Since the release of her debut EP Little Bit in 2008, Swedish chanteuse Lykke Li has become an iconic staple of the indie-pop world with a decade spanning career. With four acclaimed albums under her belt amassing over a quarter of a billion Spotify streams, Lykke has accrued endless accolades. From “Best Album of the Year” nods from the likes of The New York Times and Rolling Stone to performing on the renowned stages of music festivals like Glastonbury, Coachella and Lollapalooza. June 2018 Lykke Li released her fourth studio album so sad so sexy to widespread critical acclaim. Her performance at Way Out West will be her only Swedish performance this summer.
In 2016-2017, she was busy nurturing, liv, her love child with Andrew Wyatt, Björn Yttling, Pontus Winnberg & Jeff Bhasker – a project that allowed the collective to mutually have a creative outlet.
Lykke Li did perform in Slottsskogen on Saturday, August 11.
Today's tune "Never Gonna Love Again" is taken from the third studio album "I Never Learn", released on 2 May 2014 by LL Recordings and Atlantic Records. The album was produced by Li, Björn Yttling and Greg Kurstin. It spawned the singles "No Rest for the Wicked", "Gunshot" and "Never Gonna Love Again".
Few bands have been so characteristic for their time as POPSICLE. With classic hits like Sunkissed, "Hey Princess" and "Not Forever" they became the soundtrack for many people’s 90’s. Now they are back and ready to take on Linné stage at Way Out West.
POPSICLE is a pop group in Piteå in Sweden, which together with THIS PERFECT DAY, THE WANNADIES and BRAINPOOL started the 1990s indiepop wave in Sweden.
POPSICLE may have laid the foundations of the Swedish indie scene, but it was not until four years later as the band played through to a wider audience, that they had their biggest hit - the single and today's tune "Not Forever" from the self-titled third album.
It’s hard not to be impressed by Annie Clark – or St. Vincent as she calls herself. Last year she released her fifth album, MASSEDUCTION, on which she once again exceeds all expectations. With a unique sound, an amazing voice and a quaint expression one can agree that St. Vincent is one of the most interesting artists of our time. Apart from all this, she’s also a guitar virtuoso who has been called “the first truly 21st century guitar hero” by Guitar World Magazine, an excellent songwriter and a true innovator of the pop music of today.
After breaking through with magnificent Marry Me in 2007 – and being compared to the likes of David Bowie and Kate Bush – every release by St. Vincent has meant a fascinating experience. Equally fascinating in a live environment, St. Vincent can easily be described as one of the most exciting live performers of today, always breaking boundaries and introducing new concepts. She has also recorded a collaborative album and embarked on a tour with one of her biggest fans – David Byrne of Talking Heads
St Vincent did perform in Slottsskogen on Thursday August 9.
Today's tune "New York", is taken from the fifth studio album "Masseduction" (stylized in all caps). It was released on October 13, 2017, through Loma Vista Recordings.[4] The album peaked at number 10 on the Billboard 200, becoming her first top ten album in the United States. The album also received universal acclaim and was the fourth-most mentioned in critic's year-end lists for 2017
Thåström is considered by many as Sweden’s only true rockstar. Regardless if one agrees or not, Thåström serves as a school book example on how to remain relevant as an artist over an extended period of time. Always curious, never cynical and with an artistic integrity set in stone he managed what very few of his colleagues could: he stayed relevant during four decades. His concerts are no exceptions. Often described as a haunting experience, with Thåströms standing in front of a powerful backlight, singing his very own kind of industrial blues like no one else.
Thåström is a legendary Swedish artist and performer, his roots stretch back to the punk rock movement in the late 70s. Since the late 80s he has released several acclaimed solo records and 2017 he released “Centralmassivet” which was awarded with a Grammy.
Thåström will perform in Slottsskogen on Saturday August 11.
