Interviews

The sounds of another world, mysterious and alluring, that penetrates the listener’s consciousness with its eerie melodies, often hypnotic in its rhythms and suggestive of inner landscapes, and coated in darker, gloomier electronic sounds, represents Karin My’s almost hallucinogenic effect on the listener. The crucial components of Karin My’s sonic print relate to timbre, and are best described by way …

In 2007 Maia Hirasawa took Sweden by storm when she released her debut album “Though, I’m Just Me” which won her an award for best new artist at the P3 Guld Awards in 2008. After her second album a year later she left Sweden for time-off and a well-needed break in Japan, but after releasing the EP “Boom” she drew …

If you spent much of your time at venues to watch great garage punk bands ten years ago there’s no way you would have missed a Tyred Eyes gig. Wherever there was a venue, there was a Tyred Eyes show, and it didn’t stop at the Swedish border, the band brought their rowdy garage punk shows across Europe as well. …

Chameleonic musician Kristofer Åström has certainly ruffled some feathers throughout his career. Since his days as the frontman of rock band Fireside, Åström has explored a wide gamut of genres but mostly floats in the hemisphere of Americana and folk music. And while his sound palette is diverse on the surface, everything he’s done so far has an underlying DIY …

And so a summer has passed without a single tent unwittingly erected next to an all-night soundsystem, a single wristband being slipped off and passed back, a single bottle of supermarket vodka decanted into a bottle of mineral water. This has been our first year without dance festivals or open nightclubs since the second summer of love. And for some …

At the beginning of the 2000s, Sweden was flooded with great bands boosted by Sweden’s own MTV, ZTV. If you were lucky to be embraced by ZTV, you were guaranteed a nationwide breakthrough and could tour sold-out venues and headline festivals for years to come. In February 2002, Division of Laura Lee released their caustic debut album “Black City”, a …