23 Nov 2024
Festivals
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Melodifestivalen 2023 – Did they save the best for last?

So we have come to the last of the four preliminary heats of Melodifestivalen and are thus getting the entries from the remaining seven contestants. Eurovision queen Loreen’s return is having ESC fans all hyped up, and for good reason. Last week saw very expectedly Marcus & Martinus going straight to the final, joined by […]

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Melodifestivalen 2023 – Get ready for heat 3!

Last week’s second heat saw the Ukrainian talent Maria Sur getting the most votes with her belter of a survival ballad. And she is joined in the final by The Panetoz, who brought the dance party. Week 3 brings the touring Mello circus to Lidköping, and we have the next seven candidate vying for the […]

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Melodifestivalen 2023 – It’s time for Heat 2!

The first week of Melodifestivalen 2023 saw Jon Henrik Fjällgren with Arc North and Adam Woods going straight to the final as expected. And he will be joined by Tone Sekelius. The next seven contestants are up this Saturday in Linköping. Beside the actual qualification round, we can expect to see Linda Bentzing and Magnus […]

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Melodifestivalen 2023 kicks off with Heat 1

Can you believe it’s already time for Melodifestivalen?! The six-week music extravaganza is finally back on tour and the first heat of four is going to be held in Gothenburg on the 4th of February. So we will get to see the first seven of 28 entries competing for the Mello crown and for that […]

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In Pictures: Rix FM Festival

The Rix FM Festival returned in full force this summer, having done a smaller-scale version for two Corona summers on people’s backyards and other similar venues. The touring festival visited 12 cities and brought along a total of 32 artists. The grand finale in Stockholm included 13 artists who went on to play for about […]

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Lauri of The Rasmus in Stockholm
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In Pictures: The Rasmus in Stockholm

It had been ten years since The Rasmus had played a show in Stockholm (if we are not counting their visit to Sommarkrysset at Gröna Lund five years ago), so it was about time they came to town as part of the line-up for Bandit Rock Party. The free festival drew a nice crowd of […]

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The glorious long-awaited return of Lollapalooza

Since Lollapalooza concluded it’s second edition on Swedish soil, we are still unable to come down from the clouds of festival magic. It may be the fact that we waited three entire years for Lollapalooza to happen again, and what was even worse, during two of the years there were no other festivals and hardly […]

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Tove Lo at Lollapalooza Stockholm
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Pop Girl Summer at Lollapalooza

For a pop nerd such as myself, the Lollapalooza Stockholm 2022 lineup included an impressive number of very cool pop girls who have been gracing my playlists, some for a while and some more recently. There were of course the huge international stars Lorde and Haim, about whom you can read more in our other […]

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HAIM at Lollapalooza Stockholm
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In Pictures: HAIM at Lollapalooza

The Californian pop/rock trio consisting of sisters Alana, Danielle and Este Haim proved to be one of the highlights of Lollapalooza’s Sunday with their contagious energy that was fun to watch. Their live presence and sound are more rock than their studio recordings, and they sprinkle the show with humour. They also move around the […]

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Imagine Dragons explode at Lolla

Imagine Dragons takes over the Tower stage at Lollapalooza’s main stage… the minutes that will come after this instant should be filled with all the crazy emojis you can think of, including the explosion one. This show was as big as the festival itself. Before the third song is over the public has already been […]

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