Live Daily — The prolific, sunny Norwegian Sondre Lerche [ tickets ] proffers the most challenging album of his decade-long, six-album career. It's an impressive mixture of the elements heard on his previous records--the '60s-rooted chamber pop of his first two a... more info

Stereogum — The Norwegian singer-songwriter Sondre Lerche lives in Brooklyn at this point, which made it easy enough for he and his friends to hop on a subway and go to Coney Island for this Kate Barker-directed "Heartbeat Radio" video. As I mentioned last ti... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis DOWNLOAD: Princeton - Calypso Gold (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Wild Beasts - All the Kings Men (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Sondre Lerche - Good Luck (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Marmoset - Peach Cobbler (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Marmoset - Florist Fired (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Marmoset -..... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Tim Griffin "One of my favorite artists who seems to embody brilliance, the quintessential musician, is the one and only Sondre Lerche. His music, his style, his words are combined to create the most unique sound I've ever... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Lorrie Moore talks to NPR about her new novel, A Gate at the Stairs. An excerpt from the book is also presented. NPR is streaming last night's performance by Sondre Lerche. Chapman/Chapman creates a playlist of songs to accompany reading... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis DOWNLOAD: The Smith Westerns - Be My Girl (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Sondre Lerche - Good Luck (MP3) After what seems like an entire summer's worth of epic weekends, this one is looking pretty quiet, music-wise. No surprise, as... more info

Rawkblog — Sondre Lerche’s new album, Heartbeat Radio, might be the Norwegian songwriter’s best collection yet — so you won’t want to miss his return to his (and my) favorite Los Angeles haunt, the Troubadour, on Sept. 24. (The album’s due Sept. 8.) A... more info

Stereogum — After giving us a sample of his new collection's throwback orchestral pop title track, Norwegian songsmith Sondre Lerche offers up another listen to his forthcoming Heartbeat Radio. Lerche let's himself rock a little harder here, although it's still ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Sondre Lerche - Good Luck (MP3) Check out "Good Luck," above, a new track off Sondre Lerche's upcoming album Heartbeat Radio, due September 8th on Rouder Records."I wrote this song on the last day of 2007 after a complicated... more info

Live Daily — (LiveDaily.com) Singer/songwriter Sondre Lerche [ tickets ] has lined up a fall North American headlining tour to support his latest studio effort, "Hearbeat Radio," which drops in September.... continued more info