Monzano released their second album By This Time Last Year Everything Will Seem Younger February 8th this year. I’m too lazy to research, but with their six live sets they were probably the band with most spots during by:Larm last month. I met up with Sjur Lyseid, Eivind Bøe, Magnus Rauan and Eivind Almhjell just [...]

After a bowl of sweet potato soup and a couple of misunderstandings as to where we were supposed to meet, CCTV’s Shaun Curtis and Jon Martens finally walked into Q Diner and Bar at around six pm for a little chat about paranoia, dancing, by:larm and this year’s great Norwegian hype. Let’s have a convoluted [...]

The first time I saw Altaar play, they were a duo consisting of noise master Sten Ove Toft and metal/hardcore man Andreas Tylden. That time, at Musikkfest Oslo 2009, I was met by a wall of sound, obstructing any indie band’s attempt to strum a ukulele within the Grünerløkka perimeter. When celebrating Toft’s birthday at [...]

You know how media always label a band a dream team if more than one band member played in another band before? Well then, what do you call a band consisting of members from 14 other bands, sporting more catchy tunes than the Star Wars theme and more noisy and massive than the Hulk himself? [...]

A pinch of this, a spoon of that. No, we’re not swapping recipes, we’re introducing a band who likes to mix it up. Take some Manu Chao, some disco, a bit of Ojos de Brujo, a sprinkle of pop tunes, add some Balkan/French accordion, and, yeah, a rapper. And the result is so much tastier [...]

Why are the kids today cooler than we were? Let us rephrase — why have the cool decades more authentic ways of being trendy now than in the nineties? If it was all fashion with the band below, we guess we could cope. But it ain’t. These kids know stuff their parents don’t!
Garage rockers Death [...]

Throw together three Casiokids, a manager who according to himself “always say the funniest things when these guys are interviewed”, a true Norwegian fenalår, three interviews scheduled at the same time, a piece of moss and a statue of a half naked Kate (Moss), and you have the bizarre interview situation I put myself the [...]