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Waiting For a Change With Swedish Duo Club 8
Words and Interview by Laura Studarus
It’s eve of Club 8’s eighth album release, Above the City, and Johan Angergård is contemplating his musical hero, Morrissey....
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Kate Boy: Chilly Swedish Pop with a Warm Australian Heart
Living in Sweden for the past year has changed Kate Akhurst. Like all changes, the shift happened gradually—so slowly that the Australian singer/songwriter has a hard...
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War Talk with Sweden’s Kriget
We've been loving Kriget's new, thrashy, messy singles off their second album Dystopico, and apparently, so have their adoring fanbase. After a week-long battle, the...
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Stockholm’s Kriget is Making a Hot, Hot Mess
Name: Kriget, or Christoffer Roth, Gustav Bendt, & Per Nordmark
Where they're from: Stockholm, Sweden
When they Started: 2010 ish
Genre: Math noise?...
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Adam Tensta, Sweden’s Great Hip-Hop Hope
Ok, Sweden. You’ve already proved that you're the best at music. You secretly run the pop music industry. You have all the dreamiest indie rock girls. You have the...
interview
The Elusive Genius of iamamiwhoami
Words and Interview by Kathy Iandoli.
The internet is a very strange place, and iamamiwhoami makes it even stranger. Roughly three years ago, the Swedish electronic...
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Cornelia Shares Her Fairy Tale
Cartoon voiceover artist, Swedish Idol defector (she quit in the final rounds!), label manager -- these are just some of the biographical standouts for Cornelia, the...
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A Storm Descends From Sweden, And Her Name Is Cornelia
Name: Cornelia (Cornelia Dahlgren)
Where She’s From: Sweden, based in London
Genre: Jazz-tinged indie-pop
Most Similar: Corinne Bailey Rae meets Cyndi Lauper...
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The 80s are Alive and…Kinda Sad…with Saint Lou Lou
Name: Saint Lou Lou
Where they're From: Sweden and Australia
Genre: 80's melancholy pop
Most Similar: New Look, stuff on the Drive soundtrack
When They...
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Robotberget: The Latest Arm of Miike Snow’s Swedish Music Empire
The Swedish invasion of popular music is ongoing and overpowering. I’m not going to insult your intelligence and list them (if you’ve never heard of Lykke Li, I applaud...
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Yet More Fire From Stockholm: Hortlax Cobra
Name: Hortlax Cobra
Where they’re from: Stockholm, Sweden
When They Started: 2009
Genre: Synth-pop
Most Like: LCD Soundsystem, Phedre
Sounds like: The...
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Forest Traipsing With Niki and the Dove, Anthem Builders
This week marks the gleefully anticipated U.S. release of Instinct, the debut full-length album of Swedish electropop duo Niki and the Dove. It's been hard to avoid the...
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Icona Pop: Sweden’s Dynamic, Sexy and Confectionary Duo
Ever since Icona Pop's "Manners" broke on a Kitsuné Maison comp in 2010 and healed breakup wounds around the world, the dynamic Stockholm duo Aino Jawo and Caroline...
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Enter The Highly Exposed, Private Lair of Sweden’s Soso
In the music industry, many women who claim to be 'self-made' are still flanked by male promoters, directors, producers, and other dudes imparting wanted or unwanted...
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Sweden’s Park Hotell Rep the Lulea Mafia With Delicious Electro Pop
Park Hotell's commitment to rock came the hard way. They're from Luleå, Sweden, a northern city within the Arctic Circle, which, in the words of lead singer Christian...
review
Ane Brun — It All Starts With One
Ane Brun is the closest thing the female gender and Scandinavia has to Antony and the Johnsons. Her compositions and virtuoso vocals are often used in the pursuit of...
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WTF is INGRID?
By now, it’s clear that Sweden is HQ for the Illuminati. The frosty nation is populated entirely by blonde socialist hipsters who spend their days sitting in minimalist...
review
Niki & the Dove — Instinct
"DJ, Ease My Mind." Ten! "Under the Bridges." Ten! "Mother Protect." Ten! Like an electropop Nadia Comaneci, Malia Dahlstromm and Gustav Karlof have been dominating the...
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Sweden’s Sister Trashes Glam Metal
Name: Sister
Most Like: Ratt, AFI
When They Started: 2006
Genre: Punk/Metal
The Sound: Angst and three day's worth of hair product build up
We love the...
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First Aid Kit Is For Real (Even When They’re Making It Up)
When First Aid Kit first broke out around 2008, they were often the subject of muted condescension. Sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg were 18 and 15, respectively,...