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  Hear Jens Lekman Inquire After a Dead Bird in 'Regarding a Package'

  April 23, 2013 – Swedish songster Jens Lekman has a knack for peppering his songs with intimate, quirky detail, so it should come as no big surprise that his fans like to return the favor by mailing him quirky, intimate things like food, artwork, fluids, bottled air, and, um, dead animals. …
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  10 Albums You Can Hear Now: Cat Power, Animal Collective, Crypts, More!

  August 30, 2012 – Teh Internetz are rife with previewable music this week. For your ease of unpaid listening, we've rounded up the 10 records you've gotta hear now, even though they aren't out yet. You don't want to be caught at the proverbial water cooler trying to talk about 2 Chainz or Swans, do you? Those albums are so (literally) yesterday. Have fun clicking through the 103 songs we've amassed below. 1) Cat Power, Sun, out September 4 on Matador. …
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  Jens Lekman Adds Through Subtraction in Bittersweet 'I Know What Love Isn't' Video

  August 10, 2012 – Jens Lekman is looking for love using the process of elimination. Director Marcus Söderlund, whose style in videos for Lekman and other Swedish popsters has always relied on a lack of special effects, pares back even further in his winning new clip for the title track from the Gothenburg singer-songwriter-producer's new album, I Know What Love Isn't (due out on September 4 via Secretly Canadian, and one day earlier in the U.K. …
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  Jens Lekman Shaves His Head for Stark 'Erica America' Video

  June 26, 2012 – If Jens Lekman is entering his "blue" period, he sure makes a striking Old Guitarist. His head freshly shaved, his attire unusually dark and drab, the Swedish singer and songwriter brings the exquisite heartbreak of "Erica America" to life beside a dingy, turquoise-hued freight elevator in the song's starkly arresting new video. …
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  Jens Lekman Plots First Album in 5 Years: Hear Bittersweet 'Erica America'

  June 7, 2012 – The past five years seem to have been as hard on Jens Lekman as they have been on the rest of us. The Swedish singer, songwriter, and sample-wielder's masterful 2007 breakthrough, Night Falls Over Kortedela, had a deep undercurrent of melancholy, but it also exuded an inviting optimism that could feel revolutionary in the waning months of the Bush administration. …
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• Jens Lekman, 'An Argument With Myself' (Secretly Canadian)

  September 20, 2011 – "Shut up! / No, you shut up!" sings fey Swedish popster Jens Lekman to/at himself on his new EP's title track. It's the first release since 2007's intensely precious masterstroke Night Falls Over Kortedala, and he seems conflicted. …
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  Jens Lekman Returns With Punchy Pop Tune

  August 5, 2011 – Jens Lekman broke out four years ago with his swoon-worthy debut album Night Falls Over Kotedala. He'll return on September 19 with a five-track EP titled An Argument With Myself and the Swedish singer-songwriter has shared the lead title track. Grab it over at his official site or hear it here. Lekman doesn't mess much with the quirky pop sound of his debut. …
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  Mariah Carey's Eminem Costume, Mark McGrath's Advice for Obama

  July 2, 2009 – Here's some of the strangest music news the Internet had to offer this week: Is that Eminem... or Mariah Carey? Will the real Slim Shady please stand up? [Entertainment Weekly] Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath, of all people, thinks he has advice for Obama about quitting smoking cigarettes. [iReport] Singer/songwriter Jens Lekman returned to his native Sweden with a little souvenir from his time spent touring South America -- swine flu! …
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  Jens Lekman

  December 27, 2007 – It takes a peculiar person to enjoy being interrogated by U.S. immigration agents. Someone, in fact, like Jens Lekman. "I said I was a musician, then one agent told the other one, 'Check him out on Wikipedia,'" the 26-year-old Swede recounts gleefully at a Manhattan café. "So they started reading about me, and they got really into it. They started grilling me: 'You're a pop singer/songwriter? You put out three records? …
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