Nordic Music - NEW MUSIC

New Music: Immanu El

Swedish indie with beautiful and wispy melodies. Check out here.

Rock ‘n’ Roll, Scandinavia!

A few weeks ago I suggested some tracks for American Express to feature on their pages, and they’ve come up with a really quite brilliant playlist of emerging Scandinavian artists.

Best of all, it’s all free to download, and features some of my absolute favourites like Johan Reinhold and Fallulah!

First Listen: Beatrice Eli ‘Violent Silence’

Another epic pop track from Swedish Beatrice Eli. Debut EP ‘It’s Over’ is out on March 24th.

New Music: Junip

Swedish folk pop, fronted by Jose Gonzalez. Check out here.

New Music: The Arctic Wife

Wonderfully uplifting Danish pop. Check out here.

The name may sound familiar, but the voice will definitely be familiar. The singer from Miike Snow has decided to release his own music, and I think it’s pretty decent. It’s not happy, nor is it sad… It just floats… Check out here.

New Music: TASQ

Swedish hip hop. Check out here.

New Music: Me & Skinny Joon

Broody Swedish electropop. Check out here.

Its Melodifestivalen time!

I am in Stockholm as we speak, at the Friends Arena because it’s the Melodifestivalen Final for 2013. The winning song tonight will go through to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest in May.

The show is Sweden’s biggest TV event, and always mixes established Swedish artists with newcomers. Generally the standard of entries is always pretty high (although this year has been a bit of a turbulent ride in my opinion).

I try and keep my Eurovision posts to a minimum on here because I know it’s not everyone’s flavour, but if you want to follow me on Twitter then I will be trying to tweet through the night. Or not. Depends how much Absolut I go through.

Follow me on Twitter right here, and wherever you are in the world, you can watch the show live and for free over on SVT’s website. The show starts at 20:00 Sweden Time. I promise you, you will never watch anything quite like it…