#Sara Almgren

[thesearenotphotographs]

The (International) Noise Conspiracy and The Hives at Knitting Factory

Full gallery available on my website here.

On Saturday, November 17, 2001, I photographed two bands from Sweden: The (International) Noise Conspiracy and The Hives in the main room of Knitting Factory. I believe this was The Hives’ first ever tour of the US and I would document two of their shows in New York City again 22 years later in support of their first new record in over a decade. T(I)NC performed at Bowery Ballroom with Rocket From the Crypt earlier in 2001 and a gallery from that show is available on my website here.

I previously discussed photographing The Hives with Jeanette D. Moses on DP Review and that interview is available on that website here.

[linksvorne]

111. INVSN. 2022-12-11 @ Chelsea

[bellsofdoomtoll]

Me jogging toward my obsession of music and away from a career that makes me good money

[niiicedave]

The (International) Noise Conspiracy - "The Subversive Sound" - Survival Sickness (2000)

Tonight I'm going to testify that everybody's going to be alive (I said) I'm so sick of doing time, so please won't you fill my mind

Tonight I'm going to be alive down on the floor for another round Like lips kissing in the moonlight

Tonight I'm bound to testify all of my love and all my life So grab my hand and hold on tight

We're all superstars, yeah that's what we are 96 tears and everything's in here for you

We're all superstars, yeah that's what we are 96 tears and everything's in here for you

Tonight I'm going to feel alive licking your neck and doing fine

[Right here, honestly, it's impossible to follow these lyrics!]

Lovers in here strike up the beat Tonight were going to feel the heat alive right now between the sheets Lovers in here strike up the beat

We're all superstars, yeah that's what we are 96 tears and everything's in here for you

Passion is the biggest crime come on down to the subversive sound

Songwriters: Dennis Sven Olof Lyxzen / Inge Johansson / Lars Stromberg / Ludvig Dahlberg / Sara Almgren The Subversive Sound lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Warner Chappell Music, Inc

[kellymagovern]

Doughnuts were an all-girl 90's straightedge hardcore band out of Umeå, Sweden.

Line Up: Asa Forsberg – vocals Sara Almgren – guitar Sara Sjögren – guitar Linda Lundberg – drums Helena Löfgren – bass

[saraalmgren]

Dennis

[rookieforlife]

Christen Press: Göteborg has a place in my heart forever

"I’ve talked to some of the girls and we seem to have a very exciting team this year too," says Press. It was in Sweden and Europe that Christen Press career was moving seriously. The striker put terror in every enemy defense during her time in Kopparberg / Göteborg FC and then in Tyresö. 42 goals in 47 all Swedish matches between 2012 and 2014.

"I came to Sweden for a period when I was struggling to fix my career," says Christen. It was in Gothenburg that I regained my love for football.

The club's then coach Torbjörn Nilsson has meant a lot to you.

- He himself had played at the highest possible level and allowed me to develop my game and take a step to a higher level. So definitely, Torbjörn is one of the coaches who had the biggest impact on my football.

Only three players of that team of 2012 in which Christen played are present today - Beata Kollmats, Catrine Johansson and Olivia Schough. Other players from that time put the shoes on the shelf - Stina Segerström, Kristin Hammarström, Lisa Ek, Johanna Almgren, Jane Törnqvist, Marlene Sjöberg, Linnea Liljegärd, Anna Ahlstrand, Sara Lindén.

“We were great 2012, but if I understood the situation correctly, there may be something good going on this year as well. I have been in touch with both Beata and Olivia, and they think the team looked very good during pre-season this year. I want to be a part of it.” Christen Press ended up in Kopparberg / Göteborg FC this spring because she did not want to be traded from Chicago Red Stars to Houston Dash - and then selected teams in Europe and Sweden.

"I've made the decision I think is best for my career," she says. The 29-year-old has signed a contract with KGFC which extends the spring season, that is, even the away match against IFK Kalmar in July 7th.

"That's what matters right now,"

- Can there be an extension after July? "Right now, I can not say anything about that matter. We have to wait and see.” Welcome back to Gothenburg!

- Thanks, this still feels a bit like coming home.

