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welcomed 10 of Sweden’s hottest new music acts and their affiliates
at a special lunch held recently as part of the Swedish
Invasion, organized by Export Music Sweden
in cooperation with the Consulate General of Sweden in New York,
to help promote up and coming bands from Sweden here in the US.
The bands went on to perform
in a showcase at the legendary rock club CBGB's in New York City, and
then traveled to South by Southwest in Austin, TX, where they took to
the stage at Maggie Mae's. From there, the entourage headed to Los Angeles
for a two-day visit, ending their mini-tour with performances at the
legendary Spaceland, and Troubadour.
The performing bands were
Teenage Idols, Lambretta,
Prime Sth, The
$1000 Playboys, White
Seeds, Pineforest Crunch,
The Sounds, Marit
Bergman, User,
and The Mo.
Pineforest Crunch (l-r)
Export Music Sweden's Chister Lundblad,
Pineforest Crunch's Olle Soderstrom and
Exergy Music's Asa Eklund with baby Elsa
Tiger.
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Prime Sth (l-r) Prime sth's
Martin, Jesper, Noa, ASCAP's Margaret Spoddig
and Prime Sth's Kasper.
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The White Seeds (l-r) The
White Seeds' Axel Robach, Bjorn Synneby,
Olle Hagberg, ASCAP's Margaret Spoddig,
The White Seeds' Nicolas Janco and Hank
Linden.
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The Mo (l-r) The Mo's Nicklas
and Richard, ASCAP's Margaret Spoddig and
the Mo's Dick and Otto.
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