In one of the more unexpected musical pairings of recent times Norwegian singer/songwriter Ane Brun has been announced as a touring partner for Peter Gabriel’s upcoming European ‘New Blood Tour’ dates. The legendary UK art rocker is hitting the road sans guitars but with a full orchestra and his daughter Melanie,  as well as Brun [...]

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”
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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 [...]

Norway’s latest hopes for global success break the mould of previous exports in one notable fashion: they sing in their native tongue. Rather than signifying a greater willingness amongst Anglo-Saxon tastemakers to absorb Norway’s lilting idiom, however, the imminent success of Casiokids is rather testament to the extent to which the other aspects of their [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]