SpaceScan09 #47: Pixie Carnation and Cliff Clavin
on Nov 20, 2009 in Features Iceland Rock Sweden Arcade Fire Bruce Springsteen Cliff Clavin Editors Pixie Carnation Queens Of The Stone Age SpaceScan Leaving the coincidental “two quartets” theme I have had going on the past two weeks, this Friday’s SpaceScan present only one in Icelandic world domination ready rockers Cliff Clavin. The other act picked out is Swedish eight-piece Pixie Carna...

On the Meadow with The Broken Assembly and Tobbe Möller
on Nov 20, 2009 in Features Pop Rock Sweden David Bowie ELO Helena Ahlbäck Lasse Thomasson Meadow Music Pär Berglund Strangers In Wonderland The Broken Assembly Tobbe Möller We’re two-thirds through November and our guest blogger Pär Berglund from Meadow Music is ready to take us around the Swedish meadow once again. This month he has picked singer and songwriter Tobbe Möller and The Broken Assembly, a new project by...

Q&A: Kå - Coffee, cake and elevators
on Nov 19, 2009 in Denmark Features Rock interview Kå Katrine Villadsen Q&A The other day we gave you the lowdown on Danish synthrock quartet Kå’s excellent sophomore effort ‘Himlens Kant Når Helt Herud’. Today their singer and main songwriter Katrine Villadsen answers the four big questions on Life, the Universe...

Video: Hammarström and Mark - Reach Out
on Nov 19, 2009 in Metal Sweden Videos Dead By April Dino Medanhodzic Hammarström and Mark Joacim Hammarström Mark Österdahl Niclas Hammarström The Swedish DIY trio Hammarström and Mark aka songwriting, producing and label owning twins Joacim and Niclas Hammarström and singer Mark Österdahl move along the same MTV friendly pop metal lines as fellow Swedes Dead By April. ‘Reach Out’ is...

Rock Hard Power Spray: Bad Day (track)
on Nov 19, 2009 in Denmark Rock Tracks Christmas single Mattias Hundebøll Rock Hard Power Spray Santa Claus track Danish punk ’n rollers Rock Hard Power Spray are just about ready to begin recording their third album (apparently an exciting producer is lined up, but they won’t say who yet) which will be released sometime before next summer. Passing time they...

Pilemil: If You Make A Lot Of Ceramics…
on Nov 18, 2009 in Albums Alternative Norway 1960s alternative pop Emil Høgset Firefly Effect Pilemil psychedelic Truls Solerød Johnsen A solid runner-up in the “longest album title of 2009” race (Mew are surefire first), Norwegian alternative pop outfit Pilemil was according to legend originally a group of artists and craftsmen who shared workspace - where some in fact dabbled i...

Kå: Himlens Kant Når Helt Herud
on Nov 17, 2009 in Albums Denmark Rock indie-rock Kå Katrine Villadsen Lykke Li PJ Harvey synthrock ‘Himlens Kant Når Helt Herud’, Danish quartet Kå’s sophomore effort, is a wonderfully weird little record, celebrating a healthy mix of synthrock, pop and folk with a few other genres thrown in for good measure. Whenever you think you hav...

Straight outta Iceland - The best of 2010
on Nov 16, 2009 in Alternative Features Iceland Metal Pop Rock Ben H Murray Best of 2010 Dikta Eliza Newman Emiliana Torrini FM Belfast For A Minor Reflection GusGus Hafdis Huld Hjaltalín Jónsi & Alex Klink Noise Shogun Ten Steps Away Today ALL SCANDINAVIAN welcome another guest blogger to our ranks: Ben H. Murray (follow him on Twitter). Every now and then he’ll share his thoughts and recommendations on new and interesting music, and his first piece is a look at some of the Ice...

Music Alliance Pact - November 2009
on Nov 15, 2009 in Denmark Faroe Islands Features Finland Iceland Norway Sweden Amigos Invisibles Annie Hall Antonina Astro Band On An Island Bon Mod Boy & Bear Candelilla Casino Royal Cleaning Women Cyane Die Heuwels Fantasties Entre Ríos Giannis Aggelakas Helene Vetik Hety And Zambo Jeremy Warmsley Kimono Kitsch Device Kråkesølv Los Protones Loudspeaker Lunarin Madamm Magneta Lane Music Alliance Pact Nouela Johnston People Eating People Pepepe Pinknoise Playgirl Psychic Powers Santamonica Sebastian X Silent Strike The Kites The Name The Unwinding Hours

SpaceScan09 #46: Royal Republic and Knút
on Nov 13, 2009 in Faroe Islands Features Rock Sweden 1970s Bogi á Lakjuni California punk Hogni Høgni Lisberg Jens L. Thomsen Knút Knút Háberg Eysturstein psychedelic Royal Republic SpaceScan The Offspring For some reason I’m seemingly big on quartets these days. Last week’s SpaceScan presented two and this Friday the series continue with another two. Both do rock, but where Royal Republic from Sweden dish out swaggering punk rock with instant hit...