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Smag På Dig Selv drop exhilarating Better Company live session for ‘Total Full Power Extreme Nuclear Confusion 2000’!

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3 months ago

July 31, 2026

Don Reed

Danish trio Smag På Dig Selv (SPDS) are back to unveil their awesome Better Company live session for ‘Total Full Power Extreme Nuclear Confusion 2000’.

Comprised of two saxophonists and one drummer, Smag På Dig Selv (SPDS) have built an international reputation since 2018 as one of Scandinavia’s most intense and unconventional live acts, blending acoustic instrumentation with techno structures, punk energy, and references to 90s dance culture. Their performances have taken them from major festivals in Europe to SummerStage in Central Park, New York City, as well as showcase platforms such as SXSW, The Great Escape, and Eurosonic.

‘Total Full Power Extreme Nuclear Confusion 2000’ comes from the band’s 2024 debut album ‘SPDS’ and is a perfect example of the intoxicating electronic chaos that the band have become renowned for. Dystopian sax atmospheres give way to hard-hitting bass-loaded beats in a feverish melange of escalating glitchy carnage. The Better Company session for the track, recorded during the band’s first visit to New York in January 2025, is a stripped-back version that shows the band in their element, smashing out this young classic from their back catalogue with jaw-dropping, invigorating flair.

Smag På Dig Selv (SPDS) released their brand new album ‘This Is Why We Lost’ earlier this year to much acclaim, including airplay from BBC 6 Music’s Iggy Pop, Radcliffe & Maconie and Radio X’s John Kennedy, as well as press acclaim from the likes of Notion, Under The Radar, Earmilk and Clash Magazine, the latter giving it a glowing 9/10 review.

The new album has seen Oliver Lauridsen (tenor sax), Thorbjørn Øllgaard (baritone and bass sax), and Albert Holberg (drums) start to take their music and their lives more seriously. Stripping away some of the self-ironic titles and musical choices that may have frequented their previous work, ‘This Is Why We Lost’ features the band’s moms, a nod to minimalist composer Kali Malone, and a Palestinian folk song. Different voices, different stories, all finding space together.

Still, there’s a red line running through everything. This time the band have tried to have things less in an arm’s length. The curiosity is the same, but it’s more focused now — more confident, more open. It feels like a step forward, without letting go of where they came from. Stream ‘This Is Why We Lost’ now and watch the band’s Better Company live session for ‘Total Full Power Extreme Nuclear Confusion 2000’ now here:

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Doja Cat Brings the Tour Ma Vie World Tour to Scotiabank Arena on November 25

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35 minutes ago

November 2, 2026

Leo Bodei

Portrait of Doja Cat with long blonde hair against a dark background.

Doja Cat. Photo courtesy of Doja Cat on Instagram.

Doja Cat brings her Tour Ma Vie World Tour to Toronto on Wednesday, November 25, with a 7:30 p.m. show at Scotiabank Arena. It is one of the last stops on the biggest headlining run of her career, and it lands in the middle of a heavy week for the building.

The tour supports Vie, her fifth studio album, released in September 2025. The record is an 1980s inspired turn back toward pop, led by the singles “Jealous Type” and “Gorgeous,” and the live show has been built as a full scale arena production. Latto joins the bill as special guest for the entire North American leg, which runs 31 dates from the October 1 opener in Detroit to the December 1 finale at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Toronto gets the show near the end of the run, with Boston on November 23 before it and Montreal on November 27 after it. By the time she reaches Scotiabank Arena, the production will have played more than twenty North American arenas, on top of earlier legs across Oceania, Asia, Latin America and Europe. Earlier in November the tour also plays Miami, Tampa, Orlando and Atlanta.

Fans have been getting a look inside the tour straight from Doja Cat herself. She has been filming the run on Ray-Ban Meta glasses, posting point of view footage from backstage, soundchecks and life on the road, so the Toronto crowd will see a show that has been documented almost night by night. Tickets for November 25 are on sale through Ticketmaster. With the Garden shows in New York closing the tour one week later, the Toronto date is one of the final chances to see this production before the run wraps.