New album from Beacon Street Radiants

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Beacon Street Radiants was a really good Turku-based americana / folk rock group that released fine little releases some years ago. Before quitting in 2010 or thereabouts, the band recorded a full-length album that never saw the light of the day back then. Thankfully a brand new local label One Clean Sound thought that the album is just too good to remain criminally unreleased and released Beacon Street Radiants self-titled album on 1st of march 2013. After listening to the album a few times, I can fully agree with them. This (almost lost) album is pretty damn good and definitely worthy of an official release.

You can order the album directly from the label. Visit their facebook for more information. Also the local 8raita record store has the album in stock. This is the excellent Your Heart from the album.

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Beacon Street Radiants at Facebook
One Clean Sound at Facebook

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Video of the Day #120: Frontier Ruckus

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Tonight there’s no time for large updates, but there’s always time for Frontier Ruckus. This is Careening Catalog Immemorial from their stunning new double album Eternity Of Dimming. I’m totally into that album and can listen to it all day long. Maybe I should rethink my strategy of not writing actual reviews anymore. On the other hand, now I don’t have to decide is the new Frontier Ruckus worth full five hearts or just four and a half.

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Frontier Ruckus Website

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Video of the Day #119: Small Houses

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The new album by Small Houses came out today on Yer Bird Records and therefore a perfect video of the day is the latest Small Houses video Our Sweet. It’s one of my own favorites from the excellent album Exactly Where You Wanted to Be. You can also now stream and buy the whole beautiful album at http://yerbirdrecords.bandcamp.com.

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Small Houses Website

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Video of the Day #118: Andy Oliveri

I meant to do plenty of updates today, but instead I updated wordpress and ran into some problems. It took some time, but I hope I got things sorted out. If the site looks like a mess, then I probably didn’t. Anyway, it’s getting late, but there’s still time for one amazing video that I found from Slowcoustic last week.

Andy Oliveri is a UK-based folk singer-songwriter and the song A Heart That Sings Can Never Bleed is the a-side of a vinyl single that came out last november on istartedthefire Records. Such a great song and that hypnotic video by Miles Ridgway is just marvellous. Andy Oliveri also participated Slowcoustic’s Long May You Run, J.Tillman cover project with an excellent version of My Waking Days. This project is worthy of an own blog post later on, but hit this link if you want to hear the magic already. There’s already a lot of excellent versions from artists like Lotte Kestner (new Lotte Kestner album also out soon, is it this week or the next), Greater Pacific etc and there’s more to come. But more about J.Tillman later on. This is Andy Oliveri and A Heart That Sings Can Never Bleed.

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Andy Oliveri Website

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