2 May 2024
Culture
Culture Music

In Pictures: Dua Lipa in Stockholm

Earlier in the week we had the chance to catch the amazing Dua Lipa at NRJ Live Sessions. We bring you some pictures taken by YLC’s own Nina Uddin. We consider Dua Lipa one of the coolest pop stars around at the moment, and you can’t have missed her voice if you’ve listened to the radio […]

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Art Culture What's on: Stockholm

Art’s Present Signifiers

As art history’s methods and mediums unsurprisingly continue to crucially influence the art crafted today, so too does the cultural – be it popular culture with its movie stars and footballers, or of its differences from that treasured by remote people living in equally exotic places or in divergent social pockets in each society. What […]

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Friday Playlist Music New Music Friday

New Music Friday: Miriam Bryant Rockets Away

This New Music Friday sees the release of Miriam Bryant’s new single Rocket, which she has been teasing for a while with the hashtag #whatisrocket The song has a summery feel with a backbeat, and a brighter outlook than most of Miriam’s other songs. But it’s still a breakup song, in which she sings “I’m rocketing […]

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Music

Tube & Berger at Solidaritet – a clash of music and joy

On Easter Sunday, Tube & Berger, one of the hottest duos in the world of deep house music, landed on Swedish territory to bring their music to Solidaritet. Making this their first appearance behind the decks of a club in Stockholm. It was past 2am when they made came behind the decks in the club, and the dance […]

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Culture Festivals Lifestyle Music What's on: Stockholm

Your Living City’s Ultimate Music Festival Guide 2017

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.  In this list you will find all major music festivals in a variety of styles taking place in Stockholm this year – as an […]

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Culture Swedish Culture What's on: Stockholm

Out-Of-The-Box: Young Swedish Design

What gets crafted when Sweden’s young designers are given the license to dare to believe in their ideas and to play with, create from and explore them freely, where implementation is without any consideration for adaptation to market needs? “Young Swedish Design” showcases 20 such contributions in areas as divergent as product design, textiles, fashion, […]

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Health Outdoor Activities What's on: Stockholm Yoga

Ever wondered what the City Hall looks like upside down?

We did. So we checked it out. For 3 years now Dan and his team at Run with Me Stockholm have been building a community for runners living in Stockholm (Join them every Sunday for a run and a fika!) as well as offering “out of the ordinary” guided tours for tourists who packed their […]

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Music New Music Friday

New Music Friday: YLC’s picks for you

You do know what Fridays mean? Plenty of new music! We are once again picking the best of this week’s new Swedish releases for you. Be sure to have a listen and add these gems to your playlist! We’ll start with Marlene (pictured above), who is giving us another fine pop tune in Next To Me. […]

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Art Creative Arts Uncategorized

Scandic Malmen gets re-decorated by miniature worlds

On Wednesday we were invited to the inauguration of an art exhibition that aims to create a scape for the mind into miniature worlds inside the world of Scandic Malmen. Martin Lima de Faria is the artist in charge of re-decorating the walls of the hotel’s bistro restaurant and for this commission he has created “Small People Big […]

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Culture What's on: Stockholm

Art’s Associated Values

As art makers individualistically strive to create new possibilities, new forms, new twists, new perspectives, new futures; uncommon not thought of and even mysterious associations are either repetitively or uniquely explored, repositioned and recombined; shifting from a return to the familiar to an adventurous life rendered ever so foreign – all achieved without the slightest […]

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