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»Musik er for mig som at trække vejret. Jeg har levet som rejsende musiker i over 50 år. At vælge fem sange ud er helt umuligt, fordi jeg hører så meget, og det vil også let komme til at lyde frygteligt gammeldags, da Kinks, Stones, Dylan, Cohen, Fairport Convention og Beatles jo er lydtapetet til min ungdom. Jeg prøver alligevel. Og kigger langt ud over 60'erne og 70'erne og bliver i Danmark, næsten. Efter jeg i Toppen af poppen 2015 mødte Shaka og Nanna (Oh Land) har jeg fulgt dem. Jeg har turnereret flere gange med Shaka og jeg har indspillet og optrådt med Nanna. Myrkur har jeg aldrig mødt, men jeg hører ofte hendes album Folkesange fra 2020. Peter Sommer arbejdede jeg lidt sammen med i 2013, og han bliver bedre og bedre. Endelig tager jeg et fantastisk Dylan-outtake med. »The girl from the red river shore«. Dyrk hans stemme, det er bare så rørende.«

Første gang Lars Lilholt fik penge for at spille, var i 1973, da han var 20 år. Han har skrevet sange, siden han fik sin første guitar 1964, og på dansk siden 1968, hvor han opdagede, at Eik Skaløe fra Steppeulvene kunne synge som Bob Dylan på dansk. Lilholt har udgivet 40 albums i løbet af de 50 år, senest Kosmiske kindkys i 2024. 

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»Music is, to us, a kind of closed club of nepotism, networking and Copenhagen cowboy energy. But in reality, it’s got nothing to do with expensive guitars or technical skill. For us, music is something you can feel in your chest, or something that gives you goosebumps. The best concerts are when someone screams so earnestly that the rest of us don’t have to. The best music expresses emotions in a way that would get you picked up by an ambulance if you did it out on the street. For us, music should fuck with the people who have it too comfortable, and give those who have it fucked a feeling that they’re not alone. Boom. And what the fuck is a chord and a key anyway? Kisses from Nightmaries.«

Nightmaries blend saws, guitars and voices into a dark-country, no-wave, cowboy-doom nightmare. They create the kind of soundtrack that feels like a fever dream you somehow don’t want to wake up from. As the world gets stranger and darker, Nightmaries lean into the madness, serving up slow-burning songs that creep under your skin like a poison that takes its sweet time. Put on your favourite steel-toe boots, dip your smoky eyes in an ashtray, and prepare yourself for sloppy doom with punk energy.

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»To me, music is love. I love how music allows you to skip the small talk and connect directly with people’s innermost selves. It is an extraordinary and moving way to meet one another.«

Fenja wrote her first song at the age of twelve – about a polar bear dying due to climate change – and themes of existentialism, nature, and her own sensitive nature came to define the lyrics and sound she has since developed. She released her debut album, Flugtdyr, in 2021, and in February 2026, she released the album Menneskedyr.

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Danish composer Sofus Forsberg has died at the age of 56. With his distinctive blend of melodic sensibility, electronic processing and rhythmic precision, he created a musical world that moved effortlessly between IDM, pop and the avant-garde.

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»Music for me is my hobby, my job, my outlet, my mood, an endless source of discovering new music and new, old music, some of the best and can be some of the worst. And I love it!« 

Track72 aka Tue Track aka Anders Lundby Brixen. Producer, DJ, rapper and more. Known for his role in the trio Malk De Koijn, which since the mid-1990s has created a personal universe in Danish hip-hop. Has performed in Ponyblod, Xtra Naan, Track Abdullah Rock, Booty Cologne and others.

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On Wednesday, 5 August 2026, it happened again: a chord in John Cage’s Organ2/ASLSP (As Slow as Possible) changed after two and a half years. Classic FM reports.

The work was written by the American avant-garde composer John Cage in the mid-1980s. The score consists of eight pages of music, and, as the title suggests, the instruction is to play it »as slow as possible.«