Topi Saha – Kolme veljee

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The first part of my vacation is over and one of the highlights of it was finally seeing Topi Saha’s live performance. I’ve been a fan since the days when Myspace ruled the social media, but somehow our paths didn’t cross until now at Indie-iltamat. The show was unfortunately a bit short due to the schedule of the evening, but I did love every second of it. It also reminded me that I still haven’t even mentioned Topi Saha’s second album Kolme veljee that came out in march on Warner Music Finland. Major labels rarely get things right, but it’s time to give credit when credit is due. Releasing such a magnificent record by a young Finnish folk singer-songwriter is definitely worth a praise. This small blog entry is also a note to self: Buy the record man. So far I’ve been only spinning this thing on Spotify and that just ain’t right. This is Se joka karkuun pääs.

topi saha – se joka karkuun pääs from Stickmen Hki on Vimeo.

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Austin Lucas – Alone In Memphis

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Austin Lucas has a new album coming out soon on New West Records. I’ve been a big fan since I heard his album Somebody Loves You few years ago. His two previous albums Somebody Loves You and A New Home in The Old World have both ended up in the top 10 on my end of the year lists. The upcoming album, Stay Reckless, will most likely do the same, because the three songs I’ve heard so far are all brilliant. This is the first single Alone In Memphis that you can already find on iTunes etc. Check out the other equally magnificent new Austin Lucas songs at New West Records Soundcloud.

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Austin Lucas Website

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Video of the Day #129: Talmud Beach

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Talmud Beach and their self-titled debut album kind of flew under my radar last year. Therefore this new music video Time On Highway 5 directed by James Tuovinen was a welcome eye opener. After watching this thing several times during the past two months, I’m more than ready to jump on this loose train. People outside Finland can soon follow my path, because the excellent Bone Voyage Recording Company is currently working on the European release of this album. Time On Highway 5 goes like this.

Talmud Beach – Time On Highway 5 from Hevosburger on Vimeo.

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Bone Voyage Website

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Will Schwartz – New Haircut

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This summer, I haven’t really had much time to go through my mailbox. Therefore it is now full of promo emails and it would take hours to go through them all. I’m not prepared to do that. However, songwriter Will Schwartz from Queens and his New Haircut EP on Monkfish Records somehow managed to lure me into listening to the music and I kind of instantly liked his bedroom folk pop. Therefore it found it’s way on my playlist and have managed to stay there for several weeks. Well-written stories and well-crafted songs. New Haircut EP came out on Monkfish Records in june 2013. This is the opener Strangers.

Will Schwartz at Monkfish Records

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