The celebrated American author Siri Hustvedt has a new novel out this year, Memories of the Future, a vaguely-autobiographical joint, at least in the story’s grounding in a young woman’s arrival in New York from Minnesota, that spreads out into an exploration of the past, future and the space in-between. As part of that book’s […]
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, […]
Moderna Museet’s new exhibition Mud Muses is a deep dive into art, technology and the environment, focusing on its development over the last 50 years. Part of the exhibition looks into the museum’s own history and its early exhibitions on man and machine, and looks back on them from a modern perspective. Featuring the work […]
It’s contemporary art season at Sven-Harrys this October, as they open up the Nordic Contemporary exhibition, in association with Ars Fennica. The Finnish Ars Fennica award is presented to an artist that achieves art of high merit and distinction every year, and this year’s nominees (Petri Ala-Maunus, Miriam Bäckström, Ragnar Kjartansson, Egill Sæbjörnsson and Aurora […]
The future of the countryside and the suburbs are in the sights of this collection of artists at Tensta Konstall in the exhibition "Den futuristiska orten"
The period following the Second World War up until the 60s and 70s was marked by infrastructural thinking that aimed for innovation, optimism and universality (something that feels very distant today, as another 30 luxury apartments demand every public resource within range of them be shut, like a spray of pesticide on the surrounding area). […]
Australian artist Carla Dal Forno writes songs like they’re a garden of sound, a series of elements growing and wrapping around each other in harmony, to create a soft, warm, experimental art-pop glow. Now she’s got a new album on the way, Look Up Sharp, out in October, and the early singles from that indicate […]
Slowthai stands out amongst the artists to emerge from the British scene over the last few years. The Northampton rapper’s (he even filmed a section of the video for single Gorgeous at Northampton Town’s home ground) debut album Nothing Great About Britain came out this year, and delivered on the hype that had been swirling around […]
Fast-rising British pop duo IDER have already spent quite a lot of time in Sweden this year, pitching up in the snow at Åre Sessions in April and popping up again at Way Out West in August. But the capital is still untested territory for them, something they’re resolving in October with a show at […]
Exaggerations come easily in music, but it’s probably not one to say Charli XCX is one of the most influential pop artists of our time. As well as spanning genres, from emo-wave on debut album True Romance to sugary, fairground rock’n’roll on Sucker to her current adventures in glitch, hyper-futurist pop, she’s always been able […]
The rapid rise of Norwegian artist Girl In Red is a tribute to the way the internet has shifted the sands of the classic music career path, especially among the young LGTBQ community. You wouldn’t immediately peg Marie Ulven’s lo-fi, scrappy heartbreak songs as having hit potential, but online’s rapid distribution, the tight communities her […]
Popping up to add some vocal gleam to Father John Misty’s God’s Favorite Customer last year was only the start of a massive 18 months for Natalie Mering, aka Weyes Blood. As 2019 kicked off, she announced her fourth album Titanic Rising, and when it arrived it became her most-acclaimed yet. A record full of slow, […]
This exhibition, Distant Lands, posits that Western materialism suffers from a lack of space for mystique, the things in life that seem to exist outside of the hard concrete of that we understand. So as a remedy it provides the work of Finnish photographer, poet and artist Pentti Sammallahti. Sammallahti has a talent for capture […]
The project of American duo Jae Matthews and Augustus Muller, Boy Harsher have marked themselves out as artists of dark strange noise since their emergence in 2014 with the Lesser Man EP. Their world is one of harsh synth music, loaded with intensity and emotion that leans towards the colder, heavier side of human feelings […]
Set up in memory of a tragic loss, the winners of the Maria Bonnier Dahlins Foundation are now exhibiting at Bonniers Konsthall
An indie rock double-bill comes to Hus 7 in the form of doom-rock star Therese Lithner and Malmö pop-rock duo Wy at a show this December
Jazz-influenced Norwegian art-pop bands are the trend of our times, and Pom Poko are at the forefront of that movement. Sounding like an explosion in a music shop, the four-piece create music that’s relentlessly energetic, vividly colourful and aggressively irresistible, pop songs as Picasso paintings. Having released their debut album Birthday this year on Bella Union, […]
The iconic club concert Boiler Room makes a stop in Stockholm (although this one's IRL-only, so you'll have to see it in real life and not onscreen)
Bursting out from the rapid channels of online, Clairo turned that momentum into one of the best albums of the year into her dream-pop debut "Immunity"
After a successful run back in 2018, the icon of Norwegian drama Peer Gynt returns to Dramaten with Erik Ehn in the larger than life title role
