Interviews

It could be one of those tragic stories on a band being dragged down a spiral of drugs, mental illness and prostitution, but after a revelation at the top of a mountain in Spain, they sold their crackhouse, put the band on hold for an extended period of rehab and returned on the other side being rejuvenated and having a …

South-east Sweden shares some attributes with the American South: population density is low, pastoral communities are plenty, god is greater than the prime minister, and it is the birthplace to many great Swedish musicians because there’s not much else to do than playing music (or dedicate your life to motocross if you ask our Vaggeryd-born co-editor DJ Pappaledig). Growing up …

Once I was a subscriber to National Geographic just because I love to travel around the world, and in a special issue NG covers Gothenburg, labelling it as “the city built on rock ‘n’ roll”. Although Gothenburg has a far more nuanced music scene than just being an outlet for rock and roll bands, the city takes great pride in …

“In 1978 I released the first record which described itself as Ambient Music, a name I invented to describe an emerging musical style”, one of the fathers of ambient music, Brian Eno, writes in “Brian Eno’s Ambient 1: Music For Airports”, named after his seminal album that same year. The album was the introduction to a new music genre and …

Americana revolves around early folk and gospel musicians shaping the ground for country and folk music, but the panorama of these roots is wide, taking in country and western, Appalachian, gospel, roots-rock, folk, bluegrass, R&B and blues. Put simply, the whole genre builds on American history and stories about the lives of people throughout the Americanization of the continent. However, …

Growing up with one parent being completely consumed by the music of Brian Eno in 1970s, it wasn’t long before ambient music started to become a major part of my own life. While the so-called Berlin School and bands as Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and Steve Roach were my music role models in my ambient childhood years, the direction that …