The people behind Norway’s by:Larm Festival have set up the first-ever Nordic Music Prize in order to highlight the wealth of new, Scandinavian talent.

Jack White produces new First Aid Kit record
Jack White has produced First Aid Kit’s latest record as part of his Third Man Studios Blue Series.

The Primavera Sound Diaries 2010
This time last week I was a sweaty mess of half wrecked excitement somewhere in the centre of Barcelona. Now I’m sitting with the sniffles alone in my bedroom trying to figure out how to consolidate one of the best festivals of my life into a word count below that of the Oxford English Dictionary.

First Aid Kit – The Jericho Tavern, Oxford, 03/03/2010
They might have had some technical mishaps this evening, but Andrew Grillo still sees a band that are capable of putting an audience in awe.

First Aid Kit – The Big Black and The Blue
The Big Black and The Blue mines 70s rustic American and the pastoral, harmony heavy folk of more recent acts to prove itself retro, but no less interesting for it.

First Aid Kit announce tour for Feb / March next year
First Aid Kit have announced their first full UK headline tour starting in February next year.

First Aid Kit announce debut album details
First Aid Kit have confirmed their debut album details for a January 2010 release!
TLOBF Interview :: First Aid Kit
After several false starts involving faulty alarms, work commitments, and spewing guts up for the best part of 3 days, Catriona Boyle finally got to interview First Aid Kit…

Slow Club – Joiners, Southampton 16/09/09
A triple header of Wise Children, First Aid Kit and Slow Club woo a Southampton audience, getting the crowd dancing enough to burn off at least half a pint’s worth of calories…

First Aid Kit & Fanfarlo co-tour in September
The wonderful Fanfarlo, and Swedish sisters Klara & Johanna of First Aid Kit, have announced that they will tour the UK together this Autumn

First Aid Kit – Drunken Trees
Sweden’s First Aid Kit have youth on their side, but what else have they in their musical box of tricks?

First Aid Kit hit Summer Sessions
First Aid Kit are asking YOU to help them decide on songs for them to cover whilst their out and about touring the festival circuit this summer!
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