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...

I haven’t listened to Carter – the Unstoppable Sex Machine (as Les ‘Fruitbat’ Carter fancied himself) for a long time, but coming across...

To conclude our series, we’re delighted to welcome Dan Cromb to NMR, with his pick of Nordic artists to look out for in the next 12...

Who are the artists and bands to watch out for in 2021? By necessity I’m limiting my personal selection here principally to those that...

Our official ‘Album of the Year‘ list will be published tomorrow, chosen by Andy, but in the meantime David reminds us of the albums he’s...

Of course it’s a little self indulgent to do a Non Nordic Album of the Year list, but Sunday is traditionally the day when we abandon our...

The 2nd instalment of our Singles of the Year (here's the 1st from David) takes us to all the Nordic nations and has a healthy mix of...

Ok, this is a bit of filler; there aren’t many new releases around at Christmas and New Year. But I hope it’s an entertaining one. I...

I’ve been privileged to review many singles and album tracks from Nordic artists this year. All of them have been good, some very good...

Back in July we reviewed some songs generated by The Outlaw Ocean Music Project, an initiative of journalist Ian Urbina, and which arose...

Back in 2017 I reviewed an up and coming young Norwegian singer-songwriter by the name of Ariadne Loinsworth Jenssen, or ARY as she is...

Music videos don’t have to be high production affairs, and I love seeing the innovation of indie bands and artists – although most in...

It's been a pretty historic few hours, who thought that such a comeback was possible? But does it mean that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will...

Here’s something a bit different, and something I’ve been waiting for, for a while now. Three years ago I attended a small boutique...

The latest band in this occasional series is Katzenjammer, arguably the greatest girl band of all time, along with The Go-Gos. Plenty...

With the first festival since lockdown coming to an end yesterday (Saturday), and the last one for the foreseeable future as things...

The importance of festivals, especially foreign ones, is that they introduce you to artists you would never otherwise come across. I...

Hamburg’s iconic annual Reeperbahn Festival’s organisers said right from the start of the pandemic that they would go ahead with this...

Early in March the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas was cancelled just before the pandemic was called by the WHO. Coachella followed though...