3 Dec 2024
Music
Concerts Music

Keane mixes nostalgia with contemporary tunes in Stockholm

Renowned British rock band Keane graced the stage at Gröna Lund, delivering a captivating live performance for all those gathered at the amusement park. Keane have carved a niche for themselves in the alternative rock and post-Britpop genres with their atmospheric melodies and the melancholic voice of their lead singer Tom Chaplin. Quite expectedly, the […]

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Denmark’s Lukas Graham takes over Gröna Lund

Denmark’s acclaimed Lukas Graham drew a diverse crowd to Gröna Lund for yet another wonderful concert evening at our favorite amusement park. If you are not completely sure whether Lukas Graham is the singer or the band, you can’t go wrong as it’s pretty much both. The band has got its name from the frontman […]

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Queen Loreen reigns supreme at Gröna Lund

Sweden’s own Eurovision queen Loreen took to the Gröna Lund stage on a balmy summer evening in front of a huge crowd, all eager to witness her captivating stage presence and mesmerizing vocals. The Eurovision hosts’ remark on Loreen being from out of space may have been a joke, but she truly is a special […]

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Your Living City’s Ultimate Music Festival Guide 2024

No rain, no muddy puddles, no blasting sun will ever stop the die-hard music festival lovers, who year after year look for the biggest festivals and the most impressive line-ups and this is where we come into the picture. Like every year, we bring you a round-up of the newest and the good old classic […]

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Festivals Music

Is my Eurovision broken?

As the Eurovision Song Contest has given me so much joy and entertainment over the years, it makes me sad to see the mess we are in ahead of the ESC Grand Finale of 2024. The whole Eurovision season has given me so many mixed emotions, and it’s all culminating tonight. Being a Finn living […]

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New performance festival to be held at Teater Giljotin

The first edition of Ankoku International Performance Festival will be held at Teater Giljotin in Stockholm on the 16-21 May. Teater Giljotin is collaborating with Emergency Theatre from Bulgaria for the first ever Ankoku International Performance Festival, to promote an artistic language with a strong avant-garde and transgressive nature. “ANKOKU” stands for darkness as a […]

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Eurovision stars at the Stockholm pre-party

Eurovision stars have been doing the pre-party circuit ahead of the main event in Malmö in May. A total of 14 of this year’s ESC participants came to the Nordic Eurovision Part in Stockholm at Berns, joined by a few other fan favorites from previous years. Here are our favorite pictures from when the artists […]

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In Pictures: Dotter at Kulturhuset

Dotter recently did her fourth run at Melodifestivalen, and is now out playing some shows. She made a Stockholm stop at Kulturhuset and we were of course there to see her, along with plenty of her young fans. As the lights were all blues and purples during the first three songs us photographers were afforded […]

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Festivals Music News

Melodifestivalen 2024 – Get Ready for Heat 4!

It’s week 4 in Melloland, the fourth preliminary heat of the musical cirkus travelling around the country in order to find the Swedish representative for the Eurovision Song Contest. The Melfest final of the 9th of March is getting closer, and we are already looking forward to the big Europe-wide show to be held in […]

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Melodifestivalen 2024 – Get Ready for Heat 3!

We are already on the third week of Melodifestivalen, the music extravaganza that has most Swedes transfixed every Saturday for six weeks. The song competition is an institution in itself, but it also results in finding the Swedish representative for the Eurovision Song Contest, to be held in Malmö this May. There are another six […]

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