The Genuine Fakes (SWE), The Sugarrush & The Wonderminer. 3.9.2011 at Pikku-Torre, Turku.

Some great things happening tomorrow and therefore a reminder is in order. Flavour of the Month club becomes thirteen years old. One Chord to Another celebrates 10th anniversary. And there’s three fabulous pop bands playing. Sweden’s finest power pop group The Genuine Fakes, One Chord to Another’s all-time favourite The Sugarrush and amazing The Wonderminer. I’m really looking forward to it. See you there. I’ll be one (or the only) of the guys that will be playing records in between these great bands. That’s my way of partying hard. Come and say hi, if we have never met (obviously it’s not illegal to say hi even if we have met). Here’s the info in a nutshell.

tapahtumatiedot:
FLAVOUR OF THE MONTH esittää
ONE CHORD TO ANOTHER 10 V!
THE GENUINE FAKES (SWE)
THE SUGARRUSH
THE WONDERMINER
+ Flavour Of The Month DJ team
Pikku-Torre, Yliopistonkatu 30, Turku
La 3.9. klo 21-03
Liput: 4€

And link to the Facebook Event

NRGM.fi Small Talk with Joey Fake (from The Genuine Fakes)

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The Weather Station – All Of It Was Mine

Before getting completely lost in the world of power pop it’s good to remember that I do love other things almost as much. For example unique and magical folk music of The Weather Station sounds absolutely marvelous to me. Ok, I can’t say that I’m an expert on Toronto-based The Weather Station aka Tamara Lindeman, because I’m just listening to her new album All Of It Was Mine for the first time. However, I’m already completely captivated and ready to believe that this is a special record. The songs are intimate & amazing and and I love the bare & beautiful sound of the album. Somehow listening to this made me think of Sibylle Baier’s beautiful folk classic Colour Green and I suppose that can’t be a bad thing. The album just came out on You’ve Changed Records, label that only seems to release great records.

Listen to opener Everything I Saw:

The Weather Station Website
The Weather Station at Bandcamp

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News: Doug Paisley at Dynamo, Turku on 10.09.2011

Oh my. This is something really wonderful. I’ve been focusing on Flavour Of The Month on 3rd of september, but it’s also about time to start promoting this upcoming concert at Dynamo, Turku that takes place a week later (I don’t have anything to do with this concert, I’m just excited about this). Doug Paisley is one amazing folk/country singer-songwriter from Canada. If you loved Damien Jurado’s Finland tour, you will love Doug as well. This guy is fantastic and will play his only show in Finland on 10th of september at Dynamo.

Doug Paisley live at Soundscapes

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Dynamon 2011-Klubien sarja tuo Dynamon lavalle jälleen poikkeuksellisen hienoa elävää musiikkia:

Doug Paisley on kanadalainen laulaja ja lauluntekijä, jonka musiikki versoo vahvasti sekä kantrin että amerikkaisen folkin maaperästä. Samalla Paisleyn musiikki on kuitenkin aivan omanlaistaan – kyse ei ole retroilusta tai perinteeseen verhoutumisesta. Paisleyn laulut ovat kauniita ja eleettömiä, tarkkaavaisia ja paljaita, sekä äärimmäisen tarttuvia.

Paisleyn uusin albumi Constant Companion (2010) on saanut paljon huomiota jopa valtamediassa, Mojosta The New Yorkeriin, ja mm. Rolling Stone -lehti kutsui sitä yhdeksi vuoden 2010 parhaista singer-songwriter-albumeista. Levyllä Dougia avustavat mm. The Bandin kosketinsoittaja Garth Hudson ja kanadalainen indietähti Leslie Feist. Levyä seuranneen kiertueen Paisley teki Bonnie “Prince” Billyn seurassa.

Dynamossa Doug Paisley esiintyy yksin kitaransa kanssa.

“…effortless and insightful, full of songs that draw you in with their peaceful, easy surface and then dump a big load of hurt on you.” – Pitchfork, Stephen M. Deusner

“Americana album of the month” – Uncut

“Minä pidän tästä musiikista, tämä tuo minulle rauhan.” – Elmeri Lehtinen, 3v.

Illan aloittaa turkulainen pitkän linjan musiikintekijä Niko Karlson, joka muistetaan mm. myrskyisän Navigations -bändin riveistä, mutta myös mestarillisena äänittäjänä ja studioteknikkona mm. Reverend Bizarren levyiltä.

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Old Californio – Sundrunk Angels

I first heard about Old Californio when I red that the legendary power pop drummer Ric Menck recommended them. That was a year or two ago.. around the time their previous album came out. Even though I would happily follow Ric to moon and back and value his opinion, I never ended up buying the album. But the name stuck in my mind and a month ago when I noticed that my favourite record store, 8raita, had the new Old Californio album Sundrunk Angels in stock, it was time to get to know Old Californio a little bit better. A wise decision, because this is definitely my kind of music. Picking up plenty from the west coast tradition. Beautiful country-folk, some psychedelic rock’n’roll and a fair share of great pop melodies. It’s not perfect and I won’t start shouting their name from the rooftops at this point, but Sundrunk Angels is a very fine record indeed.

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Old Californio Website

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