• Home
  • About
  • Winnie’s Photos
  • Myspace
  • Facebook
  • Mixes
  • TICKETS
Jun 23 2008

the interview show: LO-FI-FNK

Lo-Fi-Fnk (pronounced Low-Fi-Funk) make very light and peppy indie tunes—and they do it when most other guys their age—early 20s—want to be rappers or in a metal band. Because their tunes are so unabashedly pop, Lo-Fi-Fnk are often mislabeled “effete” and even “gay.”

To clear up any confusion, a reporter and friend-of-the-band even went so far to declare the guys hardcore “womanizers.” (Now, I wouldn’t exactly call them “womanizers”—you should see them both turn deep red when a pretty girl walks by. So sorry guys, Leo and August are not gay.)

Even though the boys from Lo-Fi-Fnk look like two doe-eyed innocents—that any mother would be happy to date their daughter (or son)—these two guys definitely like to party . At the end of the interview, I spied a large bag of M&Ms backstage and teased the guys about it… Demanding candy in their rider? Leo and August laughed, telling me the candy was for their drummer. Then they proudly showed me their large bottle of Jager. That bottle didn’t last very long.

When Swedish teens August and Leo started out as Lo-Fi-Fnk, they were inspired by their fantasies about what happens in the forbidden playground called a nightclub—and now their job is to be in a club every night, living the dream.

Hey, Scott Wood here. Lo-Fi-Fnk are the perfect indie solution for everyone who loves Justin Timberlake, but feels shitty about liking JT’s overexposed, crassly-commercial pop.

Lo-Fi-Fnk on the interview show

Lo-Fi-Fnk “Wake Up”

Lo-Fi-Fnk “Steppin’ Out”

Share on TwitterShare on Tumblr

Related posts:

  1. the interview show: Isis
  2. the interview show: Vampire Weekend
  3. the interview show: PROTEST the HERO
  4. What the Haps, indie rock?

Tags: justin timberlake, Lo-Fi-Fnk, Scott Wood, the interview show
Posted under Interviews, Music | 5 Comments »


5 Responses to “the interview show: LO-FI-FNK”

  1. By Scott Wood on Jun 23, 2008 | Reply

    the interview show
    guest Lo Fi Fnk

    songs played:
    1) Lo Fi Fnk “Wake Up”
    2) Lo Fi Fnk “Change Channel”
    3) Lo Fi Fnk “Steppin’ Out”
    4) The Teenagers “Homecoming” (snippet)
    5) Lo Fi Fnk “City” (The Teenagers remix)
    NO CANCON

  2. By keith on Jun 23, 2008 | Reply

    Lo Fi Fnk makes instant party melters. Opened a set with them once and had a huge response even though few in attendance were aware of these guys. Great stuff.

  3. By american_hero on Dec 20, 2008 | Reply

    they are gay…. it says on their official websites in the f.a.q section.. fuck off

  4. By Scott Wood on Dec 20, 2008 | Reply

    wow. they told me they were straight and went on and on about how hard it is to meet girls!!!!

    hilarious!

    I don’t know if “boys better know” definitively means they are gay. if anyone knows fer sure. let me/us know!

  1. 1 Trackback(s)

  2. Jun 29, 2008: Swedesplease » Blog Archive » Swedish Music Roundup (Cloetta Paris, Marching Band, Parken, Lo Fi Fnk, Billie The Vision, Air France)

Post a Comment

RSS Feed RSS FeedRSS Feed
  • Home Home Photos
    YVR
    Interviews ?About? Twitter Twitter No More Strangers
    Winnie x HypeM
  • ”HOTDATES

