March 2012
3 posts
Exmouth Market, London, UK
UK photographer Brian Ferry makes us miss rainy days in London. Join his ride down Exmouth Market:
Perhaps Exmouth Market is one of my favorite streets in London due to nostalgia. I walked down this street on my first full day in London after moving here in November 2009, when it rained every day for weeks and I was living in cramped temporary housing. It was the street where I decided I love...
US Pacific Coast Highway surf towns
Another fantastic photographer: Michael Muller (Check out his BLOG). Michael is also a musician. Anybody want to go hiking on the Pacific Coast Highway… We bet you do after reading this…
I grew up in the northern coastal region of San Diego county, California. At age 10 my family moved to Texas which was a vastly contrastive landscape and social spectrum. With a few family members...
Taka's bar, Kabukicho, Tokyo, Japan
Photographer Anton Kusters released a fantastic photo book documenting the Japanese Yakuza. The limited edition of the book sold out in one month, but the second edition is available for order now on www.antonkusters.com. Anton`s favorite bar is of course in Tokyo…:
INSTRUCTIONS: Around 1am, from Shinjuku station in Tokyo, walk towards Kabukicho, the red light district. After you cross the...
December 2011
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Barrio Chino, New York
Todays blogpost is from Jesper Majdall, partner in Volcano Management in Denmark. Volcano Management promote artists such as Nephew, Veto and The Floor Is Made Of Lava. Jesper loves Barrio Chino, a mexican restaurant in New York.
My pick is the Mexican restaurant in New York, Barrio Chino. My girl friend tipped me some years ago about this small and extremely cosy Lower East side place, and...
September 2011
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French Films debut album coming out!
“French Films” as previously seen in our blog is releasing their debut album “Imaginary Future”. It´s coming out on the 21. september. Check it out! GEAE Booking and Records has this to say about the album: The album contains 10 songs about being alive and about the struggle between the fading dreams of childhood and the growing cynicism, forced upon by the surrounding...
May 2011
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Lofoten, Norway
Bendik plays dreamy, haunting pop, drenched in harmonies and reverb. Originated as the solo project of singer and multi-instrumentalist Silje Halstensen, Bendik grew it’s branches and became a trio this winter, embracing Erlend Elvesveen and Eivind Helgerød, all living in the beautiful city of Trondheim, Norway. They are already playing on numerous norwegian festivals this summer, including...
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Bakklandet, Trondheim, Norway
Photo: Scanpix Angelica’s Elegy plays melancholic indie pop inspired by Beach House, Deerhunter, Yo La Tengo og Madlib. The band was started by Simen and Erik at Trøndertun Folk high school. They have cooperated with people from Dråpe and Bendik (who’ll appear on this blog on tuesday). Our favourite place is more of an area of the city we live in, than a specific smaller location. The...
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Bergen, Norway
Foto: Embla Karidotter Razika is the most honest indie-ska-punk band in Norway at this time. Their first album, Program 91, was released 2nd of may 2011 and their single Vondt i Hjertet is currently B-listed on NRK P3. Our favorite place on earth is Bergen. All of us are born and raised her, this is the city we have a relationship with. We are all city-kids from the centre and “need”...
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The Ark, Corfu, Greece
Christoffer Timoteo sing and play guitar in the band Memetics. They’re a indiepop band from Sandefjord, Norway and have been playing since 2009. They recently released their first EP: “Generations EP”, and will be playing at a couple of festivals this summer (one of them is Slottsfjell festival in Tønsberg, Norway). My favorite place in the world must be “The Ark”...
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Slottsfjell artists
We are, as everybody else with a little sensibility, super excited about the festival summer. I can’t wait to get dirty feet on festival ground, buy the funkyest hat I can find, hang out with my old friends, make some new friends and sing on the top of my voice! I am also pleased to see that some of the bands that contributed to this blog is playing at the Slottsfjell festival in Tønsberg,...
April 2011
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Dragon Spring, Helsinki, Finland
French Films is a five-piece band from Espoo/Järvenpää, Finland. Their music is often described as sunny garage pop from the 60’s combined with 80’s punk and new wave. The band was formed in February of 2010 and has already been getting attention all over the world after releasing the debut EP, Golden Sea, in October of 2010. Currently working on their debut album, they’re also...