[desertislandcloud]

Brooklyn's Starlight Girls' story is a lot like their sound – surreal, and full of 21st-century contradictions. Their story begins in 2011, when singer Christina Bernard, an Ohio ex-megachurch chorister turned rocker, meets Shaw Walters, a guitar savant and budding tech wizard from San Francisco, and they form a band. They find their bandmates: two Long Island music theatre junkies on keys and backups, a tattooed art freak from Seattle-via-Hawaii on bass, and a UMich jazz fiend on drums (Sara Mundy, Isabel Alvarez, Tysen Arveson, and Josh Davis respectively). They all meet via craigslist.

Their first foray into the public eye is an April Fool’s joke gone right—they record an impression of Joanna Newsom covering one of their songs, and a bunch of blogs take the bait. One thing leads to another, and soon they're a bonafide Brooklyn buzz band. They release an EP and tour the country a few times. They open for Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings. They attend Lou Reed's last big party. They play Europe's biggest musical festival. The collab with Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart on their noise-drenched sophomore EP, 7x3, which they follow up with their first LP, Fantasm. Their enigmatic sound gets them on stages with names from all over the musical map, including Kate Nash, St. Lucia, Tilly and the Wall, Nick Waterhouse, Total Slacker, Crystal Fighters, and Lucius.

In nine years, Starlight Girls have evolved into an elegant enigma, straining what's possible for a project that wasn't planned too carefully to begin with. The band’s started to venture outside of Brooklyn for inspiration. Lead singer Christina Bernard has forayed into directing; her narrative music video for the band’s “Get Right” (shot on a commune in rural North Carolina) is a surreal spoof on 90’s karaoke videos. She’s also directed a self-penned short film in California, set to be released this year.  Meanwhile, guitarist Shaw Walters has become a rising star in the tech world and has crisscrossed the globe creating holographic augmented reality projects for performers, including a recent piece with Marina Abramović (hilariously, their mixed-reality collaboration “The Life” has become a lightning rod for alt-right conspiracy theories). The rest of the band soldiers on in New York, performing music and navigating the apocalypse.

In a burst of grit, the band has created their new EP Entitled. Produced by Christina Bernard, the album was recorded in upstate New York’s Marcata Studios by Kevin McMahon (Titus Andronicus, Widowspeak), mixed at Freshly Baked Studios in Brooklyn by Alexander Almgren (Skylar Spence, Born Cages, Vanessa Carlton) and mastered by Chris Gehringer (Lady Gaga, Drake, Rhianna) at New Jersey’s Sterling Sound. And the band’s hyper-kinetic stage show features videographer Jonathan Phelps (Muckraker Productions). Entitled is a darkly upbeat come-on to the future. The band's future (and everyone else's) seems uncertain, and fittingly, Entitled feels like one more sexy freak-out from the edge.  

Links https://soundcloud.com/starlightgirls https://www.instagram.com/starlightgirls https://twitter.com/starlightgirls https://starlightgirls.bandcamp.com https://www.youtube.com/c/StarlightGirls

[jbergren]

School of Motion Alumni Holiday Card 2017 from Traci Brinling on Vimeo.

This one is a long one, but very worth it. 97 School of Motion Alumni contributed to this one, definitely holds the record so far (2 years in the making :)) Added bonus we are providing the project files for these so you want to make sure you see all the amazing work these animators did. So sit back, grab a drink and enjoy!

Credits - in order they appear in the video...

Title card concept and design – Ewa Niedbala | Sweden Title Animations – Traci Brinling Osowski | Boston, MA

