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
Folk singers can turn agony into relief and heartache into even more heartache. New Zealand’s Nadia Reid shows she’s well versed in the former on “Call the Days”, taken from her debut album Listen To Formation, Look for the Signs. Reid meets us on the other side of a rough journey, with the scar tissue to prove… Read More Nadia Reid -“Call the Days”
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.
I caught up with Finnish singer Robin Pahlman and talked about his new album, his influences and why you shouldn’t expect another folk record.… Read More Robin Pahlman gets reluctantly nostalgic on new album
Ceremonials’ original line-up. From left: Evgeniy Gonchenko, Santtu Mäkelä, Juuso Kaasalainen, Niklas Willstedt The fist time that Niklas Willstedt met his future band members was in a rehearsal space in Helsinki back in 2013. It was a nervous Willstedt who met up with two strangers that had replied to his advertisement, looking for people to… Read More Ceremonials: Finding an unexpected voice
Last night I went to see Teppanan Veljet & Sami Kukka who performed at the Sibeliusmuseum in Turku. The group is made up of long-time musicians Sami Kukka, Johannes Teppana ja Rauno Teppana who all play the traditional Finnish-Karelian Kantele.
Helsinki-based bedroom pop maker Rami Vierula, who is more commonly known as the frontman for dream pop ensemble Delay Trees, has been busy working on his solo project 23:23 since 2009. After releasing his Trilogy album compilation in 2015, he’s now returned with a new EP entitled To Die On A Faraway Island (Soliti).
While we patiently wait for spring and the new album from Is This Really Me, amidst the impenetrable greyness and darkness that is looming over us each day, we can find solace in their latest single ‘Freedom Riders’.
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