Interviews

At the beginning of March 2020, we met up with Christoffer Franzén and chat about his eight-year-long career as Lights & Motion. Little did we know that just two weeks later, the world would end up in a global lockdown that has plunged the music industry into its biggest emergency ever, a plague that still haunts the industry almost two …

Imagine Norway’s breathtakingly fjords, magical mountains, and dramatic waterfalls, and add Highasakite’s ‘arctic’ world music-tinged sound as a backdrop. That would surely make up for a soulful experience. With a sonic identity fusing electronic landscapes and high-impact cinematic percussions, they’ve created a trademark sound that has drawn accolades on home turf and resulted in high positions on the Norwegian album …

You are most likely familiar with Gothenburg’s reputation as one of the best metal cities in the world and bands like Dark Tranquillity, At the Gates and In Flames. While these bands were churning out metal and drew accolades in the metal scene worldwide, a vibrant punk and garage rock scene started to rise in the city. Building on the …

While I was a music researcher a few years ago I had the fortune to travel a lot across the world and often ended up in San Francisco a few times every year, and what better way to spend off-work hours than going to the clubs. In San Francisco, there’s this performance and art venue (I always forget the name) …

Just imagine that your band just won a music award and was picked for a gig in Los Angeles at the Nordic Oscar Weekend, and had planned for a tour on arrival back in Sweden to reap the benefits of their rising fame and glory – and then the whole scene ends up in (basically) a two year long lockdown. …

In the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, before labels were interested in signing death metal bands, or bands in other extreme underground scenes, tape-trading was the main means of circulating and marketing your music. Bands sent their homemade tapes to other bands all over the country (and sometimes the world). Mass mailings of flyers, demos, and ads for …