Peter Bjorn & John @ Cake Shop, NYC 8/3/09
Thanks to all who came to our little "secret show" with Peter Bjorn & John last night. The idea was just to have an intimate show for the band's family, friends, and the sort of fans that didn't...
View ArticleDepeche Mode/Peter Bjorn & John @ Santa Barbara Bowl, Santa Barbara 8/20/09
This is a special Depeche Mode photo set Andrew Youssef delivered: there are no photos of Dave Gahan with his shirt off! Increyable. The singer's recent illness forced the band to cancel a spate of...
View ArticleNew Pretty Good Dance Moves (Feat. Björn Yttling) –“Leave Me Alone”
Pretty Good Dance Moves, the Chicago/Brooklyn duo of Aaron Allietta and Jimmy Giannopoulos, are set to release a self-titled full-length this year to follow up on their self-released EP of last. "Leave...
View ArticleWu-Tang Meets The Indie Rock
We've seen indie rockers reach out to hip-hop's most recognizable collective (or at least the most recognizable hip-hop collective to indie rockers). But lately, it's been Wu-Tang Clan making the...
View ArticleThe Golden Filter –“Hide Me (Peter Bjorn & John’s Hortlax Cobra Remix)”
The Golden Filter reworked "Lay It Down" for Peter Bjorn & John, so PBJ returned the favor with this remix of the NYC duo's "Hide Me" single. The original "Hide Me" comes off both delicate and...
View ArticlePeter, Bjorn & John –“Breaker Breaker” Video
The first taste of Peter, Bjorn & John's upcoming album Gimme Some is short, fast & aggressive. I hope all the songs on the record are like this, though even 2009's Living Thing was meaner than...
View ArticlePeter Bjorn & John –“Second Chance” (Stereogum Premiere)
After brief detours resting most of their guitars in favor of keyboards and sample pads on Living Thing in 2009, and most of their voices in favor of horns and extended instrumentals with Seaside Rock...
View ArticlePeter Bjorn & John “Dig A Little Deeper” For Conan
Peter, Bjorn & John stopped by Conan last night to do their newest single, "Second Chance." The trio also did "Dig A Little Deeper" for the backstage crowd, who helped John Eriksson with the hand...
View ArticlePeter Bjorn & John –“Second Chance” Video
Peter Bjorn & John's "Second Chance" clip is the next logical step from their "Breaker Breaker" video. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's the next thing they shot: You'll see the same set, the same...
View ArticlePeter Bjorn & John Soundtrack Bud Light Lime Spot
This month Bud Light (the beer that has its own Santigold remix) celebrates the third birthday of its Lime spinoff. While this new commercial doesn't mention that milestone, it does mention the...
View ArticleStereogum Presents… STROKED: A Tribute To Is This It
The Strokes' debut album Is This It was first released on 7/30/01. To help us celebrate this 10th Anniversary, we asked some of our favorite indie bands to cover each track. The resulting collection,...
View ArticlePeter Bjorn & John Play Kimmel
Last night, Swede-pop professionals Peter Bjorn & John appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, performing a wiry, energetic version of "Dig A Little Deeper." As a web-only bonus, they also ran through...
View ArticleSmile –“From Time To Time” (Stereogum Premiere)
Sweden's indie-pop overlords are banding up. Ingrid is a new collective founded by Lykke Li, Miike Snow, Peter Bjorn & John's Björn Yttling, and the Teddybears' Joakim Ahlund, among others. Yttling...
View ArticleNorah Jones –“Miriam (Peter Bjorn & John Remix)” (Stereogum Premiere)
The last we saw of Norah Jones's Danger Mouse-collabo "Miriam" was the official video, which featured her in her Sunday finest sitting in a paddle boat with a bloody oar, and eventually, a disturbing...
View ArticleWatch Peter Bjorn & John On Yo Gabba Gabba!
This week's episode of Yo Gabba Gabba! is all about spies (and co-stars Jason Bateman!), so who better to invite on as musical guests then spy anthem-creators Peter Bjorn & John? The trio perform...
View ArticlePeter Morén –“Constant Reaction” (Stereogum Premiere)
The members of the appealingly musical, annoyingly punctuated Swedish indie-pop powerhouse Peter Bjorn and John have been known to engage in any number of individual pursuits between group projects,...
View ArticleDavid Lynch –“We Rolled Together (Yttling Jazz Remix)”
Björn Yttling of Peter Bjorn And John has given the remix treatment to "We Roll Together" by director David Lynch. "Together" came off Lynch's recent The Big Dream, an album about as strange as...
View ArticleWatch Peter Bjorn And John’s Previously Unreleased Videos For “(I Just Wanna)...
Better late than never when it comes to music videos. Peter Bjorn And John recently discovered two very old music videos of the songs "(I Just Wanna) See Through" and "100 M Of Hurdles," the respective...
