Articles

22.januar 2009, Blæst
We Were Lightning
Soup
disko violente

27.februar 2009, Brukbar
The New Wine

18.mars 2009, Samfundet
I Was A King, magnus moriarity

19.april 2009, Blæst
montée, Ungdomskulen

1.mai 2009, Samfundet
José González, Armand Mirpour

2.mai 2009, Samfundet
monzano

17.mai 2009, UFFA
mørkt kapittel

20. juni 2009, SUPA
Raggabalder Riddim Rebels

9.juli 2009, Trænafestivalen
Marit Larsen
Kråkesølv
Gode Ord Dør Sist
Frida Hyvönen
Slagsmålsklubben

10.juli 2009, Trænafestivalen
kakkmaddafakka
Thom Hell
The Whitest Boy Alive
The New Wine
Ida Maria
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip
DJ Rob Da Bank

11.juli 2009, Trænafestivalen
Sivert Høyem (feat. Ingrid Olava)
Katzenjammer
Jens Lekman
Wildbirds And Peacedrums
Juvelen
Siri NM
Joddski

16.juli 2009, Slottsfjellfestivalen
Thom Hell
Marit Larsen
Moo
VETO
Gojira
The Wombats
Real Ones
Håkan Hellström
Motorpsycho
Lindstrøm
BigBang

17.juli 2009, Slottsfjellfestivalen
Accidents Never Happen
Pony the Pirate
Heroes & Zeros VS Harrys gym
Hjaltalín
An Horse
Art Brut
First Aid Kit
Roots Manuva
Captain Credible
Turboneger

18.juli 2009, Slottsfjellfestivalen
The Chap
Femi Kuti & The Positive Force
Mark Kozelek
bob hund

21.august 2009, Pstereo
Jaga Jazzist
Fjorden Baby!
Motorpsycho
Kim Hiorthøy
Ane Brun
Ulver
Röyksopp

22.august 2009, Pstereo
Late of the Pier
Calexico
Thåström
Gang of Four
Primal Scream

29.august 2009, Samfundet
Dinosaur Jr.

4.september 2009, Blæst
Hjaltalín

3.oktober 2009, Blæst
john olav nilsen & gjengen

21.oktober 2009, Samfundet
Detektivbyrån

25.oktober 2009, Samfundet
Veronica Maggio

'First, make a list of your overall top-20 artists. Then, for each of these artists, add the 8 most similar artists to your list. Delete any duplicates, add up the number of entries on your list and this will give you some idea of how eclectic your listening habits are. A score of 9 represents an extremely unvaried musical taste while a 160 represents an extremely varied one.'

1. Dream Theater
2. Poets of the Fall
3. John Mayer
4. Trapt
5. Breaking Benjamin
6. Pink Floyd
7. Kings of Convenience
8. Çilekeş
9. Pain of Salvation
10. Opeth
11. City and Colour
12. Bleak
13. Iron Maiden
14. Thomas Dybdahl
15. Metallica
16. Novembre
17. Skillet
18. Freak Kitchen
19. Linkin Park
20. Bülent Ortaçgil

1. Liquid Tension Experiment
2. Jordan Rudess
3. John Petrucci
4. James LaBrie
5. Symphony X
6. Transatlantic
7. Liquid Trio Experiment
8. Ayreon

9. Playground
10. Sunrise Avenue
11. The Rasmus
12. Theory of a Deadman
13. Uniklubi
14. Happoradio
15. Three Days Grace
16. 51koodia

17. Jason Mraz
18. David Ryan Harris
19. Matt Wertz
20. Gavin DeGraw
21. Matt Nathanson
22. Amos Lee
23. Jack Johnson
24. Josh Kelley

25. Crossfade
26. 12 Stones
27. Evans Blue
28. Smile Empty Soul
29. TRUSTcompany
30. 10 Years

31. Hinder
32. Chevelle
33. Seether
34. Three Doors Down

35. David Gilmour
36. Roger Waters
37. Syd Barrett
38. Led Zeppelin
39. Rick Wright
40. The Doors
41. Porcupine Tree
42. King Crimson

