2 Nov 2026
Culture
Concerts Culture Music

Yasukazu Kano and Mattias Lindberg – Prayer for Peace

Japanese shinobue musician Yasukazu Kano and Swedish jazz pianist and composer Mattias Lindberg have been building a musical dialogue between Japan and Sweden through an ongoing collaboration. Their music weaves traditional bamboo flute with jazz, improvisation and Nordic soundscapes, moving between stillness, energy and spontaneity.  The theme of the concert – peace – comes from […]

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Chungking Express: Where Do We Go From Here?

Must listen: The Mamas & the Papas – California Dreamin’ At the beginning of the film, while I was still trying to understand what was going to happen, perhaps I was unaware of the effect this film would leave on me. Asian cinema has always been a cinematic journey for film lovers who are not […]

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Concerts Music

Mulaa Joans brings a whole lot of feeling to Stockholm

There was something rather fitting about Mulaa Joans’ Stockholm debut at Debaser Nova on Monday night: the 19-year-old artist played to a room filled largely with girls around her own age – and quite a few who were clearly young enough to still need a parent to get them through the door. But if anyone […]

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Where are we headed? KAJ joins new season of På Spåret

The long-running Swedish television favorite På Spåret has been broadcast since 1987 and it is still chugging along at the same pace, gathering something like two million viewers on Friday nights. The new season brings us two thirds of KAJ from Finland as one of the competing pairs. We caught up with Jakob and Axel, […]

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Culture TV

IFS continues to teach Swedes about immigrants

SVT’s cheerfully subversive game show IFS – Invandrare för svenskar is starting its sixth season with Assia Dahir taking over the lectern after original host Ahmed Berhan. We had a chance to chat with Assia as well as some of the other cast of characters from this season. The show’s title flips the script on […]

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Pressure: Weather, War and the 72 Hours Before D-Day

The film Pressure leaves an undeniable impact from its very first scene, creating an atmosphere where it feels as if someone has walked into the room, making it impossible to look anywhere else, listen to anyone else, or think about anything other than what is right in front of you. The music is a huge part of […]

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Formex August 2026, Nordic Design Looks Ahead to a New Season

Photography by Vladimir Vallejos Formex returned to Stockholmsmässan in Stockholm from August 25 to 27, 2026, bringing the Nordic interior and design industry together for three days of inspiration, business, new products, and creative encounters. Founded in 1960, Formex has developed into the Nordic region’s leading trade marketplace for interior design. Held twice a year, […]

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Concerts Music

Plastilina Mosh Bring 30 Years of Mexican Irreverence to Stockholm

There are concerts where you listen to a band. And then there are concerts where the entire room seems to collectively decide that, for the next couple of hours, there is absolutely no reason to stand still. Last night at Debaser, the latter happened. For their first-ever performance in Stockholm, Mexican duo Plastilina Mosh arrived […]

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Miriam Bryant ends her summer tour at Ulriksdal Palace

As Miriam Bryant’s summer tour came to an end against the grand backdrop of the royal grounds at Ulriksdal, the audience was enjoying what they knew would most likely be one of the last warm evenings of this summer spent outdoors enjoying a shared experience like this. We bring you photos of the show. From […]

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Glitter-filled fever dreams at Gröna Lund with Daniela Rathana

Daniela Rathana is one of those pop stars, who has never been interested in doing things lagom. She occupies a very particular type of corner of her own in Swedish pop: outrageous, glamorous, funny, vulnerable and just a little bit unhinged at times. That of course makes for some amazing live shows, so we had […]

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