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New Band - Introducing 'Great News', and a UK gig....

Signe Kerge

Apr 7, 2016
1 min

New Band - Introducing 'Great News', and a UK gig....

Following on from our recent features on new bands that have yet to release a debut album, we're pleased to introduce you to Great News from Bergen, Norway. Their debut album may not be due until Autumn 2016, but the tracks they've shared so far show that they're definitely worth a shot. Composed of Even Kjelby (guitar, vocals), Ole Einarsen (bass) and Lars Platou (drums), they start strongly with the single ’The Blind’, giving out a definite indie feel, adding a lot to your

Panda Panda - debut singles 'New Friends' and 'Halcyon Years'!

Andy Wors

Apr 3, 2016
2 min

Panda Panda - debut singles 'New Friends' and 'Halcyon Years'!

There are lots of good reasons to write about new Norwegian band Panda Panda. Firstly we received great reports on just how good they were at the Trondheim Calling festival a while back, we also coincidentally featured their guitarist Herman Wildhagen as a solo singer songwriter, and then their debut singles ‘New Friends’ and 'Halcyon Years' are just so good that we feel you should all get a chance to listen for yourselves – oh and they have a great name too… The Trondheim b

Andy Wors

Apr 1, 2016
1 min

'Holy Now' - debut single 'Wake Up'

After featuring Panda Panda yesterday, we’re delighted to add just a few words about another new Nordic band with a strong debut single, this time from Sweden. ‘Holy Now’ are based in Gothenburg, and their debut single ‘Wake Up’ has been released today, 1st April, through Lazy Octopus Records. I really like this track, the vocals are really individual, and its backed up by a great guitar sound, there’s nothing over complicated about the set up, but the sound is distinct and i

New Band - 'As he said' with new single 'Parasite'

Andy Wors

Dec 15, 2015
2 min

New Band - 'As he said' with new single 'Parasite'

Often through covering an artist or band from a particular country or genre, we stumble upon someone else (or they stumble upon us...) from a similar area, and that’s the case with our next new band ‘As he said’ who are now based in Trondheim, Norway, and have some similarities with fellow Norwegian band ‘Antler’ whom we featured a couple of weeks back. They don’t have too much material to check out, but their new single ‘Parasite’ is a really good place to start, as the band

New Band - Mama Sonic + debut single 'Grapefruit'

Andy Wors

Dec 14, 2015
1 min

New Band - Mama Sonic + debut single 'Grapefruit'

We like to keep an eye on artists whom we featured in our ’50 New Bands and Artists’ feature, so we were delighted to hear from Jacob Hallerström. We featured an EP he wrote about 12 months ago including one song in particular called Mary By The Coast, which you can still track down on Soundcloud – I’ve just listened to it again today, and its good. Anyway he’s moved on from his solo work for a while, and joined together with some fellow Stockholm musicians to form a new band

Andy Wors

Sep 15, 2015
1 min

New Band - 'I See Rivers'

We’ve been meaning to point everyone in the direction of Norwegian band ‘I See Rivers’ for a while, for a few reasons. Firstly they write and perform the most beautifully written, hand crafted music, but also they have the added bonus of being UK based, at least for the moment, being part of the Norwegian contingent just up the road from us in Liverpool – although we know that some of those guys have recently headed back to Norway. Their music is delicate Folk Pop based aroun

Andy Wors

Aug 28, 2015
1 min

New Band - 'Sonic Visions'

We havent featured many new alternative Finnish bands recently at Nordic Music Review, so we're delighted to have stumbled across 'Sonic Visions', a new wave Indie band which have a really promising sound to them. Their new debut single is called 'Find A Way', it was released at the beginning of the month but we've waited for the video to come out, and its almost 6 minutes in all its glory. Its a big confident debut, a great guitar sound, and theyre clearly influenced by som

Andy Wors

Jul 2, 2015
1 min

Novotonik - 'Come What May' EP

After featuring the brilliant debut from ‘The Stillwalkers’, we thought we’d stay in Finland to give a quick mention to a brand new band who have just released their debut EP. ‘Novotonik’ are from Tampere, Finland, and were formed in spring 2012, but have only actively been playing gigs in the last 6 months or so. Their debut EP "Come What May" was released on June 15th, and its pretty good too. It has 4 bright, original sounding tracks, opening with ‘ETA Yesterday’, a sound

Andy Wors

May 28, 2015
2 min

New Artist Feature - Patrik Wennberg

We often get Press Releases through at Nordic Music Review about new and established artists telling us why we should like them, how amazing other music websites think they are already and whom they sound like. The publicity machine approach often seems so impersonal, and it was great to come across Swedish songwriter Patrik Wennberg this week, who writes really passionately but also quite simply on his website about why he loves writing music, and why he’s doing so at this p

Andy Wors

May 28, 2015
2 min

New Band Feature - 'Holy Roman'

We look for new bands and artists to feature for Nordic Music Review in all kinds of places – there are some great blogs out there that we respectfully look up to, for example, such as Meadow Music (Sweden) and of course One Chord to Another (Finland), as well as Social Media, Soundcloud and Bandcamp. However one great way we’ve come across new artists is to simply look at Festival line-ups, and gig listings. So when we spotted that a Finnish band named ‘Holy Roman’ were pla

