Interviews

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 …

Try to imagine Gothenburg 30 years ago, a rather depressive city to live in marked by a massive crisis in the maritime industry while Sweden faced a gigantic economic crisis in 1991. The banking system almost collapsed and resulted in soaring unemployment and personal debts on an unprecedented scale in modern Swedish history. That same year saw a new, dark …

Gothenburg based Johan G Winther is no slacker. A multi-instrumentalist by trade and a sonic experimentalist by nature, he has released ‘zillions’ of records in band formations as Scraps of Tape, Blessings and Barrens and under different solo monikers as Mnoki, Tsukimono and, his latest solo endeavor, Johan G Winther. With inspiration from the experimental electronic scene like the French …