Jazkamer @ Blå
3rd March 2010 Oslo, Norway
Behold; Jazkamer — formerly known with an extra Z and M, also known to shed members and albums. Their trio format, consisting of founders John Hegre and Lasse Marhaug, with drummer Nils Are Drønen, visited Blå on Wednesday to celebrate one of their twelve new albums, The Monroe Doctrine.
Their [...]

by:Larm is over. We’re glad it is. It’s a hassle to try to cram every Scandinavian band you’ve ever heard mention of into one weekend. Extended or not. We’ve finally got time now to sit back and actually take in some music, and albums from bands we saw that week are starting to pour into [...]

Serenity Trace, Death by Unga Bunga, Masselys, CCTV, Susanna and the Magical Orchestra, Monzano, Fjorden Baby @ by:Larm
20th February 2010 Oslo, Norway
It’s taken all the remaining energy just to leave the house today. The three previous days of back to back bands has taken its toll, but there’s still a full day of scheduling ahead. [...]

Denga Denga, Phone Joan, Social Suicide, The Pink Robots, Æ, Nils Bech, Lars Vaular, Serena Maneesh @ by:Larm
19th February 2010 Oslo, Norway.
Ok, so its Day 3 at by:Larm and with a faint memory of dancing to Paul Simon in the early hours of the morning at Spoon Train Audio’s party, it’s time to get going [...]

Izakaya Heartbeat, Altaar, Chrome Hill, Pow Pow, Ungdomskulen, Jaga Jazzist @ by:Larm
18th February 2008 Oslo, Norway.
Following on from yesterdays gentle introduction to by:Larm, today things move up a gear. The constant snow fall has done nothing to deter peoples appetite for new and exciting music and the festival has been in full swing since 4pm.
After [...]

The Megaphonic Thrift, The New Wine, Casiokids, Einar Stokka & The Happy Campers, Datarock, Hiawata!, Hypertext @ by:Larm kickoff
17th February 2008 Oslo, Norway.
It’s cold and dark out, there’s a large number of people walking the streets clutching “intriguingly designed” courier bags, and I can hear the faint murmur of a punishing noise assault in the [...]

Rumble In Rhodos @  Blå
Oslo, Norway 4th February 2010
Follo five-piece Rumble in Rhodos played support for avant-gardish and clearly Battles-inspired DD/MM/YYYY (CAN) at Blå in Oslo. RiR played an awesome show in front of a decent crowd, including a new, funky song, hopefully coming on their next album. This was stand-in guitarist/bassist Øyvind Gundersens (Jens [...]

dødpop, Obliteration and Okkultokrati @ Garage - Tiger’s Juleblot
Oslo, Norway - 30th December 2009
For most of Oslo, Christmas means traveling up or down (or both) our extensive coastline to visit relatives. They seem to do fine the rest of the year, but still, there we are on their doorstep clearing our consciences. So finding a [...]

If you live in Oslo and are even remotely interested in alternative music you’ll most likely have stopped by Revolver on more than one occasion this year. Whether it was squeezing into the basement filled far beyond capacity watching Ungdomskulen during by:Larm, The Lionheart Brothers at Klubb Øya or Next Life’s ten year anniversary — [...]

…doesn’t stay in Afghanistan. Not when Ann Sung-an Lee is around to document it and without thinking twice shares the most intimate details on anything from excrements to wanting to quit the band she’s touring with, via the lopsided bodyshapes of American soldiers. This tour diary of The Cables’ journey through Afghan military bases is [...]