Interviews

A few years ago we met up with Gothenburg band Rome Is Not A Town in Hamburg and chat about being caught in the hype after a successful debut album. The Swedish four-piece caused a stir with their album It’s a Dare, released in 2017, followed by intense touring and a performance at one of the major Swedish music awards. …

In 2003, during the peak of my Berlin techno years, a friend who used to pick me a weekly selection of new twelve inches by rising artists in the club scene gave me the debut EP by Danish (at the time) electronica/techno artist Anders Trentemøller. The tantalizing beats and electronic sound got stuck and after a few more majestic EP’s …

The first time we came across Bottlecap was at Reeperbahn Festival 2018 when our co-founder and photographer Ms Sis blabbered about a “super cool band with cool jackets”, but although they played the festival three times she never made it to any of their shows (for reasons unknown). But most embarrassing of all was that our editor didn’t even know …

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 …