You know those moments in ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ when po-faced anchor Simon Cowell suddenly glances up appreciatively at the singing dog...

There is in football the concept of the ‘utility’ player, the sort who can fill in as a forward or midfielder, playing on either wing or...

It’s quite some time now since I last looked at what Copenhagen-based indie/electronic music composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist...

Imagine if the Beatles were stuck quarantined in Scunthorpe for a week due to the outbreak of a mysterious virus and had nothing better...

I saw this band finish off the first evening of a festival in Sweden a few years ago and they almost finished off the venue as well. I’ll...

Kate Havnevik is a Norwegian experimental artist who releases her new single ‘Into Dark’ on June 18th, prior to its inclusion on a...

If truth be told, Flight Mode is one of the duller names I’ve come across for an indie project in the last few years, and slightly...

Just a short one tonight, but it’s a genuinely interesting project courtesy of Icelandic musician Guðfinnur Sveinsson, more commonly...

I said the other day that there were some ominous song titles around and you don’t get much more portentous than ‘The End’, which is the...

When I listened to Soffía Björg’s eponymous debut album a few years ago I felt straight away that as good as it was there would be no...

I guarantee you’ll like this or I’ll refund half your monthly NMR subscription fee. Yehra have released just 2 singles, but they’ve...

I must admit I was drawn to the The Lund Commission at first by the name, as it sounds like the type of interesting Indie project I might...

We featured Norwegian band Onsloow with their quite ‘easy listening’ form of indie rock, but Glue Kiss from Denmark add some raw emotion...

We’ve featured so many artists from Trondheim, so no surprise to see a new Indie band emerge from the same city. Onsloow are a 4 piece...

There are a number of ominously titled singles around at the moment. There’s one called ‘Judgement Day’ coming up soon but more about...

Many of you outside Iceland will already be aware of the ancient hymn 'Heyr himna smiður', not I suspect because you’re experts on 12th...

We haven’t featured Finnish musician Ville Laaksonen before, either as a songwriter or under his pseudonym Emilie Chardon, through which...

Sometimes when bands emerge on the scene and say that they’ll be playing the main stage at Reading / Leeds next then it sounds somewhat...

The adjective ‘derivative’ is thrown around perhaps too casually among music writers. Often it is used in a negative sense, such as...

Jazz seems to dominate the music scene in Norway. Even if it isn’t a jazz track you’re listening to there will be at least a snatch of...