Miriam Bryant is one of the biggest artists on the Swedish music scene after accumulating 200 million streams, five Platinum or multi-Platinum tracks, and a million monthly listeners at Spotify. Now she’s returning her attention towards repeating that success on an international scale. Born in Gothenburg to an English father and a Finnish mother, Miriam’s interests cross right across the musical spectrum.”Finders Keepers” became Miriam’s first homeland hit, but bigger things were waiting on the horizon when she featured on Zedd’s track “Find You” which found a huge international audience when it appeared on the soundtrack to sci-fi smash ‘Divergent’.
That stance worked wonders with the ‘Hisingen och Hem Igen ’ EP (a collection of songs recorded for the smash hit Swedish TV music show ‘Så Mycket Bättre’) which saw all six tracks simultaneously chart at Spotify. Currently only available in the Nordics, her latest EP “Bye Bye Blue” saw Miriam return to the charts in style with the track “Black Car” already 5 x Platinum. Everything’s in place for Miriam Bryant to rocket to the top of the global charts too.
Miriam bryant will perform in Slottsskogen on Friday August 10.
Today's tune "Black Car" is taken from the latest album "Bye Bye Blue", enjoy!
The music of KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD [AUS] is as hard to describe as their name is to pronounce. Sometimes it sounds like a psychedelic gem you managed to dig out at your local record shop but their sonic universe also incorporates jazz, heavy metal, progressive rock, film music and folk. Like a materialization of a record collectors dream, this Melbourne band fearlessly guides the listener through some of the most obscure borderlands of music history. Always with an absolute love for the for the forgotten music and an intact faith in its transforming potential.
Just a few hours before 2017 came to a close KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD managed to make their album “Gimboot Soup” available on their Bandcamp and thus fulfilling the more than ambitious promise to release five (!) album in 2017 alone. If anyone was to pull of such a foolish venture it was King Gizz who released two album each year between 2013 and 2015. This seven-piece band is not only very productive, they are also known for their excellent live shows. In other words: prepare your minds for expansion because they will visit Slottsskogen this summer.
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD will perform in Slottsskogen on Friday, August 10.
The band was formed in 2010 in Melbourne, Victoria. The band consists of Stu Mackenzie (vocals, guitar, keyboards, flute), Ambrose Kenny-Smith (vocals, harmonica, keyboards), Cook Craig (guitar, vocals), Joey Walker (guitar, vocals), Lucas Skinner (bass), Michael Cavanagh (drums, percussion), and Eric Moore (drums, percussion, management). They are known for their prolific recording output, as well as their energetic live performances. This is something I really looking forward to see.
Today's tune "Rattlesnake" is taken from the ninth studio album "Flying Microtonal Banana". It was released on 24 February 2017 on Flightless Records in Australia, ATO Records in the United States, and Heavenly Recordings in the United Kingdom. It is the first of five albums released in 2017, and subtitled "Explorations into Microtonal Tuning, Volume 1". The album is recorded in quarter-tone tuning, where an octave is divided into 24 (logarithmically) equal-distanced quarter tones.
The album earned the band a nomination for Best Group at the ARIA Music Awards of 2017.
Upcoming tourdates:
TUE 7 AUGUST VEGA Musikkens Hus - Store Vega (Main Hall) Copenhagen, Denmark
WED 8 AUGUST – WED 15 AUGUST Sziget Festival 2018 Budapest, Hungary THU 9 AUGUST – SAT 11 AUGUST Way Out West Festival 2018 Gothenburg, Sweden
THU 16 AUGUST – SUN 19 AUGUST Green Man Festival 2018 Brecon Beacons, UK
FRI 17 AUGUST – SUN 19 AUGUST Lowlands Festival 2018 Biddinghuizen, Netherlands
MON 20 AUGUST Alter Schlachthof Dresden, Germany
TUE 21 AUGUST Batschkapp Frankfurt, Germany
WED 22 AUGUST Club Manufaktur Schorndorf, Germany
WED 22 AUGUST – SAT 25 AUGUST Zürich Openair 2018 Zürich, Switzerland
FRI 24 AUGUST Domaine National de St CloudParis, France
SAT 25 AUGUST Domaine National de St CloudParis, France
FRI 12 OCTOBER – SUN 14 OCTOBER Desert Daze 2018 Perris, CA, US
For twelve years, the music and film festival Way Out West – that attracts visitors from all over Sweden and large parts of the rest of the world – has filled Gothenburg and Slottskogen with three days of music, festivities and culture. The programme includes the biggest stars in the world, the hottest new-comers, film premieres, challenging conversations, great vegetarian food and a robust club programme called ‘Stay Out West’ that takes place at night in central Gothenburg.
