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SUNDAYS (Denmark) – Great Big Sky (single, track from forthcoming album)

Reading time: 2 minutes We’ve had experimental, classical and symphonic metal so far this week so time ...
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Hilding (Sweden) – Bone Dry (single)

Reading time: 2 minutes Hilding (Halding Karlsson) is a Swedish songwriter based in Berlin. His music he ...
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Memoira (Finland) – Cryonic Heart (single)

Reading time: < 1 minute A little late with this one but I’ll always find time for ...
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Jörgen Gustafsson (Sweden) – Disperse (sample track from the album A Darkened Harbour)

Reading time: 2 minutes Jörgen Gustafsson is from the lakeside city of Jönköping, and he is strangely ...
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Weekend Intermission: Introducing Maya Blandy (Portugal/UK) – B.I.B. (single)

Reading time: 2 minutes Weekend Intermission is our regular feature where we look at an artist or ...
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Feature – Why don’t music awards credit the songwriters?

Reading time: 5 minutes I discovered this article by Helienne Lindvall on the business social website LinkedIn. ...
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Greatest ever live performances: Nightwish – The Phantom of the Opera, in Helsinki, October 2005

Reading time: 5 minutes The first in this new series, a few weeks ago, was Lyrnyrd Skynyrd’s ...
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Songs for the end of the day 1st March from Vincent Ryder, Birds are Better, and Leonard Hanson

Reading time: 4 minutes We’re shifting rapidly through the gears here again tonight, trying to keep pace ...
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Johanna Brun (Sweden) – Prophecy (single/future album track)

Reading time: 3 minutes As Johanna Brun works towards the release of her debut album this is ...
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Pikes (Sweden) – Restless Lover (single)

Reading time: 2 minutes All those nights spent getting arthritis of the hands checking out potential dates ...
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Ove Markström (Sweden) – Bli hel igen (Be whole again) (single)

Reading time: < 1 minute That translation makes the original Swedish look like Pidgin English doesn’t it. ...
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Video of the Week – Johanne (Denmark) – Tegner på mig / ‘draw on me’ (single)

Reading time: 2 minutes Johanne (Jepsen) was here twice last year with two songs on a subject ...
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Songs for the End of the Day 25th February from Alterne, Mildfire, and Louise Lemón

Reading time: 4 minutes Something of an experiment here. We rarely try to cram three reviews into ...
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Weekend Intermission: Greatest Songs Ever (6) – Emerson, Lake and Palmer’s Karn Evil 9 from the album Brain Salad Surgery

Reading time: 6 minutes Weekend Intermission is our regular feature where we look at an artist or ...
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Songs for the end of the day, 23rd February – Simon Toldam (Denmark) and Joe Carnwath (Sweden)

Reading time: 4 minutes Simon Toldam (Denmark) –  To linjer  (sample track from the EP Fem Små ...
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Peppermint B (Denmark) – Raised on sitcoms (single)

Reading time: 2 minutes ‘Raised on sitcoms’ – weren’t we all, back in the day? The telly ...
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Songs for the end of the Day 22nd February – Rural Tapes and Mark Steiner (both Norway)

Reading time: 3 minutes Rural Tapes (Norway) – Patchwork (single/track from album Contact) Rural Tapes (Arne Kjelsrud ...
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Kaspar (Finland) – Clear (single)

Reading time: 2 minutes Kaspar had an unusual beginning. The duo formed 20 years ago after meeting ...
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Lars Jakob Rudjord (Norway) – Rolig Folk (single/future album track)

Reading time: 2 minutes There’s always one thing you can be sure of with Norway – its ...
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Weekend Intermission – a tribute to Melanie Safka

Reading time: 4 minutes Weekend Intermission is is our regular feature where we look at an artist ...
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