Mats Rydström Email & Phone Number

Stockholm, Sweden

• Currently working for:
• X5 Music Group - compiling music for online streaming and dowload services
• Sweden Rock Magazine - interviews & reviews
• Swedish promo rep. for Off Yer Rocka Recordings, and bands such as Bonafide, Quireboys, Amorettes as well as managing other freelance music promo projects
• music production & performance, touring, management etc - current bands: Abramis Brama, Avatarium and Pontus Snibb 3, touring with Conny Bloom's Swedish solo band, a new project with Conny and Meja called Peace.
• occasional dj, formerly mostly for Club Nuggets (country/blues/roots/soul)Previously also published a varying amount of stories in magazines like:

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Stockholm, Sweden

Music, film, tv, games articles, reviews and interviews for Chili (junior high) Piraja (senior high), Studentmagasinet (university), and Gate Report (airports) - each published 4-5 times a year and with a combined circulation of probably 400 000 copies.

Worked 50%, managing the website for Magazine Café, and reviewed games, tech products and did some assorted other writing from the print magazine. Helped out with a few of the Elle magazine websites as well, and continue contributing a bit as freelance to this day.

A.com start-up that tried to build a marketing and fan interaction web based platform for Swedish bands and artists, providing homepages, merchandising and various other services. I still don't really know where the revenue was gonna be coming from.

I had pretty much every imaginable editorial position from games, tech and music, to webmaster and IT manager. We made Slitz Sweden's best selling - and most controversial - men's lifestyle magazine during this period.

Pretty short-lived music magazine, I believe we did eight issues in roughly year and a half, published by the same company as Slitz. We covered a broad spectrum, had a lot of very well known and respected writers, and the most comprehensive reviews section in Sweden, usually with 100+ albums. Poor sales, strategic decisions and burned-out'd-ness stopped us.

Education record

Drop-Out, Computer Science, Maths

Computer Science

Drop-Out, Economics

Computer Science