Norway's many fjords are responsible for the birth of a celebrity. Ella Lockert, with her boundless vitality and undoubted skill, has always been a force to be reckoned with from the day she was born. Imagine a little Ella illuminating the stage as the smallest Santa possible in the song "Putti Plutti Pott." Add to that her singing in the children's chorus at the Norwegian Opera,...

Norwegian-American pop artist Hanna Andréa perfectly captures the frantic urge to outrun your own brain on her sweeping new single, "Pinnacles". Serving as the lead-up to her highly anticipated forthcoming EP, "Braveheart", the track is a brilliantly crafted exercise in translating raw panic into cinematic electropop. https://open.spotify.com/track/1yYATZqcIHZOQsOLKRFH44?si=VS1YexYvSt-2sXhioNCQWw Anxiety usually paralyzes, but here it sprints. The song starts with a deceptively gentle, atmospheric pulse. Then, almost without...