Sweeping The Nation — Welcome to one of the busiest and most quietly epochal years there ever was if only for the emergence of the Spice Girls. First appeared on TV three months before Wannabe's release, lest we forget. At one end of the pop spectrum Oasis were coloni... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Everybody knows rock attained perfection in 1974, it's a scientific fact! This was the year of Abba winning Eurovision, the Osmonds being given their own week of prime-time BBC1 programming, Kung Fu Fighting, Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Cen... more info

Uncut — "Waterloo" at Waterloo Photo by Torbjorn Calvero © Premium Rockshot "Waterloo" at Waterloo The post ABBA exhibition to open in London later this year appeared first on Uncut. more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Lower Dens don’t have any new material out, but still managed to give one of the best performances we saw the entire weekend at Northside Festival. On June 10, the band – which currently operates as just singer Jana Hunter and drummer Nate Nelson... more info

Stereogum — Sting and Wayne Shorter both received the 2017 Polar Music Prize, an award that was founded by ABBA's manager Stig Anderson. The Swedish prize celebrates "the power and importance of music" and according to Reuters, winners receive 1 million Swedish ... more info

Stereogum — Last night, Lower Dens covered songs from ABBA's Gold: Greatest Hits compilation at Rough Trade NYC as a part of Brooklyn's Northside Festival. It looks like it was basically just a big karaoke party presided over by Jana Hunter, and you can check ou... more info

Sweeping The Nation — It's only been a week and again EVERYONE has decided to release new material for us to pick carefully through and highlight the peaks rather than foothills of. May as well start with Arcade Fire, whose Everything Now - title track of album out Ju... more info

PopSugar UK — Ten years after 2008's Mamma Mia! The Movie sang its way into cinemas and raked in millions at the box office, a sequel - Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! - will grace us with its presence. According to Deadline, original cast members Meryl Streep, Aman... more info

Idolator — And it has an ABBA connection. more info

BBC News - UK — Pop group Steps announce new music and a tour to celebrate their 20th anniversary. more info