Animal Alpha is definitely something else. Especially on the norwegian rock scene they hail from. Goth?...

We're extremly proud to announce one of the most talked about bands of 2007 to the Hove line up. Baltimore...

Audrey Horne, in the shape of Sherilyn Fenn, in David Lynch’s pivotal, cult explained TV series ”Twin...

This California quintet is a most welcome addition to Hoves already
...heavy (pun intented) metal...

Tumbling out of the wreckage from the extremely hyped, but sadly shortlived and scandalous british band...

Through close to thirty (!) years and fourteen studio albums, Bad Religion has been an institution, and...

Band jockey Ben Bridwell and his faithful work horses has released two critically acclaimed album since...

Baroness is a progressive metal band based in Savannah, Georgia. The four buddies who make up the band...

Beck is finally back on Norwegian soil thsi summer, and that little guy with that big ol' bag of quality...

Behemoth have always pushed the limits of their abilities and defied the boundaries of death and black...

Florida’s six kid army Black Kids...

Urine, vomit, live chickens. Nudity, fireworks and male buddys drunkenly making out (no bro-mo!). No,...

Black Mountain hails from Vancouver, Canada, and is made up of five buddies with a taste of …the...

When you think about , what aret he first things that comes to mind? We bet it ain’t metal! But...

Or should we rather say "italians do it better"? Regardless, this is nothing less than a bloody marvellous occasion...

The Brian Jonestown Massacre is one of the bands that our forum users has been screaming for ever since...

About ten years ago, four young boys with a band were sitting somewhere in the south of Wales playing...

The international success story Sepultura is in many ways identical to
the story of brothers Max and...

This Oslo-based band was founded by singer Charlotte Jacobsen, as the name might imply. With her Co-Stars...

What if someone told you there was this band that incorporated all the cool elements of metal, jazz,...

This quartet hailing from Salem are widely considered as the pioneers
of the (increasingly more popular)...

Alice Glass and Ethan Fawn form what is probably the most hardhitting,
block rocking electro-trash-chip-punk-duo...

Is ambient punk an actual genre? If you ask Atlantabased Deerhunter, the answer might very well be...

Did anything worthwhile EVER come out of backpacking trips? Oh yes. Or: at the very least one thing....

Not all norwegian metal bands has enough commercial pull to warrant a gold record at home. In fact, the...

Oslobased smalltown boys Don Juan Dracula is...

Soul comet Duffy has announced that she will be playing Hove Festival in june 2008! Named as "the Dusty...

Out of Skåne, in the southern part of Sweden, comes what we and many others believe to be the very...

The swedish rock'n'roll institution known as The Hellacopters were among the leading figures of the wave...

Hercules and Love Affair is the lovechild of New York-based DJ Andy Butler. A guy with a heart full of...

San Franciscan-rockers Howlin Rain did an unforgettable gig in Oslo right before christmas. Our booking group...

The masters of brutal melodic metal continues to gain respect among international metal heads. Swedish...

Ingrid Olava did a breathtaking at our Amfiet stage last year. Back then she was a promising, young artist...

Jaguar Love might be a new name...

Could you imagine spending a midsummers night with Jay-Z, at the Hove festival? Well, we can! Trivia:...

Come with us to Arizona, Glendale to be precise, where a gang of buddies has been riffing and screaming...

Yes, the name is kind of strange but that's their bussines. Joe Lean and the jing Jang Jong are influenced...

Massachusets might not be the first place in the world you’d associate with …metalcore?!?!...

What can we really say about a guy like Kim Hiorthøy, a man of so many
talents that we have started...

So here's a nice lnew aquaintance all the way from New Zealand. Ladyhawke has...

There's a thin line between "brit music press darlings" and "outdated could-have-beens", and we'd be...

Lukestar is a gang of hyperactive young...

M.I.A. is hardly your regular girl-next-door type, in any manner. Before she started to make music (encouraged...

Magne Furuholmen is probably still best...

Matias Tellez is ready for Hove! The young (19) Chilean/Norwegian songwriter and renaissance kid from...

