• With guitar pickering a la Jose Gonzalez the brit singer-songwriter Nick Mulvey got us on our knees, beggin for more.

The man got his debut LP First Mind out, receving a short list nomination for the Mercury Music Prize Album of the Year.

Check out the great song: Fever To The Form.

• We were knocked out by the mans Harlem River Blues (2010). Well, todays release of Justin Townes Earles new record Single Mothers sounds pretty ground-flooring as well. The americana son is back for good.

Check out the great song White Gardenias.

• This band from Cincinnati, Ohio, have been making records since 2005. Still out on the road with amazing front singer Erika Wennerstrom who digs deep in every tune.

The music is a classic reminder of heavy weights Sabbath, Airplane and Bolan, but still with the special swing of the The Heartless Bastards. The band now lives in Austin, Texas and hangs out with Partisan Records.

Check out the badass song Down In The Canyon. And the hour is getting late…

• Ty Segall is up our alley for sure. A guitar-fuzzer with both feet in the 70’s psycho-garage scene and productive as hell. His 2014-album Manipulator is getting up high on a-many End of year lists. Very rightly so.

This San Fran 27 year old guitar-drummer man just keeps on giving. Check out this new tune Feel live on Conan.

• ”I’ll be your actress, though I don’t know what it means.” A couple of seconds into this new tune and you´re hooked. The humming of the chorus is perfect, the escalation of the song never ends.

Married couple Dawn Larsh and Armando Vega found each other on the road and became The Tallest Tree. Check out their ukulele greatness in this gem of a song, I’ll Be Your (For You).

• Sometimes you hit gold. And let me tell you, Mister Eli Rhodes is Bonanza Creek, Klondike in the hard whipped year of 1896.

His EP Running Out Of Jesus is one of this years best albums, no doubt in my mind. It´s his first solo effort, let’s pray for more.

• Check out this sorrow of a song, I Hope He Breaks Your Heart, from the great alt-countrymen American Aquarium.

The chorus pretty much sums it up. ”I hope he breaks your heart, I hope you cry all night, …and I hope you feel – the way I do now.”

This hard touring band from Raleigh, North Carolina, is BJ Barham, Kevin McClain, Colin DiMeo, Whit Wright, Bill Corbin and Ryan Johnson. It´s a Springsteen, Lucero, Drive-By Truckers kind of a twang.

Their latest album Burn.Flicker.Die is a masterpiece, give it a go.

• The Dinosaur Jr frontman J Mascis releases his brand new soloalbum Tied To A Star August 26. From what I´ve heard so far it is beautiful, tender and lo-fi mellow. This is a guy who masters his trade, no doubt.

As a bonus J Mascis will tour Sweden Dec 17 (Gothenburg) and Dec 19 (Stockholm). Check out the two new songs Wide Awake and Every Morning below, cheers!

Photo: Matthew Pandolfe

• The fourth studioalbum from the Kentuckyseven heartband Delta Spirit is on the way, release date 9/9. Halle! Luhlja!

With Bob Dylan inspired lyrics and the usual great, massive attack of the band – this is one of the greatest reasons to be alive this upcoming fall.

Check out first single; From Now On.

Seasick Steve

6/7

”Heavy, dirty, groovy”

Photo: Olle Kirchmeier

“If you gonna sing a song about drinkin’ wine you might as well drink some wine”, 73-year old Seasick Steve says, gulping from the bottle and grinning his bearded wry smile. He takes a stroll down to the crowd, shaking hands with the front row people. Then, the blues starts rolling in and man it’s down low heavy, dirty, groovy! It’s time to shake, shiver and roll. Man, he is good! Together with a crazy drummer from Åmål, Sweden, and his self-made guitars, the feet stompin’ show owns the afternoon. He invites a girl upon stage for Walkin Man – beautiful and warm. Self Sufficient Man is hip as a snake tail in Desert City. Let’s keep on keepin’ on!

Annika Norlin

5/7

”The sound of a hug”

Photo: Annika Berglund

Annika Norlin aka Hello Saferide aka Säkert! got the tent of Linné all by herself on Saturday night. Well, not all by herself cause the circus room was totally packed with people who wanted to share her blue magic. Norlin has written some of the sadest songs I ever heard, and her presence both on record and on stage is plain beautiful to witness. Too bad the sound is scrubby and very low tuned, but the warm feeling takes over. It’s the sound of a hug. Thanks for the lyrics on the big screen on stage, I loved it, and too invite the audience to sit with her on stage – brilliant!

Robyn & Röyksopp

7/7

”A real star!”

Photo: Olle Kirchmeier

This is as good as it gets. Robyn has gone from great to the greatest. In my book, Robyn could be the only real superstar in Sweden right now. The way she performs, takes the stage, owns the audience. It is perfection in its core. The mix between swedish greatness and norwegian awesomeness, with Röyksopp and the outstanding Susanne Sundfør, just melts into a boiling pot of joy! We, the amazed audience, had no other way out than to dance this last act out, way out west.