The Radio Dept.

The Radio Dept was formed in 1995 by schoolmates Elin Almered and Johan Duncanson, who named the group after a gas-station-turned-radio-repair-shop called “Radioavdelningen” (The Radio Department in Swedish). Almered and Duncanson stopped playing music together putting the band on hiatus for a few years. They reintegrated in 1998 when Duncanson started making music with Martin Larsson. In 2001, Larsson’s then girlfriend Lisa Carlberg joined the group on bass, followed by Per Blomgren on drums and Daniel Tjader on keyboards.