New News 12 August: Life is anything but quiet on the Dag för Dag front. in three wee weeks, we'll be gypsing our way westward to the great state of Oregon, where we'll be recording our first full-length album. we will be graciously graced with the production and artistic assistance of the magnificent Richard Swift. and that is not all. in september, we are releasing a limited 7 inch on Germs of Youth, a Pure Groove label based in London. with Pirate Sea as the A side and two brand new B sides (one a raucous track and one a purely piano peace piece), it's anything but to be missed. oh, and we'll be heading to the UK fresh off the recording road in October. so catch us while you can... it's all wheels and rhythms for us these days. |
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Dag för Dag Hello. We are Dag för Dag. We are siblings, and were born in the USA. Between us, we have lived in 8 different US states and 5 different countries. I guess you could say we have wandering blood in our veins. Throughout our journeys both together and apart, music has been the engine fuel. We remember plugging our eardrums on summer vacations as Dad blasted ‘Midnight Oil’, ‘U2’ and ‘Neil Diamond’ in the green suburban. With a family divided in two and dotted all over North America, our passing through adolescence and early adulthood transpired in differing time zones from one another. Somehow we woke up in Barcelona in the summer of 2006, side by side, with a 3-string guitar and a shared thirst to tell the story in a musical register. The following spring, Jacob bumped into a bass guitar in Stockholm, our lovely friends loaned us a place to make noise, and the songs found sound. Out of the fresh sprouting roots of our new Swedish homeplace, a supportive network of newfound friends, and six weeks in a basement by the brackish bay emerged Dag för Dag. With three days in the studio, out came our 4-song EP, ‘Symmetry of Standing’. Our blood is American, our name is Swedish, our music pulls together the scattered threads of two lives converged. |
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25 June 08: Danke schön, Austria! We had a wonderful time in the lush green landscape, and were treated oh so very well by all we met along our way. Thank you to Justin, Andy, Mike and Erwin at the Weekender in Innsbruck for all your gracious hospitality. And thank you to Kerstin in Vienna, for making our brief trip east absolutely worth it... and difficult to leave! We shall be back! 2 June 08: Wow. That's how we feel after two whirlwind weeks in the United Kingdom. Thank you everyone who joined us on our musical evenings. We whittled our way through all parts of London, from the far north of Highgate to the southern shores of Brixton, weaving through Camden, Kings Cross, Hoxton and Soho along the way. We bumbled up north in our ever-so black touring mobile, playing for lovely people in Nottingham and Doncaster. And then we zoomed along the bank holiday motorway to the far west that is Bristol, to play the legendary Louisiana. What a trip! Thank you to all the wonderful people who opened their doors to us, providing us with clean sheets and eggs for breakfast, and their eardrums at our shows as well. What a lucky pair we are... 12 May 08: The sun is doing its magnificent, 18-hour, Scandinavian dance for us here in Stockholm. We had a fantastic Friday night playing with Noah and the Whale, and thank all you who joined us. We are changing strings, packing cases and spilling out the last words of our newest tunes in preparation for our trip to the UK. We will be adding gigs across the British Isles, playing from 19 May until 31 May - keep tuned into our myspace for new times and places. 18 April 08: Happy spring, one and all! The blossoms are beginning to display their pretty faces up here in Scandinavia, and we are playing writing practicing in our underground bunker, readying ourselves for an exciting journey to the British Isles. The lovely Phoenix FM in the UK played us on The Mixtape last night, to ready all those English eardrums for our arrival. Before we sail westwards, we will be playing a very special show in Stockholm, on 9 May at Debaser with Noah and the Whale, where we will be guest DJing for the party after the live music. We can hardly wait! 9 April 08: Wow, have we been busy and the camera has been capturing a few angles of it! Check us out on Swedish SVT doing an acoustic version of "Racing to Racine". To see us talking about what it's like to be American siblings living in Stockholm, watch our interview on Dygnet Runt TV the day we played with The Kills. 25 March 08: Ahoy ahoy, and raise your gentle eardrums to these rocky seas! We ducked underground last Tuesday and recorded PIRATE SEA, a song those of you who've seen us live have heard before. Listen to it on our myspace. 7 March 08: We are coming to the United Kingdom... hip hip hoorah! We will be opening for the fantastic Blitzen Trapper lads, as well as playing the Dot to Dot Festival. Check below for dates, and don't miss us for the world! 'Symmetry of Standing' now available at Pet Sounds - Skånegatan 53 - and Record Hunter - Sankt Eriksgatan 70 - in Stockholm. |
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