Winning over American crowds can sometimes be tough for foreign rock bands. But Swedish group The Sounds has always enjoyed an easy, reciprocal relationship with U.S. fans. “In Sweden, we have a ...

Maja Ivarsson is a major rock star. She’s not treated as such, at least not in this country. Yet, the Swedish vocalist certainly can rock with the best in the business. She’s an absolute force of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Maja Ivarsson of the Sounds shows her impressive ability to balance in heels during a recent concert. Photo from Brooklyn Vegan. Squatting between the ...

''Snakes on a Plane'': Meet the folks behind its theme song! Rockers Gabe Saporta and Maja Ivarsson talk about their tune and its hilariously literal video Dare we dream — the Samuel L. Jackson ...

Swedish sonic upstarts The Sounds slipped through Chicago last week. Fronted by the sultry Maja Ivarsson, the band whipped the crowd into an uncontrollable hard-edged pop frenzy. But then a triple ...

It was the KB Theater, alright, no doubt about it, Maja Ivarsson recalls thinking one recent Friday night in April. The same red-hot nightclub in her Swedish hometown of Malmo where her band the ...

Aftermath wasn’t sure whether the tank top that Maja Ivarsson was wearing last night was meant to be ironic or not. It didn’t really matter anyway; when the Swedish, platinum blonde lead singer came ...

Swedish synth-poppers the Sounds first burst onto the scene in 2002, proclaiming themselves to be the vanguard of some sort of updated New Wave everything from the opening riffs of their hit single, ...

It’s 10 minutes after midnight and most people are in bed. But at the Grog Shop, the Sounds are just starting their set. Wearing a leather jacket, shredded tights, black shorts, gold chains and high ...

Maja Ivarsson doesn’t like to talk about being a sex symbol. Despite this, the lead singer of Swedish New Wave rockers the Sounds understands it’s a topic of interest. The openly bisexual beauty — ...