11 Jul 2025
Festivals
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Festivals Music

Rosendal Garden Party 2023

Rosendal Garden Party is a music festival that takes place in the beautiful Djurgården in Stockholm. The festival offers a diverse lineup, catering to various musical tastes, featuring international superstars, Swedish rising stars, critically acclaimed favourites, and timeless classics performing side by side each night, creating a unique identity. Attendees can sit on the grass […]

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Festivals Music

Department festival 2023 – no emission mission!

Text collab: Monika Lipanovich & Karen Lundquist Photo: Karen Lundquist Waste is one of the major concerns that affects all music festivals, and it is particularly important to address this issue, especially during the summer season when numerous events take place. Nowadays, both organisers and attendees are taking decisive action to tackle this problem. One […]

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Festivals Music

Your Living City’s Ultimate Music Festival Guide 2023

No rain, no muddy puddles, no blasting sun will ever stop the die-hard music festival lovers, who year after year browse 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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Can anybody threaten a Loreen victory at Melfest?

So we have at last come to the climax of the six week Melodifestivalen tour that is aimed at finding a Swedish representative for Eurovision. The final at Friends Arena in Stockholm includes 12 songs, most of which deserve to be in the final. But is there anybody who could even dream of winning beside […]

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Melodifestivalen 2023 – Did they save the best for last?

So we have come to the last of the four preliminary heats of Melodifestivalen and are thus getting the entries from the remaining seven contestants. Eurovision queen Loreen’s return is having ESC fans all hyped up, and for good reason. Last week saw very expectedly Marcus & Martinus going straight to the final, joined by […]

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Melodifestivalen 2023 – Get ready for heat 3!

Last week’s second heat saw the Ukrainian talent Maria Sur getting the most votes with her belter of a survival ballad. And she is joined in the final by The Panetoz, who brought the dance party. Week 3 brings the touring Mello circus to Lidköping, and we have the next seven candidate vying for the […]

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Melodifestivalen 2023 – It’s time for Heat 2!

The first week of Melodifestivalen 2023 saw Jon Henrik Fjällgren with Arc North and Adam Woods going straight to the final as expected. And he will be joined by Tone Sekelius. The next seven contestants are up this Saturday in Linköping. Beside the actual qualification round, we can expect to see Linda Bentzing and Magnus […]

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Melodifestivalen 2023 kicks off with Heat 1

Can you believe it’s already time for Melodifestivalen?! The six-week music extravaganza is finally back on tour and the first heat of four is going to be held in Gothenburg on the 4th of February. So we will get to see the first seven of 28 entries competing for the Mello crown and for that […]

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In Pictures: Rix FM Festival 2022

The Rix FM Festival returned in full force this summer, having done a smaller-scale version for two Corona summers on people’s backyards and other similar venues. The touring festival visited 12 cities and brought along a total of 32 artists. The grand finale in Stockholm included 13 artists who went on to play for about […]

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In Pictures: The Rasmus in Stockholm

It had been ten years since The Rasmus had played a show in Stockholm (if we are not counting their visit to Sommarkrysset at Gröna Lund five years ago), so it was about time they came to town as part of the line-up for Bandit Rock Party. The free festival drew a nice crowd of […]

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