Interviews

In my former role as a music researcher, I very often came across subjects as low self-esteem, creative blocks and mental health struggles in interviews with musicians although it was never a topic of any study I did, but there was a need to express the struggles musicians face while being creative. I remember one artist using music to find …

You can tell a lot about a band or artist from their records, but there’s no better education than seeing the real thing live. Finding that new band or singer to obsess over requires time and effort, the music doesn’t simply fall into your lap. I still put that time and effort into it because of the ethos of the …

As always, the Gothenburg music scene enjoyed another vibrant year last year with many new acts coming to the fore. One band of note to emerge and quickly gain a local fan base, and playing support slots in Europe for the first time, were four-piece Beverly Kills consisting of Alma, Viggo, John, and Hampus. Three single releases in 2018 became …

At the end of the 1980s, in my early teens, I was at my first DIY punk show in a run-down apartment building that housed a makeshift stage and had graffiti on the walls. To make it more spacious someone had torn down the walls between two apartments to make it possible to squeeze in a hundred people – tops. …

Australian hip hop three-piece Hilltop Hoods have been around since 1994 when Suffa (Matthew David Lamber) and Pressure (Daniel Howe Smith) joined forces. They were joined by DJ Debris (Barry John Francis) after DJ Next left the band in 1999. Since then they have released eight albums and six of those albums have reached number one on the Australian Record …

A story of success doesn’t necessarily need to involve chart-topping hits or millions of sold records, it could be to reach what you didn’t think was possible: to live off what you do and reach the goal that you dreamt of as a child. The story of Lights & Motion and the amazing adventures of its creator Christoffer Franzén starts …