Nordic Spotlight
The best music and music festivals in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands
Our podcast Nordic Spotlight Monthly is back! This time around, we are putting the spotlight on some of our favorite tracks from 2015, including tunes from Aurora, Mew, Rangleklods, and The Foreign Resort. And we’ve got a plethora of ways to enjoy it. You can subscribe to our podcast feed through iTunes, stream it via our SoundCloud […]
Yes, friends…the holiday season is upon us. And for as much as we eye the world through a lens of suspicion and occasionally cynicism, we are not immune to the charms of the lights, the tinsel, and, of course, the music of Christmas. That said, if you’re anything like us, you know that finding some […]
The hook of this ebullient new song from Team Me repeats the phrase, “Fall asleep, fall asleep.” I don’t know how Marius Hagen expects us to do that with every fist-pumping singalong and huge uptick in dynamics that makes us want to storm the barricades or, at least, keep jogging that extra mile for a new […]
We hope any of our readers who are at this year’s Pstereo Festival are having as great a time as our Managing Director is. Michelle is slowly exhausting herself on this long Scandinavian jaunt that included a stop at last week’s Øya Festival and this trip to Trondheim for what looks and sounds like an […]
Our coverage of the 2015 Øya Festival continues today with a look at some sights from the event and beyond captured by our Managing Director, Michelle. Nature! Norway! Fjord! #wishyouwerehere #øya2015 A photo posted by Nordic Spotlight (@nordicspotlight) on Aug 13, 2015 at 4:17am PDT Danish DJ Courtesy awash in EDM lights. Crowd is dancing […]
Truly awful early 80s videographers “Fred and Sharon” produced this video for Team Me and it is awfulsome! Can’t wait to see the band live at Øya Festival next month: http://oyafestivalen.com/artist/ WATCH THIS VIDEO, PEOPLE.
It’s not over yet. Nordic Spotlight’s Pete Schwinge and Michelle Rae Anderson continue to track down all the Nordic bands playing at South by Southwest 2012. The fourth day of performances from Nordic bands at SXSW Music 2012 as reviewed by Pete Schwinge (PS) and Michelle Rae Anderson (MRA): CLICK HERE FOR SXSW 2012 PART 1 […]
Team Me shares their background and their expectations of SXSW 2012. Short bio: Team Me is a young six-piece indie pop band from Elverum, a small city outside of Oslo, the capital of Norway. Formed in January 2010, the band has since commandeered attention from all over the world for their warm, rich, orchestrated melodies. Is this […]