A couple weeks ago Øya Festival announced a poll on their site, where their audience got to choose which of 15 classic Motorpsycho albums the group will play at this summer’s festival.
Today the festival announced the winner, 1994’s Timothy’s Monster, an album that has been in the lead for weeks. The album was originally released [...]

From MIC.no:
Winners of the prestigious Spellemann Awards; the Norwegian equivalent to the Grammy, were announced this weekend. Eurovision Song Contest winner Alexander Rybak was bestowed with the prestigious Spellemann of the Year award while veterans Jahn Teigen and Barry Matheson received the Honorary Award and Music Industry Award respectively.
Music video of the Year:
Donkeyboy - “Ambitions”
Hit [...]

MIC reports that Norway’s biggest international success, a-ha, is launching a funding programme to help export young Norwegian artists. This is their way of giving something back to the community that helped them reach the heights they did in the 80s, Magne Furuholmen explained during a press conference yesterday.
Furuholmen lead the by:Larm jury selecting one [...]

UPDATE: Mayhem states in their blog:
“Despite all attempt to save the USA/CANADA tour we are now forced to cancel it due to the financial situation. We are very sorry for all those who expected to see Mayhem live, we hope the situation will be better next time. We will work hard on getting back over [...]

After being awesome at Sentrum Scene during by:Larm this weekend, Serena Maneesh shorten the wait for their new album further. Creative souls worldwide: You are challenged to visualize the S-M sound and put it on a t shirt. Yeah, c’mon!
The band describes the contest on their blog:
FANz, FRIENDS, FOES!!!!!
RIGHT NOW: Visualize YOUR INTERPRETATION of the [...]

I see Horses have come up with a great plan to get a step ahead with the bizzie people heading for by:Larm this week. They are streaming their new EP on their Myspace during the shindig, and the shindig only. Well, until they release it in a few weeks time. So if you want a [...]

Susanna Wallumrød & Ensemble neoN @ Fabrikkem
Oslo, Norway 06 February 2010.
Susanna just started a collaboration with the neoN ensemble, a genre crossing ensemble consisting of students of the Norwegian Music College in Oslo. We where there for the first of a series of concerts.

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 [...]