Alert: Possible Album of the Year out this Friday – Steven Lambke – Days Of Heaven

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Someone drag me back to surface. I’m getting over-excited. I’ve only heard two songs from the forthcoming Steven Lambke album out this Friday (Oct.30.) on the ever lovely You’ve Changed Records, but I’m already convinced that this is going to be a masterpiece. If the rest of the album will live up to Days of Heaven and especially Memory Forever, Barna Howard will indeed have a late contender for that album of the year title. I can’t wait to hear this one in a few days time. These two songs are just so brilliant. The songs remind me a bit of the late great Sparklehorse. Could be just me. Anyway, I’ll try to get back to this once I’ve actually heard this in full. Meanwhile check out the video premiere for Memory Forever at Exclaim (I didn’t embed the video, because I’m not sure is that allowed when someone has the premiere still going on, but I highly recommend watching it. The song is wonderful and the video includes some of my favourite people that I’ve never met, Steven, Ian Kehoe and Tamara Lindeman). This one is the other song that is already out there. The wonderful album opener and title track Days Of Heaven.

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Small Houses // Lauri Myllymäki (Finland Tour)

Small Houses returns to Finland for the third time with support from Ochre Room’s Lauri Myllymäki. They are both first class singer-songwriters and therefore these concerts are monstrously highly recommended on that good old Not Lame scale. Check out the dates on that tour poster below.

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Flavour of the Month’s DIY punk special: The Phoenix Foundation 2.10.

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It took a little longer than usually, but Flavour of the Month returns from summer vacation this Friday 2.10 at Pikku-Torre. We kick off the fall program with a DIY punk special. The Phoenix Foundation will be on stage. FOTM DJ Team will play some tunes before and after the gig. See you there.

Flavour of the Monthin syyskauden avaa turkulaisen tee-se-itse punkin mestarit, The Phoenix Foundation. Kyseessä on bändin ensiesiintyminen FOTM-klubilla. Keikalla kuultaneen materiaalia bändin uudelta levyltä, joka saattaa olla tai saattaa olla olematta saatavilla 2.10. mennessä. Flavour of the Monthin legendaarinen DJ team kaivaa arkistoistaan punkhenkistä levymusiikkia illan etkoja ja jatkoja vauhdittamaan. // Autumn season’s opening! Classic Turku Hüsker Dü/Moving Targets inspired DIY punk by The Phoenix Foundation. Free entry, as always.

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Ariel Sharratt & Mathias Kom – Fuck The Government, I Love You

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File under: the best song in the world right now and a song worthy of a blog comeback. I really fell in love with this one last weekend and listened to it over and over again. I didn’t really plan on ending my blog hiatus this week, but this is just too good not to post. So if you missed One Chord To Another, you can thank these lovely people for getting it back on track. They are Ariel Sharratt & Mathias Kom from The Burning Hell and their duo album called Don’t Believe The Hyperreal will come out on the 27th of November. It will be released by BB*Island (Europe) / Headless Owl (Canada).

The past year has been a year of The Burning Hell for me. Perhaps in more ways than one, but let’s leave the health concerns aside for a second and focus on the brighter part of The Burning Hell. The songwriter Mathias Kom is my own happiness guide. There are lines in his songs that make me so ridiculously happy that perhaps one day I can say that the lines in my face did come from smiling. The first outtake Fuck The Government, I Love You from the forthcoming duo album is once again an injection of happiness. Co-workers probably think I’m finally loosing it, because all week long I’ve been packing potatoes while singing along loudly the words “pass the wine, fuck the government, I love you too”. Thanks Ariel & Mathias. I love you too.

And some old The Burning Hell classics.

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