Interviews

With concerts, festivals, events and more being postponed and cancelled, musicians and artists have expressed how the COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted their income. But pandemic rules and regulations have been unequal and unfair, treating culture and other commercial activities differently, and to speak up about these inequalities requires a …

Eleven years ago at Bodyfest in Stockholm with major headliner Front 242 and an exciting comeback by Swedish EBM giants Pouppée Fabrikk, Falkenberg’s pride and glory in the scene, Spark! played yet another minor support slot. But hard work and frequently playing across Europe would change that. Fast forward eleven …

The swirling guitars, woozy harmonies, and soaring choruses of the short-lived 90s shoegaze scene returned a few years ago. Legendary bands like Ride, Slowdive, Swervedriver and The Jesus and Mary Chain returned to the scene with comeback tours and new records more than two decades after its peak, and a …

After three albums with folk pop/Americana band Holmes, songwriter Kristoffer Bolander decided to embark on his own adventure and started writing music for his solo career. Just like Holmes, Bolander wanted to reach out of Sweden and started to look for a German label, and three years after Holmes’ last …

Electronic music is the mainstream. From musique concrète to audiovisual sampling, from elektronische Musik to minimal techno, from the Telharmonium to the laptop, electronic music has graced the music scene for almost half a century, spawning a multitude of new styles and genres. While pop acts have taken inspiration from …

Imagine the feeling of walking alone on a field in the night, watching the stars while listening to environmental sounds borrowed from the cinematic world, coated in reverberated and cold but yet ethereal vocals, and you have an inch of understanding of what Daniel Änghede’s project ISON is about. With …