43. The Whitest Boy Alive
44. Erlend Øye
45. José González
46. Feist
47. Sondre Lerche
48. Iron & Wine
50. Phoenix
51. Seabear

52. Kurban
53. Manga
54. Gripin
55. Direc-t
56. Demir Demirkan
57. Hayko Cepkin
58. Şebnem Ferah
59. Duman

60. Evergrey
61. Circus Maximus
62. Deadsoul Tribe
63. Wolverine
64. Shadow Gallery
65. Ark

66. Agalloch
67. Death
68. Gojira
69. Cynic
70. Katatonia
71. Bloodbath

72. Luke Pickett
73. Dallas Green
74. Dustin Kensrue
75. Anthony Green
76. Black Lungs
77. Neverending White Lights
78. Attack In Black
79. William Fitzsimmons

80. Crumbland
81. So Called Plan
82. Private Line
83. Deep Insight
84. Bloodpit
85. Suburban Tribe

86. Megadeth
87. Saxon
88. Dio
89. Iced Earth
90. Black Sabbath
91. Blaze
92. Judas Priest
93. Bruce Dickinson

94. Ane Brun
95. Teitur
96. Thom Hell
97. Magnet
98. BigBang
99. Minor Majority
100. Jim Stärk
101. The National Bank

102. Motörhead
103. Sepultura
104. Machine Head
105. Anthrax
106. Slayer
107. Pantera

108. Saturnus
109. The Old Dead Tree
110. Novembers Doom
111. The Foreshadowing
112. October Tide
113. Rapture
114. Daylight Dies

115. Seventh Day Slumber
116. Fireflight
117. Red
118. Kutless
119. Falling Up
120. Disciple
121. Pillar
122. Thousand Foot Krutch

123. Planet X
124. Sun Caged
125. A.C.T
126. Ron Thal
127. Bumblefoot
128. Mattias IA Eklundh

129. Adema
130. P.O.D.
131. Korn
132. Limp Bizkit
133. Papa Roach
134. Xero
135. Fort Minor
136. Disturbed

137. Fikret Kızılok
138. Erkan Oğur
139. Zuhal Olcay
140. Yeni Türkü
141. MFÖ
142. Yavuz Cetin
143. Pinhani
144. Mehmet Güreli

***BEST THIS YEAR

New releases:

***Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
Kristin Asbjørnsen - The night shines like the day
Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
Zeromancer - Sinners International (x 2)
***Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Ólafur Arnalds - Found Songs (downloaded)
Kaizers Orchestra - Våre Demoner
PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By
CocoRosie - Coconuts, Plenty of Junk Food
Antony and the Johnsons - Epilepsy is Dancing
Björk - Voltaic
Antony and the Johnsons - Aeon
múm - Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know
Ane Brun - Live At Stockholm Concert Hall


Old releases:

Devendra Banhart - Niño Rojo
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Seigmen - Metropolis - The Grandmaster Recordings (x 2, Box)
Ólafur Arnalds - Eulogy for Evolution
Various Artists - Erased Tapes Collection I - At The End Of All Music Happiness Will Be Erased (downloaded)
Jeff Buckley - Grace (Legacy Edition)
Ane Brun - Duets
***Rockettothesky - Medea
BigBang - Electric Psalmbook
***Tom Waits - Bone Machine
Biosphere - Cirque
Motorpsycho - Manmower
Lars Horntveth - Kaleidoscopic
Bon Iver - Blood Bank
Ulver - Shadows of the Sun
Madrugada - Live at Tralfamadore
Tom Waits - Blood Money

Concerts:

