Two years ago in 2017, even you can even remember a time so long ago, Maggie Rogers played a Swedish show at Debaser Strand. Two years later, with her career having spent much of that time with its foot on the accelerator pedal, she’s stepped up to Berns. The American artist has just dropped her […]
Musical talents being discovered through Youtube and Soundcloud have become common in today’s music scene. But what about Vine? The six-second video app produced one of the most talented pop voices in recent memory. Shawn Mendes became an overnight sensation in early 2014 and is now enjoying a successful music career. And he isn't showing any mercy […]
Karol Szymanowski was one of the brightest Polish composers of the early 20th century, one who attempted to create a Polish national style of music before he died of tuberculosis in 1937. The most famous of the works he left behind is King Roger, an opera in three acts that sees a cold, rational, logical […]
The 90s was the era of Britpop, but Jason Pierce’s Spiritualized stood out from that crowd for producing music more sprawling, creative and compelling than any of his louder-shouting contemporaries could lay a finger on. His mad, tragic, beautiful masterpiece Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space is one of the decade’s best records, but […]
Icelandic trio Vök have just released their sophomore album In The Dark, which takes the smooth, airy dance that fuelled their debut album Figure, and reimagines and updates it into a more immediate pop sound, with bigger choruses and more accessible songs. Few bands hit the road as hard as them when they go on […]
After starting out as Clementine Creevy’s scrappy musical project when she was just 15, Cherry Glazerr have been through a lot for such a young band, with a shifting line-up and having found the time to already put out three albums. The latest, Stuffed and Ready, sees Creevy in a mood somewhere between feral and […]
The American activist and artist Sharon Hayes made her breakthrough back in the 90s with her performance tour ‘Lesbian Love Tour’, where she visited 45 lesbian living rooms across the US. Since then she’s made a career from her dynamic and innovative works, taking the intimate and performing it on improvised and public stages, like […]
Erik Lundin has been a household name in Sweden since he released his EP *Suedi* in 2015, which told the story of a young black man growing up in modern Sweden in a manner that ranged between elegant and incendiary, but was always compelling. He went on to win ‘Årets Textförfattare’ (Lyricist of the Year) […]
In this exhibition at ArkDes, imported from the V&A in London, the idea is to look towards the future without the sense of doom we usually do. It features 80 innovations of the far and near future, looking at how technology might respond to the challenges and voids of our time. Examples include cryo-preservation, wearable […]
If you’ve been to Nationalmuseet recently, you’ve probably seen their collection of art from the Swedish and international achieves dating back from the 1500s. But what if you could get a little deeper what’s going on in the photos? That’s the aim of the museum’s collaboration with Stadsteatern, Transformationer, where actors will help assist in […]
Kevin Bridges is something of a comic prodigy, having landed his first show at the tender age of 17. Since then, he’s been one of Scotland’s most popular comedians, both for his sharp wit and ability to frame and deliver the quirks of his fellow Scots with irresistible punchlines. He’s now heading out on his […]
Bedroom pop is one of the musical movements of our time, and when Norwegian Jakob Ogawa first emerged he was definitely grouped in with that wave, for this hazy productions released via Soundcloud as much as anything else (a collab with Clairo, one of the genre’s other stars, also helped). Since then his sound has […]
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 […]
The artist Anna Daučíková has led a career that’s gone from glass-blowing to founding radical journals to being professor of art at the Prague Academy, as well as being a former member of the Soviet Artists’ Union and spokesperson for LGBT rights in Slovakia. This exhibition, On Allomorphing, is an exploration about psychological and physical […]
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 […]
The label and club night Love Potion has been a special presence on the Stockholm scene over the years, booking unique and exciting artists in intimate venues all over the city. So on June 5, when they take over Trädgården to celebrate their five-year anniversary, it’s bound to be a big one. Floating Points is […]
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 […]
The Italian artist and designer Piero Fornasetti was known for the many arrows in his quiver – his career took him everywhere from paintings to furniture design. After spending the Second World War in exile in Switzerland, he returned to Milan and started his collaboration with Giò Pontis, where Pontis’ designed furniture which Fornasetti decorated. […]
