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This was an excellent year for melodic rock and indie-alternative pop. I didn't have time to rank everything, but I did want to make another list for you, these are albums that I've enjoyed but I didn't have time to review. More overlooked gems will be reviewed this week. Amiee Mann -  Charmer . She's been making music since the 802s, and this LP is full of her articulate pop smarts, with a vocal as sweet as ever. [...]

► Jens Lekman visits the Fonda Theatre behind his new album "I Know What Love Isn't." Opening: Taken By Trees , the solo venture of Victoria Bergsman of the Concretes, and Big Search , the solo venture of L.A.'s Matt Popieluch (Foreign Born, Fool's Gold). That's Lekman's video for "Become Someone Else's," above. ► A Place To Bury Strangers bring the noise to the Troubadour, with Bleeding Rainbow and Matthewdavid supporting. ► Andrew W.K. (solo), Icona Pop , Diamond Rings , Cherie Lily and Aleister X convene to [...]

Incoming: Leonard Cohen, Refused, Jens Lekman, A Place to Bury Strangers, Andrew W.K., Metz, Japandroids, Titus Andronicus, Cat Power, Delta Spirit, Smoking Popes, Barbra Streisand, Afghan Whigs, Minus the Bear, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Trail of Dead, Y La Bamba, Tilly & the Wall, Sea Wolf, Mumford & Sons, the Monkees, the Sea & Cake, Jack's Mannequi, Chucho Valdes, Wolfgang Gartner Above: Cat Power's new album "Sun" is her first collection of original material since 2006. It's very good. She visits the Palladium on Thursday. Our staff [...]

Watch 'I Know What Love Isn't' here. Catch Jens Lekman on his North American tour. Purchase Jens Lekman items via Insound. MP3: Jens Lekman - An Argument With Myself

Last night on  Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,  Swedish bittersweet chamber pop star  Jens Lekman  made his television debut with the delightful little title track from his latest and most wonderful album  I Know What Love Isn't .  Sorry that I can't help but think about Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is" when I hear this song, the two songs really couldn't be more different. Catch the catchy replay below (via The Audio Perv ).

Jens Lekman performed "I Know What Love Isn't on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Watch the video below: ...

The Swedish electronic pop outfit Taken By Trees - featuring singer Victoria Bergsman, formerly of The Concretes - is opening for Jens Lekman at Union Transfer this week, and today just released a new video for its song "Large," the new single from its 2012 release Out of This World. The conga groove of the ... Continue reading �

From his latest album I Know What Love Isn't .

No singer-songwriter pontificates as superbly on postmodern love as Jens Lekman . And while his latest collection of songs, I Know What Love Isn't , is mostly a break-up album, it's still delightful as ever. Like a Burt Bacharach in skinny jeans, Lekman beautifully marries sprightly piano lines, understated guitar plucks, and a kiss of Andrew Bird-like strings into simple but captivating pop songs. However, Lekman's real genius is his lyrical dynamism; his words are simultaneously imaginative and literal, playful and sad, witty and sincere. Look no further than the tongue-in-cheek "Become Someone Elses," [...]

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Aunque Jens Lekman siempre promocionó sus discos de manera muy orgánica y con pocos videos, parece que las melodías rompecorazones de I Know What Love Isn’t , su más reciente producción, lo han inspirado para hacer algo mucho más visual. Y es que el músico ya va por el tercer video promocional para este disco, en este caso para la aleccionadora "Become Someone Else's" . Ya les platicaba yo en la reseña que esta melodía se me hacía una especie de [...]

Jens Lekman released a clip for "Become Someone Else's" off his latest Secretly Canandian release, I Know What Love Isn't . The clip was directed by Marcus Söderlund and was filmed Råbjerg Mile dunes in Denmark, the same location that is on the album cover. Söderlund also directed the videos for "Erica America" and album title track "I Know What Love Isn't". Watch below.

Thus far, Jens Lekman has released three music videos for songs from his new album I Know What Love Isn't , and he's worked with director Marcus Söderlund on all three of them. They've all shown Lekman singing his songs in vaguely unlikely occasions, all filmed in gentle and unobstructed long tracking shots. The lush and plainspoken "Become Someone Else's" follows the videos for " Erica America " and the album's title track , and it's the first one where Lekman's band doesn't appear with him. Instead, the entire thing is Lekman wandering slowly through some [...]

Shame on us, but we hadn't heard any of Jens Lekman 's music up until a good two weeks ago. Sure, we saw some of our favourite blogs and websites go crazy for him, but y'know, there are always these artists and bands you never end up listening to for some reason even though you should and even though you think you'll probably like them. Well, for one reason or another we went to see Jens Lekman's 500th show in the Hackney Empire and oh boy, we were sold. Since then we've been playing his entire discography on repeat [...]

Watch 'Become Someone Else's' below. Catch Jens on his North American tour. Click here to view the embedded video. MP3: Jens Lekman - An Argument With Myself

In what's one of the more widely-loved and acclaimed albums of 2012, Jens Lekman 's latest LP I Know What Love Isn't still quite hasn't reached the levels of success that it rightly deserves, but that doesn't stop him sauntering along with nary a care in the world. Below you can watch his newest video for "Become Someone Else's" , and I Know What Love Isn't is out now. Connect [...]

Jens Lekman puso a la venta hace apenas unos meses un muy solido material despues de haber estado desaparecido durante un rato, pese a que en ningun momento habia dejado de estar involucrado en el mundo musical. "Become Someone Else's" es el mas reciente sencillo que se desprende de "I Know What Love Isn't", cuyo video oficial acaba de ser presentado bajo la direccion de Marcus Söderlund, y ustedes pueden disfrutar esto de Jens Lekman a continuacion. J ens Lekman: Website / Myspace / [...]

Set against a plain white background, this video is nothing more than Jens Lekman doing his thing. “I Know What Love Isn’t” is a pretty, witty ballad for fans of pop music in the style of Belle And Sebastian. Lekman is at the forefront of Sweden’s tremendous pop invasion, and this clip shows why. His [...]

Jens Lekman has never been one to hide his emotions, and that may be one of the most compelling things about him as a performer. His combination of wry humor and stark gloom gives the Swedish indie-popper's confessionals a sense of melodrama and melancholy few contemporaries approach. Lekman's previous single "Erica America" prompted one to wonder if he'd been taking happy pills, and the title track off of "I Know What Love Isn't" (out now on Secretly Canadian) is indeed sunnier, in Lekman's own way. Self-deprecation is still prominent, but the simple rhymes are more lighthearted and, this time, [...]

• Jens Lekman - "I Know What Love Isn't"

The delightful title track to Jens Leman 's latest opus I Know What Love Isn't comes the middle of an amazing 4-song run that ends the album. Although the song lives outside the main story narrative, focusing on Jens' relationship with an Australian friend who he considered marrying for citizenship rather than love, it illustrates the theme of album's theme of living with a broken heart beautifully. And it does it in a way only Jens Lekman can, with lyrical dashes of whimsy, melancholy and humor set against a breezy flute-and-strings arrangement and [...]