Country, Americana, Folk, Power Pop, Indie Pop
The second Koria Kitten Riot album The Lows & The Highs will be released on 19th of october by Solmu Records. The lead single is entitled An Anthem from the 80’s and you can check it out below (or on Koria Kitten Riot’s brand new website). Kyr Records will release the album in Germany, Austria and Switzerland later on. I’m really looking forward to this.
Koria Kitten Riot – An Anthem from the 80’s from Antti Reikko on Vimeo.
The Greenberry Woods released two great pop albums in the mid-nineties and I can recommend both of them extremely highly or even monstrously (by using the Not Lame scale). This Räkärodeo classic Oh Christine from the debut album Rapple Dapple has always been my biggest favourite. After The Greenberry Woods The Huseman brothers started another fantastic pop group Splitsville. The third key figure in the band Ira Katz started a band called Wonderfool. I probably have not heard anything from them. Let me know, if I need to do something with that.
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This is something I picked from the latest Shindig! Magazine (still by far the finest rock magazine there is). The Wicked Whispers comes from Liverpool and they seem to be stuck in the psychedelic sixties. But hey, if you have to be stuck in somewhere, that would be high up on my list as well. Their debut EP The Dark Delights of The Wicked Whispers came out on 6th of june 2011 and this fabulous tune entitled Amanda Lavender is an outtake from that EP.
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I haven’t written about Regina for a really long time, but it’s not because I’ve stopped caring or anything like that. I just tend to overlook the well-known pop groups here and focus on the smaller bands that gain way too little attention elsewhere. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with the quality of the music. In fact, Regina’s new album Soita Mulle sounds insanely great. If I don’t even mention that such an amazing pop treat has been released a couple of days ago, I should just quit making “a finnish pop site” and start some damn country & western music blog. Soita Mulle is out now in Finland and Friendly Fire will release the album in USA on september 20.
Listen to Unessa:
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