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Festival Review: Lollapalooza Stockolm – Saturday

There were some rumors that the festivals in Sweden had not really been selling well. It would make sense, given that it is a bit crowded, both on the roads with artists that have not been able to tour for almost three years, and in the calendar, between promoters trying to make up for a few terrible years. Lollapallooza started …

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Spiritbox @Knust (Hamburg): Review

The hype around Vancouver Island based metal core quartet Spiritbox is real. While they were always destined for great things (which has been apparent to me since I discovered singer Courtney LaPlante doing vocal booth live singing videos on YouTube), it is with their 2021 album ‘Eternal Blue’ that they’ve catapulted themselves on the map of record breaking successes and …

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Gary Numan @Markthalle (Hamburg): Review

Growing up in Sweden and becoming an avid music listener at an early age, there were two types of music that caught my interest: Swedish punk music in general, especially Ebba Grön, and all albums released by Jean-Michel Jarre, especially the iconic Oxygene record, released in 1976. However, a cousin made sure I found another direction. First, he gave me …

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Bad Religion + Slime @Fabrik Coesfeld (Coesfeld): Review

It’s been a long two years of waiting for both fans and Bands. But we got there in the end. Finally, Bad Religion are on their Anniversary Tour, the 40+2 years Anniversary Tour. Hamburg’s punk rock legends Slime had the honor of opening that night. For them, it was not only the first gig after the two-year break. On this …

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Video premiere: Paul Bäcklin – “The Highway”

Born in ’89 and raised in Gothenburg, Sweden. Father was a journalist and author who suffered from Pick’s disease while editing his first novel for print. Mother is a retired nurse. Paul has been playing music from the age of 11 and wrote his first song by painting pictures in a book he made from stapled-together papers. Influenced by his …

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