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Jens Lekman, Of Montreal, the Thermals & Beach Fossils playing Williamsburg Park during Northside Festival

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Five shows is now six. Jens Lekman, of Montreal, The Thermals and Beach Fossils performing an all-ages show at the new Williamsburg Park on Friday, June 15. It’s what surely will be the headlining event at the 2012 Northside Festival. Entry is free on a first-come, first-served basis for Northside badge-holders, though there is no guarantee of admission if badge capacity is filled. If you don’t want to take your chances with getting in with a badge, tickets ($33.50) go on sale Friday, May 11 at noon.

It’s been five years since Jens Lekman’s last album, Night Falls Over Kortedala. When are we getting something new? Jens’ latest online missive:

The topic for the month of May is : Coffee

When people ask me about my production rate the last five years I sometimes say “Well you can’t pour manure in an espresso machine and expect a cappucino to come out”. By which I mean that some things you just go through, you don’t write about them or make art out of them.

But then my friend informed me that the worlds finest and most expensive coffee is made out of the shit from a small civet. So that backfired on me.

But I’ve grinded these beans for you now and I finished the last mixes last night. I just have some mastering to do and some design to finish. Two-three different bands to rehearse with for the tours. Three videos to make. A million interviews to sit through. A few months to let the distributors and labels set up their plans. A summer of being worried about what you’re going to think of the album. And then it will be out.

How do you take it? Milk? Sugar?

Jens did release an EP at the end of 2011 though.

The 2012 Northside Festival happens June 14 – 17 at most of the venues in Williamsburg / Greenpoint. Badges are on sale now.