Under the Radar travelled to Gothenburg for the 3rd edition of Viva Sounds. Here are our highlights from the weekend

2019 has been a remarkable year for Penelope Isles.

If there’s one band that exemplifies the spirit of hedonistic rock and roll it has to be Primal Scream. Having existed as a band for the best part of four decades their name has become synonymous with genre cross-pollination.

The resurgence of Ride continues with a blistering live performance in Sheffield.

Tainan in Taiwan might not be the most obvious place which springs to mind when contemplating some far flung adventure to see music.

It’s been another exceptional year for Feeder. Their tenth studio album Tallulah scored a top five placing in the UK albums chart while the subsequent promotional tour also managed to sell out nearly every show. Which is no mean feat for a band now in its twenty-fifth year of existence.

As 2019 enters its final weeks, one of the most heart warming stories in the music world centres around the rapid rise of Working Men’s Club. Hailing from the Calderdale borough of West Yorkshire that boasts the cultural havens of Hebden Bridge, Todmorden and Halifax amongst its towns and villages. If the first twelve months of their existence were about honing their crafts and finding a sound. This year has been nothing of a meteoric rise, and deservedly so.

Winter is wafting into Kristiansand, the first flecks of icy business whipping along Norway’s south-west coast, but all is toasty here at the SKMU art museum.

I was never one to follow a band around because growing up in New York, you didn’t have to. Bands came to you, and this contributed to a very snobby attitude.