I first discovered Elias Åkesson and his Wizzkids last summer when their video for excellent Paul “Graceland” Simon happy-pop track ‘Mr. Right Guy’ hit the www. Carving a big smile on my face it signaled a change in sound and expression from the alt-country tinged (so I’ve read) debut ‘A ... 
Another edition of From the Inbox is ready, this one featuring free tracks from Finnish indierock outfit Underwater Sleeping Society (an eight song anniversary EP), Danish electronica duo Autofiction and a massive compilation of Nordic pop featuring no less than 114 songs. Also here is tracks by Volbeat and Lasse ... 
The two acts in this week’s SpaceScan work in very different ways. Icelandic six-piece Endless Dark dish out hard hitting pop-metal sharing characteristics with Swedish quintet Dead by April, while Crying Day Care Choir (SE) excel in alternative pop with a folksy touch. As usual all you have to do ... 
Come September and October a brand new festival promoting different aspects of Nordic culture will take place in Madrid, Spain. Días Nórdicos it’s called, and it is founded by the people behind the Spanish magazine Zona de Obras, which sports a permanent section of the same name designed to promote ... 
After a no go last year the international music business festival Popkomm in Berlin return this September 8-10 in cool new settings in the now decommissioned airport Berlin Tempelhof. Apart from seminars, speed meetings and all the other stuff aimed at the music business, a big showcase festival will take ... 
It’s almost all about music videos in this edition of From the Inbox. We do, however, kick off with tracks by Sweden’s Boy Omega and Another Nation’s National Anthem plus Finland’s Saine, the first offering nothing less than a free EP, before we let images from Magenta Skycode, Vomit Supreme, ... 
The Music Alliance Pact is back in full force and ready with another edition of the World’s Greatest Mixtape. This month our trip around the globe presents 36 free songs from 36 countries. Changing nothing you can again download each song separately or all in a single zip-file by following ... 
The SpaceScan selected two this week are two unsigned solo acts from Sweden and Denmark. First up is Teleskop aka Olof Svenblad, who work in somber electropop ways, and he’s followed by Frederik Teige, who is gearing up to release what could be a very, very good alternative pop debut ... 
Swedish quintet The Sonnets really embrace the eighties both musically and in their personal style. Having released their debut album ‘Western Harbour Blue’ - the title a nod to their hometown Malmö and Dennis Wilson’s solo album ‘Pacific Ocean Blue’ - in Japan in July, they’re now ready to take ... 
Coming up: A truckload of goodness in the shape of tracks and videos, the first courtesy of Vinnie Who, I’m A Lion, The William Blakes, Eumig & Chinon, Rubik and Pintandwefall (the last two offering free EPs), and the latter courtesy of Jasmine Kara, Britta Persson, Southside Stalkers, Skambankt and ... 
We’re taking it a bit slow these days, feeling we’ve deserved a little time off, but here’s another installment of From the Inbox presenting tracks (again including freebies) by Delay Trees, The Kissaway Trail, Teitur and three Familjen remixes plus videos by Them Bird Things, For a Minor Reflection and ... 
Coming up: My Closest Friend and Pascal Pinon. The first a Swedish quintet who combine alt-country and post-rock in their music, the latter an Icelandic girl duo/quartet who play simple, cozy folk-pop. Pascal Pinon are working on their second album right now, while My Closest Friend released a new single ... Browse
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