Nordic Spotlight
The best music and music festivals in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands
Psych rockers Iffy Orbit have released a video for their single Slow Times, and it’s a fascinating blend of the angst and heart flutters found at the middle school proms of Norway and the U.S.A. “Slow Times is a song that is as old as our band itself,” said the band. “The Norwegian prom is way less flashier than […]
Last seen on the Norwegian music variety television show Beat for Beat, and before that on Norwegian Idol (check out her impressive Idol audition video), teen singer Ingeborg Fosse has powerhouse lungs, a beautiful presence, and undeniable European allure. Her star is just starting to rise, so there’s barely any information out there about her, but […]
Music supervision company Groove Guild debuts their new web-based documentary music series “Unsupervised” with the dynamic Norwegian singer/songwriter Aurora answering candid questions and singing her songs Warrior, I Went Too Far, and Conqueror in an intimate setting. In the documentary, the three songs are layered with Groove Guild CEO and founder Al Risi’s questions about Aurora’s […]
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 […]
Gunhild Ramsay Kristoffersen and Megan Kovas are a Norwegian-Canadian pop/electronica duo founded in 2010 called Bow To Each Other who have made huge waves making music together. Their 2014 debut album “The Urge Drums” was produced by Norwegian superstar Susanne Sundfør, and the single Darkness from it was listed for a long time on the Norwegian music […]
Oslo indie punkers Dark Times are back with the release of the single Dirt, which went live today on all major digital platforms. First heard in 2014 when their debut album “Give” earned them a nomination for a Spellemannprisen (the Norwegian equivalent of a Grammy), the abrasive punkers surprised no one when they became the […]
Tropical-pop band Satellite Stories is back with another delicious, danceable song! Confetti, a track from the Finn’s fourth album “Young Detectives” which is set to be released March 24th, is 1 part magic, 1 part hands-in-the-air-like-you-just-don’t-care, and 1 part musical party hat. In other words, it’s an instant fete playlist favorite. Push play on the video below […]
Music video directors Onni Nieminen and Ina Mikkola have made a music video for Finland’s The Hearing, of her track Faint from the album “Adrian”, which was released into the wild last year. The minimalistic story is set in wintery Finland and ends with a cliffhanger in a sauna. Onni and Ina had this to […]
Norwegian indie darlings Highasakite have a new EP, and it’s a delicious, stripped down sparkler. The band, consisting of Ingrid Helene Håvik, Trond Bersu, Øystein Skar, Marte Eberson and Kristoffer Lo, perform four of their wonder-hits as intimate acoustic in the apt-titled Acoustic Version EP, which somehow makes each song new again. Layered, raw, and both […]
Perpetually on tour Swedish singer/songwriter Sofia Talvik has released her annual Christmas song (this is number 11!) When It Rains On Christmas Day and our favorite line is “You told me once you hate the rain / It’s verse and verse and no refrain” because that’s exactly what rain in wintertime is like where we’re from (Portland, […]