The young Kristiansand band Honningbarna received a 400,000 NOK “Grant for Ideas” this Friday, for them to use on developing their music and professional carreer. Barely tipping 18 years of age, the six boys were more than thrilled to receive the money and have already decided how to spend it — on album, launch and [...]

We’re in the middle of Hole in the Sky. It blasted off on Tuesday in Bergen, scaring most of the ignorant students resident to Garage’s weekly Wineyard over the street and into pubs where The Smiths was more likely to be on the soundsystem. Their opening night, named “Incoming”, featured up and coming acts Lobotomized, [...]

After last year’s Supersilent 9, the improvisation trio readies their tenth album. On 9 they ventured into a successful journey consisting purely of organs, and the next albums promises some of their most abstract soundscapes accompanying Ståle Storløkken on a grand piano — for the first time in Supersilent history. A vinyl release from Rune [...]

A new dancy hip hop track from Lars Vaular released now, this time produced by Anand Chetty, mixed by Yngve Sæthre. And what is it, a love song ending in a Carlos Santana-solo? More or less. Go to Lars’ website and flick through Grand People’s electronic booklet whilst listening to it, trying to figure out [...]

September 1st this year Datarock will celebrate 10 years of existence with a new diamond shaped memory stick with their entire discography, 19 unreleased tracks, a film and tons of photos on:

It’s that time of year again, when every venue in Oslo goes bananas over one event. You’d think it was by:Larm, but it’s warmer and you get to hang out in a park with Pavement… Aaaaah, Øya. Dee-licious. Here’s a Spotify list for you to listen to while shining your festival glasses and ducttaping that [...]

The 12″ split single from Serena-Maneesh and Fucked Up is already slipping through your fingers… The label Best of both Records tells us most of the 1000 copies destined for release are already preordered, so to be sure you secure one of the remaining records you should do the same, via Rough Trade or the [...]

If you’re already a fan of Nö Music on Facebook, you’re already in the competition. How about that? But if you want that extra edge, you better suggest Nö Music to your friends on Facebook.
For each invite you send, you’ll receive an extra ‘ticket’ for this competition. How do you score these tickets? Let us [...]

Every year the Øya Festival challenges one band to soundtrack a silent film of their choice. The last few years we have seen Serena Maneesh, 120 Days and Next Life completing the task successfully, and it was with great anticipation we took the news that Æthenor would be performing at Eldorado Cinema this year.
Æthenor have [...]

Electronica/synth-pop duo Frost have revealed details (albeit sparse) of a new single release after a long period of inactivity. A new track from the Tromsø pair, ‘The Magician’, is set to go on sale on August 16th, and should be the first taster of the long-gestating and as yet unnamed follow-up to 2007’s Love! Revolution!. [...]