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Everywhere by Nive & The Deer Children
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Nive Nielsen & The Deer Children are from Nuuk, Greenland. They recorded their debut “Nive Sings!” with John Parish and some help from Howe Gelb and friends from a.o. The Black Keys & Wolf Parade. Called “heir to the Arcade Fire” by Filter Magazine, they sold a whopping 5000 copies of their self-released debut back home (on a population of...
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Risør, Norway
Bergtatt is a folk rock band, containing members from the southern and the western part of Norway. The band’s music is a blend of rock music
and traditional folk music, and one of its trademarks is the
combination of old acoustic folk instruments and the classic rock band
instruments. And the cherry on top? Intriguing, powerful female
vocals! The band released it’s debut record “Røtter” in...
Hovedøya, Oslo, Norway
My name is Knut-Oscar Nymo and I play bass guitar in the band Oslo Ess together with vocalist Åsmund Lande, Guitarist Peter Larsson and drummer Mads Golden. Oslo Ess is an up-and-coming norwegian punkrock band and our debut album “uleste bøker og utgåtte sko” will be out the 11th of march.
If you take the ferry from the docks down at Vippetangen and get of at the first stop, you...
March 2011
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Damsgårdssundet, Bergen, Norway
The Urørt (Norwegian BBC Introducing equivalent) team described Lovecult as “the sound of of the 60s successfully mixed with 70s krautrock and 80s shoegaze-pop, a place where finishing your songs with blissed out fuzz cacophonies and feedback orgasms is de rigueur. You don’t always have to be on the way somewhere, sometimes it’s nice to just be!” On the shadow side of Bergen, just across...
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Bakklandet , Trondheim , Norway
Ida Jenshus is a 23 year old americana/country artist from Steinkjer, Norway. After releasing her debut album “Color of the sun” (2008) and her follow up “No guarantees” (2010), she has been crowned Norway’s new country queen. See her tour schedule at www.idajenshus.com. When I had to think of one favourite spot , the first place that came to mind was Bakklandet. This area...
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Jaeger, Oslo, Norway
Of Norway are well known to not only Norwegian dance heads but also festival crowds and the gang at NRK P3. The band describe their sound as “like getting lost in the Norwegian woods”. It is a sometimes warm, sometimes cool world of crackles, clicks and bleeps which mix stripped-back electronic sounds with the exotic, exquisite sound of modern life. The few times we crawl out of the studio to...
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Åmli, Larvik, Norway
Jonas Alaska makes music inspired by the old singer/songwriter tradition with strong elements of folk and americana. His backing band consists of a clean and tight rhythm section, CSN and gospel influenced backing-vocals as well as honkey keys and guitars. His album is expected in June, 2011. My favourite place is my hometown, Åmli. Åmli is a small village deep inside the woods somewhere in the...
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Hubroåsen “the eagle owl hill”, Vestfold, Norway
The acoustic core of piano, double bass and drums gets challenged by simplistic, analogue elektronics, which in Splashgirls hands creates a distinctive, instrumental music somewhere between improvised music, ambient and experimental rock. Genres aside, Splashgirls music contains a concentration, a graveness and a focus on details matched by few others. Aside from touring most of Europe, Splashgirl...
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The Love Park, Norrköping, Sweden
Lillte Marbels is Sweden’s freshest most innovative little pop band. It has been two years since the release of their critically acclaimed debut “Vi accepterar mitt kaos” (“We Accept My Chaos”), two years that have encompassed hundreds of shows, almost every festival in Sweden. Their newest album is “Vi slutar när vi är klara” (“We’ll Stop When We’re Ready”) and was released in May 2010. Our...
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Zensa lounge, Dénia, Spain
KINEE is a duo from Fredrikstad, Norway who performs electro acoustic pop. Our music tries to combine the best from both worlds: the singer/songwriter and the DJ. My favorite place is at a bar called Zensa Lounge in Dénia, Spain. I reckon Denia as my second home beside Norway. I’ve been travelling to my fathers apartment there since I was 12. At Zensa Lounge I have all the time in the...
