Popstar SHY Martin has two careers running in parallel. The first is as one of the music industry’s backroom superstars in the songwriting world, having penned monster hits racking up hundreds of millions of streams for the likes of Kygo, Ellie Goulding and Bebe Rexha. While doing that, she’s also managing her own journey as […]
Summer’s on the way, and its signature in Stockholm, gigs at Trädgården, is finally back on the menu. One of the first bands announced for this year’s Live Sessions at the club under the bridge are Gothenburg’s Little Dragon. The internationally-acclaimed art-poppers have put out releases in each of the last two years, the album […]
After putting out an album of stone-cold classic pop in 2013 with Sleepyhead, the music industry eventually took its toll on Sibille Attar, with the musician getting sick of the negative weight that comes with a major label contract. A couple of years later and having switched to indie label PNKSLM, she returned with the […]
Seeing Kamasi Washington live is a chance to see one of the great musical geniuses of our times at work. The man who sprinkled magic all over Kendrick Lamar’s album To Pimp A Butterfly, Washington has been mastering jazz since he was 13, and his 2018 album Heaven And Earth sees him knit spiritualism and politics […]
Shitkid returned in May with a new album, Detention, on which Åsa Söderqvist took her musical world into a Californian high school for a concept album inspired by teen movies and packed with short, sharp punk-pop songs like Summer Break and Romance. She’s taking it live to Trädgården this June, with support from punk rockers […]
If you have any interest in indie music at all, you probably noticed the rise of trio Boygenius last year, as young songwriters Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus teamed up for a ‘supergroup’ that captured the attentions of the blogosphere for what seemed live forever (as well as releasing an excellent EP). Dacus […]
In many ways, Canada’s Mac DeMarco’s career has been split into two phases. He started off as the slacker clown, with songs dedicated to Viceroy cigs and crowned with the Pitchfork documentary about him, Pepperoni Playboy, which included a shot of him taking a shower on the toilet (that’s not a typo). Then there’s the […]
Yakumbé is not your average gig. The percussion collection, led by Argentinian Juan Romero, are a playful, colourful trip through folk music from all over the world. They released a new album, Rinkebysvängen, back in March, and it continues with their classic modus operendi of blending influences from different cultures on one song, such as their […]
LOVA has a strong case for being the next big thing on the popscene in Sweden. 2018 saw her bubble up to the point of being just about to break big – her fizzing single You Me And The Silence was the most-played Swedish track on P3 over the course of the year. With another […]
If you’ve even stepped onto a Stockholm dancefloor over the past couple of years, or even just been within hearing range of one, you’ll know who Madi Banja is. The R’n’B artist has provided some monster hits over the past while, that have dominated the city’s nightclubs, and now it’s finally time for his debut […]
It’s been a couple of years out of the game for Steve Buscemi’s Dreamy Eyes (a name I’ve been told is best referred to as a ‘conversation starter’), but the dream-rock four-piece are now back in the game with a new record on the way and a new tour, entitled the Back In Biz tour. […]
It’s been nearly two years since Pale Honey released their second album Devotion, but that record’s success has kept them on the road ever since. Well, that and the fact that their crisp, powerful rock songs make them a great live band, with tense, tight thrillers like Over Your Head and Real Thing, The Gothenburg […]
Last year was a big ol’ year for Robyn, with the artist having released her first full solo album since 2010, Honey, and also earned a bunch of rave reviews with that record. That autumn, she announced a couple of Swedish shows in February in Gothenburg and Malmö, but Stockholm was strangely absent from that […]
To be honest, no-one would really have seen Viagra Boys as one of the breakout successes of the Swedish music scene of the last couple of years, if only for the name (my PR spells it V*agra Boys in their mails to avoid the wrath of the spam filter). But the dirtbag rock troupe, who […]
There was a fair amount of pressure riding on Seinabo Sey when she released her second album I’m A Dream last year, as she had a reputation as one of the most talented pop artists in Sweden to maintain. As you can tell by the rainfall of awards following I’m A Dream’s release (Album Of The […]
“For me, this is a song that’s going to make the summer extend for a while longer” – so said Cherrie about her new single MAMI, a slick piece of breezy, airy dance-pop. That’s not the only step the artist is taking to extend the summer this year. She’s also keeping the good times going […]
Little Jinder is an artist who has the Swedish music public’s attention following her every step. Her latest album Hejdå saw her twist her music a little, layering it with more complex, dense electronic sounds. But this show at Mosebacketerrassen is sure to be a celebration of everything she’s done so far, set on the site […]
Linda Napoles, Rebecca Tegegne and Nataša Marijana are LadiesLoveHipHop, a creative collective that have been a force on the scene for a while now. And now they’re being handed the keys to Trädgården, and are curating their own one-day hip-hop (well, obviously) festival. It's an international and local line-up of live artists includes Sabina Ddumba, […]
One of the best pieces of news to pop up at the start of 2019 was the return of Gothenburg band Westkust, who kicked the year off with Swebeach, a rocket-powered blast of melodic shoegaze. It was the first piece of new music we had heard from the band since their 2015 debut album Last […]
Chromatics’ long-awaiting new album Dear Tommy has almost achieved mythical status at this point. Originally announced way back in 2014, the first singles came out in 2015, and then everything disappeared into the ether. Eventually, the story came out – after a near-death experience, band mastermind Johnny Jewel destroyed all existing versions of the record, […]
