Nordic Spotlight
The best music and music festivals in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands
Danish singer and multi-instrumentalist KIM, the moniker of Kim Vagn Wagner and former half of the pop-duo project ColorKaleido, is back with the release his 80s-inspired synthpop debut album “Under Pressure” today, which he personally wrote, recorded, and mixed. We first heard from KIM via the first single from the album, When the River Runs Dry, which was […]
Come in from the cold and set yourself down by this fire / We all need time to help us mend our hearts Karmacloud, a Swedish-Danish-Irish alt-folk trio, have released the sweetly haunting single Elysia via all streaming and digital platforms. The song follows The Longing as the 2nd single to be released this year that the band […]
Blondage (nee Ranglekolds) has taken a hit from the pop bong with today’s release of their all-in love-hazed single Stoned. Disjointed, strange and intoxicating, like full-body shocks of unexpected desire, the song is a breathless and playful departure from the serious tone of their self-titled debut EP from last fall. Stoned is said to be the first […]
On the eve of their 10-day tour in Canada, which starts tomorrow at Canadian Music Week in Toronto, Danish band The Foreign Resort officially released their latest single She Is Lost today. The song encapsulates the shades-of-grey, rearview mirror shimmer we love about their timeless sound, which is both modern and retrospective. In a recent Post-Punk Magazine […]
Newcomer Caspar Bock isn’t really new. The Danish singer used to be half of the Copenhagen-based duo Champagne Riot, but after that project dissolved he started Night Sports and released an EP with a Berlin label. After breaking with the label, he got an offer to produce for another artist, so he moved from Denmark […]
Skylar Fri has released a single! Better, a chill, dreamy track from forthcoming debut EP “Lyng Land” out May 19th, is the first new music we’ve heard from the Danish singer since her 2015 hundreds-of-thousand-times-streamed promo track Man Is Strange. “Better is about how a map full of detours and disruptions sometimes leads us to a place […]
Fancy the Danish band The Foreign Resort? Got a talent for crafting videos? Check this out! TL;DW? The video above, in a nutshell: She is Lost, the new single from The Foreign Resort out April 19, needs an official music video. The band would like you to make them one, and their only requirement is that […]
It’s been more than a year since Danish funk-pop band Scarlet Pleasure released their debut album “Youth Is Wasted On The Young” and they’ve finally released their Deja-Vu new single for us to groove to. Enticing and slick, the single starts as an understated ride on a velvet train riding on singer Emil Goll’s vibrato with a lush, bass-layered […]
Agnes Obel (DK) It was one-in-one-out at the St. David’s Sanctuary chapel for the Agnes Obel show. The venue’s acoustics are perfect for her spiritual folk music, although seeing her and her band washed in constant red lights felt sacrilegious (at best). Solution: Eyes closed with imagination playing color-corrected visuals. Agnes Obel at St. David's Sanctuary […]
We’ve seen so much great Nordic music here at SXSW, and each day it gets better. Here’s who we saw on our third day at the Austin, TX festival. Bearson (NO) At Half Step bar on Rainey Street the sun was turned up to 13 for Bearson’s DJ set. He kicked it off with his latest […]