Tag Archives: Gothenburg

The best indie record labels have helped push the boundaries, drawing the mainstream into their world whether it’s local or global, and have changed the face of music in the process while breaking new bands to the world. Growing rapidly to become hugely influential in Sweden, Gothenburg-based imprint Luxury became the epitome for releasing young bands that unexpectedly emerged and …

Quality singer-songwriters are a rare breed, especially for someone like me who occasionally has pointed out that the singer-songwriter market is “super saturated”, and accordingly there are only three acts worth my hard-earned money: Feist, Tom McRae, and Gothenburg’s post-rock trippin’ Albert af Ekenstam. Ekenstam released his debut album “Ashes” in 2016 featuring ten songs of fully-formed and beautifully-presented craft …

Mad as it might seem, it’s been nearly ten years since Pale Honey first formed when Tuva Lodmark and Nelly Daltrey met at school. At the time, the band’s line-up consisted of Tuva and Nelly and different live bassists, but with the release of their debut EP “Fiction” their producer Anders Lagerfors became a permanent band member although not officially …

“Before the sun and moon have arisen in the world, there is no manifestation of light and radiance, the blinding darkness prevails. But when the sun and moon rise in the world, there is the manifestation of light; the blinding darkness, disappears and day and night are discerned, and Earth is manifested in four elements, earth, wind, fire and water”. …

If you spent much of your time at venues to watch great garage punk bands ten years ago there’s no way you would have missed a Tyred Eyes gig. Wherever there was a venue, there was a Tyred Eyes show, and it didn’t stop at the Swedish border, the band brought their rowdy garage punk shows across Europe as well. …

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 …