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According to pop folklore the garage (that abiding signifier of homely suburbia) was the place where aspiring guitar legends thrashed through their rehearsals. Thus “garage” became a sobriquet for the crude and raucous sounds pounded out by a legion of three chord wonders wielding Vox and Fender guitars, the mixture always heavily spiked with fuzztone distortion. However, garage is a …

For every rock’n’roll millionaire there are thousands of talented artists scratching out a living. The choice is a tricky one: to establish a career takes an enormous amount of work and time just to reach out to an audience and become established. One of those bands that continue their struggle, a band that certainly deserves a bigger audience considering their …

Many musicians have a tough time making a living off music, partly because they have a hard time accepting that being a working musician/band in the digital age also means running your own small business because you won’t get enough paid for record sales and gigs. That is also what has to happen in order to find success as a …

Sweden’s “best-dressed rockers” Royal Republic, as declared by a German magazine, were back with their fifth album “Club Majesty” in May last year, a band that built their reputation by hard work on stages across Europe. Their maniacal live shows and irrepressible sense of style and humour have earned them a well-deserved reputation and a huge fanbase across Europe, especially …

Several breakthrough acts are now creating a vibrant new Gothenburgian underground, a scene with and enduring legacy built on bands from a wide range of genres as The Knife, In Flames, José González, Ace of Base, The Soundtrack of Our Lives and Mickey Dee, the former drummer in Motörhead. Like those before them, many of the new avant gardists are …

Very occasionally, but not often, I branch out of my pop-punk/alt rock nook and accidentally discover artists outside of those genres that, for some reason, captivate my soul. Bishop Briggs is one of those artists. I had the immense pleasure of hanging out with the singer ahead of her sold out show in London and talk about her new album …