Peter, Bjorn, and John premiered a nameless non-goofy-instrumental-album single on Kanye West’s blogs, of all places. Though in this era of artists leaking artists, it’s as good a place as any. Heckfire, I’d love for Kanye to post my music on his blog, right next to mod lamps, big-bootied models, and shoes I could never afford in a million years. I think it’s a savvy decision on PB&J’s part, and it bespeaks a desire on their part for further mainstream and crossover success. Some of Yeezy’s commentariat approve:
LiberatedWriter | January 6, 2009
Ok…
This is totally HOT like Fleetwood Mac on wax…
HOT+++NESS.halo40 | January 6, 2009
Sounds dope, and i like their work!!!!!!leFtofOrdiNarY | January 6, 2009
that’s a Funky little gem … I like it, thanks for sharing KW.
ps. Congrats on 808’s platinum status.
Five words that should strike fear in your soul and make you wish “indie” never existed: James Blunt covers “Young Folks.” (And no, he doesn’t even whistle.) More »
The week before Labor Day ranks somewhere around the week between Christmas and New Year’s as far as slow music-news weeks go–everyone’s out of town, or dreaming about being out of town, or getting blind drunk in order to be mentally ready for the MTV Video Music Awards. But still, no slow music-news week is so slow, it requires three stories about the new trend of whistling and how said boomlet was inspired by the Swedish pop group Peter, Bjorn & John, and their catchy-beyond-all-hell track “Young Folks.” The proof? A quote from someone who runs a whistler-aficionado Yahoo! Group and a bunch of twentysomethings who were presumably found while swinging on the flippity-flop. (Ah, trend stories! Your stone-soup something-outta-nothingness made you my favorite things to write during my brief stint in journalism school.)
Peter, Bjorn, John, and Kanye get together in Sweden and jam out “Young Folks”–we think. Thanks to the back-of-the-crowd cellphone camera quality supplied by this clip, for all we know, those bongos could be played by Ricky Ricardo. More »
The news that Peter, Bjorn & John’s ubiquitous “Young Folks” had received the bluegrass treatment hit our inbox today, and we figured it would be as good a time as any to put it head-to-head with a few other versions of the song we’ve come across, including the German-language take on the song we… More »
Germans Under Cover, the fine blog devoted to cataloging German-language tunes of popular songs, seems to have disappeared (what happened?), so we figured we’d post this Deustchy take on Peter, Bjorn & John’s “Young Folks.” More »
We trekked out to Waterloo Records yesterday in the name of “journalism,” hoping to catch the protest against Scandinavian popsters Peter, Bjorn & John scheduled to coincide with their in-store. But upon arrival, we were greeted with a long line for the next band on the bill and not much else. Turns out the mastermind of the uprising skipped town:
To those of you who are turning up right now to protest: I am sorry. This whole campaign against Peter Bjorn and John has pushed me to what I now realize is a total mental and emotional breakdown. I haven’t eaten in forty-eight hours, and the friends I am staying with have basically asked me to get out. I simply can’t carry this burden any longer. I have packed up my car and am leaving town.
Poppy Swedish trio Peter, Bjorn & John is all over the SXSW schedule this week, and that fact has made somebody so mad, he’s started a whole blog about how the band is unworthy of the “biggest artist in indie rock” title. More »
Anyone who’s perused the music blogs in the last two weeks is well aware that Peter, Bjorn & John–the Swedish trio whose fantastic Writer’s Block is finally being released stateside–is in New York City this week for a multi-venue concert run. More »
