Robert Ham comes to Nordic Spotlight after a decade of freelance arts and culture writing for various online and print publications including Rolling Stone, Paste, The Oregonian, Village Voice, Wondering Sound, and FACT Magazine. He is also the author of Empire: The Unauthorized Untold Story, published by Regan Arts. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and son, and is looking forward to using his encyclopedic knowledge of The Sugarcubes, Mayhem, and Dungen for good and not for evil.