24 Dec 2024
Music
Music Videos

Your Living City Music presents Trekillar live at Stortorget

Trekillar is a Mexican trio that plays traditional Mexican music, or as they like to put it themselves, they bring “your unusual Mexican sound”. Your Living City had the chance to catch them live at the famous Stortorget in the heart of Gamla Stan at an impromptu and unannounced performance that caught tourists and locals alike […]

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Music New Music Friday

New Music Friday: Tove Styrke makes us wanna make mistakes

New Music Friday alert! One of our very favorite Swedish artists Tove Styrke has a new single out! A few months ago, Tove Styrke released her first new offering since her excellent 2015 album Kiddo. And she did everything right on that one. Say My Name garnered the interest of people like Lorde, Lena Dunham […]

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Festivals Music

In Pictures: Popaganda – the Summer’s Last Festival

Popaganda has become something of an institution in Stockholm, the pop fan’s dream that officially ends the festival summer. The festival started out 15 years ago at Frescati, but for the last 10 years the location has been Eriksdalsbadet in the southernmost part of Södermalm. And the location is just perfect for the last hurrah […]

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Culture Festivals Music

In Pictures: Stockholm Culture Festival 2017

The Stockholm Culture Festival and the parallel We Are STHLM were held from the 15th to the 20th of August 2017 and the festivals were once again a success, with a total of 750 000 visits during the six days. India, celebrating 70 years of independence, was a big theme of the festival, but there […]

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Music News

Behind the Scenes: Nova Miller’s Video Shoot

Nova Miller is the young local singer, who has her aims set high on future pop stardom, and the talent to go all the way. She has just released her latest poptastic tune Anything for U. Along with it she brought out a fabulous music video channeling 70s vibes in both fashion and dance moves. […]

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Music New Music Friday

New Music Friday: Unmissable videos from Nova Miller and Nadia Nair

For this New Music Friday we bring you once again our very favorite picks of new Swedish music releases. These are the ones you definitely should not miss! Nova Miller: Anything for U The talented 16-year-old songstress is bringing out an insanely catchy pop tune and a fabulous video to go along with it, so […]

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Photo by Olle Kirchmeier
Festivals Music Videos

Way Out West – more WOW than ever!

In its 11th edition Way Out West has thrown its biggest festival so far – bigger size, bigger line-up, bigger production… Total WOW factor everywhere! Around 34,000 souls stepped into Gothenburg’s Slottskogen fields every day, looking to satisfy their thirst for excitement, music and fun, because this is what Way Out West is all about, as we could discover by talking to the […]

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Jennie Abrahamson
Music

In Pictures: Jennie Abrahamson @ Gröna Lund

Jennie Abrahamson ended her summer tour at Gröna Lund, and Your Living City’s resident pop nerd Nina Uddin was there with her camera. Jennie Abrahamson‘s latest album Reverseries  (her fifth) is full of well-crafted, subtle and ethereal pop, and the tour has taken Jennie around Europe before returning in style to meet the home crowd in Stockholm […]

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Skott
Music New Music Friday

Fresh Swedish Sounds: Music Video Round-up

Some of our favorite Swedish artists have great new music videos out, so here are the ones you absolutely shouldn’t miss from July’s crop of music videos!   Skott: Mermaid Skott brings us dreamy under-water sequences that go amazingly together with her hauntingly beautiful song Mermaid. Skott is getting a lot of critical acclaim and hype […]

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Culture Music

Maxida Märak brings intensity and conviction

The first time I saw Maxida Märak live, she awoke my curiosity singing a duet at a huge charity gala. The second time I saw her, she blew my mind. It was another charity event with plenty of big artists performing, at a very small church, sometime before Christmas 2015. Maxida was the host of […]

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