The Waterboys scored an instant knockout when they visited Stockholm on Tuesday evening as part of their Fisherman's Blues Revue tour. On this tour, the band is also joined by former member Steve Wickham on fiddle, as well as Roar Øien on pedal steel. The concert was divided into two halves. After the interval, Steve Earle also joined them—a collaboration that proved to be a winning concept.

Surrender Hill recently released their eighth album, "Wild Country"—an album featuring 15 self-penned songs of impressively high and consistent quality. They navigate a musical landscape of Country and Americana.

On Sunday, August 30, Svart Ridå took the stage at Parksnäckan in Uppsala. Just over two weeks earlier, Musikpulsen met the trio at Way Out West for a conversation about the friendship that has kept them together since childhood, the musical heritage they carry with them, and the journey from the darkness of their debut album, through APONIA's absence of pain, toward a brighter next chapter.