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8raita presents: Ryan Boldt Finland tour in May

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Something pretty amazing is happening in a few months time. Canadian songwriter Ryan Boldt will be touring in Finland in May 2015. Ryan Boldt released a great solo album last fall and he is also the front man of The Deep Dark Woods. His band colleague Clayton Linthicum will play with him on these Finnish dates. A huge thanks to 8raita and Fredrik Johansson for bringing Ryan & Clayton to Finland.

Ryan Boldt Finland Tour:

May 6/2015 – Elmun Baari, Helsinki
May 7/2015 – Telakka, Tampere
May 8/2015 – Bar Kuka, Turku
May 9/2015 – Bar Edgar, Loimaa
May 10/2015 – TBA

I’ll get back to this closer to the tour dates, but here are some samples to get you interested. You can’t go wrong with any of the Ryan Boldt and The Deep Dark Woods releases. My own biggest favourite is The Place I Left Behind which was the album of the year 2011 on this little blog and like I’ve said many times, I still rate it as the best album that has been released during this current decade.

Love Is Pleasin’ from Ryan Boldt’s solo album Broadside Ballads (2014).

18th of December from The Deep Dark Woods album Jubilee (2013)

Sugar Mama from The Deep Dark Woods album The Place I Left Behind.

And a bit of live action as well.

The Deep Dark Woods singing Red, Red Rose (from Jubilee, 2014)

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Ryan Boldt at Bandcamp
The Deep Dark Woods Website
8raita Website

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Chris Porter & The Pollies

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Porter & The Pollies, but separately this time around. I’ve been listening to Chris Porter since The Back Row Baptists days. Broken Hearts & Bad Decisions by The Back Row Baptists, Some Dark Holler’s album and that Porter & The Pollies EP/mini-album. I’ve really enjoyed all of those releases. Porter is currently getting ready to release his solo album This Red Mountain and I’m very confident that I’m going to like this one as well. The release date has been set for March 10th 2015, but the first outtake has already been out for a while. It’s called Hardest Healing and you can hear this great song below.

Chris Porter Website

The Pollies are also releasing a new record this year. I learned this over at Bucketfull of Nails today. I had already decided to write a post about Chris Porter, so when I noticed this, it was almost too obvious decision to team these together under the same post. Sorry about that. Anyway, I really dig this sweet song Lost from the forthcoming The Pollies album. This has pop sensibility all around it and like the title of this blog says, I’m really a pop guy at heart and therefore it’s no wonder I’m liking this a lot. The Pollies album will be released by Single Lock Records later in the year.

The Pollies at Facebook

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Heartjet – Under The Spell & Egotrippi – Uusi aamu

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Time to get back to the basics of this website/blog and post a couple of great Finnish pop songs. Heartjet are working hard on their debut full-length and just released a second single from the forthcoming album called Under The Spell / Picture. I’m a long time fan of this power pop duo and really like these new songs as well. Under The Spell is available at Bandcamp.

Heartjet at Facebook

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Egotrippi doesn’t really need an introduction. They are one of the finest pop bands in the country and unlike 99% of the bands covered on this blog, they are also somewhat famous. That’s the only reason why I haven’t written that much about them over these 13 years I’ve been writing this blog. They don’t really need my help and there’s nothing that I can add that hasn’t already been said. Nevertheless, they have new single out there called Uusi aamu and I think it’s absolutely wonderful. Their new album Vuosi nolla drops into our hearts on the 20th of March. Here’s the music video for the lead single Uusi aamu.

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Egotrippi Website

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Couch by Couchwest 2015 March 15-21

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One of the musical highlights of the year, Couch By Couchwest festival kicks off on the 15th March. CXCW staff is already working their socks off and have started taking your submissions. The deadline for those submissions is 12:00pm Noon Eastern/9:00am Pacific time March 21th, but I’m sure they appreciate it, if you send them in advance. It would give the unlucky and overworked CXCW intern at least some free time during the festivities that he/she could spend on preparing tacos and carving haikus to his/her desk.

CXCW is open to everyone and that’s the beauty of it. You don’t need to be world famous to participate. Sure some big names like Neko Case and Rosanne Cash have participated which has been awesome, but some unknown father-daughter duo singing their heart out can be just as important at CXCW. All genres are accepted, but no Wagon Wheel covers (unless your D.Rucker) or something very offensive like Nickelback covers. Some Finnish folks have also appeared on the stage. Robin Pahlman, Jerry Lindqvist and Marty The Random Guy have all played on the festival. I hope the audience will see a couple of Finnish entries at CXCW 2015 as well.

Here are quick guidelines from their website:

“Musicians: Please upload your unique to CXCW 2015 video (i.e. for the CXCW festival) to YouTube or Vimeo and send the link to us via the below form or to cxcwest at gmail.com (think of this video as your performance for the Couch by Couchwest audience).

Videos do not have to be recorded on a couch, but they should be recorded essentially anywhere but a stage (we strongly encourage creativity).

Submitted videos should be unique (i.e. for the CXCW audience). Please do not send us promos, EPK’s, live concert footage, music videos, slideshows, etc…”

And here’s Marty The Random Guy singing The 1800 at CXCW 2014

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Couch by Couch West Website

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