Our favourite music newspaper is bringing its gospel to Oslo. Launching their Oslo distribution during by:Larm, The Stool Pigeon presents a fine night featuring Altaar; Chrome Hill, with Jørgen Munkeby from Shining amongst others; psychedelic Danes in Oh No Ono; Manhattan Skyline and Ungdomskulen’s shiny sequined songs.
The paper, awarded Best Free Music Magazine in 2009, [...]

Bergen clubbers are in for a considerable treat if this year’s The Fix turns out to be anything near as good as it looks on paper. The event, ‘presented’ by Ekko and Bergenfest, two of the city’s flagship live music offerings, revealed a host of great Norwegian and foreign acts who will take to the stage [...]

For their only festival gig in their home country this year, Motorpsycho have decided to make it special. Following the trend of playing albums back to back, they are letting their fans decide which album will see one exclusive live performance this summer. Where? Where else, The Øya Festival.
The band members have picked fifteen albums [...]

Following the recent demise of Norway’s most successful band a-ha, fans were placated by the surprise announcement that the odd but intriguing assembly of the band’s guitarist and songwriter Magne Furuholmen, Mew’s Jonas Bjerre and Coldplay’s Guy Berryman had decided to release a full album following their previous one-off recording of the theme for the [...]

Every year Norway’s huge state energy company Statoil donates a sum of money to one of the country’s emerging musical talents to help their progress, with a focus on artists deemed on the cusp of an international breakthrough. Last year jazz solo-artist Mathias Eick walked away with the dough, using it to fund a substantial world [...]

With members of Shining, Supersilent and, um, BigBang amongst their ranks Elephant9 are as worthy as any of the jazz ’supergroup’ title, and having garnered widespread acclaim for their 2008 debut Dodovoodoo they now have a follow-up set to drop. With the love of punning evident in that debut’s moniker intact, this second record is [...]

Lillehammer’s Norwegian Literature Festival, the biggest event of its kind in Scandinavia, has confirmed a ’double’ concert with the country’s own Susanna & The Magical Orchestra and US acoustic favourite Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (with ‘the Cairo Gang’) on Saturday 29th May. Not very literary, admittedly, but they get round that by calling them ‘poets’ in the write-up. [...]