The festival landscape in Sweden has been heavily re-drawn over the last decade. Classic festivals like Hultsfred, Arvika, Peace and Love, Emmaboda, and also Bråvalla, have closed down (and some have resurged in new shapes, with mixed results), and the main competitors are stadium/arena shows, or concerts at amusement parks like Gröna Lund in Stockholm or Liseberg in Gothenburg. Pay …

I think most people have a few bands that are impossible to be objective in relation to. You can understand intellectually why people might not like them and that everything they release is not revolutionary. But when people talk shit about them, or even sort of nicely criticize them, it does hurt a little, little bit. Often these artists were …

If you would ask someone to give an example of the FOMO-expression (Fear Of Missing Out), Primavera Sound might be a pretty accurate one. When the line-up for Primavera Sound is released it’s almost like Christmas. I can normally count 50+ artists that I want to see, and still there are still much to discover. The problem is, of course, …

Around Sweden there are still Folkets Park (Volkspark in German and Google Translate calls it “the People’s Park” in English but I would say bullshit on that translation – does not sound correct) with long histories of entertainment in forms of dance and concerts. Several of the Swedish festivals were located in these parks, like Arvika and Hultsfred, which gave …

Hey gang! DJ Pappaledig here. Pappaledig is Swedish and can be translated to ”daddy home from work to take care of kids while mommy works”. I have two kids, ages 3 and 1, and as music is a large part of my life (believe it or not, it often makes me happy!), I’m trying to teach them rock as early …