Top 10s for 2004: Niklas Åström (And the Sound)
10 best Swedish "music cities" and the bands that made it happen: (No specific order)
01. Göteborg - Silverbullit, Audrey, TSOOL, the Tough Alliance and a thousand of others showed the rest of Scandinavia which city that is the music city #1
02. Uppsala - Jeniferever, the bombastic beauty of music comes from these guys.
03. Malmö - Scraps of Tape, Swedish post rock may have a future.
04. Umeå - Isolation Years, KVLR, Koma, Cult of Luna - do I need to say more?
05. Västerås - Seven Feet Four - one of the most explosive live performances I saw this summer.
06. Haninge - Suburban Kids With Biblical Names, Ellis the Vaccumchild and Tubular Bells all gave less or more to the Swedish indie scene.
07. Gränna - Patrik Torsson's "Kolvätesserenader" was the bomb! Now he's getting more explosives ready.
08. Stockholm - Tiger Lou, Tiger Lou, Tiger Lou - wherever we went this summer. And all the other singer & songwriters seem to be located in Sweden's main city.
09. Eskilstuna - Jettie "Heading for mornings" kept me warm.
10. Luleå - Mattias Alkberg BD, and Mattias the Bear Quartet - all time favorites! Park Hotell will also contribute
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Niklas writes for the Swedish indie music webzine And the Sound.
www.andthesound.net