Reading time: 4 minutes We’re reposting an earlier Weekend Intermission with a few text adjustments to include a freshly released video (below) by the Hungarian band Dirty Slippers and …

Reading time: 2 minutes She’s ever so slightly mysterious is Rebekka Louise. Seemingly a native of Norway but now London-based, she does have a marginally Mediterranean appearance and her …

Reading time: 3 minutes I thought of using the title track of Slagger Lund’s ‘Maniak’ album for this review but how can anyone turn a blind eye to the …

Reading time: 2 minutes In 2017 I attended an indie music festival at Gävle in Central Sweden. I was watching one of the bands there when the organiser rushed …

Reading time: 2 minutes We don’t get many jazz ballads in here so that’s as good a reason as any to listen to the Liv Andrea Hauge Ensemble’s rendition …

Reading time: 3 minutes Patrick El-Hag Raiti to give him his full name – he sounds more like a politician or a lawyer – is in fact a time-served …

Reading time: 3 minutes With the door finally closed (regrettably) on Color Dolor, which has played its final concert, Stina Koistinen resumes her Stinako persona with a double header …

Reading time: 3 minutes When Tingo’s Benjamin Gower-Poole (a terribly English name, one might say) wrote to me asking if I’d write about their album ‘Kvartetten fra verdens ende’ …

Reading time: 3 minutes Lummu is billed as Swiss/Danish but as trio leader Adina Luumu’s (Adina Friis) ‘roots’ are in Denmark I took the liberty of swapping the countries …

Reading time: 2 minutes Recently NMC has been gravitating back in the direction of its roots as a supporter of Nordic alt/indie pop and rock but there’s always a …

Reading time: 2 minutes They’re busy in the Afterworld. The Anglo-Swedish We Ghosts today released the first of what will be a series of singles, followed by an album …

Reading time: 3 minutes Of course they must, Thomas, and for as long as it takes to sing ‘Happy Birthday to You’ (both verses) according to the UK’s ex …

Reading time: 2 minutes With a Fab Four hair style right out of Mathew Street’s Cavern Club c.1963 he might be John Leonard the Elder. In reality he is …

Reading time: 3 minutes It’s a funny old business, public relations. We usually receive press releases from PR companies or other artist representatives and by and large they are …

Reading time: 3 minutes Weekend Intermission is our regular feature where we look at an artist or band not from the Nordic countries, just to mix things up a …

Reading time: 3 minutes Continuing in the more serious but experimental frame that we encountered last night with the part-Finnish Lennart Ginman, here are two sample tracks from another …

Reading time: 2 minutes There’s nothing I like more than an atmospheric, cinematic piece of electronic music and that is exactly what is on offer here from Lennart Ginman, …

Reading time: 2 minutes A bumper edition awaits, covering the last two months with 15 songs selected from those we featured, allowing for a fair geographical spread etc. In …

Reading time: 3 minutes I could fairly be accused of featuring some bands and artists too often at the expense of other high quality ones who don’t get a …

Reading time: 2 minutes The PR for this song stole my thunder by identifying it as I did immediately as at least similar in nature to Ska music, the …

Reading time: 2 minutes This article has been reposted owing to a technical glitch A bit of lighter pop to round off the week compared to a series of …

Reading time: 2 minutes This article is reposted as a result of a technical glitch Anmar is Anne Marie Roel Messerschmidt and this is her third single ‘My Voice’ …

Reading time: 2 minutes A few weeks ago we featured the unique Fleming (Slagger) Lund here and I know he’s got an album coming up in April but for …

Reading time: 2 minutes I could hardly resist a track called ‘Freeloaders’ – it is of course something I have been accused of being on more than one occasion, …

Reading time: 4 minutes A week ago Marte Eberson was playing piano for the celebrated Ane Brun on Norwegian TV, in particular the Cyndi Lauper song ‘True Colours’, which …

Reading time: 3 minutes Fjöll have an intriguing back story but have not featured here previously as most of their songs are in lcelandic, which must be one of …

Reading time: 2 minutes There is a new music conference/festival in Manchester, UK this year called ‘Beyond the Music’, 11th-14th October. https://beyondthemusic.co.uk/ It seems to be a variation on …

Reading time: 3 minutes It’ a funny thing the English language, isn’t it? When I read the press release email that Toril Snyen sent me I couldn’t understand this …

Reading time: 2 minutes Unfortunately, I can’t justifiably spend half a day or so on Mary Anne’s Polar Rig’s new (and second) album ‘Makes you wonder’ with so many …

Reading time: < 1 minutes I’m delighted to report that we feature in the Top 15 Manchester music blogs (and there are a lot of them) as compiled by the …

Reading time: 3 minutes The Captain is gone. Long live the Captain. Its seven years since Captain Gone last released any music, which is about as long as I’ve …

Reading time: 2 minutes PIKES (Christoffer Ling) has been here a couple of times now but I’m more than happy to give him another run because his style fascinates …

Reading time: 2 minutes I’ve been tracking Stella Explorer since I saw her perform at a showcase festival three years ago. Her debut EP, ‘Dorkay House’, which is the …

Reading time: 3 minutes I took a punt on this one, a speculative approach by the artist via the website, and I’m glad I did. It’s different for sure, …

Reading time: 2 minutes You know, there’s ‘ambient’ electronic music and then there’s ‘ambient’. Like there’s ‘the older man’ that some of the young ladies prefer and then there’s …

Reading time: 2 minutes We like to mix things up here at NMC and after a few quite serious, heavy duty songs in quick succession it’s time to lighten …

Reading time: 3 minutes Regular readers may remember that Myrkvi is an item now, the actual Myrkvi (Magnús Thorlacius) having reunited with Yngvi Holm, with whom he/they was/were VIO, …

Reading time: 2 minutes Outer Limit Lotus is a new band to me. They are Oslo-based and formed in 2015 when three of the members from noise rock cult …