Kalandra 🇳🇴 🇸🇪 - UK and European Tour (plus video to ‘I Am’)
We’ve featured Kalandra frequently on this site over the last 10 years, and their incredible debut album ‘ The Line ’ was pretty much...
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Andy
May 151 min read
Girl Scout 🇸🇪 - UK Tour next week!
Sadly Swedish indie four piece Girl Scout don’t have any new releases to feature (we’re promised some very soon), but for those of us in...
Andy
Jan 282 min read
Nordic Music Review Indie Playlist (28/01/2024)
Just a refresh to our indie playlist this week, I think tracks 1-15 and 34-37 are the new additions for this week, but all of them are...
Andy
Dec 6, 20231 min read
Dobbeltgjenger - Live London, Thursday 7th December
We've featured Norwegian outfit Dobbeltgjenger a few times on these pages, so it gives us particular pleasure to highlight a gig tomorrow...
Andy
Oct 15, 20235 min read
An Interview with Svavar Knútur 🇮🇸 - Ward Knútur Townes UK Tour!
One of our favourite Icelandic musicians Svavar Knútur has just released an album with the fantastic Lucy Ward and Canadian songwriter...
Andy Wors
May 4, 20231 min read
Ålesund - UK Tour (and new single)
It's great to be able to kickstart things with details of some actual live Nordic influenced music taking place in the UK, and it comes...
Andy
Dec 15, 20222 min read
Nordic Indie Christmas Playlist - 15/12
Given that 2 of my favourite things in the world are Nordic Indie music and Christmas, it seems appropriate to put those 2 things...
Andy
Dec 2, 20221 min read
Single of the Week: Inger Nordvik 🇳🇴 - ‘Go Back’
I've not written about Inger Nordvik previously, but she even sounds like the type of artist we should feature on these pages, and her...
Andy
Nov 1, 20221 min read
Single of the Week: Kári (Iceland) - ‘Something Better’
I haven't featured a Single of the Week for a while, and delighted to correct that with another new name to these pages, Icelandic...
David Bentley
Jul 24, 20212 min read
Featured Artist – Pétur Ben (IS)
New releases slow to a trickle at this time of the year so this is as good a time as any to do a Featured Artist post and I’ve had it in...
David Bentley
May 26, 20214 min read
Eurovision – best song ever! (And it’s Swedish) Loreen - ‘Euphoria’
We’ve expended many words on Eurovision this last week or so and I reckoned I’d have my six penn’orth. First off, my winner this year was...
Andy Wors
May 19, 20215 min read
Nordic Music Review’s Guide to Eurovision 2021.
The guide that quite literally no-one asked for. Maybe the long effects of lockdown are starting to get to me and I just need to get out...
David Bentley
May 11, 20215 min read
Opinion Feature: Groundhog Year – more music festival cancellations. Where are we going with this?
As more events get cancelled, David Bentley offers his personal opinion on the plight of music festivals. Punxsutawney Phil must have...
David Bentley
May 3, 20215 min read
Feature article: Reflections on the plight of Nightwish (Finland)
I’ve sat on this article for several months while I weighed up the events of January when Nightwish’s bassist and vocalist Marko Hietala...
David Bentley
May 2, 20212 min read
Non-Nordic Sunday: Introducing Hazel Iris (USA)
I thought I’d do something a little different this week. As we must have mentioned numerous times the last year has been as difficult for...
David Bentley
Mar 2, 20212 min read
Down Memory Lane – Anna von Hausswolff (Sweden)
I haven’t done one of these for a while. What prompted me was listening to Bonander’s ‘Gone in the wind’ the other day; she has some...
David Bentley
Mar 1, 20212 min read
Irya Gmeyner (Sweden) – Urban City - Thin Blue Line (Theme from the Original TV Series)
We don’t often do TV theme tunes but this one is very atmospheric and got me straight away, and there’s an interesting story behind it to...
David Bentley
Mar 1, 20212 min read
News feature: Indie record labels dominate Swedish release schedules
As a publication which champions ‘indie’ artists and bands we were intrigued to learn of the increased presence and influence of...
Andy Wors
Feb 21, 20211 min read
NMR Indie Playlist Update!
It’s been a pretty impressive start to the year for new release, particularly for albums, with Danish songwriter Gurli Octavia knocking...
David Bentley
Jan 31, 20213 min read
Non-Nordic Sunday: Fiona Apple – The Whole of the Moon (cover/video)
I bang on perhaps a little too often about Fiona Apple but for my money she is at least one of the greatest musical talents of the last...
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