A lot of bands have the distinction of releasing the so-called “Song of the Summer,” but Swedish electro pop duo ICONA POP have pulled a deuce with “I Love It,” which now threatens to be the official mainstream Summer Jam in 2013 after all the indie kids got off on it last year. Two years of Song of the Summer acclaim? When has that ever happened?
To be sure things don’t fade out now that we’ve heard the song roughly a billion times — from Girls to the pill to Good Morning America to TV commercials to the car driving down your street right now — since I first wrote about it almost exactly a year ago, Caroline and Aino have released a follow, up, the appropriately bubbly and battle-cryish “Girlfriend.” Huffington Post writes: The song has Icona Pop covering words made famous by Tupac, and later covered by Jay-Z… Icona Pop repeatedly sing lyrics from Tupac’s “Me and My Girlfriend,” with the phrase “All I need in this life of sin/Is me and my girlfriend.”
The pair is also hitting the road for their first-ever headlining tour, bringing along K.Flay & Sirah for a string of shows. Their run hits Boston at the tail end, a September 19 gig at the Paradise, and tickets just went on sale today.
Check out “Girlfriend” below, as well as their full run of tour dates.
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THE ICONIC TOUR DATES
*New dates added
06/02 – Ozark, AZ – Wakarusa Festival
06/08 – New York, NY – Governor’s Ball Music Festival
08/02 – Chicago, IL – Lollapalooza Festival
08/03 – ON, Canada – Grove Music Festival
08/04 – Montreal, QC – Osheaga Festival
08/12 – Asheville, NC – Orange Peel*
08/13 – Nashville, TN – Exit / In*
08/14 – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade*
08/16 – Orlando, FL House of Blues*
08/17 – Miami, FL Grand Central*
08/18 – Tampa, FL The Ritz*
08/20 – New Orleans, LA House of Blues*
08/21 – Houston, TX Fitzgerald’s*
08/22 – San Antonio, TX Backstage Live*
08/23 – Austin, TX Emo’s East*
08/24 – Dallas, TX House of Blues*
08/26 – Phoenix, AZ The Crescent Ballroom*
08/28 – Santa Ana, CA The Observatory*
08/29 – Los Angeles, CA The Fonda Theatre*
08/30 – San Francisco, CA The Fillmore*
09/03 – Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom*
09/04 – Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom*
09/06 – Salt Lake City, UT The Complex*
09/07 – Denver, CO Gothic Theatre*
09/10 – Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theatre*
09/11 – Milwaukee, WI Turner Hall Ballroom*
09/15 – Cleveland, OH House of Blues*
09/19 – Boston, MA Paradise*
09/20 – New York, NY Webster Hall*
9/22 – Philadelphia, PA Theatre of the Living Arts *
*w/ K.Flay & Sirah