My debut as a director, the short film Daggry, has finally reached it´s completion. The story was written by myself and Preben Simonsen and was produced with funds from Filmkraft Rogaland. We shot the film in November last year, and the last few months have been spent on post-production. An amazing team of dedicated actors and film workers have made this a wonderful experience and I can´t wait for everyone to catch the full film.

I'm proud to present one of Australia's greatest pop artists at this week's Rastløs. Sarah Blasko swept across the down under continent last year with the release of her second album As day follows night. Now she's getting ready to lay Europe beneath her feet with beautiful indiepop melodies and a characteristic voice. Blasko played at last weeks Fanzine 12th release party at Internasjonalen, and we met up with her a few hours before the show.

Noise rockers Times New Viking payed Oslo a little visit this easter to promote their quite exclusive Scandinavian only release. A 7" in only 500 copies entitled No Time No hope. The Rastløs track is actually not from this 7", but none the less is an excellent noisy DIY-sounding song and is as always presented in an exclusive acoustic version. Get ready for Teenage Lust!

Last friday I had the unique opportunity to meet up with a fresh and very talented new Norwegian group, the Megaphonic Thrift. For this week's Rastløs the band had rehearsed an exclusive acoustic version of their track Sister Joan. This out of the ordinary event was a five-guitar piece performed at the weird abandoned warehouse venue Indigo, right next to Blå here in Oslo.

Here's a new indie pop favorite of mine. Oslo based Lucy Swann. We took a short walk round St. Hanshaugen park right in the heart of Oslo, and here she is serving us a short but sweet a cappalla version of her song Fashionably Late. You can listen to the instrumental version on her new album, which is out right now. She'll also be going on a short Norwegian tour the coming weeks, including a stop in Stavanger and Kristiansand.

Everyone in Norway has some relationship to the somewhat eccentric man from Bøler named Egil. As a solo artist he´s named himself Bare Egil Band (translates Just Egil Band). Today he took us into the snowy ski tracks behind Bøler to give us a taste of what some lucky people from the coastal town of Ålesund will be able to hear this very weekend. The song is entitled Bjørn Tømmerdal, which is the name of the mayor of Ålesund. Egil has made a ballade on his very own version of Bjørn´s life.

groove.no Rastløs #3 - Bare Egil Band from groove.no on Vimeo.

Ok Go relesed their new video for the track "This Too Shall Pass", and you´re not going to believe what they actually pieced together. It´s every kid´s dream come true to make such an eloborate maze of interconnecting domino effects. Major props to director James Frost and Syyn Labs. Have a look for yourself!