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Album of the Month: Joe Pug – The Great Despiser

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A couple of quick words about the latest album of the month, before it’s time to choose a new one (obviously one could and should write a master thesis or a novel about the greatness of this record). Anyway, Joe Pug’s second full-length The Great Despiser was a really easy choice for that album of the month slot on the right. The Great Despiser came out on Lightning Rod Records on april 24th and it was love at first sight.The debut album Messenger was already close to perfection (and the finest moments were perfect), but I’m loving this new one even more as a whole. Joe Pug from Chicago, Illinois is such a fantastic folk songwriter. The songs are instantly catchy and easy to enjoy right from the start, but they also hold a giant amount of lyrical depth & poetic devotion inside them. Without further ado, here are a couple of great examples of Joe Pug’s songwriting talent.

The Great Despiser:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkz4ROGgGWc]

One of Many live at Guild Lounge:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8iy6bw-0hI]

Joe Pug Website

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Headline, News

Indiaanikesä III 01.06.-02.06.2012

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Something to look forward to. Flavour of The Month and Hyvän Musiikin Klubi are organizing a minifestival at Pikku-Torre on 1.6-2.6.2012. More information on this press release.

INDIAANIKESÄ PALAA

Turun Pikku-Torressa vuosina 2007 ja 2009 järjestetty Indiaanikesä-minifestivaali palaa klubikartalle kesäkuun ensimmäisenä viikonloppuna 1.-2.6.

Rajusti Suomen pienimuotoisimman kaksipäiväisen musiikkitapahtuman tittelistä kamppailevan Indiaanikesä III:n tarjonta jakautuu tällä kertaa indiepopimpaan perjantai-iltaan ja rockpitoiseen lauantaihin.

Perjantain pääesiintyjäksi on kutsuttu pienoista paluuta esiintymislavoille tekevä turkulainen kulttiyhtye Wojciech. Toisena aktina esiintyvä Goodnight Monsters on myös viettänyt hiljaisempaa eloa kahden Bone Voyage-merkille tehdyn hienon albumin jälkeen.

Lauantaiksi on kasattu melkoinen blues-rock’n’roll-gumbo. Illan aloittaa instrumentaalista bluesjyrnytystä tarjoileva Devil Box, toisena lavalle nousee 50-luvun rytmibluesia ja 60-luvun garage- ja beatmusiikkia yhdistelevä The Good Times ja lopuksi baarin tasaiseksi lanaa rockduo helvetistä, aina tehokas ja vakuuttavasti jyräävä Black Magic Six, jolta ilmestyi taannoin jo kolmas täyspitkä, Brutal Blues.

INDIAANIKESÄ III

pe 1.6.
GOODNIGHT MONSTERS
WOJCIECH
+Indiaani-DJs
LIPUT 4 €

la 2.6.
DEVIL BOX (guitar solo)
THE GOOD TIMES
BLACK MAGIC SIX
+Indiaani-DJs
LIPUT 4 €

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Pete Molinari touring in Finland 17.5-19.5

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In case you didn’t know it already, world class singer-songwriter Pete Molinari is touring in Finland right now. These concerts are going to be absolutely wonderful.

To 17.5.2012 Tampere, Telakka +Suvi Koivu
Pe 18.5.2012 Helsinki, Bar Loose
La 19.5.2012 Turku, Dynamo

Here are some of my own Molinari favourites.

Sweet Louise:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFrKjHF2GVA]

Today, Tomorrow and Forever:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t34fue9u7iU]

Since You’ve Been Gone:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUEon3HDofQ]

Pete Molinari Website

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Treehouse – Top to Bottom

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Treehouse released their excellent debut album Top to Bottom on 12th of may. This is country-flavoured pop perfection and one of my favourite Finnish releases of the year. Ok, maybe I shouldn’t get too excited at this point, because so far I’ve only spent one day with the album. But no, that’s not the way we work here at the onechord.net headquarters. I love to get excited about music and albums like Top to Bottom are the reason why this website exists. This just ticks all the right boxes for me. Wonderful vocals, sweet harmonies, beautiful melodies and stylish playing. And a banjo. I’m very much into albums like this or The Decline by Elvyn (obviously extremely useful to namedrop a Canadian band that only a few have heard around these parts of the globe, but everyone should, because The Decline is a masterpiece). Top to Bottom is already available on iTunes and Spotify. There’s a CD version as well, but I’m not sure will that hit the stores or is it only available on concerts / directly from the band. Here are two beautiful songs from the new album.

Treehouse Website
Treehouse at Facebook

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