Norway Entertainment News

Movie Review Until the Light Takes Us (2008) December 4, 2009 The Music of Church Burning Published: December 4, 2009 Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell’s absorbing, low-key documentary “Until the Light Takes Us” recounts how a few Norwegian musicians hijacked...

The long awaited CD “Double Focus” by the Tanzanian poet and musician Ras Nas aka Nasibu Mwanukuzi is set for release in Oslo, Norway, in November this year. The CD contains music and spoken word. Recorded at Urban Sound studio...

After 25 years of pouting and posing, A-ha are calling it quits. The Norwegian pop trio have announced that they will go their separate ways at the end of 2010. "Change is always difficult and it is easy to get...

Perfect Stranger is a new program starting in June. See the video to see what it’s about. Are u ready to replace the known with the unknown? Are u ready to step outside the box? Has the world really come...

The world's best chess player is hunched over a board in the bar of his London hotel. The pieces are lined up in neat rows, ready for battle, as Magnus Carlsen prepares to take on a man (me) whose grasp...

Inside Norway's infamous black-metal scene: Misunderstood Robin Hoods or Satanic church-burning maniacs?...As crafty and compelling as Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell's "Until the Light Takes Us" is, it may go too far in its understandable desire to correct the bias...

While some accuse the musical innovations taking place in Scandinavia as diluting "America's art form," there's plenty of evidence to the contrary. Many of the artists regularly stretching jazz's boundaries by introducing outside references can play in the tradition; they...

My favorite Norwegian black-metal story, well-known by now to connoisseurs of the demented, is the one about the singer called — prophetically, as it turned out — Dead. Per Yngve Ohlin was his real-world name, and he fronted the influential...