Christmas traditions vary around the world. For example, in Sweden the whole country basically shuts down to watch a 1958 Donald Duck holiday special...
Malmö, Sweden's This is Head just released their self titled third album via Adrian Recordings. The band's sound that pulls from a lot of different places -- sometimes dark postpunk, sometimes anthemic rock, some solid grooves in there too -- but it's all melted together into something that is uniquely their own (and very Swedish)...
Swedish singer-songwriter Markus Svensson has been making music as The Tarantula Waltz for five years or so with an earnest, folky sound that's more Minneapolis than Malmö...
Sweden is paying tribute to some of their current crop of musicians via a new series of "musikundret" (music miracle) postage stamps. Among the faces soon to be affixed to credit card bills and greeting cards are Robyn, First Aid Kit, and Backstreet Boys/Britney Spears/N'Sync producer Max Martin...
You may remember almost exactly a year ago a bunch of Swedish bands played Baby's All Right for an event called Sweden Makes Music. The Consulate General of Sweden in New York are doing it again at Baby's All Right on November 11 featuring more Scandinavian dance/pop artists, including Merely, Baba Stiltz, and Beatrice Eli (all making their NYC debut), as well as Mr...
Deke Richards, a producer and songwriter who was part of the team responsible for Motown hits like "I Want You Back" and "Maybe Tomorrow," died Sunday at age 68, according to a press release from Universal Music...
DOWNLOAD: Amason - Margins (MP3)
What do you do when you're friends and your various bands are in states of downtime? Form a supergroup, or supergruppen in the case of Swedish band Amason which features the talents of Pontus Winnberg of Miike Snow, Gustaf Ejstes of Dungen, Nils Törnqvist and Petter Winnberg of Little Majorette and Amanda Holling...