Strøm Festival 2024: MUSIKZAG – Meandering current
September 11 2024, af Ivna Franc
Foto: Flemming Bo Jensen
Live review by Ivna Franic
Much like the 2023 program, this year’s Strøm Festival balanced between two extremes: the party – as expected of an electronic music festival, and the meditation. On the one hand, the festival featured its now-traditional metro party Trans-Metro Express as well as several other club music events, while on the other it presented events ...
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Roskilde Festival 2024 – An escape for anyone
Blog Feature
July 19 2024, af Macon Holt
Valentina Magaletti. Photo: Manuel Berger
By Macon Holt
As a committed non-camper, I arrived at Roskilde 2024, my first time at the festival, on Thursday afternoon. It had been a long time since I had been such a festival. When I camped at Glastonbury in 2011, I sort of felt I had reached the peak of excitement and discomfort such festivals had to offer, so ...
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Ny Lille Klub – Is there room for diverse venues in Copenhagen?
Blog Feature
May 27 2024
By Maite Cintron. Photos by Marie-Christin Henkelmann.
Earlier this year, the two independent venues Ny Lille Klub and Motopol closed down after apromixtaly a year. This led to many critical reflections about the conditions for smaller and non-commercial venues in Copenhagen and in which ways it might be possible to coorporate more fruitfully with the municipality about securing such spaces in the ...
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Passive Aggressive Conversations #3: Spellcaster
Podcast
May 15 2024, af Macon Holt
Maite Cintron, with Ivna Franic and Macon Holt
Passive Aggressive Conversations is our new podcast series hosted by two Passive/Aggressive journalists, Macon Holt and Ivna Franic, where we dive deep into some of the emerging sounds within the Danish music scene and their unique forms of expression. In each episode, we sit down with an exciting new independent artist, and they share their creative ...
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In Situ Festival – Taking the audience on a journey (interview)
Feature
May 1 2024, af Ivna Franc
By Ivna Franic
In Situ Festival is back, scheduled for this coming Friday and Saturday. While the festival’s first edition, which took place in late 2022, explored the possibilities of different venues in Ørestad, this time In Situ will take place exclusively at Simian. This year’s festival features exciting international names such as Jana Rush, Moritz von Oswald presenting ‘Silencio’, the Lucy ...
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Passive Aggressive Conversations #2: Alto Aria
Podcast
April 17 2024, af Macon Holt
Maite Cintron, with Ivna Franic and Macon Holt
Passive Aggressive Conversations is our new podcast series hosted by two Passive/Aggressive journalists, Macon Holt and Ivna Franic, where we dive deep into some of the emerging sounds within the Danish music scene and their unique forms of expression. In each episode, we sit down with an exciting new independent artist, and they share their creative ...
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Space Afrika – “Experience is at the root of everything that we produce” (Interview)
Blog
March 23 2024, af Ivna Franc
By Ivna Franic, photos by Glauco Canalis
The concert season in Copenhagen is gearing up to be the most exciting it’s been in ages, and Space Afrika makes for one of its high points. Their upcoming show was as good an excuse as any to catch up with the duo made up of two Joshuas – Reid and Inyang. With strong releases ...
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Passive Aggressive Conversations #1: Dalin Waldo
Podcast
March 12 2024, af Alexander Julin
Maite Cintron, with Ivna Franic and Macon Holt
Passive Aggressive Conversations is our new podcast series hosted by two Passive/Aggressive journalists, Macon Holt and Ivna Franic, where we dive deep into some of the emerging sounds within the Danish music scene and their unique forms of expression. In each episode, we sit down with an exciting new independent artist, and they share their ...
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Drift Radio – on housing diversities and facilitating communities
Blog
February 22 2024, af Sofie Westh
Interview by Sofie Westh
Out of admiration to DIY and the community radio media, I spoke to the Icelandic DJ and promoter Anton Sandholt (he/they) – aka. Fruit DJ – about what drove them to initiate Drift Radio, the soon-to-be-one-year-old Copenhagen-based radio station and bar. Hosting a broad variety of radio shows every Thursday at Øen, Nørrebro, Drift Radio have quickly turned ...
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