Reading time: 2 minutes Mental health is a big issue right now in the music business. Only yesterday I wrote about a conference being held in Manchester in October …
Reading time: 3 minutes Back in May we had the first Potpourri when we were overwhelmed with releases. And now we have to do it again just to keep …
Reading time: 3 minutes Billed as a “change making conference and new music festival”, and a “global event”, Beyond the Music takes place in Manchester between 11th and 14th …
Reading time: 3 minutes I reckon we’ll have to make this the last single from Inki’s album or there will be nothing left to review. I’m always happy to …
Reading time: 2 minutes Lisha, a spawn of Lissie and Kesha? That’s what I thought initially, imagining an in-your-face American singer with all the trappings. Our Lisha is, of …
Reading time: 11 minutes Nordic Music Central welcomes, to the first interview session we’ve had in quite a while, the highly talented and dynamic young Swede Johanna Brun, who …
Reading time: 2 minutes I like intelligent, thought-provoking pop. That’s why I featured GLIMTVIS’ previous single back in June and why they’re here again now. Last time out GLIMTVIS …
Reading time: < 1 minutes I rambled on last time, when they released their debut single, about the secrecy surrounding the ‘Norwegian/German producer collective’, Mildfire, likening them to a team …
Reading time: 3 minutes Cripes! As Billy Bunter used to say, we haven’t had a Spotify Playlist since May. Playing catch-up, here is one covering songs reviewed between June …
Reading time: 2 minutes It’s Saturday night and time for a touch of class, allied to nostalgia. We’ve featured the Nordic Source project previously, a collaboration between the music …
Reading time: 3 minutes After running the rule over Tiergarten’s second album ‘Bluemass’ last year I reached the conclusion that musically they are one of Norway’s best-kept secrets. I …
Reading time: 3 minutes Naming themselves partly after the drum machine from one of their favourite bands, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo Ladies have been on the scene since …
Reading time: 2 minutes Birds are Better (Stian Fjelldal) is dropping one song a month from his forthcoming album ‘The Island – Part II’ and while we won’t be …
Reading time: 3 minutes Hm. A very topical band name, what with the Webb telescope doing its thing, Moon shots left, right and centre, solar storms, evil aliens threatening …
Reading time: 2 minutes I had intended to feature some EBM tonight (Electronic Body Music), a genre that combines elements of industrial music and synth-punk with dance music. But …
Reading time: 2 minutes An unusual title and one that marks ELBA’s (Ellen Bathum) statement of intent that she will not be held down or back, that she believes …
Reading time: 3 minutes It was in May of last year that Marte Eberson released her first solo single for six years, ‘This will blow’, which is also the …
Reading time: 2 minutes Since they are unashamed practitioners of what they call ‘Death Disco’ one is tempted to conclude that someone just flatlined after a night of non-stop …
Reading time: 2 minutes The latest in the weird and wonderful series of ‘reasons why I selected this artist/band’ takes us into the jazz world of Alf Carlsson. We’ve …
Reading time: 2 minutes PIKES (Christopher Ling) is, as we’ve reported previously, influenced by artists such as Peter Gabriel, Frank Zappa and Kate Bush but none of them feature …
