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Pop melodies and electro bits are the base for some of the most stimulating music to come up this summer. Helsinki electro duo TV OFF is finishing up the last details of its debut album to be released later this year, but in the meantime Sara and Markku are spreading some songs through the cyberspace [...]

Last Saturday I went a couple of hours up North to attend Provinssirock in Seinäjoki, a rather small city in Southern Ostrobothnia that during three days doubles its population and welcomes the parade of festivals goers. Those who have followed my posts in ALLSCANDINAVIAN are already aware that the line-up this year was not my [...]

During last Saturday’s performance, the singer of Hammerfall said that it was the coldest sauna he had ever been, and indeed, this year’s Sauna Open Air festival in Tampere was marked by weather conditions that drifted from cold and rain on Friday to a sunny picnic day on Sunday. But despite bad weather, metalheads and [...]

Sisters Piroth may not be exactly from Finland, but much of the Finnish magic runs in their blood. Born to a Finnish mother and an Austrian father, they grew up in Stockholm and visiting the Alps, where they found much of their inspiration. With a family very devoted to music, it is no surprise that [...]

THEY COME, THEY SEE, THEY HEAR, THEY FEEL. They take bits and pieces from here and there to create something new. They are bandits and they have a dadaist inspiration. This is the way indie quartet Rubik sees itself on its second album, Dada Bandits. Last summer Rubik faced the task of recording the always [...]