ARTICE: In this interview with Emma Elstner, founder of Blackbird Artists, we talk about cancelled shows, working major vs indie and much more.

ARTICLE: We got in touch with Virginina And the Flood ahead of the release of the fourth episode of Messed!Up Viva Sessions.

ARTICLE: We have been flirting with each other for a while, to be honest, says Magnus Petersson from Tomma Intet, speaking on working with Welfare Sounds.

VIDEO: Ulf Dernevik and Joppe Pihlgren discuss several aspects of the government stimulus package for creative and cultural industries.

VIDEO: With the third episode of Messed!Up Viva Sessions being released Alma Westerlund of Beverly Kills share her thoughts on the performance and talks about the future for the band.

ARTICLE: With the news that Klubb Undergrunden will start broadcasting shows Friday the 24th of April we talked to Emma Gerdien, from the city of Borås, and Erik Ahlblom, guitar player in The Bongo Club.

VIDEO: Find out what Katti Hofflin, cultural director at Västra Götalandsregionen, and Johan Lindqvist, Göteborgs-Posten, have to say about the state of culture in our second digital edition of Viva Talks. 

VIDEO: How does the current situation affect the live market especially? Let's hear it from Pustervik, Debaser and Plan B. 

ARTICLE: What’s the status for music venues right now? We decided to bring Viva Talks online to keep the conversation alive. 

As Covid-19 have spread, we’ve talked to promotors and bookers in China, South Korea and Italy, but what’s the state in our own backyard?

ARTICLE: Italy is today the talking point when it comes to the Covid-19 virus, and the first real quarantine after it started spreading in Europe. Katia Giampaolo running Estragon Club in Bologna tells us how she is affected .

Following the outbreak of Covid-19 we’re doing a series of interviews with our partners and friends around the globe. In Hong Kong, Eric De Fontenay from MusicDish LLC  and his team are working on new ways to develop, focusing on reinventing the digital side of their company. 

Last month we had KÅRP in Los Angeles. Now we’re about to send Beverly Kills to The New Colossus Festival in New York. Power up. Lower East Side, let’s go!

Westside Music Sweden got 32 independent music business as partners, but who are they and what do they do? We want you to get a chance to know them better!

Westside Music Sweden are back for the third edition of Viva Sounds, December 6th-7th. This time with more shows, more venues and more people invited to the panels during Saturday.

Time to send the last band of the year to Råhuset in Copenhagen. Baby Missiles is a trio that write pop songs that will make you want to bang your head and make your feet start dancing.

This year’s last Viva Talks is hosted by Popup Records from Hamburg, a company which has been around since 2001 and is extremely well established in the German market.

We´re getting closer to the end of the year 2019. On one hand you could think that we´re all laid back and set for Viva Sounds but on the other one that´s just too boring to be doing only that, so… we have one more ace up our sleeve for you!

It’s that time of the year again, when the streets get crowded and the bars fill up. No, not Christmas. This is better than all your Christmas celebrations combined – it’s time for Reeperbahn Festival.

This year is the 8th edition of the Zandari Festa, that´s all about “listen to music, drink beer and make friends”. With over 100 teams of musicians from 20 countries, it may be alot of beer and friends…

The band Two Year Vacation has been up to a lot more things this past year than their band name says.

Much has happened to Lisa Wanloo this year. In February, she went and played at “Make it Loud” in Kiev, Ukraine which she described as “Cold as hell and everything was very, very brown.

Time to cross the Atlantic for the land with tequila, sombreros and the most streams in the world – Mexico! Bottlecap from Gothenburg will represent Westside Music Sweden at Festival Marvin, CDMX, May 16-18, our third year proudly part of this event.

Spring time is finally here and the festival season is really just around the corner. Let’s turn our eyes and ears just little bit south towards SPOT Festival in Aarhus, Denmark!

The Exorcist GBG made a string of shows in Europe, fueled up by steam, moods and all the strange things in between, and finalized their trip at Roadburn Festival – here’s some words on it!

Viva Talks is a new series of talks, in the shape of a normal after-work. For the first session we’re inviting three British people to sit down in the restaurant at Pustervik for a conversation about music. It’s time for Viva Talks English!

Third year in a row we’re teaming up with Festival Marvin, CDMX, to make our perspective a little bit wider and a little bit more interesting.

It’s winter and it’s cold, but we won’t let the raw Gothenburg chill stop us. It’s time for Make It Loud Festival in Kyiv, Ukraine!

Viva Sounds 2018 was just the perfect thing. The weekend came and the weekend went – and we had so much fun living it up! 

*Started in 2012, Zandari Festa quickly established itself as South Korea’s largest music showcase festival.

Summer’s almost gone, and a wicked season is upon us. This year we’ve already been out quite some but still we got more to do.

Action, only a few words.