Reading time: < 1 minuteIt’s a while since we had some genuine full-bloodied Nordicana in NMC, that meeting place where traditional American country music rubs shoulders with Scandinavian melancholy.
Reading time: 2 minutesI had a cassette recorder when I was a kid and I was the only one on the block that did. I used to record
Reading time: 2 minutesAnna Ran was last here in March 2025 when we wrote about a sample track, ‘Silence’, from the album ‘Out of Silence’, waxing lyrical about
Reading time: 4 minutesIt was as long ago as June 2023, three years ago, that Nightwish founder, band leader, and chief writer Tuomas Holopainen announced that his band
Reading time: < 1 minuteWe have encountered Marius Ziska once before in NMC, in November 2022 when he was singing exclusively in Faroese and a song which translated as
Reading time: < 1 minuteI was commenting the other day on the darkness in the new single by Norway’s Ea Othilde but she’s all sweetness and light compared to
Reading time: 2 minutesEa Othilde (Heimdal Baklund) is a 21-year-old artist from Oslo who has released two EPs, ‘How I’d like it to fade’ (2021) and ‘Mary, aren’t
