Pitchfork: Win a Date With Jens Lekman!

Want to go on a date with Jens Lekman? Want to go to the Pitchfork Music Festival for free?

Who doesn't?!

The sweet Swedish indie-pop star is currently holding a contest on his website; the winner receives VIP guest list spots for the opening night party, as well as both days of the festival. All you have to do is create a beat for a new Jens song. The info is here. Hurry, the contest ends Friday! Festival tickets are almost gone; by the end of the week, this might be the only way to get them! And we don't want Jens to be lonely!

Not that he necessarily would be: when Jens hits the States for the short American tour leading up to the festival, he'll be joined by a six-piece, all-girl backing band. On paper this has all the makings of a great Hanna-Barbera cartoon, with Jens driving his tour van across America, getting scared at inopportune moments, and then his sassy lady sextet solving mysteries while he hides behind a tree.

The perfect sidekick for Jens would be a talking octopus, but accompanying him instead is fellow Swedish pop star Frida Hyvönen. Hyvönen will be opening for Jens at all U.S. dates except for the festival. (No offense, Frida! We just didn't know you were coming!)

Jens plans on previewing a few songs from his upcoming album in his sets, so this would be the opportunity to gently suggest that it's not too late to throw in a few pseudo-biographical tunes about a touring Swede solving mysteries in a van.

Jens dates (tour, that is, not romantic):

07-14 Varberg, Sweden - Majas Strandcafe
07-19 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge (solo)
07-20 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church *#
07-21 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom *
07-22 Boston, MA - TT The Bear's Place *
07-23 Rochester, NY - Bug Jar *
07-24 Cleveland, OH - Beachland *
07-25 Cincinnati, OH - Southgate House *
07-26 Lawrence, KS - Bottleneck *
07-27 Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews *
07-28 Minneapolis, MN - The Triple Rock *
07-29 Bloomington, IN - Second Story *%
07-30 Chicago, IL - Union Park (Pitchfork Music Festival) $

* with Frida Hyvönen
# with Beirut
% with Early Day Miners
$ with Os Mutantes, Yo La Tengo, Spoon, Mission of Burma, Devendra Banhart, Ted
Leo/Pharmacists, Aesop Rock & Mr. Lif, Liars, The National, Danielson, Tapes
'n Tapes, Diplo, Dominik Eulberg, Glenn Kotche, Ada, Tarantula A.D., Cage, CSS,
Bonde Do Role, Jeff Parker/Nels Cline Quartet