Girl Scout 🇸🇪 - UK Tour next week!
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...
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NMR Indie Playlist
Andy
- Jan 28
- 2 min
Nordic Music Review Indie Playlist (28/01/2024)
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...
Andy
- Dec 6, 2023
- 1 min
Dobbeltgjenger - Live London, Thursday 7th December
We've featured Norwegian outfit Dobbeltgjenger a few times on these pages, so it gives us particular pleasure to highlight a gig tomorrow...
Andy
- Oct 15, 2023
- 5 min
An Interview with Svavar Knútur 🇮🇸 - Ward Knútur Townes UK Tour!
One of our favourite Icelandic musicians Svavar Knútur has just released an album with the fantastic Lucy Ward and Canadian songwriter...
Andy Wors
- May 4, 2023
- 1 min
Ã…lesund - UK Tour (and new single)
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...
Andy
- Dec 15, 2022
- 2 min
Nordic Indie Christmas Playlist - 15/12
Given that 2 of my favourite things in the world are Nordic Indie music and Christmas, it seems appropriate to put those 2 things...
Andy
- Dec 2, 2022
- 1 min
Single of the Week: Inger Nordvik 🇳🇴 - ‘Go Back’
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...
Andy
- Nov 1, 2022
- 1 min
Single of the Week: Kári (Iceland) - ‘Something Better’
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...
David Bentley
- Jul 24, 2021
- 2 min
Featured Artist – Pétur Ben (IS)
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...
David Bentley
- May 26, 2021
- 4 min
Eurovision – best song ever! (And it’s Swedish) Loreen - ‘Euphoria’
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...
Andy Wors
- May 19, 2021
- 5 min
Nordic Music Review’s Guide to Eurovision 2021.
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...
David Bentley
- May 11, 2021
- 5 min
Opinion Feature: Groundhog Year – more music festival cancellations. Where are we going with this?
As more events get cancelled, David Bentley offers his personal opinion on the plight of music festivals. Punxsutawney Phil must have...
David Bentley
- May 3, 2021
- 5 min
Feature article: Reflections on the plight of Nightwish (Finland)
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...
David Bentley
- May 2, 2021
- 2 min
Non-Nordic Sunday: Introducing Hazel Iris (USA)
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...
David Bentley
- Mar 2, 2021
- 2 min
Down Memory Lane – Anna von Hausswolff (Sweden)
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...
David Bentley
- Mar 1, 2021
- 2 min
Irya Gmeyner (Sweden) – Urban City - Thin Blue Line (Theme from the Original TV Series)
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...
David Bentley
- Mar 1, 2021
- 2 min
News feature: Indie record labels dominate Swedish release schedules
As a publication which champions ‘indie’ artists and bands we were intrigued to learn of the increased presence and influence of...
Andy Wors
- Feb 21, 2021
- 1 min
NMR Indie Playlist Update!
It’s been a pretty impressive start to the year for new release, particularly for albums, with Danish songwriter Gurli Octavia knocking...
David Bentley
- Jan 31, 2021
- 3 min
Non-Nordic Sunday: Fiona Apple – The Whole of the Moon (cover/video)
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...
David Bentley
- Jan 24, 2021
- 7 min
Non-Nordic Sunday feature: Carter USM – the UK’s smartest ever lyricists?
I haven’t listened to Carter – the Unstoppable Sex Machine (as Les ‘Fruitbat’ Carter fancied himself) for a long time, but coming across...
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