When it comes to politics, folk musicians and their fans tend to be left of center. That’s true in many places beyond the United States, including Sweden. Yet, as ethnographer David Kaminsky wrote in ...

Festivalgoers jokingly say all the time that they’d be willing to “give a kidney” for a ticket to a sold-out show. Well, now one festival in Sweden is taking fans up on that offer. Sweden’s Way Out ...

Music fans love to joke that they’d give up an organ for tickets to certain shows — and now concertgoers in Sweden actually can (sort of). Gothenburg’s Way Out West festival has introduced a new ...

Swedish metal veterans ENTOMBED are among twelve artists who have been selected as the inaugural inductees in the Swedish Music Hall Of Fame. The artists were chosen because they all made "lasting ...

The house music supergroup revealed they’ll be throwing an exclusive virtual party on Friday, April 15 with Spotify Live to celebrate the release of their debut album, Paradise Again Swedish House ...

Against the backdrop of continued rightsholder-AI talks, Sweden’s Stim has taken things a step further by launching the “world’s first collective AI music” license. The Swedish society reached out ...

Recorded music trade revenues in Sweden have increased by 18 per cent in the first nine months of 2009, following the majors' high-profile court victory over the Pirate Bay and the introduction of a… ...

BATHORYhas been inducted into the Swedish Music Hall Of Fame. The pioneering black metal band entered the Hall on Thursday (May 27) as part of the 2021 class, along with Py Bäckman, Björn Skifs, ...

You may not have heard of Kobalt before, but you probably engage with the music it oversees every day, if not almost every hour. Combining a technology platform to better track ownership rights and ...

A full-song download music subscription service called MusicStation went live today in Sweden, with plans to expand throughout Europe and Asia in the coming weeks. By Juliana Koranteng MusicStation, ...