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Fever Ray, Peter Bjorn and John: Swedish music right now
Famed in the nineties as the capital of pop, Scandinavia doesn’t seem to have exhausted its creative vein just yet. With a legacy of pop artists such as Aqua and Ace of Base, the northern European music scene is opening up to new sounds, experimenting with new technology and ambient tones, whilst never forgetting its musical past
cd, scandinavia, party, sweden, leonid kuchma, album, culture calendar
Ólafur Arnalds, Trail of Dead and Turin: your music for September
We’ve rattled up the format of our monthly music tips for the autumn. Catch our Iceland-flavoured album of the month, the top five tracks in September as voted for by our boys and girls in Turin, and an album tip from a correspondent from our network. This month, we hear from Berlin
cd, ólafur arnalds, and you will know us by the trail of dead, iceland, label, turin, italy
Warp records' Steve Beckett: ‘I was certain guitars would die out and electronic music would be everywhere’
For over two decades, Steve Beckett, 45, has been at the very forefront of electronic music. His independent record label 'Weird and Radical Projects' is home to the likes of Aphex Twin and Plaid, and has overseen the birth of some of the now finest names in electronic music over the past 20 years
cd, bands, interview, elektro, anniversary, steve beckett, technology
Music: South London's Speech Debelle and Revolver
Two American musicians who play for a better world and are displaced in Scandinavia, the newest female London hip-hop sound, plus a trio of French heartbreakers named after a Beatles track. This month's music picks also feature Peter Broderick and Mark Johnson
cd, revolver, speech debelle, peter broderick, cultural agenda, label, multiculturalism
Music in March: Killed by 9V Batteries and Extraperlo
Paris-Berlin machine rock, continental breakfast from Barcelona and Austrian pot-washers –spring is blossoming in many ways on the music scene! Café Babel’s music diary for March
cd, switzerland, bands, barcelona, sophie hunger, austria, berlin
Miss Platnum: 'women are like sticks and go to the gym in a frenzy every day'
Swathed in wacky colours, the Berlin-based Romanian singer, aka 27-year-old Ruth Maria Renner, raps about forced marriages and staying down to earth. Plus, why you should give her food
Sweden's Lykke Li: heartbreak leads to electro pop
Lykke means 'happy' in Norwegian. Li's debut album has led to a European tour, and she’s hyped as one of 2008’s biggest new stars. But chart positions don’t make the 22-year-old singer happy
cd, elektro, pop, lykke li, youth novels , sweden, leonid kuchma
Music in May with The Fratellis and Paul Weller
A freakshow from Germany, Scottish guitar rockers, an Italian in California and the return of the Woking Modfather – the best music to catch this month
cd, my baby wants to eat your pussy, musikagenda, robert delirio, the fratellis, european tour, album
Music: Portishead, Hooverphonic and the Lo Fat Orchestra
Where do these bands get their names from? We sweep the UK, Belgium, Switzerland and France for our monthly music pick this April
cd, men and women, strasbourg, youth, european tour, france, europe
Zhenya Strigalev: 'London's jazz scene is more open than Moscow's'
At 28, the prodigious composer and late-night jam-session organiser is the only Russian alto-sax player active on the London scene. We catch him at the launch of his new fusion set ‘Findamorale’ at the London jazz festival
cd, moscow, london, zhenya strigalev, post-soviet states, russian federation, western eu
Jean-Benoît Dunckel: 'the English are a hard audience to win over'
Ten years since the release of Air's first album 'Moon Safari', one half of the French duo, 38, talks Czech audiences, being a vanguard of the European electronic scene and why Air are not like Radiohead
British band The Cure are back
Plus charming French-Finnish duo 'The Duo', a tasty Swedish morsel of Jens Lekman, chic Danes 'The Fashion' and slightly unusual Italians Avvolte Kristheda - the best bands in March
An Pierlé: 'Downloads kill the industry'
The Dutch compared her to Tori Amos. In fact, the 33-year-old Belgian connoisseur of ‘kitsch’ French songs and pop is a theatrical musician who plays the piano sat on a big transparent ball, jumping about whilst tightly clutching her accordion
Music: Morcheeba, Brisa Roché and Moi Caprice
San Francisco feelings, Danish bands with French names and a rap collective named after a freedom movement: Europe's best music crop this month
The eastern punk Svieta Songako
Art is politics. The fourth and last chapter of our portraits of artists who are attempting to resist the ‘cultural Chernobyl’ in a Belarus that is in Alexander Lukashenko’s stranglehold
cd, belarus, non-eu countries, minsk, alexander lukashenko, central and eastern europe, culture