View ArticlePeter, Bjorn & John –“Put It There” (Paul McCartney Cover) (Stereogum Premiere)
On the new tribute-album compilation The Art Of McCartney, a long list of impressive big names line up to cover the songs of Paul McCartney, in his Beatles and Wings and solo incarnations. With 34...
View ArticlePeter Bjorn & John –“High Up (Take Me To the Top)” (Stereogum Premiere)
It's been four years since the last proper Peter Bjorn And John album, 2011's earworm-laden Gimme Some. While it may appear that the trio have taken a hiatus, they actually spent 2012 founding INGRID,...
View ArticleHear Peter Bjorn And John Debut Two New Songs In A World Cafe Session
Peter Bjorn And John hadn't released any new music in four years until last April when they shared "High Up (Take Me To The Top," a song that appeared on the INGRID Volym 2 compilation. The band still...
View ArticleAstropol –“Make Love Stay” (Stereogum Premiere)
Astropol matches Peter Bjorn And John's Björn Yttling with Shout Out Louds' Bebban Stenborg and Smash. The trio's debut album The Spin We're In is out next month, and single "Make Love Stay" suggests...
View ArticlePeter Bjorn And John –“What You Talking About?”
Peter Bjorn And John are returning with their first new album since 2011's Gimme Some. It's called Breakin' Point, and features production work from Paul Epworth, Greg Kurstin, and Emilie Haynie,...
View ArticlePeter Bjorn And John –“Breakin’ Point” (Stereogum Premiere)
Peter Bjorn And John whistled their way into our lives a decade ago with "Young Folks," and on the title track from the Swedish trio's upcoming Breakin' Point, they're whistling once again. But the...
View ArticlePeter Bjorn And John –“Dominos”
Poppy Swedish trio Peter Bjorn And John teased their new album a few months back with early singles "Breakin' Point" (the title track) and "What You Talking About?," and today they're sharing another...
View ArticlePeter Bjorn And John –“Breakin’ Point” Video
A full decade after "Young Folks," the veteran Swede-pop trio Peter Bjorn And John are still going strong. Last week, the band dropped the new album Breakin' Point, and now they've got a surreal video...
View ArticleThe 5 Best Videos Of The Week
This was the week that Aesop Rock and Yo La Tengo performed together on Colbert, and I am still enjoying the fact that this happened more than I'm enjoying any of this week's actual music videos. But...
View Article“Young Folks” Turns 10
When Gossip Girl premiered on Sept. 19, 2007, it kicked off with a perky drumroll and some breezy whistling. By this point, those drums and that whistling had been overexposed to the point of cliché,...
View ArticlePeter Bjorn And John –“Dominos” Video
Peter Bjorn And John have shared a video for "Dominos," a track off the Swedish trio's latest album Breakin' Point. True to its name, the clip shows a series of impressive human domino falls in reverse...
View ArticleThe 5 Best Videos Of The Week
One of the year's most anticipated albums -- or the album before one of the year's most anticipated albums? -- just came out, and it took the form of a music video. Specifically, it took the form of...
View ArticlePeter Bjorn And John –“Dominos (Harry Fraud Remix)”
Swedish trio Peter Bjorn And John's latest album, Breakin' Point, came out back in the summer, and today they're releasing an EP for single "Dominos," which features two remixes and a live version of...
View ArticleAction Bronson –“Dealer Plates”
A fresh Action Bronson track called "Dealer Plates" emerged on New Year's Eve, and as XXL reports, it's part of a new compilation from frequent Bronson collaborator Harry Fraud. Rogues Playlist Vol. 2...
View ArticlePeter Bjorn And John –“Stuck”
Lovable indie pop Swedes Peter Bjorn And John are releasing a deluxe version of their 2016 album Breakin' Point tomorrow. It features eight bonus tracks, and today, we get a feel for that extra...
View ArticlePeter Bjorn And John –“One For The Team,” “Every Other Night,” &“Gut Feeling”
Why hype your impending album up with one new single when you can hype it up with three? That, anyway, seems to be the logic for Swede-pop all-star trio Peter Bjorn And John, still chugging along...
View ArticleJust Like Heaven: Thoughts From The Ground At The Blog-Rock Nostalgia Festival
Woodstock 50 is imploding before our eyes, but the latest attempt to harvest summer of '69 nostalgia was always going to be a gamble. Obtaining proper licensure in an upstate New York nature reserve...
View ArticlePeter Bjorn And John –“Season Of Defiance”
The Swedish indie-pop trio Peter Bjorn And John has now been a band for 20 years. They might be playing alt-rock nostalgia festivals now, but Peter Bjorn And John are still staying active. Next month,...
View ArticleSmile –“Eon” (Feat. Freja The Dragon)
Smile — not to be confused with the Smile — is the duo of Peter Bjorn And John’s Björn Yttling and Caesars/Teddybears’ Joakim Åhlund. The Swedish pop songwriters last teamed up to release their debut...
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