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Swede is here! We are a three piece rock band, and we sing a lot and scream just a little. Our music jumps all around the powerpop spectrum, full of three part harmonies and rockin riffs. We are now finished with the process of recording the album "Shandala," that will get us signed and make us famous. And we're perfectly fine with that. I never learned to read. With that, Swede loves you all. Buy the CD at Gravity Records or CD Alley in Wilmington. OR Buy the CD online at one of these places:

CD Baby OR @ iTunes!!

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Member Since: 1/12/2006
Band Website: www.myspace.com/swederock
Band Members: John Skoglund, Brian Mason, and Derrick Surrett. John plays guitar, sings, and writes a lot of the songs. Brian plays drums, sings a little backup, and writes some of the songs. You can't miss him, his fro has reached "Wolfmother" status. Derrick wears a hat and plays the bass and wears down the skin on his fingertips and loves run-on sentences. But he does all that stuff like no one else in the history of the world. Welcome to Swedeland...
Influences: The Beatles, Weezer, Foo Fighters, Ween, The Flaming Lips, Radiohead, Elliot Smith, Ron Burgundy, Ricky Bobby, Tenacious D, Napolean Dynamite, Cold War Kids, Flight of the Concourds, Buddy Holly, Nick Drake, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Pearl Jam, Snow Patrol, Ryan Adams, Beck, Green Day, Blur, Bob Marley, Public Enemy, Pearl Jam, The Kinks, Donovan, Led Zeppelin, Queens of the Stone Age, The Shins, The Stones, OKGO, Fountains of Wayne, etc.
Sounds Like: We think we sound like: Weezer, The Foo Fighters, Ryan Adams, Radiohead, Ween, Fountains of Wayne, Queens of the Stone Age, Superdrag, and every third Tuesday, the Beatles.
Record Label: YES, PLEASE.

My Blog

The Beat - Interview w/ SWEDE

Swede - "We Do Everything Day to Day"- Jennifer Caslin Beat writer Jennifer Caslin spent a few moments with the band and filed this insightful article.  Swede is not a band with a five year...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:01:00 GMT

New Swede Review

Swede Sticks:Trio of sound exemplifies and celebrates true sanctity BY; ADRIAN VARNAM"We just try to keep it simple, you know. We're a three-piece. It's the Presidents of The United States [of America...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:08:00 GMT

SWEDE CD REVIEW IN ENCORE!!!

..> ..> ..> ..> The Incomparable Swede:And the shinola on Shandala BY: BEN BROWN Some argue that musical comparisons are an uninspired way of describing a band's sound. For instance, I mi...
Posted by on Sat, 19 May 2007 05:36:00 GMT

encore review Nov. 1-7, 2006

Lucky Number Three: Local Rock Trio, Swede, has small line-up, big sound By: Ben Brown "I love a three-piece band that can pull off the simplistic delivery of one guitar over bass and drums. I mean, h...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 08:45:00 GMT

Captain Invisible's words o' wisdom

Legend has it that a norse god walks amongst us as flesh and blood. But when the earth's rotation is closest to the sun he sheds his mortal skin to reveal a mighty hand forged from Thor's Hammer. The ...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:32:00 GMT

No Small Matter

Swede is the tallest band in Wilmington.  If you take our three individual heights, add them together, and divide by three...Well, let me just say that it's tall.  I'm talking 6.252 feet tal...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:13:00 GMT