We’re on fire with Norwegian musicians, these days! Marius Drogsås Hagen (Team Me, Jaqueline, SiN) gave me a bit of his time to answer some questions about seasons, Sufjan Stevens, and to play a nice word-association game. Read below! Happy New Year! It started super well for you – you got to play at the final [...]
January 26, 2010
I am, as a matter of fact, supposed to be studying for my oral exam in Druckvorstufe (really boring technical stuff on typography and printing processes) tomorrow, however I really JUST read the news about new Brad Hamers releases and I was too, TOO excited not to post something very quick about it. If SLAM [...]
January 25, 2010
the much-adored Team Me have a new song up on their myspace since the weekend. It’s pretty ace, there’s lots of choir-like singing, and some “whoo”-ing in the background. (it was, in fact, recorded this summer when I was over there during a pretty awesome recording session in a hijacked school.) Go listen, go love, [...]
January 24, 2010
I’ve already advertised Niko’s Polatweet Project before; I feel like I have to do it again, since he’s been lovely enough to ask me to have my picture taken under the snow.. The result is gorgeous, considering I am most definitely NOT photogenic. You can see the rest of the photos here.
January 22, 2010
He also covered Coconut Skins by Damien Rice!
January 17, 2010
I’m pretty sure I could do a mixtape with not only capital city names ONLY, but with just songs that refer to my beloved Norway’s capital city. (see Grand Archives, see the Little Hands of Asphalt, see My Little Pony) So yes – let’s talk about My Little Pony. Earlier this week, the Lazy Acre Records [...]
January 16, 2010
Sometimes, the most random series of events leads to a situation which would have never occurred otherwise. Let’s take, for example, Tiki & the Fancy Lights. This local band melts boundaries between easy listening rock and shoegazey-emo beautifully, with unusual vocals. This has potential, I tell myself while nodding enthusiastically. There’s things I would change [...]
January 16, 2010
(translation: We need more Team Me!) Team Me did a small acoustic session and interview on NRK on thursday. the whole thing is online here, starting at the 15th minute of the show or so. It’s all in norwegian, sadly – but there’s two songs being played from the studio. listen!
January 15, 2010
We are very exactly two weeks into the new year. I can’t believe this – so much has happened already! Every day is louder, faster, sweeter, more bitter than ever. (almost) Every day is used to its full potential. Sometimes I do stop, because stops are good – they make you appreciate even more the [...]
January 15, 2010
There will be a song by Uno Møller Ch played on the Weekender radio show tonight, as well as a short interview with Ben from Lazy Acre Records discussing upcoming projects / new band signings. Tune in! [edit] if you’ve missed the show, you can still listen to it here in its entirety for the next [...]
My name has five letters in it, and comes up in some Bright Eyes songs. I am (apparently) an artist, with too much time on her hands. Well, enough to blog (almost) daily. I am 1/4 (the smallest one, actually) of Lazy Acre Records; I also write & photograph for a local magazine based in Englaaand and make used to draw musically-inspired comics for a canadian mag (RIP Inscribed). Sometimes I can be quite cute. I used to still have a crush on Marty McFly; I like baking, overusing semi-colons, the smell of the sea, and thunderstorms.
I tend to be quite the busy bee, but if you make VERY sexy music and want me to listen and enjoy and possibly even (!!) write about it, shoot me a mail, baby. music(at)alicetragedy(dot)org
January 27, 2010