Andy Wors

May 28, 2015
2 min

New Band Feature - 'Sakia'

Its actually taken us Nordic Music Review people a few more weeks than we wanted to tell you about Finnish band Sakia, and we’re sorry about that. Holidays, life, and a treble album release by 23:23 have taken up way too much of our time recently. But actually I’m sure Sakia haven’t minded waiting, because they’re a band who have spent almost 10 years playing together and patiently preparing themselves for the moment they can release their material to the world. Of course, s

Andy Wors

May 18, 2015
1 min

Circumnavigate - new single and video

As our regular Nordic Music Review readers will know, we love music that brings together different influences and genres of music, and then throws out something which is original and fresh sounding. We’re delighted therefore to write a few words about Circumnavigate, originally a Norwegian trio but now based in London with a couple of British musicians added. I’d probably describe them as a Folk Pop band at heart, but with a jazz influence. They also utilise classical string

Andy Wors

Mar 30, 2015
1 min

5 To Watch from Norway - No 5 'Broen'

Regular readers will know that we love bands at Nordic Music Review that take influences from different styles and genres of music, and our 5th band in ‘5 To Watch from Norway’ are a great example of a band who brilliantly combine a whole variety of musical styles to create something unique. So we’re delighted to introduce Broen to UK music lovers, as I think they will be received really well over here. Combining Norwegian and Greek band members, Broen create an inspired blen

Andy Wors

Mar 30, 2015
1 min

5 To Watch from Norway - No 4 'HIDE'

We’ve been meaning to write about ‘Hide’ for a few weeks. From the North of Norway in Narvik they list their influences as bands such as Sigur Ros and Mogwai, both bands that we obviously all love here at Nordic Music Review. and it was their recent song ‘Northern Skyline’ that captured our attention in particular. It’s a pre-album single from their album ‘Light up the Sky’ which is due in the summer, and which I’m already really looking forward to. Their music is distinctly

5 to Watch from Norway - No 2 'New Canvas'

Andy Wors

Mar 30, 2015
2 min

5 to Watch from Norway - No 2 'New Canvas'

Being over on this side of Europe at Nordic Music Review does mean that we miss out on really understanding what’s going on in the vibrant local live music scene in the cities and towns of Norway and other places. So we spend an enjoyable hour every now and then, looking at gig listings, seeing who’s playing, and trying to pick out some interesting new music. So when we spotted the ‘Emergenza Festival 2015 Semi Finale’ was going on at John Dee in Oslo in April, we thought we’

Andy Wors

Mar 29, 2015
1 min

5 to Watch from Norway - No 1 'The Dandelion Deadbeats'

I frequently find notes that I’ve written to myself with details of a good new band I’ve come across. And The Dandelion Deadbeats keep on appearing on these notes, so I thought it appropriate to list them as the 1st of our ‘5 to Watch from Norway’. Not only were they kind enough to follow us on Twitter some time back, but we spotted them when they won the ‘Bandwagon Norge’ competition, the final of which also saw one of our other favourite new bands ‘Kalandra’. Then when we

5 to Watch from Sweden - No3 'Seaside Heights'

Andy Wors

Mar 23, 2015
1 min

5 to Watch from Sweden - No3 'Seaside Heights'

Our 3rd 'Nordic Music Review 5 to watch from Sweden' are ‘Seaside Heights’, they’re from Gothenburg, and they’ve been together as a band for a couple of years, but only recently released a single called ‘Turnover’ which has reached Spotify and other channels, and is now getting some attention. I’d describe them as ‘Anthemic Pop’, the song ‘Turnover’ opens with a fairly simple vocal melody backed up by synths, but slowly builds until a huge instrumental anthem launches about 2

Andy Wors

Mar 23, 2015
1 min

5 to Watch from Sweden - No2 'Magic Potion'

The 2nd band in the Nordic Music Reviews '5 to Watch from Sweden' are 'Magic Potion', and theyre also getting some attention right now from a lot of music websites and blogs, and its understandable why. They describe themselves as playing ‘Full Throttle Brain Juice Pop Music’, and their sound is really laid back, slightly retro, quirky and almost instantly likeable I love their new song 'Deep Web', and its got a pretty fantastic video to go with it too: Anyway their gigs so

Andy Wors

Mar 15, 2015
1 min

New Band - 'Ceremonials'

Over the next week at Nordic Music Review we’re going to be featuring some new artists and bands from slightly different genres of music, looking at bands regularly playing the smaller venues in different Nordic countries, and trying to understand the variety of music out there right now. Ceremonials are from Helsinki, they were formed in 2013 and have an alternative post punk sound. They’ve been playing gigs in Helsinki for the last 2 years, and are currently working on the

Andy Wors

Mar 14, 2015
1 min

New Band - 'Astronaut'

We’ve featured a couple of new artists from Aarhus, Denmark in Nordic Music Review, and we can add Astronaut to the list of bands with a great sound from that town. They played their debut gig less than 2 years ago in April 2013, and since then have played a steady stream of gigs mainly in Aarhus as their following has grown. Some media recognition followed in early 2014, but it wasn’t until the end of the year that they were able to release their debut EP ‘Cloud of Ink’. Its