1. A Christmas Story | Jordan Bergren 2. a fire in the fireplace | Zach Christy 3. A good night sleep | Véronita Va 4. a Nativity | Wilson Lievano 5. A Partridge in a Pear Tree | Patrick Butler 6. Advent Calendars | Victoria Blair 7. Advent candles | Cornelia Ryås 8. Another spin around the great wheel | Nol Honig 9. Beer | Erlend Kristiansen 10. Books I'll never read | Justin Owens 11. Bundling Up | Margaret To 12. C9s (Lights) | Jake Bartlett 13. Cats knocking down ornaments ("Helpful" Cats) | Brad Eustathios 14. Chocolate Orange | Elliot Mosher 15. Christmas | Ryan Plummer 16. Christmas Carols! | Dan Melius 17. Christmas pudding | Donika Jordan 18. chrsitmas tree and lights | Jenjen Chen 19. Cinnamon Rolls | Kevin Snyder 20. Coal | Ashley Engelhardt 21. Cookies | Elaine Seward 22. Decorations | Erica Pead 23. Dogs | Jared Tomkins 24. Dogs in santa hats | Erin Bradley 25. Eggnog & Booze | Tristan Henry-Wilson 26. Netflix | Mike Bernard 27. Ewe (you) | Keith Morrissey 28. Family | Franklin Walters 29. Family christmas cards | Peter-Paul Rutjens 30. Fat pants | Earl Cabuhat 31. Feast Max Vellinga 32. Fireworks | Meliha Cicak 33. Fish(carp in a bath-tub) | Daniela Dlugosova 34. Football | Jeff Salvado 35. Friends | Roberta Scialla 36. Frosty & Rudolph | Austin Saylor 37. Gingerbread dudes | Ben Samuels 38. Grandma's gifts | Saul Yance 39. Granny asleep on the couch | Lucy Regan 40. Hand Knit Sweaters | Jenna Harrison 41. Holly | Ollie Mamaril 42. Homemade cannoli’s | Karen Fantasia 43. Ice Cream | Sara Walsh 44. In-laws | Don Lavender 45. Joy | Liv Engel 46. Kids | Algernon Quashie 47. Legos | Liam Clisham 48. Lights and Pine | Christian Prieto 49. Love | Ivan Stanimirovic 50. Mario Kart | Fiona Vane 51. Meatballs | Tony Agliata 52. Mince pies | Sam Burton 53. Money | Cristi Smarandoiu 54. Mulled Wine | Kelly Kurtz 55. Office party | Jessica Bern 56. Old Saint Nicholas | Dan Ito 57. packing the car/roadtrip | Kalika Kharkar Sharma 58. Pandas | Irina Almgren 59. Parols (Filipino Christmas Lanterns) | Amanda Bantug 60. Peace | Miguel Faber 61. Penguin | Giovanny Bautista 62. Pepper Jelly | Ali Walton 63. Pie | Ivan Witteborg 64. Pine | Andrea Schmitz 65. Presents | Chris Greene 66. Purrs | Valeria Searle 67. Rampant consumerism | Mair Perkins / Mair Bain 68. Rudolph | Hannah Guay 69. Santa Claus | Luke Brown 70. Shopping | Herry Koo 71. Skeletor | Patrick Emling 72. Skiing | René Andritsch 73. Smoking reindeer | Emma Elisabeth 74. Snow globe | Jeri Bailer 75. Snowballs | Natalie Wood 76. Snowboarding | LC Miranda 77. Stocking stuffers | Jeremy Rech 78. Sugar | Kevin Snyder 79. Thawing Frozen Fingers | Annemie Debicki-Kouwenhoven 80. The cat climbing in the christmas tree | Melanie Aratani 81. Tons of candy | Xisco Cabrer 82. Too much TV | Neil Lawson 83. Traffic | Greg Stewart 84. Resolutions| Mark Fancher 85. Travel | Eric Brackett 86. Tropical Fruit | Hayley Rollason 87. Turkey | Nassib Mourabet 88. TV | Aaron Keuter 89. Ugly sweaters | Anne Saint-Louis 90. Unwanted gifts | Rodrigo Domínguez 91. Video Games | Chris Gibson 92. Waiting | Samu Rintala 93. Watching Die Hard | Mathieu Durand 94. White Elephant Gifts | Dana Albert 95. Wine | Traci Brinling Osowski 96. Wrapping Paper! | Derek Goulet

Added HOLIDAY bonus - Here are the project files so you can see how that cool thing so and so did - give them a high five or better hire them for something :) drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ACahOyO6Ypnoybbionzw8IDcRehr_-sm?usp=sharing

[peterhutchins]

INVSN - Dennis Lyxzén, Sara Almgren, André Sandström, Christina Karlsson & Anders Stenberg (Riot Fest 2017) @ Douglas Park, Chicago, IL on Friday, September 15, 2017 #RiotFest2017 (at Douglas Park)

[remimosand]

