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Drink Palma

5 Mar

Palma was a sweet and refreshing soda in Finland. For a bunch of friends and musicians that was the stimulating thought they needed to ease their hangover at the rehearsal place in Helsinki. Palma became the band’s name. Be Bold and Mighty Forces Will Come To Your Aid -a quote from the film Almost Famous, [...]

Exporting Finnish music

23 Feb

If there is something in common between rock band HIM, accordion master Kimmo Pohjonen and Eurovision champion Lordi, it is the fact that all of them have achieved international success. Not only them. Finnish music travels abroad more often every day and it is not a rarity to see Finnish artists in the foreign charts [...]

Pop from the underworld

12 Feb

The Underwater Sleeping Society is six guys from Helsinki creating what could be loosely described as underwater-art-punk-folk-progressive-pop-rock. They love The Flaming Lips, Pink Floyd and 22-Pistepirkko and getting lost in spacey psychedelic atmospheres. Indeed, it is not the kind of music that you will hear on your commercial radio station, even though their songs include [...]

A great deal of discipline

4 Feb

I looked around and everybody was laying around the stage, while Ken Stringfellow proceeded with an hypnotizing rant. As strange as it sounds, that is exactly what it happened last week in Tampere at The Disciplines show, the singer’s latest project. The band, formed with members of Norwegian pop rock group Briskeby, presented their debut [...]

Happy death metal

15 Jan

With the release of its first album, Medeia has quickly become one of the strongest bands in the Finnish Death Metal scene. Upon its release, Cult received very good reviews and now Medeia gets ready for a lengthy European Tour, kicking off in the end of February in Germany. In spite of the harsh guitars [...]