Interviews

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 record, he released his debut solo album I Forgive Nothing …

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 electronic music for decades, the 2010s has been the first …

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 an impressive music background in bands like Hearts of Black …

Let’s start with a gig memory from university: I am in line to a sold-out concert, standing in front of Mario and Samus. Mario is represented by a short man, with sparkling eyes and a thick wide mustache, wearing a blue overall and a floppy red cap, while his female companion, Samus, wears a sleek blue suit and a large …

There’s a vast pool of talent located outside the reaches of the mainstream label ecosystem, four-piece Alphabats is one of them. After the release of their debut EP Swoon Dive, Alphabats returned this year with double singles, ”Shut Down” and ”Backwoods”, two tracks that are a collectively smooth and consistent take on the vibey, danceable side of indie pop music. …

Gothenburg is internationally renowned for its metal scene and on home turf, in Sweden, it has been an outlet for some of the biggest Swedish indie rock and indie pop acts. In the shadow of these scenes, there’s a vibrant electronic music scene and bands like The Knife and Little Dragon gained fame and glory as household names, making a …