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Kings of Convenience

Index Kings of Convenience

Kings of Convenience is an indie folk-pop duo from Bergen, Norway. [1]

68 relations: A-ha, Album, Argentina, Astralwerks, Belle and Sebastian, Bergen, Billboard (magazine), Billboard 200, Biz Markie, Bodø, Brazil, Chile, Coldplay, Colombia, Cornelius (musician), Declaration of Dependence, DJ-Kicks, Eirik Glambek Bøe, Elliott Smith, EMI, Erlend Øye, Europe, Extended play, Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana, Feist (singer), Independent music, Indie folk, Indie pop, Italy, Javiera Mena, Ken Nelson (British record producer), Kindercore Records, Latin America, Manhattan Skyline (song), Mexico, MTV, North America, Norway, Peru, Playing Live in a Room, PopMatters, Portugal, Primavera Sound, Quiet Is the New Loud, Remix album, Riot on an Empty Street, Santiago, Simon & Garfunkel, Skog, Spain, ..., Steel-string acoustic guitar, Stockholm, Sverigetopplistan, Svolvær, Switzerland, Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique, The Whitest Boy Alive, Tom Tids Tale, Top Heatseekers, Toxic Girl, Tromsø, Turin Brakes, UK Albums Chart, UK Singles Chart, Umeå, Unrest (Erlend Øye album), Versus (Kings of Convenience album), VG-lista. Expand index (18 more) »

A-ha

A-ha (usually stylized as a-ha) is a Norwegian band formed in Oslo in 1982.

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Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic (República Argentina), is a federal republic located mostly in the southern half of South America.

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Astralwerks

Astralwerks is an American record label primarily focused on electronic and dance music, owned by Universal Music Group.

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Belle and Sebastian

Belle and Sebastian are a Scottish band formed in Glasgow in January 1996.

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Bergen

Bergen, historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Hordaland on the west coast of Norway.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Biz Markie

Marcel Theo Hall (born April 8, 1964), better known by his stage name Biz Markie, is an American rapper, beatboxer, DJ, actor, comedian, reality television personality and commercial spokesperson.

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Bodø

Bodø (Bådåddjo) is a town and a municipality in Nordland county, Norway.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Coldplay

Coldplay are a British rock band formed in 1996 by lead singer and pianist Chris Martin and lead guitarist Jonny Buckland at University College London (UCL).

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a sovereign state largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America.

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Cornelius (musician)

, also known by his moniker, is a Japanese recording artist and producer who co-founded Flipper's Guitar, an influential Shibuya-kei band, and subsequently embarked on a solo career.

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Declaration of Dependence

Declaration of Dependence is the third album from Norwegian duo Kings of Convenience, their first album in five years.

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DJ-Kicks

DJ-Kicks (styled DJ-KiCKS on all cover artwork) is a series of DJ mix albums, mixed by various artists for the independent record label !K7 Records.

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Eirik Glambek Bøe

Eirik Glambek Bøe (born 25 October 1975) is a Norwegian musician, writer and vocalist, best known for being part of the indie folk duo Kings of Convenience together with Erlend Øye.

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Elliott Smith

Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith (August 6, 1969 – October 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician.

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EMI

EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries and also referred to as EMI Records Ltd.) was a British multinational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.

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Erlend Øye

Erlend Øye (born 21 November 1975) is a Norwegian composer, musician, producer, singer and songwriter from Bergen, best known for being part, together with Eirik Glambek Bøe, of the indie folk duo Kings of Convenience.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Extended play

An extended play record, often referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP.

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Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana

The Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana (FIMI) is an umbrella organization that keeps track of virtually all aspects of the music recording industry in Italy.

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Feist (singer)

Leslie Feist (born 13 February 1976), known professionally as Feist, is a Canadian indie pop singer-songwriter and guitarist, performing both as a solo artist and as a member of the indie rock group Broken Social Scene.

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Independent music

Independent music (often referred to as indie music or indie) is music produced independently from commercial record labels or their subsidiaries, a process that may include an autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording and publishing.

