Tiny Fighter “Tell Me” Tell Me What a great band. With vocals that remind one of Shirley Manson or Greta Van Etten, Tiny Fighters share their dark vision of the world with a great poppy musical backdrop. Therese Karlsson (a truck driver … Continue Reading
ShapeShiftingAliens “Fade Away” ShapeShiftingAliens ShapeShiftingAliens is a Swedish duo, consisting of Johan Cléve on vocals and Niklas Rundquist, also known as solo artist by the monker Brainshadow. This duo delves the darkest parts of Bowie’s Tin Machine and Trent Reznor and mixes them in an … Continue Reading
Moist feat. vocalist Maria Marcus “Traces” Lavine From Söderhamn, Sweden, Moist is the solo moniker of producer, artist and remixer David Elfström Lilja. The new LP includes 10 tracks with vocals by Maria Marcus, a Swedish multi-platinum songwriter and music producer currently based in … Continue Reading
Anna von Hausswolff “The Truth, The Glow, The Fall” Dead Magic Another amazing song off of Anna von Hausswolff, “The Truth, The Glow, The Fall” takes a while to get going, but when von Hausswolff starts playing the organ, and … Continue Reading
José González “What Will” (with The Brite Lites) José González & The Brite Lites At Svenska Grammofonstudion He’s back, and he’s better than ever. There is no one who sounds like Sweden’s José González. One, he picks a guitar so quickly … Continue Reading
Anna von Hausswolff ‘The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra’ Dead Magic She’s back, that beautiful Swedish Dark Goth goddess. On her new single, she sounds like a cross between PJ Harvey and Diamonda Galas, especially wins she swoops up to those … Continue Reading
Kasbo “Snow In Gothenburg” Carl Garsbo, AKA as Kasbo, has released another gem with “Snow In Gothenburg”. If any song best gives you the feeling of winter in Sweden, it is this, the new single from Kasbo. As he states: … Continue Reading
Kasbo “Bleed It Out” (featuring NEA) This is a beautiful song. The scattering rhythm, almost sounding like the tune is skipping, fit the beauty of NEA’s voice and just points out all that great production work that makes Kasbo king … Continue Reading
Lars Brondum and Barbara Brondum “Viper” The Text And Sound Project What a beautiful record this is. If you like the electronic music of Eno, CAN, Laurie Anderson, and Philip Glass, you will love this work. Music by Lars, Spoken … Continue Reading
Audrey X “Black Skies” Sweden born Audrey X has come to this country to prove to the Top 40 divas how it really should be down. Starting her career singing in the church choir, Audrey X had a dream of … Continue Reading
Small Feet “Liar Behind The Sun” Dreaming The Dream What a great, eccentric band Small Feet is. But that is what you get when you have the great songwriter from Stockholm, Simon Stålhamre, at the wheel. After years of writing songs … Continue Reading
Frida Hyvonen “Imponera Pa Mig” Kvinnor Och Barn Frida Hyvonen has finally released her new album, all in Swedish. This is beautiful, classic Hyvonen, which means very beautiful vocals, simple sounding, yet perfect piano playing, and emotion plus. The video … Continue Reading
ULRIKA “Oh, Sally!” EP, Phone Home With gorgeous looks, dynamic voice, and infectious dance, Swedish indiepop star, ULRIKA, has made the best new dance song for the year. You’ll be dancing around the living room or the dance floor whenever … Continue Reading
Newtimers “Perfect Ten” Remember when Wham! ruled the dance floor, when Real Life sang “Send Me An Angel”, when Scritti Politi could jammed out a song? Well, Newtimers remember it well. Andreas Britton Cavaco (vocals) and Tim Lundblad (drums, production) … Continue Reading
Dungen “Åkt Dit” Allas Sak Remember Traffic, Vanilla Fudge, Syd Barret’s Pink Floyd? Well, the Swedish band, Dungen brings back all those memories, all that great music, all with a modern twist. Obviously, there is something in the water in … Continue Reading
Ashbury Heights “Glow” The Looking Glass Society Thank Goddess for Sweden. For those of you (like myself, dear readers) who can’t get enough of Goth (with a capital G), here comes Ashbury Heights. What a beautiful, otherworldly, maybe after death, … Continue Reading
Christian Dorge “White Refrigerator – Action & Sound Systems I American Life Here is one of the most interesting artist performing today. Christian Dorge is a novelist, dramatist, essayist, actor, stage-director, musician, singer, songwriter and spoken-words artist from Sweden. His latest … Continue Reading
Jose Gonzalez “Leaf Off/The Cave” Vestiges & Claws He did it again. Jose Gonzalez debuts the second single off his soon to be release CD, Vestiges & Claws while preparing for his world tour. This song is another extreme triumph … Continue Reading