Global Viking – Culture blog

Magnus Uggla is a very Swedish musician: with a sort of very funny comic ironic songs, but not for people knowing the Swedish culture.
He has made good money as musician. But not these days. He is very upset about Spotify, the Swedish music tool that gives you music free and legal.
In Sweden there is one [...]

We met Gilberto Gil in a press conference at Stochkolm Jazzfestival yesterday, Saturday 18 of July. He seems to be happy to be musician again after years as Minister of Culture in Brasil. He is now tourning around in Europe.
In the pressconference he said that the music industry is changing and we can´t fight against [...]

The Swedes have a special relationship to Bruce Springsteen. All his concerts are always sold out very fast and people are quening for days for buy tickets and also the days before a concert, to come as close as possible to the stage.
The leader for the Swedish Socialdemocratic Party – Mona Sahlin – has seen [...]

I am so angry at Twitter. So sorry and so disappointed. And scared. Today, when I wanted to login I got the message I was suspended.
This account is currently suspended and is being investigated due to strange activity. If we have suspended your account mistakenly, please let us know. See Suspended Accounts for more information.
That´s [...]

Twitter, the Web site that asks what everybody’s doing, says it wants to be doing a TV series, American media report.
From Salon:
Twitter, the Web site that asks what everybody’s doing, says it wants to be doing a TV series.
The social-networking site has teamed with Reveille productions and Brillstein Entertainment Partners to develop an unscripted series [...]