Peter Bjorn and John http://peterbjornandjohn.com/blog Gimme Some Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:01:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 INGRID at Roskilde Festival http://peterbjornandjohn.com/blog/2013/04/ingrid-at-roskilde-festival/ http://peterbjornandjohn.com/blog/2013/04/ingrid-at-roskilde-festival/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:15:01 +0000 Peter Bjorn and John http://peterbjornandjohn.com/blog/?p=3029 Continue reading →]]> INGRID (Featuring Lykke Li, Peter, Björn & John, members of Miike Snow, Jocke Åhlund, Nicole Morier) will be performing at the Roskilde Festival this summer. Check out a clip of them performing “Harlem Boyzz” off of Andrew Wyatt’s new solo album at the 30 minute mark: http://release.roskilde-festival.dk/

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Sziget/István Bielik

Hard at work writing new music, but excited to step out of the studio and get back into the festival world at the amazing Sziget Festival. Tickets are on sale now and available here. Get ready, Hungary!!

]]> http://peterbjornandjohn.com/blog/2013/03/sziget-festival-2013/feed/ 1 MERRY CHRISTMAS!! 10 YEARS SINCE FIRST ALBUM!! ETC!! http://peterbjornandjohn.com/blog/2012/12/merry-christmas-10-years-since-first-album-etc/ http://peterbjornandjohn.com/blog/2012/12/merry-christmas-10-years-since-first-album-etc/#comments Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:38:29 +0000 Peter Bjorn and John http://peterbjornandjohn.com/blog/?p=3011 Continue reading →]]> Hello all!!
So we are about to hit that Christmas-coma very soon.
But before we do, we just won’t let you forget.
10 years ago (on November 20th to be exact, which makes
it about 10 years and a month ago) we released our very first
full-length album simply called PETER BJORN AND JOHN.

It’s our most rare one since it’s never been released properly in some territories.
We recently made a vinyl gatefold re-issue of it!
In fact this album has never been out on vinyl before!
Get your own Christmas-copy from Drella here;
http://www.drella.com/art/peter-bjorn-and-john-st-lp-limited-re-release.php
At the same time we did a reprint of our second album FALLING OUT as well,
check out here;
http://www.drella.com/art/peter-bjorn-and-john-falling-out-lp-limited-re-release.php

Cheers to the next 10 years and let’s have a listen to some of the tracks from the debut on Youtube,
a live version of this,

and this;

A fan-video of this;

and some other songs from the album;


Now from all of us to all of you…freak out!!

]]> http://peterbjornandjohn.com/blog/2012/12/merry-christmas-10-years-since-first-album-etc/feed/ 0 GIMME SOME UPDATES!! http://peterbjornandjohn.com/blog/2012/10/gimme-some-updates/ http://peterbjornandjohn.com/blog/2012/10/gimme-some-updates/#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:37:34 +0000 Peter Bjorn and John http://peterbjornandjohn.com/blog/?p=3004 Continue reading →]]> Peter Bjorn And John have been pretty busy lately.
Not that you can tell from the amount of, or rather lack of blogging here.
But you must have heard of the label/artist-collective they set up with some friends called Ingrid?
If not check out http://www.ingrd.com.
Among the PBJ-related-releases on Ingrid we have the fantastical Smile-project with Bjorn and Jocke Åhlund;
check out some videos;


and Johns Hortlax Cobra-alter ego with the amazing album “Night Shift”;
check out his videos too;

The latest release has been Peters new swedish-spoken pop-opus “Pyramiden” which have got rave reviews in Sweden. Check out his two latest videos as well;


For updates on Peter, check out http://www.petermoren.com.
He will soon head out on a Swedish tour.
All Ingrid-releases are up on itunes and Spotify in most territories and
you can get physical copies directly from http://shop.ingrd.com/en/

Also Ingrid did a show with the whole collective at Gothenburgs Way Out West-festival this last august.
The whole thing was filmed and are edited this very moment.
For now you can check out two songs on Youtube including this Coco Morier-nugget;

But what about pure PBJ-activities.
Well they did this nice remix for Norah Jones;
http://stereogum.com/1122671/norah-jones-miriam-peter-bjorn-john-remix-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/
and recently their song for the latest season for Yo Gabba Gabba was premiered over at NPR;
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2012/10/09/162578597/song-premiere-peter-bjorn-john-i-wish-i-was-a-spy
They also did a semi-secret-show jamming with Franz Ferdinand this summer.
But what else?
It seems not much..
Until now that is.
Since I know everything I’ve heard they’ve been rehearsing new songs.
That’s all I know though. And now you know too.
All the best from GOD

]]> http://peterbjornandjohn.com/blog/2012/10/gimme-some-updates/feed/ 2 GIMME SOME HORTLAX COBRA http://peterbjornandjohn.com/blog/2012/06/gimme-some-hortlax-cobra/ http://peterbjornandjohn.com/blog/2012/06/gimme-some-hortlax-cobra/#comments Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:40:56 +0000 Peter Bjorn and John http://peterbjornandjohn.com/blog/?p=2997 Continue reading →]]> Have you heard?

