Garage-punks Parquet Courts have announced the follow-up to their 2016 hit Human Performance. The new album, Wide Awake, was produced by Danger Mouse and will be out May 18th on Rough Trade. In anticipation of the new album, the band has shared a new song called “Almost Had to Start a Fight/In and Out of Patience”. You can watch… Read More Parquet Courts to release new album, share first track
For Faustina Masigat – widely talented and steeped in traditional music – it wasn’t her years of music studies that would come to shape her into the artist she is today. Instead, it was a process of unlearning the rules through which she was able to discover her own musical path. Having found her own voice… Read More Faustina Masigat – ‘Stay With Me’
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
Verandan, the new musical project of songwriter Ville Hopponen, celebrated the release of their self-titled debut EP on Saturday with an excellent show at bar loose in Helsinki.… Read More Live: Verandan, Helsinki 10/14/2017
The other day while waiting around in a lobby I was engaging in the usual weather small talk with an old man sitting beside me on the couch. I was told that – because there was no summer this year – there can be no Autumn. Well, let me tell you something I should have… Read More Playlist: Autumn
Godspeed You! Black Emperor will release their new album Luciferian Towers on September 22 and have already shared two new singles, ‘Anthem for No State, Pt. III’ and ‘Undoing a Luciferian Tower’. In a time like this, when the apocalypse seems nearer than ever it’s quite appropriate for Godspeed You! Black Emperor to make a triumphant return.… Read More Listen to two new songs from Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s upcoming album
If you trace the long path down pop music history it’s not as if you’ll come up empty-handed searching for songs named ‘Baby’. But amongst all the lovesick, heartbroken and starry-eyed numbers there’s a good chance that you’ve never encountered one as explosive and euphoric as Guggi Data’s addition to the list. ‘Baby’ is the… Read More Guggi Data – ‘Baby’
Hey, how’s it going? Hope you’ve had a great summer. Sorry for not blogging! I really should have, considering there’s been so much good music released lately. One of my favourites of the past few months is a double EP by Rami Vierula. Released in May on Sitrustapes, it ties together his two previous Finnish… Read More Rami Vierula: EP (s/t)
Thought I’d make a little playlist for you with songs that I’ve been listening to a lot lately. Songs that make you want to dance, cry and smile. Not necessarily at the same time, but you get the idea. Listen and follow here: In Between Songs – April17
Listening to Finland’s Delay Trees has always been a soft, lulling experience that shuffled you away from reality. Dreamy music tends to have that effect. It mesmerizes and hypnotizes, it makes rows of grey buildings appear cinematic from a bus window on a rainy day. But reality catches up with you sometimes – a terrible experience which… Read More Album: Delay Trees – Let Go
In Between Songs 