February’s Flavour of the Month is around the corner and takes place next friday 3.2.2012. Artists sharing the stage are Ochre Room and Markus Perttula.
Ochre Room is a folk rock / americana group from Tampere. They released a great Blue Ribbon EP last year. This is the title track.
Ochre Room Website
Markus Perttula is an excellent singer-songwriter from Turku. Markus is currently working on his …
Cirrone from Italy was a big hit in the power pop world last year and most of my favourite power pop blogs featured Cirrone’s Uplands Park Road album on their year-end lists. For example the wonderful Powerpopaholic.com rated is as the best album of the year 2011. This beauty of an album has been playing in my headphones for the last week or so and …
Hall of Ghosts — A Random Quiet
This is not officially out until march, but I got a digital promo which I’ve been enjoying lately. Hall of Ghosts is a new project from Additional Moog’s Jim Williams. I can’t say I know too much about Additional Moog except that it was a highly respected UK alt-country band. I remember that I red good things about the …
February’s Flavour of the Month is around the corner and takes place next friday 3.2.2012. Artists sharing the stage are Ochre Room and Markus Perttula.
Ochre Room is a folk rock / americana group from Tampere. They released a great Blue Ribbon EP last year. This is the title track.
Ochre Room Website
Markus Perttula is an excellent singer-songwriter from Turku. Markus is currently working on his …
Just remembered that I’ve only posted this great new Woodpigeon song to my facebook. Canadian Woodpigeon recently released their new EP For Paolo and this is the beautiful title track. I love it.
Woodpigeon Website
Several excellent albums came out this week. I think one could make a great top 5 year-end list in next december by just using records that came out on 24th of january. John K. Samson, Craig Finn, Bro. Stephen, Nada Surf and John Statz. That’s a giant dose of awesome new music for one day. I wrote a few words about the John Statz album …
I’ve lost touch with the indie pop world during the last couple of years, but maybe things change during 2012 because there’s plenty of great records coming out. For example new Burning Hearts is out next week, new Cats on Fire in the spring… and new Bears album on valentine’s day.
Bears is an indie pop band from Cleveland, OH and their new album is entitled …
I’m extremely excited about this. David Myhr will play at our Flavour of the Month club on 2.3.2012 (Pikku-Torre, Turku). David Myhr is a marvellous pop tunesmith and used to play in one of my favourite pop groups The Merrymakers. Their albums No Sleep ’til Famous and Bubblegun are power pop classics. David Myhr is currently getting ready to release his solo debut Soundshine in …
Every pop band should have at least one song where the title of the song is a name of a girl. For all The Girls have gone several steps further and only have these kind of songs. Well, I don’t mind at all. Damien Fairchild is writing love songs for girls and he is good at it. He has been releasing one song every month …
I can’t say I’m a big expert on malaysian indie pop, but back in 2007 I found Ferns’ debut album On Botany and I still pick that record from the shelf from time to time. In late december 2011, I learned that the band is still around and just released a new album. Fairweather Friends is another really lovely and sweet indie pop album. This …
Blues collective Devil Box released their debut album The Thing at the End on friday 20th of january, 2012. I’m just listening to it for the first time while writing this and I’m really enjoying it. The album was released by Kääntö Records. This is the opener Dial D For Devil.
Their record release concert took place at Pikku-Torre on the 20th of january. I …
The James Low Western Front will release their new album Whiskey Farmer on 21st of february. I already got it through Reviewshine and I’ve been listening to it a lot lately. Even pretty basic factory job becomes quite enjoyable, if you have this beautiful country-tinged album playing on your iPod while working. You can listen to the whole album on their bandcamp. Stars Don’t …
I’m finally noticing that it’s 2012 already and I better start recommending some new stuff. Soliti released Black Twig’s debut album Paper Trees last week and pretty much every blog has already mentioned that it is excellent. I still want to join the party, because it definitely is an excellent album. The standout tracks are the first outtakes Lake Song and Death Scene, but the …
