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 […]
Arthur Jafa is a filmmaker who has had a long and successful career in independent cinema, as well as creating music videos for Beyoncé, but this exhibition sees him set his scope wider than just one medium. Here, he collaborates with photographer Ming Smith, artist Frida Orupabo, and YouTube channel Missylanyus to explore African-American visual […]
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 […]
When you play a video game, you have a little world inside your TV, computer or phone that you get to enter. But what goes into the making of those worlds? This exhibition offers a glimpse into the work of five Swedish studios who work in the visual and narrative creation of video games, building […]
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 […]
The strange power of isolated natural landscapes provides part of the power of Scarlett Hooft Graafland’s photographs, and the surrealist forms she inserts into them take the images to a whole other level. Graafland travels the world armed with a rucksack and camera, and uses these wild wide spaces as her canvas, upon which she […]
“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 […]
Capitalism is brutal and blood-soaked everywhere, but in Brazil it’s always barely bothered to hide that fact, as anyone keeping an eye on Jair Bolsonaro’s government and its rancher allies burning the rainforest and displacing native peoples for a quick buck can see. Those events make Sebastião Salgado’s exhibition at Fotografiska especially timely. Here’s another […]
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 […]
Pre-Raphaelite is a curiously counter-intuitive term for those outside the art world – it actually describes a movement which occurred after the celebrated Raphael’s era, which rejected his legacy and attempted to return to the more complex style that existed before him. English artist Edward Burne-Jones was a vivid member of that movement, and now […]
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 […]
Have I Got News For You is a curious standard of Britain’s TV culture, a nearly-30-years-old show that’s a cosy mix of comedy and news. Anchored in the corner for its entire run has been comic Paul Merton, making him one of the country’s most well-known comedians. He has other irons in his fire too, one […]
