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Black Twig – Death Scene

22 Nov

Noisepoppers Black Twig have dropped a new song from their forthcoming debut album Paper Trees. It is three and a half minutes of 90′s guitar pop with a touch of melancholic J Mascis type of vocals and it just makes me want to hear more of that album in a few weeks. Paper Trees will [...]

Kevin – A Lonely Place

16 Nov

2011 is not over yet, but I am already looking forward to some releases of early 2012. One of them is Kevin‘s long overdue return. The album will be in stores next spring, but Kevin have already offered a little bit of it in the form of the 60′s psych flavored pop song A Lonely [...]

The Saturnettes – Girl Named Sue

31 Oct

The Saturnettes, from Tampere, blend in a refreshing way the 70s glam rock sounds of David Bowie and T-Rex with a touch of new wave and synth-pop. After some logistic problems, the band is finally releasing their debut album Meet The Saturnettes on 16 November. Get a taste of the album on the band’s webs. [...]

Matti Johannes Koivu – Live at Studio Kekkonen

19 Oct

Studio Kekkonen, home of producers / engineers / mixers Julius Mauranen, Mikko Raita and Janne Riionheimo and birthplace of many, many good records, is launching a new series of videos live at the studio to give an insight look at recording sessions done by some Finnish artists and bands. The first one in the series [...]

Introducing Steafán Hanvey

10 May

With an acoustic guitar, a bag full of songs and a peculiar name, Northern Irish boy Steafán Hanvey travels from Dublin to Helsinki and to New York, living the life of a rambling singer-songwriter. Nowadays he is based in Ireland, but for many years he lived in Helsinki, where he left some music connections and [...]