#Repost @slottsfjell ・・・ Nord-Svenske INVSN har spilt i band hver for seg siden lenge før de traff hverandre. Bandet består av fem venner som opererer i et post-punk/dystopisk pop-landskap. Gjengen kommer fra de mest isolerte delene av Sverige. Fra et bredt spekter av svenske band; Sara Almgren fra Masshysteri, Christina Karlsson fra Tiger Forest Cat, Anders Stenberg fra Deportees, André Sandström fra DS-13 og Dennis Lyzxén, som begynte i legendariske, mytologiske Refused. Ikke mange har tatt like godt vare på arven fra den legendariske hardcore-scenen i Umeå som INVSN 🔥 #invsn #slottsfjell #slottsfjell2017

[comedytrendsnyc-blog]

INVSN – “Immer Zu” Video

INVSN – “Immer Zu” Video

INVSN is the duo of Refused and (International) Noise Conspiracy frontman Dennis Lyxzén and longtime collaborator Sara Almgren. Their album The Beautiful Stories will see worldwide release this June via Dine Alone Records, and today they’re sharing the video for lead single “Immer Zu.” It’s a rhythmically charged rock track with verses that swagger and sway and a chorus that tips over into…

[saraalmgren]

Kicki

[desertislandcloud]

In a burst of grit, the band has created their new EP Entitled. Produced by Christina Bernard, the album was recorded in upstate New York’s Marcata Studios by Kevin McMahon (Titus Andronicus, Widowspeak), mixed at Freshly Baked Studios in Brooklyn by Alexander Almgren (Skylar Spence, Born Cages, Vanessa Carlton) and mastered by Chris Gehringer (Lady Gaga, Drake, Rhianna) at New Jersey’s Sterling Sound. And the band’s hyper-kinetic stage show features videographer Jonathan Phelps (Muckraker Productions). Entitled is a darkly upbeat come-on to the future. The band's future (and everyone else's) seems uncertain, and fittingly, Entitled feels like one more sexy freak-out from the edge. 

Brooklyn's Starlight Girls' story is a lot like their sound – surreal, and full of 21st-century contradictions. Their story begins in 2011, when singer Christina Bernard, an Ohio ex-megachurch chorister turned rocker, meets Shaw Walters, a guitar savant and budding tech wizard from San Francisco, and they form a band. They find their bandmates: two Long Island music theatre junkies on keys and backups, a tattooed art freak from Seattle-via-Hawaii on bass, and a UMich jazz fiend on drums (Sara Mundy, Isabel Alvarez, Tysen Arveson, and Josh Davis respectively). They all meet via craigslist.

Their first foray into the public eye is an April Fool’s joke gone right—they record an impression of Joanna Newsom covering one of their songs, and a bunch of blogs take the bait. One thing leads to another, and soon they're a bonafide Brooklyn buzz band. They release an EP and tour the country a few times. They open for Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. They attend Lou Reed's last big party. They play Europe's biggest musical festival. The collab with Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart on their noise-drenched sophomore EP, 7x3, which they follow up with their first LP, Fantasm. Their enigmatic sound gets them on stages with names from all over the musical map, including Kate Nash, St. Lucia, Tilly and the Wall, Nick Waterhouse, Total Slacker, Crystal Fighters, and Lucius.

In nine years, Starlight Girls have evolved into an elegant enigma, straining what's possible for a project that wasn't planned too carefully to begin with. The band’s started to venture outside of Brooklyn for inspiration. Lead singer Christina Bernard has forayed into directing; her narrative music video for the band’s “Get Right” (shot on a commune in rural North Carolina) is a surreal spoof on 90’s karaoke videos. She’s also directed a self-penned short film in California, set to be released this year.  Meanwhile, guitarist Shaw Walters has become a rising star in the tech world and has crisscrossed the globe creating holographic augmented reality projects for performers, including a recent piece with Marina Abramović (hilariously, their mixed-reality collaboration “The Life” has become a lightning rod for alt-right conspiracy theories). The rest of the band soldiers on in New York, performing music and navigating the apocalypse.  Links https://www.facebook.com/starlightgirls https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/starlight-girls/id490521785 https://twitter.com/Starlight_Girls

[thecramped]