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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]