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Viking City Glows During 8-Day Roskilde Festival

Roskilde Festival should be on the radar of any adventurous indie music enthusiast. Long, sunny Scandinavian days welcomed 160,000 people to Roskilde, the medieval Viking town near Copenhagen. The 8-day non-profit festival, which is run by volunteers, attracted an eclectic mix of artists including a well-represented collection of indie artists.   While its robust musical […]

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The xx Own Roskilde Festival’s Biggest Stage

The xx: minimal, intimate, and up-close. I wondered how they would translate their sound—seemingly suited for an underground club or intimate bar—to Roskilde Festival’s biggest stage and the open air. Spoiler alert: They fared quite well.   The London-based trio comprised of Romy Madley Croft, James Thomas Smith, and Oliver Sim took to the stage […]

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Roskilde Festival 2017: “Yes We Camp!”

“Are you going to Roskilde this year?” As summer approaches in Denmark, this question is as common in daily life as a piece of rye bread is for lunch. With approximately 130,000 attendees and most of them Danish, Roskilde Festival attracts an astounding proportion of people relative to Denmark’s tiny population of 5 million.   […]

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Guide: The best music festivals outside the US

Music festivals are beloved all around the globe and the difference between all of them is magnificent. Every year hundreds of thousands of people attend different kinds of music festivals for either one day or several days to listen to familiar music and to experience new kinds. Festivals are not just about the music though, […]

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Haven Festival Was Equal Parts Music, Food, Beer, and Joy

Throughout the summer, Haven Festival became increasingly popular and surrounded by a lot of hype in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was to be an atypical festival taking place over two days in the city and was meant to not only be a music festival but a beer festival and a food festival as well. There would […]

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Chromeo – Set For A Full Summer Of Music Festivals

With the weather getting warmer and college classes coming to an end for the summer, the season of music festivals has begun.  For a rising band getting a slot to play in one of these is a tremendous opportunity.  There will be tons of music hungry fun loving potential fans in the crowd.  They may […]

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IBG Contributor Mala Coomar’s Top 5 Artists of 2017

It has always been difficult for me to frame and define my tastes in music, leading me to be one of the many people who describe their taste in music as “eclectic.” Although it can be seen as a copout, I really can find myself embracing everything from the niche-ist corners of the music world […]

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Fly Away with Danish Shoe-gaze Rockers, “Fugleflugten”

Whenever you befriend someone in a band and are about to hear them play for the first time, there is a small moment of all-consuming fear that they might be complete shit. In this case, my friend is Frederik (with whom I share a hallway at my dorm in Copenhagen) and the band is Fugleflugten . […]