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Leif Karate

Leif Karate

About Me

Leif Karate is one of the greater bands in the world, if you like their music that is. We originally formed back in -99 in the cold and harsh environment of Sundsvall, Sweden. We never really knew we were talented musicians and we never had a clear musical destination, it all just happened. Great music found us, not the other way around. Our music is often intense and we believe that there’s a treat in there for everyone. The special sound, the essence, is squeezed out of the mix from the 5 members battling with melodies. The Live performances have been many, and overwhelming, and we have played the best and the worst clubs in Scandinavia, and will play the best and worst clubs all over the world in the future, our songs have been featured in WB’s One Tree Hill, Fox’s Inconvincible and Ulf Malmros “Slim Susie” among others. The debut album “Let’s back the wrong band” was released in early 2005, actually it isn’t that good due to different conditions (bad people with bad, bad record label), but Television’s Richard Lloyd played guitar on one of the songs, that’s pretty cool! I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

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Music:

Member Since: 8/25/2005
Band Website: leifkarate.com
Band Members: Daniel Rasmus Markus Petter Per
Influences: My Morning Jacket, Sebadoh, Sonic Youth, Trail Of Dead, Pedro The Lion, Gina Jacobi
Sounds Like: Topofthelineshitgoodmusic
Record Label: Audible Actions
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Who needs radio!

I just recieved a bulletin from New York-based musicblog whoneedsradio,the lovely Lady Bird wrote some fine lines about Leif Karate, go check it out: www.whoneedsradio.comOther good stuff coming up:-T...
Posted by Leif Karate on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:32:00 PST

Thank you Norway

We just came back from Trondheim, Norway, we love Trondheim, and Norway, especially Samfundet... It may be one of the best venues ever. Hopefully we´ll play in Norway again in a not so far distant fut...
Posted by Leif Karate on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 03:38:00 PST

New gigs!

Hey folks!If you live in Sundsvall or Trondheim, make sure to get you asses to Pipeline or Samfundet this weekend, Leif Karate and Hägga will deliver the latest hits and a bunch of old favorites!So......
Posted by Leif Karate on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:11:00 PST

Audible Actions

Our new label Audible Actions is up and running, check out www.audibleactions.com for more info!!!
Posted by Leif Karate on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:41:00 PST

New song + new gig

The splitsingle with our dear friend Hägga will be released in about a week, we can´t wait to have it released, so you can listen to it on this site, It will be available for download soon. We also ha...
Posted by Leif Karate on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 02:45:00 PST

New song

"Marry me slowly" is now available for downloading and streaming, the catchiest tune from "Lets back the wrong band" if you ask us./Markus
Posted by Leif Karate on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 05:46:00 PST

The Times They Are A-Changing

Hi!Weve been taking it quite easy for a while, but we are eager to get going again, our Swedish recordcompany went bankrupt a couple of months ago so we have been working with legal things and other b...
Posted by Leif Karate on Tue, 30 May 2006 02:22:00 PST

One Tree Hill

Right, "Steve McQueen was great in papillon" and She's adorable has been played on the show "One Three Hill". We have no idea wich episode or whatelse since we've never seen the show. Steve McQueen wa...
Posted by Leif Karate on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 06:10:00 PST