Interviews

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 …

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 …