Swedish musician Magnus Uggla wasn't entirely impressed with the money he was making from Spotify. He asked his label, Sony, about it; they told him it was all to the good and to keep faith with the service. They, erm, somehow forgot to mention to him that Sony were a shareholder in Spotify: Uggla was as surprised as most people when he learned last week that the major labels, including Sony, all have a stake in Spotify. A mere 30,000 kroner ($4,000) investment bought the company 5.8% of the service now valued at around [...]

[Photo by Wyatt Cusick] Love Is All has recorded a bunch of their favorite Swedish classics - including a cover of Lykke Li's mom's band, Tant Strul's "Pappas Tant" - and will be giving away the tracks to fans for free at their upcoming shows and online. According to the band's MySpace blog , they recorded the covers a while back, when they had some time to kill. "Each member would pick a song with no other member getting [...]

It´s the 2009! Happy new year! It´s cold as an eskimo coochie here in Oslo, but it being the new year and all I can start looking forward to the summer. To accompany my giddy feelings of glee I have chosen this wonderful Swedish (again!?) 1980 track from Magnus Uggla aptly entitled "Sommartid" (Summertime). MP3 Magnus Uggla - Sommartid ( Alt. Link )
A force de le croiser un peu partout et de discuter musique avec lui, il était temps de convier l'editeur Pilooski du crew D-I-R-T-Y sur Get The Curse. Pour lui, faire un Raw Material revient juste à faire sa playliste du moment. C'est aussi simple que ça. Et c'est pas pour autant que j'ai [...]