Popaganda’s plans for the year just keep on getting bigger. In addition to their usual late summer festival at Eriksdalbadet and mid-summer minifestival at Gälarparken, they’ve now announced that they’re hosting a one-day festival at Färgfabriken in March. The festival will feature two stages, which has given them the opportunity to pack the line-up with […]
Sarah Assbring, aka El Perro Del Mar, last surfaced musically with 2016’s album KoKoro, a fascinating blitz of colourful pop that we spoke to her about in a long interview at the time. Now she’s back with a kind of follow-up to that record, We Are History, an EP that functions as the dark, heavy […]
Dua Lipa's career was slowly bubbling up, with a couple of minor hits to her name like Be The One and Blow Your Mind, before the tropical-influenced pop smash New Rules was released last summer and pressed the accelerator pedal on her career. Nearly 700 million Spotify streams and 600 million YouTube views on that […]
Initially relentlessly compared to Veronica Maggio, Hanna Järver has probably now done enough to shake off those lazy comparisons and establish her music in its own right. The Örebro-born producer made one of 2016’s best EPs with her debut (and hometown-hailing) Närke, full of sharp, smart emotional electronic pop. Now her debut album So Long has […]
Christian Gabel can usually be found spending his time in indie icons Bob Hund. But away from the day job, he works with his side-project 1900, where he dabbles with tape machines to create audio art and collages. His last album with the project was 2016’s Tekno, but now he’s bringing it back for live […]
If it already feels like the rise of Sabina Ddumba to the top of Sweden’s pop strata has been rapid (after only a couple of singles and a debut album in 2016, Homeward Bound, she’s one of the biggest festival acts and most-played artists in the country), she’s only going to get bigger, having signed […]
Summer’s nearly here and that means it’s time for Tove Lo to tour Sweden’s big outdoor stages again. The pop supernova released her latest album Blue Lips (Lady Wood Part II) towards the end of 2017, and while being probably her most adventurous record yet in terms of the sounds it explored, it still has […]
She's Confident and Cool for the Summer, and her name is Demi Lovato. After beginning her career in Hollywood as an actress at just 10-years-old, Lovato has transitioned to, and become one of the most popular names in pop music at age 25. After releasing her first album, titled Don't Forget in 2008, fans certainly […]
They may be of the most controversial bands of its time, but 29 years later, Marilyn Manson are still standing. The rock band has been around since 1989. They first performed at local bars in South Florida, before gaining a cult following. Since then the band has sold almost 50 million records around the globe. […]
Lead by Annika Henderson (who’s put out some excellent records in her own right as Anika), Exploded View sound like something along the lines of an industrial plant tuned to make pop music. There are melodies in there, but they’re distorted though weird metallic waves and brutal crunch, corrugated iron art-rock. Their debut, self-titled album […]
Katy Perry is of the best-selling artists of her time, while seemingly continuing to evolve her music style. Shifting from pop with I Kissed a Girl, to dance with Chained to the Rythm and even mixing with trap on Bon Appétit, she has solidified herself as one of the most versatile artists of her generation. […]
At this point, we all know what to expect from Josh Homme’s cobra-rock troupe Queens Of The Stone Age. But that hasn’t stopped them trying to mix it up, collaborating with Alex Turner, Elton John and Trent Renzor on their 2013 album …Like Clockwork and bringing in pop producer Mark Ronson for last year’s follow-up Villains. […]
It was a long way back now, but Glasvegas of Glasgow's self-titled debut album was a very special record, one that managed to capture a little of their home city’s strange soul and pair it with sweeping, widescreen rock music. The emotional force of songs like Flowers & Football Tops and It’s My Own Cheating […]
Hip-Hop and R&B are undergoing a transitional phase, as the talents of the early-mid 2000’s age, the younger artists have begun to climb the rankings and make a name for themselves. Roy Woods is one of them. With the ability to switch from soft beats and emotional lyrics on songs such as Drama and Say […]
Taking its name from Part II (On the Run), a song from Jay-Z's Magna Carta Holy Grail that featured Beyoncé, the 2014 On The Run joint tour the couple embarked on was a huge success. But that tour only left North America for two shows in Paris. Now with both one further album into their careers […]
The world of hip-hop is ever-changing, but if there’s been one constant since the early 2000’s, it’s been Eminem. Recognized as one of the greatest artists of all time by peers and fans alike, the 45-year-old, otherwise known as Marshall Mathers, has sold over 220 million albums globally since beginning his music career in 1988. […]
Anderson .Paak has been relatively quiet the last two years, but he's finally reemerged. After releasing his debut album Venice in 2014, to mixed reviews, Paak showed everyone what he was capable of with his critically acclaimed second studio album, Malibu, released in 2016. He's a versatile artist who can rotate between hip-hop vibes and soul beats seamlessly. He's also […]
13 years after forming, Portugal. The Man, got their first breakthrough. As the group won their first Grammy award and reached the Billboard charts with the 2017 hit song, Feel It Still. The song reached number 17 on Sverigetopplistan. They had a second consecutive release reach the charts with their October 2017 song, Live in the […]
After a year-long hiatus from music, Ed Sheeran was back and better than ever in 2017, and it was his year for sure. As Sheeran’s first album in three years, ÷ (Divide) smashed streaming records, charted number one and had multiple singles, such as Perfect, Castle on the Hill, Galway Girl and Happier make their […]
Having released the song Gröna Linjen earlier this year, it was only right that Julia Adams paid a visit to Gröna Lund this summer. Adams is a Swedish pop classicist, mixing her music between upbeat, bubbly bangers and more melancholic slowjams. Her latest single, Origami, takes the former route, all bouncing piano chords and clicking […]
