<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33708996.post-6825457117902778280</id><published>2009-06-15T05:42:00.005+05:00</published><updated>2009-06-27T20:30:46.679+05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_o3CJYBea6AU/SjWh8bVQhsI/AAAAAAAAAf0/qCOvd7xX4BI/s1600-h/Picture+2.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 295px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_o3CJYBea6AU/SjWh8bVQhsI/AAAAAAAAAf0/qCOvd7xX4BI/s320/Picture+2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347358192073475778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Breathing New&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;If you only know Swedish-Norwegian-British-New Yorker Leona Naess from her cranky, dyspeptic debut album &lt;i&gt;Comatised&lt;/i&gt;, you may be caught off guard by her bouncy and fun new album &lt;i&gt;Thirteen&lt;/i&gt;. Her voice has grown, with suddenly more of the vibrant urgency of Leslie Fiest without dissappearing under the same weight of hiccupping affectation and her songwriting has gotten looser and looks out as well as in. Plus also, it is now almost unconscionably catchy. She's playing July 1st at Le Poisson Rouge.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/1/29/708417/02-leave-your-boyfriends.mp3"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Leave Your Boyfriends Behind&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CRYRpzH-5yg&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ballerina (Live)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;ct=res&amp;amp;cd=2&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myspace.com%2Fleonanaess&amp;amp;ei=UDw4SpC4CJ-Jtgfsg_ncDA&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=leona+naess&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHgDUdFdP7dYo1HhxfJOSLw-GUnNQ"&gt;Her MySpace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;ct=res&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.leonanaess.com%2F&amp;amp;ei=UDw4SpC4CJ-Jtgfsg_ncDA&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=leona+naess&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEeV2-z5_OFBrpMzPx5TaGlLvxLHg"&gt;and website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001DZDTUE?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=bklynsongofth-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=B001DZDTUE"&gt;Buy Leona Naess at Amazon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33708996-6825457117902778280?l=brooklynsod.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brooklynsod.blogspot.com/feeds/6825457117902778280/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33708996&amp;postID=6825457117902778280' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33708996/posts/default/6825457117902778280'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33708996/posts/default/6825457117902778280'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brooklynsod.blogspot.com/2009/06/breathing-new-if-you-only-know-swedish.html' title=''/><author><name>fb</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10958231027439740625</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='03287431196017517418'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_o3CJYBea6AU/SjWh8bVQhsI/AAAAAAAAAf0/qCOvd7xX4BI/s72-c/Picture+2.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry>