Music Information Centre Norway
P.O. Box 2674 Solli
(Henrik Ibsens gate 110
Solli plass - MAP)
N-0203 OSLO
Tel: +47 2327 6300
Fax: +47 2327 6301 info@mic.no
Opening hours: 9:00 - 15:30
One Armed Bandit 04.02.2010
Renowned jazztronica collective Jaga Jazzist return with critically acclaimed album after a four year hiatus.
MIC Norway's news service:
Sondre Lerche heads out on US tour 05.02.2010
Early February sees pop icon Sindre Lerche touring the US with his critically celebrated album Heartbeat Radio.
Little Steven to create Norwegian TV-show 29.01.2010
Sopranos star and Bruce Springsteen's sidekick in The E Street Band to create TV series that depicts the road from the songwriting process to the concert arena.
On the domestic market – local repertoire outperforms international 27.01.2010
Historic sales figures from IFPI Norway: 2009 marks the first year ever that the sales value of local repertoire exceeded the international.
Positive December sales 26.01.2010
Norwegian consumers’ shopping spree in Dec ’09 spilled over to the music market and generated a much needed boost in sales compared to 2008.
Spellemanspris nominees announced 26.01.2010
Nominees for the 2009 Spellemannspris awards – the Norwegian equivalent to the Grammy – have now been announced.
Norwegian MP3 pioneers launch new music file format 25.01.2010
MusicDNA, a new rich music file format, has been unveiled by Norwegian MP3 development pioneers.
Showcase Scotland 2010 25.01.2010
So far, one of 2010’s biggest events for the Norwegian folk music scene was without doubt January's Spotlight Norway at Showcase Scotland in Glasgow.
Showcase Scotland 2010:
The Norwegian folk music scene 25.01.2010
In conjunction with the Norwegian focus at Showcase Scotland, we take the opportunity to present a “state-of-the-scene” outline of Norwegian folk. We spoke with two of the field’s key people, Silje Førland Erdal of the Norwegian Traditional Music Agency and Hilde Bjørkum of the Førde Folk Music Festival
15 Norwegian acts to SXSW 22.01.2010
No less than 15 Norwegian acts confirmed for this year’s South By Southwest in Austin, TX.
Real Life Is No Cool 21.01.2010
Space-disco master Hans-Peter Lindstrøm has teamed up with esoteric vocalist Christabelle to record one of 2010’s most elegant outings: Real Life Is No Cool.
Øya Festival London club night 20.01.2010
The Øya Festival teams up with NME for a London club night in late February.
by:Larm’s official live programme announced 15.01.2010
Scandinavia’s premier music industry gathering; by:Larm announced its official live programme line-up this week.
US album release for Bigbang in January 24.11.2009
January ‘10 sees Bigbang latest studio effort, Edendale, released in the US.
Frøy Aagre: melodic traveller 17.11.2009
Frøy Aagre is breaking through. The young Norwegian saxophone player and composer is just back from Australia where she played some of the most important jazz festivals.
In Focus:
Sivert Høyem: into the great wide own 19.10.2009
There are very few iconic figures in Norwegian rock. Sivert Høyem is one of them. Through the hugely successful band Madrugada –whose ten-year career as recording artists was one of the truly luminous stretches in Norwegian rock history– and more recently through his solo records, Sivert has become the male voice of a generation, a voice that one inadvertently listens to in a special way. His third solo outing Moon Landing is his first without the «real» project Madrugada looming in the back. The truth is that it is only now that things have become real; in Sivert’s words Moon Landing is a new beginning and a homecoming.
The whole, the veil and the holes 23.11.2009
A philosophical talk with composer Henrik Hellstenius.
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Directory:
Find links, email-addresses and biographies to Norwegian artists, musicians, composers etc. in our address directory.
Find links, adresses and other informasjon related to Norwegian bands, orchestras, companies, organisations etc. in our company directory.
Please, also try our free-text search box to left.
Calendar:
MIC's calendar covers the international activities of the Norwegian music scene. Here you can find concert dates, special events, release dates, tour scedules and much more. It also gives you a list of music festivals in Norway.
News from MICs classical contemporary archives:
MIC’s catalogue section contains works of 20th and 21st century composers. Browse by the following categories: Scores, Audio and Book. It is also possible to search by the name of a composer, a writer or a performer or by type of composition, personnel or numbers of instruments etc.
