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Meet Real Ones – straight from the hotbed of Bergen, Norway (home of Sondre Lerche, Annie, Kings of Convenience).

The five members of the psychedelic folk-pop Real Ones are childhood friends and have been playing music together since their teenage years …

It’s taken me awhile to get to the subject of Eurovision this year. What prompted me today is that I just heard 2009 winner Alexander Rybak and his Eurovision winning song “Fairytale” on the radio …

Drink, dear rebels and drink again. Katzenjammers’s musical underground cultus is conjured up through instruments like the accordian, mandolin, guitar, piano, balaika bass, xylophone, trumpet, kazoo, melodica, drums and banjo just to name a few – all played with fire in the belly, fever in the fingers, heart and throat. And then there are voices …

Norway’s Hove Festival is proud to announce Lykke Li as one of the latest additions to this year’s ever growing festival programme. The Swedish super star has had major success both at home in Scandinavia, in Europe and the USA, where she has been touring solidly for the last six months …

Tommy Tokyo & Starving For My Gravy are making waves crossing the North Sea. Norway based Tommy Tokyo, have already released their album ‘Smear Your Smiles Back On’ on home soil last September. They are now set for a UK release – after performing at the Great Escape festival – later on next month …

Norway’s Hove Festivalen is proud to announce that The Prodigy will be smashing out their seminal hits as they take prime position at this year’s festival. The groundbreaking UK band have sold over 17 million albums since starting up in 1990, and are reckoned to be one of the pioneers in modern electronic dance music …

A reunited Faith No More will headline this year’s Hove Festival in Norway. It is eleven years since the band initially split up, and Hove is one of the few hand-picked festivals in Europe which can add the band to their line-up. The legendary rock band will headline on Thursday the 25th June, 2009. So far Hove is the bands’ only confirmed gig in Scandinavia …

Ras Nas aka Nasibu Mwanukuzi, a musician and poet from Tanzania, is one of the artists at this year’s Oslo World Music Festival. The Festival, one of the biggest in Scandinavia in the World Music genre, takes place in Oslo, Norway from 30th October – 4th November, 2007 [...]

When is the last time you heard a band from Norway that sounded like the Jimi Hendrix Experience playing blues-rock as if they came from suburban America? Nickles & Dimes is that band. The have released albums every three to four years since 1993. So they do have a record of accomplishment as [...]