Sophomore album Borderline Iconic arrives May 24. Swedish indie rock singer/songwriter Linn Koch-Emmery will release her new album this Friday, May 24. Borderline Iconic follows the critically acclaimed debut album Being the Girl (2021), which earned her a Swedish Grammy nomination. The Stockholm-based artist has created a lot of buzz with her soaring shoegaze guitar… Read More New album from Linn Koch-Emmery out this week
The 2024 edition of Helsinki’s Odysseus Festival will take place on July 19-20 at the Culture Factory Korjaamo. The two-day festival has an impressive and eclectic line-up, including Norwegian duo Lost Girls formed by Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden, trumpeter Verneri Pohjola performing material from his new Monkey Mind album with his quartet, Swedish-Australian Ghosted… Read More Odysseus festival 2024
If you’re one of those people who plan your life several months ahead and you already know you’re going to be in Helsinki on April 4th 2018, I have a tip for you! Put that date down as the day when you’re going to see Godspeed You! Black Emperor at The Circus. Why? Well, because… Read More Godspeed You! Black Emperor to return to Helsinki in 2018
Everytime Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds release new music there’s a 99.9% chance that I’m going to like it. Words like consistency and integrity come to mind. Today the band released their new single “Jesus Alone” with accompanying video and all I can say is, another Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds classic has arrived.
Cold Cave AKA Wes Eisold has shared the first track from his upcoming two-song 7″ EP entitled The Idea of Love . The picture disc, graced with the image of an indescreetly dressed nun, will be released as a limited editon of 500 copies on September 9 via Heartworm.Watch the Amy Lee directed video for the title track below.
Legendary Swedish indie rockers Bob Hund will be touring the Nordic countries this Fall and have added five Finnish dates to their schedule. The extensive tour will follow the release of their upcoming album Dödliga Klassiker, which is out on September 16. The Finnish leg of their tour kicks off in Vasa on December 3, followed… Read More Bob Hund Reveals Fall Tour
Singer/songwriter Robin Pahlman is kicking off the Fall by heading to Finland on a mini-tour. The New York-based Finn is hitting the road this September in support of his latest album Temporary Everything, which was released in March earlier this year on Monkey Records. Catch him on the following dates. 14/9 Helsinki, Semifinal (w/ Valhe) 16/9 Turku, Dynamo 17/9 Pargas,… Read More Robin Pahlman announces Finnish tour dates
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but Big Wave Riders have resurfaced after a 4-year absence from the radar. The band will be releasing their sophomore album Endless Summer, quite conveniently, later this summer and unveiled their first single ‘Escape The City’ last Friday. According to the band this song is about escapism and “feeling you need to… Read More Big Wave Riders -‘Escape The City’
All of a sudden you’re lost inside a blissful cocoon of disorienting, fuzzy and rattling guitars, feeling like you’re in some Vincent Gallo movie shot with a 16 mm camera while you’re moving in slow-motion with the world spinning around you. Then you realise you’re just listening to the new single ‘Sunday TV’ from Finland’s Black Twig.
If you’re not familiar with Washington D.C. post punk pop group Dot Dash then you might recognize some of their members from bands like Minor Threat, Julie Ocean and The Saturday People. The band is now offering a free download of their track ‘Shopworn Excuse’, taken from their latest full-length ‘Half-Remembered Dream’. The album was… Read More Dot Dash – Shopworn Excuse
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