February 2011
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The Rod'n'Reel Pier, Anna-Maria island, Florida,...
Ludwig Bell is currently touring after releasing my debut solo album, which received fantastic reviews when released last fall in Sweden. Will during 2011 also release the debut album with my pop-duo Pasadena. As a kid, I travelled to Florida every year to see my grandparents (on my father’s side). Being in that tropical climate far away from home created sort of a magical feeling that I...
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Franken bar, Berlin, Germany
Yngve Andersen is 25 years old and plays guitar in punkrock outfits; “Jeroan Drive” and “Blood Command” My favourite place in the world pr. date must be the “Franken” bar in Oranienstrasse 19a, Berlin, Germany. The place is a classic brown joint but with a hot rock ‘n’ roll touch to it.The walls are prided with photos of lot of scandinavian...
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Qoornoq, Greenland
Nive Nielsen & The Deer Children are from Nuuk, Greenland. They recorded their debut “Nive Sings!” with John Parish and some help from Howe Gelb and friends from a.o. The Black Keys & Wolf Parade. Called “heir to the Arcade Fire” by Filter Magazine, they sold a whopping 5000 copies of their self-released debut back home, played 80+ international concerts last year...
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The Boundary, London, UK
Kaizers Orchestras creepy little sister, a female Tom Waits, Kurt Weill’s great grandchild, Kate Bush on Piaf- pills or the woman that brings a blush to Stephen King face: The nowegian cabaret singer Guro von Germeten (and her little red accordion) stands out as delightfully burlesque with melodic boldness and French “Second World War-” ambiance- all with a twist of Balkan beats, Circus jazz and...
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Ravnastua Mouintainhouse/ Gárdin duottarstohpu,...
Elin Kåven – The arctic fairy. Singer, songwriter and dancer from Northern Norway. She belongs to the sami people wich are the nomad people north of the arctic circle. Known as the Arctic fairy, she seduces you with etheral, mystical pop into a dream of the hidden Sami tundras… My favorite place in the world may not be a surprise to any of you, but it is in the middle of the tundras of...
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Haukeliseter, Norway
Haukelifestivalen, Foto: Kjell Bitustøyl Earlybird Stringband is Norwegian 6 piece band playing original acoustic singer/songwriter music from a bluegrass point of view. They’ve been gained critical acclaim by audiences, musicians and critics for their style of music, and was recently nominated for a Norwegian grammy award for their debut album. Among us, in our band, there’s...
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Ballparken, Oslo, Norway
Dråpe is a Oslo based band that plays aggressive and calming noisy pop. See them at by:larm in Oslo on thursday 17th of February on Mono and on saturday 19th at Dattera Til Hagen Favorite spot where members of Dråpe loves to chill must be “Ballparken” at Grünerløkka in Oslo. Ballparken is wonderful because there is so much you can do there when shiny summer days appear. The area is...
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Paté Paté, Copenhagen, Denmark
Øyvind Blomstrøm plays guitar in El Cuero who will release their third album this year. Their last performance at by:larm got them a front page in the by:larm newspaper, and a raving review from Uncut writer Eden Park. This year they will strike again! See them at by:Larm, 19th of February 11:30pm at Rockefeller! Paté Paté is a fantastic restaurant in Copenhagen, Denmark. Placed in Kødboderne in...
January 2011
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Cap De Creus, Cadaqués, Spain
Kristian Riis plays in Denmark’s biggest band Nephew. Big as in headlining Roskilde Festival 2010, sold half a million records, made the theme song for Denmark’s wold championship in soccer 2010. BIG! When I need to relax the place is Cap De Creus what is located just outside the white town Cadaques north of Barcelona in Spain. Cap De Creus is located in a reserved area and from there...
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Cafè Mir, Oslo, Norway
Dunderhonning is a indie rock band from northern Norway. Their first full-length album “Sakte ut av focus” has gotten good reviews from Norwegian newspapers. In 2009 they played at the Norwegian music conference/festival by:Larm who said that they could be “the new great hype from the north”.
