Interviews

Being ahead of their time, too offbeat for mass consumption, some artists became wildly influential without becoming household names. For composers from Stockhausen to Brian Eno and Tangerine Dream, electronic music has provided an opportunity to explore the emotional interior of exterior sounds, and they have earned their reputation as pioneering acts in the scene.  The electronic music scene has …

Imagine your band just released their sophomore album, gained lots of media attention and had a bright future lying ahead – and a few months later you split up. That’s the story of Skuldpadda. In October last year, the band announced that their journey has reached an end, and the band’s members dispersed in different directions. Front vocalist Michaela Åberg …

One thing is for sure: we rarely meet bands from Öland, the second biggest Swedish island just a few kilometers off the southeast coast. However, if you’re young and also happen to play in a band that doesn’t fit anywhere in the local scene, maybe Öland isn’t where you want to stay. That said, it’s not like every band has …

Like many other sectors, the music industry has been significantly affected by COVID-19, with notably severe impacts on live music thus affecting bands’ and artists’ chances to reach out to an audience with music they’ve released in pandemic times. Just like bands releasing music during the first months of 2020 to catch the opportunity to promote the record at local …

It’s fun to interview and write about Bror Gunnar Jansson, he’s so unique and always changing his game. He doesn’t fit any of the stereotypes we associate with blues and country. It’s impossible to grade him on the authenticity scale, because it’s irrelevant to his sound, and it doesn’t matter anyway because if you like blues and country, you’re going …

At the end of the summer of 2016, three action rock-fuelled Hellacopters fans and die-hard Turbojugend members joined forces and stormed onto the scene, fired up by booze, beer and rock ‘n’ roll hedonism. The Drippers was born and they set the bar low from the start: their ambition were set for playing in Hamburg because if The Beatles could …