Therese Aune (by:Larm, Oslo, 21 February)
Children and Corpse Playing In The Streets (by:Larm, Oslo, 21 February)
Captain Credible (by:Larm, Oslo, 21 February)
***Ólafur Arnalds (by:Larm, Oslo, 21 February)
The Captain & Me (by:Larm, Oslo, 21 February)
Jens Carelius (by:Larm, Oslo, 21 February)
***Antony and the Johnsons (x2) (Sentrum Scene, Oslo, 17 March + Oslo Jazzfestival, Oslo, 09 August)
Essence Of Mind (Rockefeller, Oslo, 21 March)
Det är jag som är döden (Rockefeller, Oslo, 21 March)
***Zeromancer (Rockefeller, Oslo, 21 March)
Henning Kvitnes (Athletic Sound 25th Anniversary, Halden, 28 April)
Somebody's Darling (Athletic Sound 25th Anniversary, Halden, 28 April)
Marthe Valle (Athletic Sound 25th Anniversary, Halden, 28 April)
Sivert Høyem (Athletic Sound 25th Anniversary, Halden, 28 April)
DumDum Boys (Athletic Sound 25th Anniversary, Halden, 28 April)
Paal Flaata (Athletic Sound 25th Anniversary, Halden, 28 April)
deLillos (Athletic Sound 25th Anniversary, Halden, 28 April)
Tom Russell (Athletic Sound 25th Anniversary, Halden, 28 April)
The Moving Oos (Athletic Sound 25th Anniversary, Halden, 28 April)
Motorpsycho (x 2) (Athletic Sound 25th Anniversary, Halden, 28 April + Slottsfjell Festival, Tønsberg, 16 July)
***Seigmen (Athletic Sound 25th Anniversary, Halden, 28 April)
CC Cowboys (Athletic Sound 25th Anniversary, Halden, 28 April)
Onkel Tuka (Athletic Sound 25th Anniversary, Halden, 28 April)
Elvira Nikolaisen (Athletic Sound 25th Anniversary, Halden, 28 April)
Tommy Tokyo & Starving For My Gravy (x2) (Athletic Sound 25th Anniversary, Halden, April + Månefestivalen, Fredrikstad, 24-26 July)
***CocoRosie (Cosmopolite, Oslo, 5 June)
Thom Hell (Slottsfjell Festival, Tønsberg, 16 July)
The Credins (Slottsfjell Festival, Tønsberg, 16 July)
Moo (Slottsfjell Festival, Tønsberg, 16 July)
Apoptygma Bezerk (Slottsfjell Festival, Tønsberg, 16 July)
The Wombats (Slottsfjell Festival, Tønsberg, 16 July)
VETO (Slottsfjell Festival, Tønsberg, 16 July)
Lay Low (Slottsfjell Festival, Tønsberg, 16 July)
***BigBang (Slottsfjell Festival, Tønsberg, 16 July)
Kill It Kid (Månefestivalen, Fredrikstad, 24-26 July)
Kookookitchen (Månefestivalen, Fredrikstad, 24-26 July)
***Kaizers Orchestra (Månefestivalen, Fredrikstad, 24-26 July)
Farmers Market (Månefestivalen, Fredrikstad, 24-26 July)
Death By Unga Bunga (Månefestivalen, Fredrikstad, 24-26 July)
***Katzenjammer (Månefestivalen, Fredrikstad, 24-26 July)
***Lars Horntveth (Månefestivalen, Fredrikstad, 24-26 July)
Kristin Asbjørnsen (Månefestivalen, Fredrikstad, 24-26 July)
Lady Moscow (Sosialistisk Ungdom's summercamp 28 July-02 August)
My Little Pony (Sosialistisk Ungdom's summercamp 28 July-02 August)
Norma Sass (Sosialistisk Ungdom's summercamp 28July-02 August)
Jaga Jazzist (Øyafestivalen, Oslo, 12 August)
Bon Iver (Øyafestivalen, Oslo, 12 August)
Band of Horses (Øyafestivalen, Oslo, 12 August)
***Ulver (Øyafestivalen, Oslo, 12 August)
Mew (Øyafestivalen, Oslo, 12 August)
Fjorden Baby! (Øyafestivalen, Oslo, 13 August)
Le corbeau (Øyafestivalen, Oslo, 13 August)
***Florence and The Machine (Øyafestivalen, Oslo, 13 August)
Seun Kuti & Fela's Egypt 80 (Øyafestivalen, Oslo, 13 August)
***Fever Ray (Øyafestivalen, Oslo, 13 August)
***múm (Numusic Festival, Stavanger, 11 September)
***Ane Brun (Lorensbergsteatern, Gothenburg, 4 October)

