Scandinavia gets all the coolest bands. I don’t mean the good bands, I mean the cool bands. The type of bands that look great and make great music and have great back stories and hair and clothes and friends. The type of bands that I imagine live their lives in black and white and wear sunglasses indoors or in the rain without looking like twats. Some day I will marry somebody from one of these bands and dilute their super cool gene pool but that is a story for a different day. The (International) Noise Conspiracy are four Swedish communists/socialists/leftists who mix garage rock, soul and punk. The band was formed in 1998 by Lars Stromberg and Dennis Lyxzen. Lyxzen was previously a member of seminal hardcore group Refused. Following Refused’s breakup he set out to form a band which would use its music to convey a more political message … There’s more →