29 Mar 2024
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Lollapalooza 2023 recap

Lollapalooza came and went like a very pleasant summer storm. It poured down its music, extravaganza and thundering shows over Stockholm, and left all festivalgoers with plenty of good memories, which will give them life for many months to come. Lollapalooza, the iconic music festival that attracts thousands of music lovers from around the world, […]

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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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The glorious long-awaited return of Lollapalooza

Since Lollapalooza concluded it’s second edition on Swedish soil, we are still unable to come down from the clouds of festival magic. It may be the fact that we waited three entire years for Lollapalooza to happen again, and what was even worse, during two of the years there were no other festivals and hardly […]

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Pop Girl Summer at Lollapalooza

For a pop nerd such as myself, the Lollapalooza Stockholm 2022 lineup included an impressive number of very cool pop girls who have been gracing my playlists, some for a while and some more recently. There were of course the huge international stars Lorde and Haim, about whom you can read more in our other […]

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Imagine Dragons explode at Lolla

Imagine Dragons takes over the Tower stage at Lollapalooza’s main stage… the minutes that will come after this instant should be filled with all the crazy emojis you can think of, including the explosion one. This show was as big as the festival itself. Before the third song is over the public has already been […]

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Måneskin rock the Lolla stage – and look good doing it

Since Italian rockers Måneskin won the Eurovision Song Contest last year, they have been taking over the world with their unbridled rock energy – performing on late night shows, ruling TikTok and playing to huge crowds at rock festivals. They also came to Lollapalooza Stockholm, bringing their total rock’n’roll spirit and the style to match […]

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Summer Night Magic with Lorde at Lollapalooza

Right at the Golden Hour in the Swedish summer night, the Lollapalooza audience gets served a big dose of Solar Power by none other than New Zealand pop powerhouse Lorde. Lorde and some of her musicians (all color-coordinated in yellow suits), enter the stage on a rotating staircase, which looks very similar to the sun […]

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Rosendal Garden Party – Little Glasto

Summer has already started in Stockholm and festival season is thriving. Or, I would say blossoming, if we refer to the Rosendal’s Garden Party. It’s been a while since the RGP took place, so it’s time to make all those who didn’t  have a chance to attend jealous. Why was it special for me? Because […]

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Pop Stars of the Future on Stage

UNITED STAGE has put together a mini-festival in mid-August, bringing out some of the most interesting rising stars on the Swedish pop sky right now. If you would ask us at Your Living City to put together a wishlist of fresh new Swedish artists we would really like to see (and haven’t been able to […]

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Meet ShaoDow – rapper, manga author and occasional ninja

One of Sweden’s most important music showcase events Live at Heart is being held in Örebro on 4th to 7th September and one of the artists making an appearance is British rapper ShaoDow. We had the chance to talk to him ahead of his visit to Sweden.   Although ShaoDow has visited Sweden before, this is his […]

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