Lykke Li has gone through a transformation of sorts in the studio, but when it comes to her stage presence, she is still a force to be reckoned with. When the lights went down on the stage at Red Rocks on Wednesday night, the smoke poured in, the wind started to blow, and the girl in black took the stage like the… Read more →
The photo above best represents the image in my head of what The Knife would look like on stage. My skewed perspective came from the media that surrounded the album that first introduced me to the masked Dreijer siblings. The visual companions to Silent Shout were extremely dark and they portrayed Karin and Olof as anonymous figures in a variety of… Read more →
With only a couple EPs and a single under their belt, Swedish electronic pop duo Air France are calling it quits. According to a tumblr announcement, they just couldn’t create anything worthy of a follow-up to 2008’s No Way Down. Things that came easy in the past would come no more. It’s too bad, because No Way Down held such… Read more →
“Lu-ci-feeeeeer!” The ceremony started at 10:30pm on a bone chilling night at Denver’s Marquis Theater. The 8th of 13 ‘dates of doom’ for Sweden’s enigmatic retro-metallers brought with it all the elements that are now expected from this young, hyped group of nameless ghouls. Fronted by Papa Emeritus, a skeletal figure in red and black bishop’s robes, Ghost rely on… Read more →
My first exposure to the sisters Söderberg was the tail end of their opening set for Lykke Li at the Ogden Theatre back in November. Regrettably missing the majority of their set, I couldn’t help but think of Neko Case while a girl next to me suggested a female Fleet Foxes. I don’t think either comparison was too far off… Read more →
Having just caught Lykke Li‘s set at Fun Fun Fun fest over the weekend, I was among the minority of those who knew what to except at the Ogden Theatre on Friday night. The Swedish pop singer has been making waves across the sea for a couple years now, but nothing on the radio, on her albums or the hundreds… Read more →
Craft – Void (Carnal Records, 2011) Over half a decade after they fucked the universe, Swedish black metallars Craft are back with a big middle finger to what they left behind. Void is a fitting title for this collection of pure black metal. The cover alone explains it all — Craft are still angry, they hate the world and everyone… Read more →
Phil Anselmo might be known as much for being an asshole as he is for bitch-slapping your eardrums with bands like (the legendary) Pantera, Arson Anthem and the super ‘southern sludge’ group, Down. Anselmo will be the first to admit he’s done and said some regrettable things in the past, sometimes he’ll say some new regrettable thing in that same… Read more →
Robyn has been in the game for awhile now. She won her first Grammi (the Swedish equivalent of a Grammy) when she was 20 years old. That was in 1999. It took some 10 years after that for her to gain the fame and following she deserves here in the United States. She broke through to the American public only… Read more →
Since I started going to metal shows again a couple years ago, it has amazed me how wrong my expectations prove to be. Being one of those guys that remembers wearing his hair past his shoulders, but long ago started shaving it before it wasn’t a choice anymore, I always expect the old school bands to bring the crowds. Exodus… Read more →
I’m beginning to think Fever Ray is more than just a solo project for The Knife‘s Karin Dreijer Andersson. It almost seems Fever Ray has taken the place of what we knew as The Knife. Even though they did release the elecro-opera Tomorrow, In a Year with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock, I’d still say it’s been 5 years since we’ve… Read more →
