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Festival review: Way Out West – Thursday

Aaaaaahh… Finally back in Slottsskogen. It has been almost three years since the last chords of The Cure show, the final act in the forest in 2019, were heard at Way Out West. Something happened in between, not sure what, but at least now we´re back. Way Out West has been around since 2007. The festival was started in a …

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A Wilhelm Scream / The Flatliners @Knust (Hamburg): Review

This was the night when The Flatliners returned to Hamburg to celebrate the European leg of their 20th Anniversary tour, and it was kind of fitting since it was ten years ago I was at my latest Flatliners gig at Reading Festival. You tend to pick the anniversaries, ey? And that’s the thing, somehow, someway, the Flatliners are already celebrating …

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Going back to the roots on the sixth album: Lights & Motion interviewed

At the beginning of March 2020, we met up with Christoffer Franzén and chat about his eight-year-long career as Lights & Motion. Little did we know that just two weeks later, the world would end up in a global lockdown that has plunged the music industry into its biggest emergency ever, a plague that still haunts the industry almost two …

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We Were Promised Jetpacks @Uebel & Gefährlich (Hamburg): Review

Last year, We Were Promised Jetpacks returned with their fifth album Enjoy the View but the pandemic stopped the band from doing a full album tour and tome parts it had to be postponed until now. Just as on the previous album tours, I was in for another album tour experience – been to them all – and my seventh …

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Highasakite on their new all-electronic album and being too experienced to feel any pressure: Interview

Imagine Norway’s breathtakingly fjords, magical mountains, and dramatic waterfalls, and add Highasakite’s ‘arctic’ world music-tinged sound as a backdrop. That would surely make up for a soulful experience. With a sonic identity fusing electronic landscapes and high-impact cinematic percussions, they’ve created a trademark sound that has drawn accolades on home turf and resulted in high positions on the Norwegian album …

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