  A lot of good stuff has been coming out of Australia lately, especially in the cross-section...

Most people probably think about Sepultura’s drum rig when the name Iggor Cavalera is mentioned,...

Any one remember rock act Death From Above 1979? Y'know, the ones CSS wrote a song about, "let's make...

Name hails from the small Norwegian town of...

Welcome to the wonderful electro-jazzy-funky-chunky magical world of Necessary Intergalactic Cooperation,...

The two distinguished gentlemen hiding behind this …illuminating alias, are none other than...

You might not believe it if you only read the "regular" music press, but the routinely frowned upon...

One of the largest bands in the world is ready for Hove! Largest, you say? Yup, just

Guitarist and musical entrepeneur Milton von Krogh founded Pirate Love along with vocalist, lyricist...

The five members of Primordial has since the very start at the early nineties been Irelands leading black...

The hardcore heroes of the Norwegian west coast, Purified In Blood are back! After disbanding last year,...

Yup, Rival Schools...

Are we being a bit unfair to Santogold if we say that she moves in some of the same soundscapes as M.I.A.?...

This hip hop-collective received wide praise for their appropriately
titled Lex (Warp Records' hip...

This band won the Norwegian "Battle of the bands"-style Zoom tour in 2007, and are probably the best...

The Bergen/Berlin-based singer/songwriter/multiinstrumentalist/cosmopolitan Silje Nes grew up in a tiny...

The cheerful dude with the short pants (he usually rocks bathing shorts while DJing) has built himself...

Good news, everyone! Everyone who's into synth pop, bit pop, chip and electro, that is. Slagsmålsklubben...

If you love good indie, wou're gonna love us for this booking. And that's the truth, Ruth. With the kind...

Not everyone can count themselves among the most influential producers and DJ's in Europe at the tender...

Yezzir! Mikey Rocks, a nineteen year old from Illinois, and Chuck, 23 year old from Detroit, make up ...

Who can guess which producers will be looked back upon as 2008's most innovative electronic dance act?...

Our "motherpage" (www.hovefestivalen.no) almost broke down from the traffic when brits The Kooks was...

The National Bank is often referred to as Norways foremost
"supergroup". Musicians from such well...

The Pase Rock fra Cincinatti, Ohio gjorde seg bemerket i indie/undergrunnskretser som en del av det...

The Pase Rock from Cincinatti, Ohio first made his mark in indie/underground circles as part of the...

What the world need now is ...doves?  The Pigeon Detectives are NME-favs, and fellow Leeds band...

Jack White of The White Stripes is bringing along his buddies from The Raconteurs and joining the Hove...

Leeds got more musical fun stuff besides the Wild Beasts. Say hello to The Scaramanga Six, five deadly...

Users of the Internet may have noticed the oh so popular trio The Teenagers. Three guys with a taste...

How many brits does it take to make a kick ass electro group, who can also tear up a live set? Two is...

The Used must be the band we´ve gotten the most requests for on our web site, by far. They´ve...

Can you name just one british indie act right now with a bright future ahead of them? We can. They're...

Thom Hell hails from the southern Norwegian town of Kristiansand, and absolutely hates the fact that...

Bob Dylan-fanatic and family guy Tommy Tokyo might be the ultimate late bloomer, but once he got started...

Oslo-based Truls and the Trees released the simply beautyful album Ailanthus this december, and has...

No, the band name is not some pseudo-Oxfordian euphemism for "shit music", but latin for "the beautiful...

They're ..well into their twenties, to be a bit diplomatic, even if
this Bergen-based band's name...

We have pleaded and begged on our knees. And we have been heard! Amen:  Vampire Weekend is...

If you ask us, few things fits a foggy Hove sunset better than
psychedelic rock music, tights and...

Is it just us, or is having as many band members as you can possibly cram into a tourbus the thing these...

Wild Beasts hail from Leeds and consists of four young, uh, "lads" who
according to themselves are...

We're pround to announce that Yeasayer will be playing the Hove Festival in 2008. Their debut album...

We needed some homegrown metal to really round out the program, and these guys were definitely first...