The Japanese House’s music is a tribute to carefully constructed, airy pop music. Amber Bain’s released a couple of EPs over the last few years, each consisting of origami-layered, flowing creations that sit on the border of mainstream pop and more house music leanings. She’s now dropped two singles in 2018, Lilo and Follow My […]
Battle of Angels was the first play written by Tennessee Williams to be produced, which opened in 1940 and flopped. Later, Williams reworked it into Orpheus Descending, a play that sticks to the classic Tennessee themes of passion causing chaos and violence in previously small, quiet lives. And like another Tennessee classic, it later became a […]
Joy never really slows down, but this winter she’s speeding up even more. She returned with a new single in October, Coin Collector (with Scam 3.14), which marked a career first for the artist – her first music in English. Coin Collector is a slick, exuberant piece of electro-pop that lets Joy’s natural charisma shine, […]
If Girl Band were the last great muscular rock band to emerge from the Irish scene, then Fontaines D.C. might just be poised to follow them. Their Buzzcocks-meets-The-Fall sound, all draped in a clear Dublin drawl, has seen them hit the international circuit this summer, playing European festivals, a KEXP live session and a tour […]
You might have noticed Portland rapper Aminé for the first time when he popped up with a verse on Lykke Li’s So Sad So Sexy track Two Nights this summer. Or it might have been when he broke through with debut single Caroline last year. Either way, he’s firmly made his mark at this point with […]
Design continues to bubble and develop into 2019, and as usual Sweden is at the forefront of everything new in the field. And the best place to get a preview of new developments in the field and the rising stars is to check out Young Swedish Design exhibition at ArkDes. The annual exhibition, which curates […]
The Norwegian artist Anja Niemi specialises in what are dubbed “tableaux-vivants”, photos that relyi on the painstaking construction of a landscape of detail that creates the impression of a whole story or event wrapped in one photo. Niemi says: “When I was younger I always had many ideas, but no coherent way to express them. […]
“The heart is the organ of desire”: so goes the line that opens Norwegian musician Farao, aka Kari Jahnsen’s, new album Puro-O, which came out late last year. That line works well as a postcard from the album’s world – its’s a journey through relationships, both of the present and the future, delivered with scientist’s […]
MANKIND’s combination of indie rock and brutal punk muscle hasn’t been heard from since 2017, when they released their EP Death. Now they’re on the way back, with a new single My Luck Will Change. To celebrate that, they’re playing a show with a packed bill at Debaser Strand, organised by rock club Garageland. Joining […]
What is neoclassical music? Well, it’s something that sounds a lot like Nils Frahm. The German composer’s long, lush, delicate compositions are creatures of the kind of intricate attention to detail and sound obsessiveness that defined classical, built from modern electronica. His latest album, 2018’s All Melody, is proving to be his most popular yet, […]
A former child acting star (with credits for both Disney and Nickelodeon) turned pop star, Hayley Kiyoko’s ownership of and pride in her LGBTQ identity has lead her fans to dub her ‘Lesbian Jesus’. Her main single, Girls Like Girls, features the line “Girls like girls like boys do – nothing new” and her activism […]
KonstAB (Filip Aladdin, Ossian Melin and Anton Hellström) may not consider themselves theatre people (Aladdin: “I have limited experience with theatre. I think it gives us freedom, because we don’t know all the rules”), but their surrealist ‘Total’ plays have caused some of the biggest stir of any theatrical pieces in Sweden over the last […]
Kulturhuset’s exhibition for everyone is back again for 2019. The Fria fotografers filial is open for entry for all photographers, taking submissions from anyone and everyone who has something within the year’s selected categories and themes. The best entries are then put on display in Kulturhuset’s Studion, which means this is a great chance to […]
French TV, 1978 – Jacques Lacan is asked a question and responds: “I always tell the truth, but not all of the truth”. That quote provides the title for the artist Dora Garcia’s new exhibition (I Always Tell The Truth) at Bonniers Konsthall, and also for a text which will be included in the exhibition. […]
Theatre and dramatic art, and the delicate, intricate costumes and stage set-ups at its heart, were an important part of historical Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan culture, used to explain founding myths and tell stories of history. This exhibition, Ghosts, Generals and Goddesses at Dansmuseet, displays a number of these precious items from the collections of the […]
Theatre and dramatic art, and the delicate, intricate costumes and stage set-ups at its heart, were an important part of historical Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan culture, used to explain founding myths and tell stories of history. This exhibition, Ghosts, Generals and Goddesses at Dansmuseet, displays a number of these precious items from the collections of the […]
Early twentieth-century Germany was the home of expressionism, and this exhibition at Millesgården brings a sample of that output to Stockholm, courtesy of a loan from the Aargauer Kunsthaus in Swittzerland and the Osthaus-Museum Hagen collection in Germany. It features over 150 works produced between 1905 and 1938 from artists including Emil Nolde, Otto Mueller and […]
Here’s an exhibition that’s obligatory for the photographer nerds. The Hasselblad Foundation’s collection provides the source material for Sven Harry’s new exhibition Here’s Looking At You, curated by the cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema (known for his work on films like Her, Interstellar, Spectre). The exhibition’s main obsession is the intimacy of eye contact, as the […]
Two of the most popular names in hip-hop, Nicki Minaj and Future announced their joint tour, NickiHndrxx, recently and Stockholm is on the list for 2019. In just the last two years, Future has released three albums (Evol, Future and Hndrxx) and two mixtapes (Purple Reign and Super Slimy ft. Young Thug). While Minaj hasn't released an album […]
Last year marked the return of the legendary Neneh Cherry with a new album Broken Politics. As you can guess from the title, the new album is a political record, and she has described lead single Kong as a protest song against the injustices refugees are having to suffer, especially in the camp in Calais. “There […]
