Another destination enthusing about it's musical kudos is Sweden. For so long the country's only significant musical output has been John McCain's favourite euro pop act, Abba - not so cool. Recently though, Sweden's been churning out super trendy indie-rock, stylish pop and apparently metal too. It began with The Hives, but recently breakthrough acts like Peter, Bjorn and John, the Shout Out Louds and Lykke Li have convinced rock critics there might just be something going on over there.
The Swedish Institute have made admirable efforts at promoting this, with the launch of a Music Room on their site. It includes all kinds of multimedia, news, pics and blogs, and you can listen Swedish musical talent from any genre. They've now got blogs on the site from Peter, Bjorn and John and The Shout Out Louds while they tour Brazil - pretty impressive that they've managed to include content from the bands themselves, if you ask me.
So now we know that Sweden 'wants you to dance' - but does that make you want to visit?
Sweden is up there on my list of places to go soon. Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Travel Blogger | September 25, 2008 at 06:59 PM