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Indie folk

Indie folk is a music genre that arose in the 1990s among musicians from indie rock scenes influenced by folk music.

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Indie pop

Indie pop (also typeset as indie-pop or indiepop) is a music genre and subculture that combines guitar pop with DIY ethic in opposition to the style and tone of mainstream pop music.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Javiera Mena

Javiera Alejandra Mena Carrasco (born June 3, 1983 in Santiago) is a Chilean Indie electropop musician.

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Ken Nelson (British record producer)

Ken Nelson (born 6 February 1959 in Liverpool) is an English record producer.

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Kindercore Records

Kindercore Records is an independent record label based in Athens, Georgia, which was founded in 1996 by Ryan Lewis and Daniel Geller to document the emerging Athens music scene.

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Latin America

Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere where Spanish, French and Portuguese are spoken; it is broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic America.

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Manhattan Skyline (song)

"Manhattan Skyline" is a song by the Norwegian pop band A-ha.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.

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Peru

Peru (Perú; Piruw Republika; Piruw Suyu), officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America.

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Playing Live in a Room

Playing Live in a Room is an exclusive French release EP from Norwegian duo Kings of Convenience, issued between their first and second albums.

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PopMatters

PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa),In recognized minority languages of Portugal: Portugal is the oldest state in the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times.

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Primavera Sound

Primavera Sound is a music festival that takes place between the end of May and beginning of June in Barcelona, Spain and Porto, Portugal.

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Quiet Is the New Loud

Quiet Is the New Loud is the debut album by Norwegian indie pop duo Kings of Convenience, released on March 6, 2001 by Astralwerks.

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Remix album

A remix album is an album consisting mostly of remixes or re-recorded versions of a music artists' earlier released material.

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Riot on an Empty Street

Riot on an Empty Street is the second album from Norwegian duo Kings of Convenience.

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Santiago

Santiago, also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas.

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Simon & Garfunkel

Simon & Garfunkel were an American folk rock duo consisting of singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel.

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Skog

Skog (forest in Norwegian, taking inspiration from the famous song "A Forest" by The Cure) was a rock band from Bergen which formed in the early 1990s and folded at the end of the same decade.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Steel-string acoustic guitar

The steel-string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar that descends from the nylon-strung classical guitar, but is strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.

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Sverigetopplistan

Sverigetopplistan (lit. "Sweden top list") is the Swedish national record chart, earlier known as Topplistan (1975–1997) and Hitlistan (1998–2007) and known by its current name since October 2007, based on sales data from the Swedish Recording Industry Association (in Swedish Grammofonleverantörernas förening).

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Svolvær

Svolvær is the administrative centre of Vågan Municipality (9,200 inhabitants) in Nordland County, Norway.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique

The National Syndicate of Phonographic Publishing (Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique; SNEP) is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry.

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The Whitest Boy Alive

The Whitest Boy Alive was a German-Norwegian musical group based in Berlin.

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Tom Tids Tale

Tom Tids Tale is an EP released by the band Skog in 1996.

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Top Heatseekers

Top Heatseekers are "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine.

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Toxic Girl

"Toxic Girl" is a single by the Norwegian indie rock duo Kings of Convenience.

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Tromsø

Tromsø (Romsa; Tromssa; Tromssa) is a city and municipality in Troms county, Norway.

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Turin Brakes

Turin Brakes are an English band, comprising original duo Olly Knights and Gale Paridjanian, and long term collaborators Rob Allum and Eddie Myer.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Umeå

Umeå (South Westrobothnian; Uumaja, Ume Sami: Ubmeje, Upmeje, Ubmi) is a city in north east Sweden.

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Unrest (Erlend Øye album)

Unrest is the debut solo album from Kings of Convenience and The Whitest Boy Alive singer Erlend Øye, released by the record label Astralwerks in 2003.

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Versus (Kings of Convenience album)

Versus is an album of remakes, remixes, and collaborations of Kings of Convenience.

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VG-lista

VG-lista is a Norwegian record chart.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_of_Convenience

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