We’ve featured Kalandra frequently on this site over the last 10 years, and their incredible debut album ‘ The Line ’ was pretty much...

Sadly Swedish indie four piece Girl Scout don’t have any new releases to feature (we’re promised some very soon), but for those of us in...

Just a refresh to our indie playlist this week, I think tracks 1-15 and 34-37 are the new additions for this week, but all of them are...

We've featured Norwegian outfit Dobbeltgjenger a few times on these pages, so it gives us particular pleasure to highlight a gig tomorrow...

One of our favourite Icelandic musicians Svavar Knútur has just released an album with the fantastic Lucy Ward and Canadian songwriter...

It's great to be able to kickstart things with details of some actual live Nordic influenced music taking place in the UK, and it comes...

Given that 2 of my favourite things in the world are Nordic Indie music and Christmas, it seems appropriate to put those 2 things...

I've not written about Inger Nordvik previously, but she even sounds like the type of artist we should feature on these pages, and her...

I haven't featured a Single of the Week for a while, and delighted to correct that with another new name to these pages, Icelandic...

New releases slow to a trickle at this time of the year so this is as good a time as any to do a Featured Artist post and I’ve had it in...

We’ve expended many words on Eurovision this last week or so and I reckoned I’d have my six penn’orth. First off, my winner this year was...

The guide that quite literally no-one asked for. Maybe the long effects of lockdown are starting to get to me and I just need to get out...

As more events get cancelled, David Bentley offers his personal opinion on the plight of music festivals. Punxsutawney Phil must have...

I’ve sat on this article for several months while I weighed up the events of January when Nightwish’s bassist and vocalist Marko Hietala...

I thought I’d do something a little different this week. As we must have mentioned numerous times the last year has been as difficult for...

I haven’t done one of these for a while. What prompted me was listening to Bonander’s ‘Gone in the wind’ the other day; she has some...

We don’t often do TV theme tunes but this one is very atmospheric and got me straight away, and there’s an interesting story behind it to...

As a publication which champions ‘indie’ artists and bands we were intrigued to learn of the increased presence and influence of...

It’s been a pretty impressive start to the year for new release, particularly for albums, with Danish songwriter Gurli Octavia knocking...

I bang on perhaps a little too often about Fiona Apple but for my money she is at least one of the greatest musical talents of the last...