To get those new strings stretched out and ready for the SXSW stages, Norway’s Oslo Festival and online indie source Oh My Rockness are teaming together for a Scandinavian showcase at Manhattan’s Santos Party House. On Monday, March 15, up and coming Norwegian bands The Megaphonic Thrift and Pirate Love will be donning the stage for deep-knee rock squats in preparation for Austin’s SXSW music fest.

Out of Oslo, Pirate Love is bringing post-grunge garage thrash to the states with a refreshingly venomous chomp. Their most recent release Black Vodoun Space Blues tethers the ferocity of early angst-ridden punk with lofty and lengthy tendrils of 60’s surf. Also on stage with be Bergen’s The Megaphonic Thrift—A budding indie-outfit, that shares members of the bands Casiokids and The Low Frequency In Stereo.

The event kicks off at 7pm and joining the Scandinavian acts will budding band out of Brooklyn, The Depreciation Guild.

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