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The travelling music extravaganza we lovingly know as MELLO is reaching its climax on Saturday the 12th of March. Here’s your guide to the big final of Melodifestivalen! Melodifestivalen is a very big deal in Sweden. Even though it is the Swedish qualifications round for the Eurovision Song Contest, it is bigger than Eurovision – […]
Stockholm was visited by Sónar, the famous Barcelona festival during the 26th and 27th of February. This edition took place at Nobelberget, which is an industrial complex, located in Sickla on the south side of the city. The festival presented a total of 28 DJ and band performances spread across three stages. It was a […]
We have put together a pretty amazing music festival guide for your convenience – so you don’t have to look anywhere else to get ideas and make plans for your festival year. We have included the best music festivals taking place in Stockholm this year – plus as a bonus we’ve added a couple of […]
In case you haven’t understood it as yet, Melodifestivalen is a BIG DEAL in Sweden . Last year’s final was the most watched TV programme of the year, all categories, with almost 3,8 million viewers (of a 10 million population). In comparison, the Eurovision Song Contest final – with a Swedish winner – “only” had […]
It’s time to take stock of the amazing music year 2015, so YLC’s resident music enthusiast Nina Uddin has put together a throwback special of artists and songs that made a mark during the music year in Stockholm. Nina has also picked some of her photos of each artist from their 2015 live performances. Putting […]
‘Tis the season and we bring you a christmassy Spotify playlist with some pretty excellent Swedish artists who have all put their great voices on some Christmas tunes. We have the wonderful Cookies‘n Beans singing about being stuck in Stockholm over Christmas, and the amazing Elin Ruth putting a new bluesy twist on Christmas with her brand-new original Xmas songs. […]
Aftonbladet’s Rockbjörnen Awards celebrate live music and are voted on by the readers. This year’s award show was brought to Kungsträdgården during the We Are STHLM festival and attracted a large and predominantly young audience. We present some photos by our resident rock photographer Nina Uddin.
This year’s Stockholm Culture Festival puts the spotlight on the UK and offers all forms of culture from music to contemporary circus to dance – all for free. We’ve put together some of our top picks from the programme day-by-day. Tuesday 11th August The opening day’s must-see act is the Tensta Gospel Choir, who are […]
Once again August is promising to be an awesome month when it comes to live music and festivals in Stockholm. We’ve put together our best picks of outdoor events you should not miss this month. Stockholm Music and Arts Music and arts take over Skeppsholmen once again, as the festival celebrates its fourth year at […]
Meet Linnea Södahl – a song-writer starting to make her mark in the Stockholm music scene, and an artist in her own right. She’s one quarter Swedish, one quarter Finnish, one quarter Danish and one quarter Norwegian – so let’s just call her Nordic, shall we? Oh, and she was born in South Africa, out […]