    5/7 Van Halen
    5/7 Augustana
    5/8 Katie Herzig
    5/8 Meshuggah
    5/8 The Drums, Craft Spells
    5/9 Yann Tiersen
    5/9 The Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys
    5/10 TOO HIGH CREW, TRE NYCE, JAY WORTHY & LANSE BASE @ FIVESIXTY
    5/11 Great Lake Swimmers
    5/11 Beach Fossils
    5/12 The Boxer Rebellion
    5/12 Kina Grannis
    5/13 Rammstein
    5/14 Suckers
    5/18 LONGWALKSHORTDOCK, SHAHdjs & VINCENT PARKER @ FIVESIXTY
    5/19 Margot & The Nuclear So & Sos
    5/20 We Are Serendades
    5/22 Apocalyptica
    5/22 Julia Holter
    5/23 Best Coast
    5/23 Alan Doyle, Dustin Bentall
    5/24 Of Monsters and Men
    5/25 Tiger & Woods @ FIVESIXTY
    5/25 Kurt Vile and The Violators
    5/25 Bon Iver
    5/25 Active Child
    5/26 Roger Waters
    5/26 Zeus
    5/26 Trampled by Turtles
    5/26 Santiago
    5/26 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
    5/27 Coeur de Pirate
    5/27 Switchfoot
    5/27 Jack White
    5/27 John Reilly & Friends
    5/28 Xiu Xiu
    5/29 Mogwai
    5/29 Cass McCombs Band
    5/29 Gary Clark Jr.
    5/30 Deer Tick
    5/30 Theresa Andersson
    6/1 Arkells
    6/5 Chickenfoot
    6/8 Mishka
    6/12 Maps & Atlases
    6/13 Corrosion of Conformity
    6/14 Patrick Watson
    6/15 The Dandy Warhols
    6/15 Primus
    6/16 Bryan Adams
    6/16 Hey Ocean!
    6/19 The Temper Trap
    6/19 Hayes Carll
    6/23 2:54
    6/25 Foster the People
    6/29 Bass Drum of Death
    7/1 London Elektricity
    7/4 k.d. Lang and the Siss Boom Bang
    7/4 Justin Townes Earle
    7/7 Japandroids
    7/7 k.d. Lang and the Siss Boom Bang
    7/8 k.d. Lang and the Siss Boom Bang
    7/15 Marina & The Diamonds
    7/20 Florence and The Machine
    7/21 Neil Diamond
    7/22 Beat Connection
    7/24 Dirty Projectors
    7/24 Fiona Apple
    7/28 Beirut
    7/29 Iron Maiden
    8/5 Yanni
    8/9 Dead Can Dance
    9/15 Hot Chip
    9/16 Big Time Rush
    9/21 Jason Mraz
    9/29 Madonna
    9/30 Madonna
    11/19 Red Hot Chili Peppers

  • blog advertising is good for you
    • Andrew Volk
    • Aquabotic
    • ARAWA
    • Beat Street
    • Beatroute Magazine
    • Beyond Robson
    • Bluegrassish
    • Booooooom
    • CBC Radio 3
    • Chipped Hip
    • Chromewaves
    • Cycle Vancouver
    • Daytrotter
    • Disco Dust
    • Discorder
    • From Blown Out Speakers
    • Granville Magazine
    • Hearing Gold
    • Here Is Now
    • Hipster Runoff
    • Ion Magazine
    • Kick Kick Snare
    • La Blogoteque
    • Linsays Diet
    • Mad Decent
    • Man Hussy
    • Miss604
    • Moongoons
    • Music Waste
    • Nardwuar
    • Olio Festival
    • Planet Shhh
    • Pop Montreal
    • Radio Zero
    • Safe Amp
    • Said The Gramophone
    • Salazar
    • Schitzpopinov
    • Scout Magazine
    • Sheena Beaston
    • Shimmy Shimmy
    • Sled Island
    • Slob Life
    • Steve Louie
    • Strange Fruit Music
    • Surfing On Heroin
    • Tales From A Bar Stool
    • Tastes Like Caramel
    • The Futurists
    • Timbre Concerts
    • Trissy Poo
    • TSURURADIO
    • Vancouver Is Awesome
    • Vancouver Slop
    • Weird Canada
    • Welcome To East Van
    • Wobangs
    • Your Only Friends
    • YVYNYL












  • Fave Posts
  • Recent Comments

    • John on Jack White “Blunderbuss” Giveaway
    • Young Liars – Colours (Video) | Winnie Cooper on TICKETS
    • Joseph on M.I.A. – Bad Girls
    • FIVESIXTY presents LONGWALKSHORTDOCK | Winnie Cooper on TICKETS
    • sexytime on Jack White “Blunderbuss” Giveaway
  • If you are an artist and would like us to check out your skills, please feel free to email us with your choice tracks here .



  • The music presented on this site is for sampling purposes only. If you like an artist we have promoted, be kind and support the artist directly. You can do this by buying their records online at the following fine retailers:
    Amazon / Juno / Turntable Lab / iTunes / Beatport.

    If you are the owner of a sound file, and would like it removed, please email us here.

  • Archives

  • Related Posts (YARPP)

    1. the interview show: Isis
    2. the interview show: Vampire Weekend
    3. the interview show: PROTEST the HERO
    4. What the Haps, indie rock?
  • TweetShare on Tumblr