Pop
HIM – Heartkiller
The prince of love metal, Ville Valo, and his band HIM have a new album ready to be released in one week. We have not been able to listen to Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice yet, but we are quiet intrigued about this musical essay on love that deals with solitude, death and happiness. [...]
Epilä – Pyhäkoulu
The Internet phobic band Epilä finally release last week their long-awaited debut ‘Avohakkuu’ and they also have a new video for the second single Pyhäkoulu. To our ears, the whole album might not be as strong as expected (yes, live they are better), but it does have a few good radio-friendly songs such as the [...]
Cats On Fire – The Hague
Last Year Cats On Fire released a fantastic pop album that made some noise around the blogsphere. In order to celebrate such a good year, the band released a free digital single a couple of days before the end of 2009. It is a cozy acoustic number called The Hague with the usual bittersweet vocals [...]
The Rasmus – October & April
Although we usually prefer to look at upcoming bands, we cannot ignore the most successful Finnish pop band of the last ten years, with a few million of albums sold worldwide. The Rasmus, who recently celebrated their 15th anniversary as a band, close the decade with the release of a compilation album with all the [...]
Manna – Gimme Water
This autumn singer Manna is living her breakthrough after releasing her second album ‘Songs of Hope and Desire’, which was received with good reviews and followed by cover stories in magazines and a raising interest in the UK. Born in Paris to a Finnish mother and an Algerian father, the singer spent her childhood between [...]
