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Spotify – Den ensrettede gade

Feature April 24 2025, af Martin Funder

Internettet fungerer som kapitalens tentakler, der rækker langt ind bag hjemmets fire vægge. Opmærksomhed er en råvare, og internettets demokratiske løfte om et digitalt bytorv, hvor millioner af mennesker kan mødes, føles nu mere som et storcenter.

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Intonal 2025 – Ten years of gutsy moves

April 22 2025, af Ivna Franic

This year's edition of Malmö's Intonal marks the festival's tenth anniversary. From its early days as a collaboration with Berlin's CTM and Krakow's famed Unsound festival, Intonal has grown into a thing completely of its own. Rather than trying to copy the successful but heavily international scene-driven formulas of other European festivals, it focused on cultivating a close relationship with the local audience – from the festival's intimate setting to the lineup, designed to both reflect the interests of the Malmö scene and showcase its talent. Some of the reasons for this are beautifully explained in the festival manifesto in the words of none other than the great Shania Twain.

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Xenia Xamanek – making reality reverberate with potential

Kritik March 18 2025, af Macon Holt

Xenia Xamanek – “Germinate [Imprint] Wilt [Stay]” (Scorpio Red Records, 2025) – review by Macon Holt Germinate [Imprint] Wilt [Stay] is the latest album from multidisciplinary, Honduran-Danish artist Xenia Xamanek. In a career that has developed from experimental electronica to dance music and sparse ballads, this record is a conceptual, if not stylistic, follow-up to 2021’s DELIRIO ...

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Pleaser – “En selvmodarbejdende desperation efter befrielse” (Mixtape og Interview)

Mixtape March 11 2025, af Mathias Schønberg

Mixtape af Pleaser. Interview af Mathias Schønberg. Foto af Christina Karlsen. I Pleaser bringer medlemmerne hver især noget ret forskelligt til bordet. Bookere, anmeldere og fans har somme tider svært definere bandet, som også spiller så forskellige steder som K-Town Harcore Fest, Høst Møn og åbningen af Metroringen. Firkløveren af venner har, siden de udkom med en fem-minutters-demo ...

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MK Velsorf & Aase Nielsen – Gloomed-up Gala

Kritik March 5 2025

MK Velsorf & Aase Nielsen – “Opening Night” (Awe, 2025) – review by Juliette Thouin. Pictures by MK Velsorf and Aase Nielsen. This February, the Danes MK Velsorf and Aase Nielsen released their first collaborative project Opening Night on American DJ and producer Laurel Halo’s label Awe. Velsorf, a composer, guitarist, and one third of TLF ...

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