I’ve been otherwise engaged lately, but things like this can’t go completely unnoticed. This is marvellous Finnish pop music and at least once this website was all about great Finnish pop music. And obviously The Lieblings contains Coma and Andy from my all-time favourite Finnish band The Sugarrush. Anyway, The Lieblings are a fuzzy pop group from Helsinki and recently they signed a record deal …
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One Chord to Another gained some unexpected recognition today. It was selected as the #1 Finnish music blog by Cision. Which was nice, even though it might not be fully deserved. Lately the update frequency has not been on the level it should be and there are plenty of Finnish bloggers that do a great job in covering Finnish music and are better writers than …
Finnish lesson for today.
Flavour of the Month-klubin epäsäännöllinen arki-iltaversio, Kuukauden sivumaku tekee paluun! Sivumaku-nimellä on vuosien varrella pidetty muutamia iltamia akustisessa sooloartisti-hengessä. Keskiviikkona 22.5. on luvassa livenä kaksi Mäkelää, toinen saksalais-suomalais-papuauusiguinealainen ja toinen kaarinalainen.
Vanhan koulukunnan bändikilpailu- ja maaotteluhengessä käytävässä Mäkelöiden taistelussa saksalaissuomalaisen Martti Trillitschin lo-fi/trashfolk/singer-songwriter sivupersoonasooloprojekti Mäkkelä’s Trash Lounge kohtaa turkulaisen Jyrki Mäkelän aka Kolibri Kasinon (ex-Hundred Million Martians) soolosetin. Se, miksi Saksan Mäkelä kirjoitetaan …
I’ve been otherwise engaged lately, but things like this can’t go completely unnoticed. This is marvellous Finnish pop music and at least once this website was all about great Finnish pop music. And obviously The Lieblings contains Coma and Andy from my all-time favourite Finnish band The Sugarrush. Anyway, The Lieblings are a fuzzy pop group from Helsinki and recently they signed a record deal …
The update frequency on this blog is still rather disgraceful, but this debut single by Finnish indie folk artist Robin Pahlman is something so thrilling that even a lazy blogger like yours truly has to write a news entry about it. Robin Pahlman is a highly talented Finnish singer-songwriter who has previously made great music with rock group Agent Kooper and country duo Carmen & …
Here’s another beauty that has been on my playlist for a month or so. Great Horned Owl is an indie folk group from Portland, Oregon and Whistler Bear is their latest album. I’m very much into this fragile folk album. Whistler Bear might not work in every possible occasion, but when the time is right this can melt an iceberg or two. You can again …
I’m so far behind with this blog stuff that it isn’t even funny anymore. I suppose I should quit if I can’t find the time & energy to do this properly. But I won’t, because where else would I tell the world (or the seven regular readers) that the great Italian power pop group Radio Days just released their new album Get Some Action last …
FLAVOUR OF THE MONTH GOES AFROBEAT!
Perjantaina 5.4. Flavour Of The Month-klubilla kuullaan jotain ihan muuta kuin FOTM-iltojen vakiintunutta laulaja-lauluntekijämusiikkia tai kotimaista indietä. Tuolloin on fennougrilaisen afrobeatin vuoro kun Kaveri Special tekee keikkadebyyttinsä Flavour Of The Monthissa. Bändin takana on entisiä Cosmobile-yhtyeen jäseniä, jotka lopullisesti 70-luvun nigerialaiseen kitaramusiikkiin seottuaan pistivät edellisen bändin pakettiin ja ryhtyivät keskittymään uusiin rytmeihin uuden nimen alla.
Huhtikuun session avaa vahvasti tee-se-itse-henkinen lo-fi/indieduo …
Just before going to bed I want to share the songs that I’ve loved the most today. Linnusto followed me on Soundcloud a few days ago. I didn’t know who he was, but I hit the play button sometime late last night. Suddenly familiar, warm voice and beautiful songs floated through the headphones into my veins and Linnusto won my heart over in a few …
Lately I’ve been mostly listening to these Thanks For Giving a Damn with Otis Gibbs podcasts. I listened all 23 episodes within a week and I really loved spending quality time with Otis and his friends. All of these podcasts are very entertaining. Even when I didn’t knew the person beforehand. Some favourites were Motown engineer Bob Olhsson sharing his memories, Richard Dobson talking about …
This is American Music has again been releasing a lot of great music this year. All of them would be worthy of an own blog post, but my favourite is probably this new EP from Great Peacock. This Nashville-based duo of Blount Floyd and Andrew Nelson are making some sort of southern indie folk and it’s sounds pretty marvellous to me. The singing and the …
Last year Esa Linna released his first solo release She’s Not a Human Being EP that featured pop guru Roger Joseph Manning Jr on backing vocals and keyboards. Now it is time for the debut full-length and the album This Is Who I Am was released digitally on february 22nd. A new Finnish power pop release is definitely an event for this blog, because even …
Ben Fisher’s kickstarter for full-lenght album is closing in about 12 hours. He is a young Seattle-based singer-songwriter. Influenced by the great ones like Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan, Joe Pug, James McMurtry etc. And he is not just another singer-songwriter. He has found his own voice and there’s definitely some real talent here. He is still a bit short of his kickstarter goal …
