Time seems so distorted this year, because in many ways everything has stood still, yet it certainly doesn’t seem like 12 months since I...

Two new Finnish indie releases today, and the first comes from a band who have a pretty sizeable reputation stretching over the decades,...

“They’re coming to get you, Barbara” is a line from seminal 1968 George Romero black and white zombie horror movie ‘Night of the Living...

There’s a huge contrast between Elina whom we‘ve just featured, and Danish singer songwriter Dan Rose, even if both have just released...

We haven’t featured Elina previously, maybe because we tend to champion Indie artists who get less attention elsewhere, but there’s no...

We have 3 folk influenced songwriters to feature tonight, but their musical outputs are all very different. Juni Habel is a Norwegian...

I try to look for true indie spirits from all parts of the world that we can feature for our Non Nordic section, and Philippines based...

We have a vast amount of new releases to consider, and I could write 5-10 features a day and still not get through everything that’s...

NMR readers may well be familiar with Anne Lise Frøkedal, Norway’s answer to Joni Mitchell as she is known, and one of that country’s...

A first-time visitor to NMR, CECI NOIR (Cecilia Norberg and Niklas Ellvin) actually are out of Borlänge, a pleasant mid-sized town in...

I wrote about Øyunn yesterday, and in many ways Lina Lambertz has a similar approach to her songwriting, fusing a variety of musical...

We’ve featured a fair few Norwegian artists who’ve spent time in Liverpool, mainly as a result of studying at LIPA, the Liverpool...

I was a little perturbed when I reviewed the previous Ghost of Helags’ single, ‘Parallel’ by a huge booming synthesiser sound, inspired...

We’ve covered an eclectic mix of Nordic artists in the last couple of weeks, but Norwegian songwriter Øyunn somehow manages to...

We’ve featured Norwegian post punk duo Ask Carol on our NMR playlist before, but we’ve never covered them in writing. Thankfully their...

The thought processes behind indie band names will always intrigue me, most groups sound like they’ve had their name conceived after way...

Oxen were one of the first bands I ever reviewed out of Scandinavia and I vaguely remember trying to get them fixed up with a gig in...

Palace Winter have released their latest single ‘The Deeper End’ which features Grandaddy's Jason Lytle on vocals. The duo comprises...

Helax is John Alexander Ericson, once keyboardist with Anglo-Swedish rock band Alberta Cross and now one half of the dream pop duo The...

When Icelandic band Red Barnett released a new single entitled ‘Astronaut’ back in May, I was pretty excited by the return of the Halli...