Interviews

In 2002, four young lads that met at Stafford University during their music technology studies relocated to Birmingham after graduation and decided to put together a band in the massive post-punk era that swept the UK in the early 2000s. A series of well-received club dates and demo recordings earned the band some attention and they ended up signing with …

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 …