In no particular order:
Mogwai - First post-rock band I've seen live, mindblowing!
Kaizers Orchestra x2 - Awesome band, always gets the crowd going
Foals - Great record, great live performance
Oasis - Epic concert
MGMT - Awesome show
Ida Maria x3 - She's always a lot of fun, great performer

Jay-Z - It was great. Possibly the best rapper alive.
Beck - Not too bad, but not great.
Duffy - She was good.
Goldfrapp - First half not so good, but very good when she played the classics
Lupe Fiasco - Cool concert, worth the agonizing wait.
MSTRKRFT - Awesome electro-house.
Shape Of Broad Minds - Great. Loved the fresh sound.
Stars - Loved 'em!
The Raconteurs - One of the best rock concerts I've seen.
Vampire Weekend - A lot of fun
Thom Hell - Good
Band of Horses - Very good concert
The National Bank - Great concert
The Kooks - Meh. Good, but overhyped.
The Mae Shi - Great band. Entertaining show.
Los Campesinos! - Great music. Harmony

In alphabetical order... Not all are included.

Animal Alpha (Øyafestivalen, 2005)
Architects (Hovefestivalen, 2009)
Asphyxsis (Checkpoint Charlie and De Røde Sjøhus, 2006)
Avenged Sevenfold (Hove, 2008)
Backyard Babies (Folken, 2009)
Band of Horses (Folken, 2008)
Bare Eagles Band (Folken, 2008)
Bare Egil Band (Folken, 2008)
BIG BOMBASTIC COLLECTIVE (Cementen, 2007)
Black Lips (Hove, 2008)
Black Sabbath (Oslo Spektrum, 2005)
Built to Spill (Folken, 2008))
Cat Power (Roskilde, 2008)
Cavalera Conspiracy (Hove, 2008)
The Chairs (Rangelrock, 2009)
Chrome Hoof (Hovefestivalen, 2008)
Coldplay (Koengen, 2009)
Datarock (Koengen & Folken, 2009)
DDR (Folken 2008 & 2009)
deLillos (Bjergstedsparken, 2007)
Dengue Fever (Roskilde, 2008)
Dillinger Escape Plan (Roskilde, 2008)
Disturbed (Hovefestivalen, 2009)
Duffy (Hove, 2008)
The Dø (Roskilde, 2008)
Eagles of Death Metal (Hovefestivalen, 2009)
eriK Salvesen (Folken, 2008)
Faith No More (Hovefestivalen 2009)
Fitts for fight (Tou Scene, twice)
Fleet Foxes (Hovefestivalen, 2009)
Fjorden Baby! (By:Larm, Hovefestivalen, Rangelrock, 2009)
Franz Ferdinand (Øyafestivalen 2005 & Hovefestivalen 2009)
Freestyle Picnic (twice, 2008))
Gatas Parlament (Metropolis, 2008)
Grinderman (Roskilde, 2008)
Hayseed Dixie (Folken, 2008)
Haust (Hovefestivalen, 2009)
Hellacopters (Pulpit og Hovefestivalen)
Hockey (Hovefestivalen, 2009)
HOH (Nordic Music Week, 2008)
Howlin Rain (Folken, 2008)
Håkan Helström (Folken, 2009)
Ikke Bare Bare Egil Band Band (Folken, 2008)
In Flames (Hove, 2008)
Influence of the Dead Marsipan (many times...)
Ingrid Olava (Nordic Music Week, 2008)
Iron Maiden (Oslo Spektrum, 2005)
Jackman (Pulpit, 2005)
Job for a Cowboy (Hove, 2008)
john olav nilsen & gjengen (Martinique, 2009)
Johnny Hancocks (everywhere)
Jóse Gonzáles (Roskilde, 2008)
Juan Formell y los Van Van (Roskilde, 2008)
Judas Priest (Roskilde, 2008)
Kaada (Nordic Music Week, 2008)
Kaizers Orchestra (many times)
Katzenjammer (Folken, 2008, twice)
Killswitch Engage (Hove, 2008)
The Lovestreets (Checkpoint Charlie, 2008)
Lukestar (Hove, 2008)
Lupe Fiasco (Hove, 2008)
Madrugada (Pulpit, 2005 and twice at Folken, 2008)
Mannepenis (around....)
Micropops (Folken, 2009)
Mogwai (Roskilde, 2008)
Motorpsycho (Folken and Roskilde, 2008)
Marit Larsen (Folken, 2008)
Mugison (Roskilde, 2008)
The National Bank (Folken, 2008)
Neil Young (Roskilde, 2008)
The New Wine (By:Larm, 2009)
Noxagt (Nordic Music Week, 2008)
Plumbo (Checkpoint Charlie, 2008)
The Raconteurs (Hove, 2008)
Radiohead (Roskilde, 2008)
Roger Waters (Stavanger Stadion, 2006)
Rosa Parks (Grottene, 2008)
Rumble in Rhodos (Roskilde, 2008)
Satyricon (Pulpit, Folken 2008)
Sebastian Waldejer (Tou Scene 2007, Folken & Nordic Music Week 2008)
The September When (Folken, 2009)
Shining (Nordic Music Week, 2008)
The Shock! (Nordic Music Week, 2008)
Skambankt (Folken & Norway Rock, 2009)
Superfamily (Folken, 2009)
Susanna (Nordic Music Week, 2008)
Teitur (Roskilde, 2008)
That Special Monkey Hug (Justisen, 2006?)
Thom Hell (Folken, 2008)
Thomas Dybdahl (Pulpit and Stavanger Sentrum, 2006)
Timbuktu (Pulpit, 2007 and Folken, 2008)
Turbonegro (Pulpit, 2005)
Ungdomskulen (Folken and Hove, 2008)
Under Byen (Nordic Music Week, 2008)
Valentourettes (Folken, 2008)
Vamp (Folken, 2009)
The Violent Pineapple Syndrome (Metropolis, 2008)
VETO (Nordic Music Week, 2008)
W.A.S.P (Folken, 2009)
White Lies (Hovefestivalen & Koengen, 2009)
Valentourettes (Norway Rock, 2009)
Volbeat (Folken, 2008)
Yessayer (Hove, 2008)

