Featured, Finnish music, Headline, News

News: TV-Resistori

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Today is a good day. TV-Resistori’s long-awaited third album will hit the record stores and our hearts. I’m extremely excited about this one, because it’s been five years since the previous album and I’m in desperate need of some ingenious indie pop songs. TV-Resistori have always been able to deliver the good stuff and I’m 100% sure that the new album will be lovely and totally amazing. It will be released by Fonal Records who has created this wonderful soundcloud set to introduce old and new masterpieces from the band. The first 4 tracks are from the new self-titled album.

Tv-resistori by Fonal Records

TV-Resistori Website
Fonal Records Website

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Headline, International music, News

News: Mighty Clouds in Finland

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Indie pop guru Fred Thomas is touring in Finland with his new band Mighty Clouds. Fred Thomas used to be the genius behind a band called Saturday Looks Good To Me who created some fabulous pop albums. Especially All Your Summer Songs is one of my favourite indie pop albums ever released. The other and equally important member of Mighty Clouds is Betty Marie Barnes (who has also featured on Saturday Looks Good To Me) and together they created a beautiful pop album that came out late last year. You can listen to the album on their bandcamp page.

Next week they are playing three shows in Finland. The dates are as follows:

4.4. Bar Loose, Helsinki (with Johnny Got It Wrong)
5.4. Telakka, Tampere (with Johnny Got It Wrong)
6.4. Dynamo, Turku (with Cat & Lynx)

Spell It Out by mightyclouds

Mighty Clouds at Facebook
Mighty Clouds at Bandcamp

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International music, Video of the Day

Video of the Day #51: Charles Bradley

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This blog needs some SOUL. It’s april fools day, but Charles Bradley ain’t fooling around. This 62-year-old man is singing his heart out. Watch his stunning performance below (live on KEXP). Charles has a fascinating background story (bio on facebook). His debut album No Time For Dreaming was released by Daptone Records in january.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6slbqEMiKsI]

This music video is equally wonderful.

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Charles Bradley Website

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International music, Video of the Day

Video of the Day #50: Nive Nielsen & The Deer Children

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I can’t say I’m the biggest expert on the Greenlandic indie scene, but recently I stumbled upon Nive Nielsen & The Deer Children and their songs are pretty marvellous. The album Nive Sings! came out in december 2010 and you can listen to it on their bandcamp. The album was produced by John Parish. Howe Gelb features on a couple of tracks and in one interview she named bands/artists like Townes Van Zandt, Michael Hurley, Giant Sand.. as her influences. So she definitely has a great taste in music. But enough with this pointless namedropping. The thing that matters is that she writes captivating folk songs and has a really beautiful voice. What a lovely album and what a lovely video.

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Nive Nielsen at bandcamp
Nive Nielsen at myspace

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