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Malmö, Sweden (1995 – present)

The Radio Dept. is a Swedish pop band signed to Labrador Records. They have released two full length albums and a series of singles and EPs. The band originated in Lund, Sweden.

In 1995, The Radio Dept. was formed by Elin Almered and Johan Duncanson (who were old school friends). The name was taken from a gas station/radio repair shop in Lund, Sweden, which had a large sign with the name Radioavdelningen, (“The Radio Department” in Swedish) hanging outside their shop.

Since 1995 members have been coming and going and at some points there has never really been a Radio Department at all.

Martin Larsson and Johan Duncanson started playing together in 1998 and decided to use the name The Radio Dept. Since then the band has done lots of gigs and lots of recordings. The Radio Dept. recorded 4-tracks in friends’ living rooms or at home, in smelly warehouse, in demo studios with blinking fluorescent lightning and at schools.

In the autumn of 2001 Lisa Carlberg and Per Blomgren (Bass & drums respectively), joined the band and they started rehearsing in the way bands so often do. Soon afterwards they were all joined by Daniel Tjader on the keyboards. Their recordings were sent to the music magazine Sonic and got a nice review. They were also on the free CD sampler that comes with the magazine. That’s where Labrador Records discovered and learned to love the band. Now they’re a part of Sweden’s finest indie label.

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Pet Grief
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Lesser Matters
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Pulling Our Weight
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This Past Week
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Top Tracks

1	Pulling Our Weight full track	1,230
2	Pet Grief full track	956
3	It's Personal full track	864
4	South Side full track	804
5	A Window full track	786
6	I Don't Like It Like This	767
7	Every Time full track	747
8	Sleeping In full track	740
9	Always a Relief full track	732
10	Keen on Boys	712
11	The Worst Taste In Music (Extended) free download	678
12	Tell full track	644
13	Gibraltar full track	620
14	I Wanted You to Feel the Same	613
15	Freddie and the trojan horse free download	601

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2 hours ago

America!! Come to America (Boston)!!!

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placebo_molko wrote:
yesterday afternoon

COME TO ARGENTINAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!! [1]

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yesterday evening

თესსლაოზები ხართთ!!! აი ლავ რადიოდეპტ! :)))

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COME TO MEXICOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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legghiu wrote:
Tuesday evening

buy CD's!

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ihateRBF wrote:
8 days ago

"They can release the album whenever the F*** they want to." -- they probably wanted to back in the summer. They'll release it when Labrodor lets them.

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lyckopiller wrote:
8 days ago

<3

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alexy_walaxy wrote:
9 days ago

++quality.

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hunthunthunt wrote:
10 days ago

They can release the album whenever the F*** they want to. Everything they have done to date is ++quality. These things take time.

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Lindesign wrote:
10 days ago

Fy fan, vad ni ar bra

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aphidsss wrote:
12 days ago

why they have to be that addicted to postpone stuff? :/

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DATADATA wrote:
last month

I only three songs of theirs from the Marie Antoinette soundtrack, but I plan on picking up one of their albums soon. Good stuff.

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KiwiMorado wrote:
last month

i think i'm 100% sure i'm the biggest fan in México. listen? 100.

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calamityjk wrote:
last month

Lovely music!

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Winsenes wrote:
last month

I want to hate you guys for the delaying (as always) but...it's pretty hard when you at the same time listen to Pet Grief. You break my heart but I always come back. Complicated relationship.

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Astro-kopp wrote:
last month

Well Labrador says TBA and they will be doing so till the last day of the autumn and further across the year as well, so we should expect them somewhere in January to be giving us the new album.

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jaacobs wrote:
last month

inasafeplace. i think it was supposed to be released at this time last year, then May, then September. the last song they played (a new song) at popaganda recently it had no name nor a finish lyric. :) i think it will be out during the spring/sommer next year :) and btw, it's not called clinging to a scheme anymore. at least thats what i've heard.

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thisisabadidea wrote:
last month

damn douche

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InASafePlace wrote:
last month

Are u guys kidding me? Everyone who knows this band a little bit knows that every single one of their albums have been delayed... When they initially said on the labrador website that this would be released in September, it was obvious you needed to add at least 5-6 months to have a realistic date. This said, it should be released somewhere in february or march.

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