I can’t say I’m the biggest expert on the Greenlandic indie scene, but recently I stumbled upon Nive Nielsen & The Deer Children and their songs are pretty marvellous. The album Nive Sings! came out in december 2010 and you can listen to it on their bandcamp. The album was produced by John Parish. Howe Gelb features on a couple of tracks and in one …

Some great news. NT’s White Trash’s debut album Mourning Becomes Electric will be released on 18th of may by Stupido Records. What the hell is NT’s White Trash you might ask. Well I didn’t know either before I got the e-mail. It’s ex-Treeball & ex-Supermodel Nick Triani’s new group. The band also features other finnish indie heroes Janne Lehtinen, Heikki Tikka and Henrik Domingo. It’s …

Malcolm Holcombe: To Drink The Rain (Music Road Records, 2011)

To Drink The Rain is Malcolm Holcombe’s eight album, but the first one that I’ve heard. Well better late than never (if we start to celebrate the cliche), because this is pretty amazing stuff. Some of the rawest country-blues of the record might slide out of pop fan’s comfort zone, but this is only an issue …

Heartjet: Goodbye, Stan EP (2010)
I’ve written about this finnish power pop duo a few times, but Heartjet deserves another push. After all, onechord.net exists because of bands like Heartjet. Nowadays there just aren’t too many bands around that are influenced by the greatest bands/artists ever like The Posies, Jason Falkner, Brendan Benson, Matthew Sweet and Nada Surf. Therefore when new one enters the picture and …

Daniel Romano: Sleep Beneath The Willow (You’ve Changed Records, 2011)
I got Daniel Romano’s new album Sleep Beneath The Willow through reviewshine, but it’s such a fabulous album that I really should buy a physical copy as well. Daniel Romano is a country singer-songwriter from Welland, ON, Canada and he has written a wonderful traditional country & folk album. Press release namedrops Glen Campbell and Lee …

Samae Koskinen: Kuuluuko, kuuntelen (KHY Suomen Musiikki, 2011)
I’m totally in love with this album. I know I just got this eight days ago, but I think I already know all the songs by heart. This album instantly became a friend that entertains me, comforts me and takes care of me. Isn’t that what good friends are supposed to do.  Like all the regular readers know, …

April’s Flavour Of The Month takes place next friday 1st of april at Pikku-Torre, Turku. Local acts Peconia and Salmi & Räty will share the stage and local fool yours truly will be playing some country and folk records before the concerts. You’ll find the facts below. Here’s a new live recording of a song called Swing On by Peconia.
Swing On by Peconia
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The wonderful Yer Bird Records will release the new Hezekiah Jones album Have You Seen Our New Fort? on next tuesday, 29th of march. If the rest of it is as wonderful as this song called Lift the Shadow From This Heart, it will be a stunning album. Hezekiah Jones is Raphael Cutrufello from Philadelphia and a band of like-minded folk musicians. As a huge …

These songs just brightened up my day. New Puskii! songs from their upcoming album are available on their myspace. The debut album entitled Sun sydän paukkuu ku bassorumpu will be released by Humma Records sooner or later.
Puskii! at myspace
Puskii! at facebook

Portland-based singer-songwriter Kasey Anderson was one of my big finds last year and therefore I’m a little bit ashamed that I still haven’t written anything about his latest effort. The new album Heart of a Dog was released in february and it’s pretty damn good. I admit that I’m not the biggest fan of this opening track The Wrong Light, because I think this goes …