I struggled to write about Heat Three of Norway’s Melodi Grand Prix. Unlike the first two heats, only one song grabbed me and made me want to relisten. Most of the remaining six entries are fine as recordings but fairly standard. This heat will completely depend on what the artists...
Norway will use the Melodi Grand Prix to select who will represent the country at Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool. Twenty-one artists will compete over three heats on January 14, 21, and 28. Three artists from each heat will move on to the Melodi Grand Prix final on February...
It’s been a slow start to the Eurovision national selection contest season, with only Ukraine and Albania having chosen their representatives so far. However, things will pick up at the end of this week when three countries – Estonia, Malta, and Norway – begin their selection contests, and Belgium holds...
Starting next Thursday with Estonia’s semi-finals, we dive head first into Eurovision Song Contest national selection season. I have a tracking spreadsheet and a calendar, but both are chaotic, so I decided to simplify things with an old-school list. UPDATED: January 12, 2023 to add Germany’s national selection date. Most...
Ukraine’s Vidbir is the first individual country competition leading up to the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra took 2022’s Eurovision 2022 top prize. Typically, the winning country has the option of hosting the following year’s contest. Eurovision organizers were forced to move the contest due to ongoing Russian...
Ukraine’s Vidbir 2023 will officially kick off the Eurovision Song Contest individual country competition season this month. The December 17 event will see 10 Ukrainian artists compete to represent the embattled country at Eurovision 2023.
The American Song Contest is back! Or is it??? I started writing this post on November 6, a day after EurovisionFun broke the news about the American Song Contest website taking season two submissions. I even took the step of registering as a performer on the ASC website so I...
Jon Spencer is a unique individual in the world of independent music. While it isn’t uncommon for a well-known and prolific musician to have multiple projects during his or her career, it’s rare for more than two of those projects to be hailed with critical affection. Typically the cap is...
Personally, I’m a fan of rants and divergences during conversations, that’s why this interview with Rachel Nagy of the Detroit Cobras, which appeared on dane101.com on October 2, 2016, has earned itself the top spot on my list of favorite interviews of all time. It might be second only to my...
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