DON'T BLOW IT BY SMILING. GOOD.

Here's a few of the (International) Noise Conspiracy, from at a jazz festival in Sweden in 2003. They are joined by jazz saxophonist Jonas Kullhammar and jazz pianist Sven-Erik Dahlber, both apparently big deals in Swedish jazz. Rad. (You can read the whole long thing about the gig at Alternative Tentacles.) What I dig about these guys is that in their particular salad bowl you can hear plenty of stuff that came before them, and a lot that may or may not have been borrowed by bands that came after them. Stooges, no wave,  At The Drive-In, the Hives, etc. I'm not some diehard fan, but I can appreciate that they weren't beholden to a template. They sounded good and they liked to fuck with things. What's not to like? And, hell yeah, left leaning politics were the icing on the cake.

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Listen:
(International) Noise Conspiracy - Bigger Cages, Longer Leashes mp3 at Alternative Tentacles
(International) Noise Conspiracy - A Body Treatise mp3 at Alternative Tentacles
(International) Noise Conspiracy - Two more at Alternative Tentacles
Video: 
(International) Noise Conspiracy - The Reproduction Of Death at YouTube 
(International) Noise Conspiracy- Capitalism Stole My Virginity at YouTube