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Check out this brand new "Remixed" EP from We Are Serenades featuring the Passion Pit remix of 'Birds' and the Active Child remix of 'Walking Home' - click here to purchase your copy on…

Check out the We Are Serenades - Walking Home (Active Child Remix) in the Music Discovery page for …

Lead singer Adam Olenius, formerly of the underrated group The Shout Out Louds, sings, "There's nothing else like you and me," in as simple of an explanation as he can offer. He and his other are like fireworks, which he seems to liken to the uniqueness of snowflakes. It's the way that love gets to a person - that it can be explosive beauty to just ooh and ahh at, with a mouth…

The original "Walking Home" packs a wallop with steady snares, handclaps, alto sax, and those lush vocal harmonies. It sounds earthy, whereas Active Child's version is oceanic. Pat Grossi makes the bass bigger and the tempo slower, ditches the saxophone, and isolates the vocals so they sound more theatrical. James Cameron could have used…

Nostalgia runs through our spine whenever we listen to the Swedish band, We Are Serenades. Similar in style to Foster The People, Adam Olenius (Shout Out Louds) and Markus Krunegard (Laasko) of We Are Serenades have turned heads in the indie pop…

Los Angeles - Guns & Roses, Paradise City…

‘We recorded this little nugget about a year ago. Boyfriend by the great Best Coast. It turned out sounding like a tv show theme. Our tour gift to you /Adam and Markus, We Are Serenades’…

Hey NYC friends! Thanks for a great show. Here is a new postcard for you- 'Pet Cemetery' The Ramones / WAS…

When asked what makes We Are Serenades different from other bands Adam tells me that the band is all about happy thoughts and sounds. This is specifically what he says about that:



“It’s meant to sound like nature and happiness. Markus and I, we both write other music. We write things for our other projects and those things can be very dark…

Flavorpill has teamed up with Sonos and Livestream to present an in-office acoustic concert series, and you can watch the performances live via Livestream.com. This installment features Swedish indie-pop duo We Are Serenades, who hit the US in support of their debut album, Criminal Heaven. Catch the band, which features Shout Out Louds frontman Adam Olenius teamed up with cohort Markus Krunegard, playing…

Cambridge synth-poppers Passion Pit have given the remix treatment to "Birds," the first single from Swedish duo We Are Serenades' debut, Criminal Heaven. The new rendition retains the original's toe-tap-ability, but replaces the punchy, cinematic strings with shimmering synths and a gritty bass pulse.…

We Are Serenades, by contrast, are taking a step up to the big leagues, releasing their debut album, Criminal Heaven, on Interscope imprint Cherrytree, home to other mainstream-indie acts such as Robyn, Feist and La Roux. WAS don’t stray too far from the Shout Out Louds’ summery indie pop, though…

Sometimes I just don't understand how Sweden can churn out such good pop music relative to their size. Did you know that 21.8 Swedens could fit in the US? They boast the likes of Robyn, Jens Lekman, The Knife, Lykke Li, Peter, Bjorn, & John. We've got... "Yung Joc" and "Train."



Well, time to flirt with throwing a new band into the pool of Great Swedish Indie Acts. We Are Serenades are a duo of singer-Swede-songwriters, playing Monday May 7 at the Black Cat, that manage to make…

A cover of Washington DC by Magnetic…

Perhaps they come across as too gleeful, but Sweden’s Adam Olenius (Shout Out Louds) and Markus Krunegard (Laasko) play as though their hearts cling to 80s drama pop, yet their lyrics are, well, cheery.  The duo known as We Are Serenadesrely on this upbeat attitude throughout their debut …