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Swedish-Japanese singer-songwriter Maia Hirasawa has just released her first ever album in Swedish, Vacker och ful. But her international fans need not worry, she’s not abandoning English or Japanese. Maia Hirasawa tells Swedish was actually the first language she started writing songs in at age 22. But when she learned to play the guitar, the […]
The art highlighted for October is about all things Swedish, with a few outside the country thrown in as contrast for good measure, or as instigators to muse more deeply on the ideas and ideals conveyed by the creative Swedes. Concurrently, the created artworks on display transverse from the modern to the contemporary, varying greatly […]
We’re premiering the first episode of our brand new video series Living the City. In our first episode we present to you Stockholm’s Top 5 Cocktails and see five different cocktail experts prepare for us the cocktails that Stockholmers love the most. Our cocktail experts are: Samuel Wiktorsson preparing a Smoked Old Fashioned at Ebenist Antonio Sorbo […]
Last weekend we witnessed a unique all-night vernissage of the exhibition Insomnia at Bonniers Konsthall with a total duration of 12 hours filled with performances, workshops, live music, DJs, and rituals. The vernissage started at 6:39 pm and lasted until the gallery’s doors closed at 6:40 am. The rituals of the sunset and sunrise framed […]
Maria Hazell may still be flying under your radar, but her latest single Debut has racked up a cool million streams on Spotify in about two weeks (as of this writing). She brings impeccable vocals and finely crafted songs with great pop sensibilities. We had the chance to talk with Maria about her music and […]
Perhaps there is no past or future, only the perpetual present that contains this trinity of memory. Patti Smith Artist, performer and poet Patti Smith was present at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern to inaugurate her own photo exhibition called Eighteen Stations. With striking kindness Smith strolled around her exhibition, saying hi to the public and signing books before giving […]
Autumn is here and whether we want it or not we become a little bit more comfortable staying at home and cozying up on our sofas enjoying a good film or a good tv show. And some of Sweden’s biggest TV channels know it! We had a chance to have a sneak peek on what […]
Art lovers in Stockholm have been treated with much cherished doses of contemporary East Asian art this year. Wetterling Gallery ran “The Doubling of Reality” solo exhibition by Berlin-based Korean painter SEO in April and May, while ArkDes and Moderna Museet’s joint presentation of their “Yayoi Kusama – The Infinity” summer show on the renowned […]
We are premiering our new Profiles video series with the very talented singer and songwriter Sara Steele. A rising star from Stockholm with an unique sound in the line of progressive dark pop with lots of beats and some post-rock as well. Steele describes her own work as a cinema show, but with music.
As nature goes from lush green to golden yellow and finally crimson brown, we slowly settle into autumn’s days of sipping aromatic coffee in favourite cafes leisurely working our way through our list of e-books made during summer; inspiring us to pen down on our trusty iPads our musings on life, laughter, love and inspirations […]