...more to come...

Hove festival
PIRATE LOVE
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Les Savy Fav
Black Kids
Animal Collective
Jay-Z
MGMT
The Kooks
Panic at the Disco
Coheed & Cambria
Dengue Fever
Vampire Weekend
The Wombats
Charlotte & The Co-Stars
Thom Hell
Foals
Band of Horses
Beck
White Denim
Rival Schools
Animal Alpha
Flogging Molly
Bad Religion
Matias Tellez
Familjen
Slagsmålsklubben
Black Mountain
Black Lips
Ungdomskulen
The National Bank
Goldfrapp
Tommy Tokyo & Starving For My Gravy
Ingrid Olava
Jaguar Love
Lupe Fiasco
Duffy
Cavalera Conspiracy
Killswitch Engage
The Raconteurs
Hellacopters
Yeasayer
Kelley Stoltz
Satyricon
Primordial
Howlin' Rain

Huset
Sigrun And The Kitchen Band
Black Debbath
Ralph Myerz & Jack Herren Band
Superfamily
Silver Street
Jaa9 & OnklP

Others
PikkaBird - Mono
Smashing Pumpkins - Spektrum
Jethro Tull - Sentrum Scene

Everyone likes to get stuff without paying for it, and here are 20 excellent tracks you can download from last.fm with a squeaky-clean conscience:

1. Madredeus - Lisboa Rainha Do Mar

Fantastic Portuguese fado group, which has been active for more than twenty years. This song's waltzy rhythm gently rocks you as if you were in a fishing boat just off Lisboa's coast heading back for another glass of vino verde around midnight.

2. Elbow - The Stops

Anxious, tense, ominous, and very, very beautiful. Sad and melancholy voice somewhere reminiscent of Stuart Staples of
Tindersticks or the guy from The National. From the great album Leaders Of The Free World, which got incredible reviews a couple of years ago and from which several tracks are available for free at last.fm.

