.

A special note to Of Monsters And Men & Johnossi who both made beautiful shows. Cracking stuff.

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Today we enter on a high. Phosphorescent, Dungen, Iris DeMent, Goat, Cat Power, James Blake, Alicia Keys, Miriam the Believer. We calleth upon ya´ll.

Hours til this shit´s gonna hit our fan in a major blowup kinda way. Yes, we are excited.

Iris DeMent from Paragould, Arkansas, got the country twang all covered. She´s been around for ages and just keeps gettin better. This is well hopped stuff from the heartlands – got us all jingle-jangely. Iris DeMent got a well deserved bump from Stay to Way, and we got a date on Saturday afternoon.

PS: You know the Goo Goo Dolls song Iris? Yepp, namned after fräulein DeMent.

Just four days until the gates open. It is starting to feel really close.

This year another Kentuckyseven favorite is coming to town.

The Alabama son Matthew Houck aka Phosphorescent, the magic one-man-superband, will be playing this saturday. We will be listening. Have been listening to Muchacho since it hit the streets, and can’t stop, won’t stop.

Stuffs been heating up. Rodriguez onboard, Håkan Hellström up for a friday fight, The Roots checking in. Ten days to go, and we got some piece of advice: Do not miss Cat Power.

Cat Power or Chan Marshall, singersongwriter from Atlanta, Georgia, is very special to us. She´s what great music is all about. On the level, love and hate and everything inbetween. It will be emotions all over the place when she enters the dear stage.

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