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Maliika (Sweden) – Daydreaming (single)

Reading time: 2 minutes Maliika (Linda Ulfsdotter) has twice before passed through the portals of NMC and ...
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802 (Denmark) – 1986 (single)

Reading time: 2 minutes Denmark’s 802 turn their attention to that weird and wonderful year of ‘1986’ ...
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Rinjin (Norway) – Just Us (debut single)

Reading time: 2 minutes It’s a little disconcerting when you receive a message from new band and ...
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Frøkedal (Norway) – Old Mistakes (single/future album track)

Reading time: 2 minutes Oh boy, here’s a blast from the past. Anne Lise Frøkedal and her ...
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drea (Norway) – Let Go (sample track from debut EP Letters to my bitter self)

Reading time: 2 minutes I really enjoy introspective, self-deprecatory stuff like this and have done since I ...
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Songs for the end of the day from Alterne and Siri Neel (both Denmark)

Reading time: 3 minutes Alterne (Denmark) – Finland (sample track from the album Alterne) Two songs from ...
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Weekend Intermission – Dirty Slippers (Hungary) – On Top of the World (single)

Reading time: 2 minutes Weekend Intermission is our regular feature where we look at an artist or ...
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Stinako (Finland) – Mind (EP)

Reading time: 5 minutes Stinako (Stina Koistinen) knows a thing or two about medical matters. A few ...
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TULLE (Norway) – Can’t be Saved (single/future EP track)

Reading time: 2 minutes TULLE is an Oslo-based, 24 year old artist and songwriter, who uses the ...
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Mattias Lies (Sweden) – Höstens bleka sjö (Autumn’s pale lake) (sample track/video from album Rösten från det Karelska näset (The voice from the Karelian isthmus)

Reading time: 2 minutes Slowing things right down tonight with a piece of very artistic work from ...
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Embla and the Karidotters (Norway) – Couldn’t Care Less (single/future album track)

Reading time: 2 minutes I finally caught up with Embla and the Karidotters by chance by way ...
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Hollow Ship (Sweden) – Music in Motion (single/future track from the EP Animated Music)

Reading time: 2 minutes “…one highly pleasing piece of melodic rock” When Hollow Ship were here in ...
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From The Archives – Does Manchester really need the two largest music venues in the country?

Reading time: 6 minutes Posted in April 2024 as a ‘Weekend Intermission’ feature Weekend Intermission is our ...
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Live! – Pom Poko (Norway) at Manchester Academy 3, 20th April

Reading time: 4 minutes Towards the end of Pom Poko’s almost sold out gig at Academy 3 ...
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Weekend Intermission – what benefits will having the UK’s two biggest arenas bring to Manchester?

Reading time: 6 minutes Weekend Intermission is our regular feature where we look at an artist or ...
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Laura Emilie (Denmark) – 2023 (single/future EP track)

Reading time: 2 minutes Songs with years in the title are hardly new. There’s been everything from ...
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Julian Lähdesmäki (Finland) – Part One (single/future EP track)

Reading time: 2 minutes The latest addition to the excellent Finnish Soliti label comes in the form ...
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Pom Poko (Norway) – Champion (single/future album title track)

Reading time: 3 minutes The press release I received concerning Pom Poko’s latest single, ‘Champion’ which is ...
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Sorry, but we are a little overwhelmed right now

Reading time: < 1 minute If you’ve submitted a single, EP or album to NMC recently and ...
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Anmar (Denmark) – Vindueskigger (Window gazer) single

Reading time: 2 minutes Anmar has visited us twice before and always offers well constructed thoughtful pieces ...
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Songs for the end of the day 15th April featuring Joselin and Tobias Arbo (both Sweden)

Reading time: 3 minutes Joselin (Sweden) – Elegantly (single) We don’t usually have many artists in here ...
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