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More than five years after their debut album, Tundramatiks return with a new long-awaited tundra-punk fix. The band combines fast-paced Finnish rautalanka rhythms and melodies with sounds from the far Russian tundra. And on top of that there is a don’t-give-a-fuck ’77 punk attitude. It is the Gogol Bordello of the North. The new album [...]

If you did not have the chance to travel this summer, or if you want to reach further destinations, you might want to spin Them Bird Things’ new album and let yourself be transported to distant places in space and in time. Wildlike Wonder is the band’s second installment recreating the music of unsung sixties [...]

The long awaited Jaakko & Jay debut album starts with a critical advisory message warning the listener (or the critic) that music is for listening and not for analyzing and writing about it. However, these two young fellows would probably agree with me that doing what I am told to do would be incoherent with [...]

Kaspar went all the way to Kingston, New York, very close to Woodstock, to record with American producer Malcolm Burn their debut album, which is inspired by the enigma of Kaspar Hauser, a 19th century German foundling who after 15 years of total isolation in darkness became a symbol of empathy and forgiveness after his mysterious [...]