In the footsteps of Ringo Star, Phil Collins and Tommy Lee, John is releasing a solo album.
And it might even sound like the perfect mix of “Yellow Submarine”, “In the air tonight” and Tommy Lee’s and Pamela Anderssons Sex-video.
Check out the solo album under the alter ego name “Hortlax Cobra”.
“Night Shift” is released world wide by the artist collective “Ingrid“!

Read more about the release here: http://www.ingrd.com/2012/hortlax-cobra-night-shift/

 

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You know, we’ve got a label called Ingrid and we got some music we never released. Good combo! Here’s the first album out on Ingrid, and it’s by Bjorn and fellow Ingrid member Jocke Åhlund (Teddybears, Caesars, Les Big Byrd). It’s disco, it’s kraut, it’s synth, it’s Smile. Read more here: http://www.ingrd.com/2012/smile-a-flash-in-the-night/

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p.s. This saturday in Stockholm we will have a launchparty for the Hell On Wheels/PBJ-split-7-inch (http://peterbjornandjohn.com/blog/2012/04/gimme-some-chills-kiwis-part-2/) at the great Södermalm bar Snottys at Skånegatan 90 from 8.00 pm! We spin some favorite songs and sell the rare record. Come and party with us and get your own copy d.s.

p.s. 2!
Don’t miss this springs releases from Ingrid; http://www.ingrd.com/2012/ingrid-springsummer-2012/ d.s.

best/pbj

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“The Chills” is a song by us. From “Writer’s Block”. You probably know that.
It’s also a song by our friends Hell On Wheels, another Sthlm-based rock-trio.
Well actually they recently added a fourth member. But they used to be a trio.
Hell on Wheels originally released their “The Chills” in 2004 as one of two bonus tracks on the Japanese edition of their second album “Oh my god! What have I done?”.
What you might not know is that both of these songs are inspired in different subtle ways
by the New Zeeland cultband called…”drumroll”..The Chills!
The sound, the vibe, the arrangements, maybe even some of the words.
Both bands are big fans of The Chills and unbeknownst to each other we recorded our tributes.
A great moment for PB&J was when Martin Phillips of The Chills sent us a mail saying thanks, 5 years ago or something.
Last year, when the legendary Flying Nun Records turned 30 (The Chills Kiwi label that is) we decided we should do something special to commemorate this momentous occasion and came up with the idea for a limited edition split 7″! As a lot of things tend to do, this got very delayed. So this year when Flying Nun celebrates 31 our single is finally alive and kicking!! The 7” release features hand drawn sleeve art with Peter of PBJ contributing the cover for the HOW-song and Johan Risberg of HOW contributing the cover for the PB&J-song.

Only 300 copies of the split 7” were made and only 200 are available for sale to the public. To get your very own copy visit http://www.drella.com. They have a few. We might sale some at upcoming shows but we believe a lot of the copies will go fast at an upcoming launchevent we’re planning in Stockholm!
Watch PBJ’s Facebook & Twitter closely to get details about that!
We sent 100 copies straigth to the Flying Nun-office to do with them whatever they pleased and they were very pleased indeed! And now we have some new friends;)
For more information on Flying Nun Records (home of The Chills, The Clean, The Verlaines, Tall Dwarfs, The Bats, and oh so many more) go to: http://www.flyingnun.co.nz.
You have to check out all those band our stay sorry the rest of you life!

And if you’ve never heard The Chills, get started now!!!
The classic “Pink Frost”;

“Kaleidoscope World”;
“Doledrums”, great video;
Videos where better in the early 80′s; “Flamethrower”

And here is a classic tune by Hell On Wheels;

Over & out!

]]> http://peterbjornandjohn.com/blog/2012/04/gimme-some-chills-kiwis-part-2/feed/ 1 GIMME SOME KIWIS PART 1 http://peterbjornandjohn.com/blog/2012/04/gimme-some-kiwis-part-1/ http://peterbjornandjohn.com/blog/2012/04/gimme-some-kiwis-part-1/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:57:26 +0000 Peter Bjorn and John http://peterbjornandjohn.com/blog/?p=2955 Continue reading →]]> Why are people from New Zeeland called Kiwis? We don’t know.
Anyway we will now introduce a 2-part Kiwi-series here
on the PBJ-blog.
First out Junica, a young bloke who’s really called Nik.

He made this really nice remix of “May Seem Macabre”! Check it out and download for free here;
http://earmilk.com/2012/04/11/peter-bjorn-and-john-may-seem-macabre-junica-remix-earmilk-exclusive/
or here;
http://soundcloud.com/junica/may-seem-macabre-junica-remix/s-bTF2u
Peter collaborated a little bit with Nik on his upcoming album.

More kiwi-news in a few days!

P.S. Not really PBJ-stuff but related;
Bjorn and a guy we can call Bear has a band called SMILE
that has a video out now;
http://www.ingrd.com/2012/smile-clean-gloves-dirty-hands/
The song is on the upcoming Ingrid-comp.
Also Peter has a website under construction which gives away a free mp3 for now and also has a video; http://www.petermoren.com.
Cheers!

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