3. Madrugada - Look Away Lucifer

A dark song from the latest, pitch black Madrugada album, which was released just a few months after guitarist Robert Burås' untimely death. This could have been a Nick Cave-song, filled with Satanic allusions and desperation.

4. Field Music - Kingston

Indie pop with inventive boy/girl harmonies, melody with surprising twists and a nice string section. Field Music have made their entire, excellent album Tones Of Town available for free download.

5. Josh Ritter - Best For The Best

A very folksy and stripped down tune with subtle and careful instrumentation. Dylanesque lyrics about a sailor with a heartache.

6. Grandaddy - Campershell Dreams

Grandaddy sounds, as usual, like Beach Boys on valium. Minimalist lyrics about not having to be alone anymore. But what the hell is a campershell? Tried to google it and got very enigmatic results.

7. Datarock - Fa-Fa-Fa

Norwegian electrorock. Very energetic and danceable track which really stands out as Datarock's best on a very variable album (in my humble opinion).

8. The Radio Dept. - Sleeping In

One of many nice Swedish indie pop groups, several tracks available for free download.

9. El Perro del Mar - Sad

Another Swedish indie pop artist. My favourite song of theirs is by far the haunting This Loneliness, but this is the one she's chosen to give away. Sad, but catchy little tune.

10. Dan Lyth - Breathe Easy

Virtually unknown artist (as of today, 859 plays!) who deserves a bigger audience. A song about Dan's ambition to become a superhero. A very calm and ambient track, but the melody builds well, his tender voice is impeccable and the instrumentation carefully caresses a gentle melody. I really like this track, hope to hear more from him.

11. Figurines - The Wonder

More Scandinavian indie, this time from Denmark. This Figurines song is extremely danceable and catchy.


12. Ленинград - Свобода

Russian ska band, one of the greatest successes of the post-Soviet music era (which, I must admit, I don't know very well). This song is full of energy, with husky vocals, all male unison chorus and a catchy instrumental passage which will stick to your brain like glue. Musical (and tuning!) skills leave something to be desired, but plenty of raw energy.

13. Ugress - Spider-Man Theme

Nice electronica rendition of the theme from the Spiderman movies. The kind of music you would hear at a trendy bar with two-syllable name written in futuristic font circa 2000. But ages fairly well.

14. Studio - No Comply

According to Pitchfork, this Swedish (again!) track was the 2007's 55th best. Nice "world music" percussion over club beat, but two chords are not quite enough to maintain my attention for the full 5 1/2 minutes.

15. Magnus Eliassen - Lois Is Happy

Midtempo pop tune - handclaps and all - with a simple, catchy melody that unfortunately loses some of its momentum at the end of each chorus. Has received a lot of airplay on Norwegian radio.

16. Thom Hell - Don´t pretend

Beautiful melody clearly inspired by Thomas Dybdahl, although lyrically perhaps not quite in the same league ("please don't pretend/you'll come again"). But well worth more than one listen.

18. Aberdeen - Florida

All right, if a little lengthy shoegaze-like track from now defunct group.

19. Readymade - The Fake but No Finish

A hypnotic shoegaze-track from an obscure Canadian band with a medium-sized
Pitchfork hype.

19. Bound Stems - Andover

Complex stuff, but quite rewarding.

20. Dag og Sivilarbeiderne - Et slags requiem

I had to include one of my own tracks at the end - not to suggest that I'm in the same league as any of the artists above - but just to make sure you get the message that this entire post was a nasty ploy to boost my own plays and get rich from the royalties. So far I've made close to 50 Cents.

06.02. +++ Minor Majority, Thom Hell +++ Bericht

12.02. +++ Stars, Jade McNelis +++ Bericht

01.03. +++ Nada Surf, Rogue Wave +++ kommentierte Setliste

03.03. +++ Sportfreunde Stiller, IchKannFliegen +++ Bericht und Bilder

13.03. +++ Superpunk, 1000 robota +++ Bericht