The ground concept remains the same; over three days we create a cultural melting-pot in central Gothenburg and establish the main area in beautiful Slottsskogen. We create the festival that we would like to visit ourselves, and one that we don’t think exists anywhere else in the world.
This is Way Out West!
This is my eleventh year on this festival and for some strange reason, I long for it. Much depends on the fact that it is the world's best colleagues, a bunch that is well welded that it goes like a dance, everyone know what to do and help eash other out and makes things easier for eash other to conquer it. Even if I, is not a big fan of Indie, Rap, Hip Hop, Dance or the most common artists that perform on this festival, not even am I a vegeterian, but once a year it works out just fine. And as I always do every year around the festival, I play some tunes from the artists that is going to perform and as long as we go I add some cool pictures and I even might tell a story, we will see about that. So for the next week, 10 days I will focus on WOW - 18. First out will be british bunch of Indie Rockers.
ARCTIC MONKEYS is a English indie rock band that is playing on Thursday at WOW.
Today's tune "Do I Wanna Know?" is a song recorded by ARCTIC MONKEYS for their fifth studio album "AM" (2013). The song was released as a single on 18 June 2013, together with an accompanying music video, and afterward became available for digital download via iTunes. A 7" vinyl edition of the single was released on 22 July 2013, with a B-side titled "2013".
The song was first played live on 22 May 2013 in Ventura, California, at the first concert of the ARCTIC MONKEYS' AM Tour. Throughout the tour, "Do I Wanna Know?" was being played as the opening number.
Musically, "Do I Wanna Know?" is an indie rock song with elements of psychedelic music and strong elements of stoner rock and blues rock. In terms of both lyrical content and aesthetic style, the song picks up from where the band's 2012 single "R U Mine?" left off. The guitar riffs are strikingly similar, but the song is more downtempo. The track continues the hard-edged, rocking sound of their previous album Suck It and See. In concert, singer and guitarist Alex Turner use a Vox 12-string electric guitar.
Structurally, the song follows a common pop music "verse-pre-chorus-chorus" form up until its second chorus; from that point on, it follows what Hit Songs Deconstructed calls "a more unorthodox flow" ending in a "pre-chorus/chorus hybrid section". Falsetto backing vocals form an interplay with those of Turner throughout the song. Moreover, the title encapsulates the entire premise of the story, the narrator wondering whether he wants to remain in doubt or know if his feelings are unrequited or mutual. "Do I Wanna Know?" is in the key of G minor.
The music video for the tune was directed by David Wilson with animation agency Blinkink, was first released onto YouTube on 18 June 2013. As of July 2018, it has been viewed over 690 million times. The video begins with a black background and simple visuals of white sound waves (similar to the AM cover art) that vibrate in synchronization, first with the percussion and lead guitar, then with the lead singer, Alex Turner. As the band enters with the chorus, colored sound waves illustrate new voices. Simple sound waves then give way to fast-moving, representational line-drawing animations that morph between a variety of female, race car, race car engine, and road racing images. At one point, the undulating white line becomes the "trucker's Mudflap girl", seen in the single's cover art. The line drawings are interrupted several times with flashes of full-color animation, several that recall the surrealistic style of Robert Crumb. The increasingly complex video creates, by turns, a somewhat jarring and psychedelic experience, in a style not unlike the Gary Gutierrez animations that were featured in The Grateful Dead Movie (1977). The video ends with the familiar white line becoming two crossed checkered flags, which join together in a single line with the "AM" initials. Enjoy!
