Norway

Sissy Wish is here - MP3, 2 or 3 NY shows (1 w/ the Grates)

DOWNLOAD: Sissy Wish – Dwts (MP3) Norwegian electro-pop singer Sissy Wish is back in New York this week with two shows at Pianos: tonight (7/20) with Cincinnati’s Slow Claw and locals Ghost Robot Ninja Bear, and on Wednesday (7/22) with The Grates…

ØYA, Winnipeg & Edmonton Folk Fest - 2009 festival lineups

Spoon @ Oya Festival 2007 (more photos) The annual Øya Festival is happening August 11th-15th in Oslo. If you can’t get from NYC to Norway, don’t worry — its lineup includes many bands that will or have recently played in the NYC area…

Katzenjammer @ Mercury Lounge (video) & Bonnaroo (pics)

“They came on like a Norwegian version of the B-52’s, pounding a beat and chirping random phrases in unison, but that didn’t last. Soon they were bouncing to a polka (complete with trumpet), or singing in pure close harmony that suggested Scandinavian traditional music, or delivering a cherry-pie recipe over a ukulele-strumming tune suggesting 1920’s jazz (with close-harmony “diddley-diddley-diddleys), or going near-Goth with a raspy song about “walking in the big black woods,” or sharing an a cappella dirge (with a drumbeat) about a dust storm…

Norway's Katzenjammer playing David Byrne stage @ Bonnaroo, Mercury Lounge in NYC & other dates

DOWNLOAD: Katzenjammer – A Bar in Amsterdam (MP3) SXSW 2009 surprise discovery – KatzenJammer girls (Travellers Diary)David Byrne has invited the women who are Katzenjammer to play at the 2009 Bonnaroo…

I Was a King in NYC - a free in-store & more 2009 tour dates

DOWNLOAD: I Was a King – Norman Bleik (MP3) ( are in town this weekend. They’ll play Saturday, May 30th at Mercury Lounge, with the Rural Alberta Advantage and Elevator Fight, and Sunday, May 31st at Union Hall, with The Wowz…

Jackson Rathbone to play Varg Vikernes in Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground

“Varg” Rathbone and Varg Vikernes… Guess which one is the actor Varg Vikernes is a free man. According to Blabbermouth, the once Mayhem-er (before the whole murder thing) and artist currently known as Burzum recently confirmed to Norway’s Dagbladet that he had indeed been set free and “will have to report for one year — initially every two weeks, and then once a month”…

Dylan Mondegreen plays his first US show (tonight) at Olof Arnalds's first of 4 NYC shows this week

DOWNLOAD: Dylan Mondegreen – Girl in Grass (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Dylan Mondegreen – Wishing Well (MP3) Olof Arnalds kicks off her four-night, four-venue NYC run tonight at Union Hall in Brooklyn (5/4)…

I Was A King (from Norway) - 2009 Tour Dates, video & MP3

DOWNLOAD: I Was a King – Norman Bleik (MP3) Oslo, Norway’s I Was a King are headed to America for a fairly extensive US tour, including two stops in NYC: May 30 at Mercury Lounge (with UK’s great The Wave Pictures) and May 31 at Union Hall…

Casiokids - Cameo pics, Annex tonight, SXSW dates

Norway’s Casiokids are in the middle of their 2009 NYC-to-SXSW run of shows, and I forgot to mention yesterday that they also have one more NYC show left before heading to Austin…

Varg Vikernes is free, Iran, a Norwegian black metal movie

What do Varg Vikernes and the band Iran have to do with each other? Read on…. Varg Vikernes in the slammer no more The single most infamous man in all of metal is set to walk free…
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