Ah, Café Mir. We don’t need any over-the-top politeness and expensive...
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Babylon Kino, Berlin, Germany
Sandra Kolstad is something quite special on the norwegian popscene, where her experimental pop provides her an exceptional position. Her roots are in the world of classical music, but her branches have grown in exciting directions, and Kolstad keeps impressing new and growing audiences with her experimental songwriting, that adds new flavour to the concept of pop. I might just as well admit it...
December 2010
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Tribal Cafe, LA, USA
Sonny Kay is a Los Angeles resident. He used to play in several legendary Hardcore bands in the 90s and ran the excellent GSL label. He now concentrates on being an artist and designer and being am art director for the Rodriguez Lopez Productions and Sargent House labels. You can read more about Sonny here In my opinion, one of the best kept food secrets in Los Angeles is Tribal Café in Echo Park...
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Blindern, Oslo, Norway
Ola Innset plays in Mylittlepony who will release their new record Making Marks the 17th of January. Mylittlepony will also how up on SXSW in 2011! Ola’s side project Oláfachada will release a single the 20th of December on Eardrums Pop. The Blindern university campus in Oslo is one of my favorite places. I’ve loved it ever since I started studying here back in 2004. I’m still...
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"Stilla", Oslo, Norway
Norma Sass is a Norwegian pop quintet who has been praised by music press and fans both in Norway and abroad during their career of just under 3 years. During 2009, they won the Norwegian broadcast competition of “Best new live-band”. Their debut album will be released early 2011. When you are in “Vaterlandsparken” in Oslo, close to the central station, it is hard to imagine that the...
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Kerbey Lane Cafes, Austin, Texas, USA
P-C (aka David Per- Christian) Rae runs The British Music Embassy at SXSW in Austin TX, manage Diskjokke, Jonquil & Chad Valley and takes care of international bookings for the Slottsfjellfestival. P-C has a fondness for Austin and has already written 4 posts about different places of this city. Here comes the 4th post: Lastly, a reminder America is all about breakfast. A decent cooked...
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Katarinavägen, Stockholm, Sweden
Emil Larsson is a Stockholm-based agent for Live Nation Sweden.
Almost every day I travel by bus, foot or bike through Katarinavägen, one of the most beautiful places to be in Stockholm. This spot/road have so many different faces.I love taking the bus early on my way to work around 7-8am and see the bright sunrise, or the total contrast to see the old city, Gröna Lund amusement park,...
November 2010
7 posts
MS Finnmarken, Norway
Ketil Mosnes is best known as one of the red-dressed wonders of Datarock. After much touring, Ketil degraded himself from a full time member to a part time member and chose to focus on his solo project Baertur.
Hurtigruten (The Coastal Express) is 11 passenger ships that sail along the coast of Norway. Most young people have an idea or impression that this is a rather dull concept; tacky ships...
The Bookworm, Beijing, China
Kari Nøst Hegseth lives in Oslo and makes a living of being a China expert. She also plays in the band “The Little Hands Of Asphalt” and work at festivals like Slottsfjell and Øya.
When staying in China, life tends to get a bit… overwhelming. Close to all travelers who go to China will come through Beijing, and more often than not it is the first confrontation with China, which...
October 2010
4 posts
Raleigh Hotel, Miami, USA
Hampus Kivimäe is a Swedish artist and producer manager through his company Wife Stockholm
I spent a few nights there with my wife last February when we where travelling in Florida. The trip itself was great with a lot of good restaurant such as Blue Heaven in Key West (yes it is as good as everyone tells you) and since I’m a sucker for dinners of course Jerry’s Famous Deli in South Beach...
Lakeview Restaurant, Toronto, Canada
Tim Dunham an Oslo-based canadian and is A&R at Best Of Both Records and works together with UFA on Splendor.
My favourite diner is the Lakeview in Toronto. About two years ago I was having some visa trouble so my girlfriend and I moved to Toronto for a while so I could sort it out. The Lakeview at Dundas and Ossington was my sanctuary and it is always open. It has a classic, relaxed diner...
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