Janne Laurila & Nopat

As previously mentioned, Janne Laurila’s album Kultaisia pisteitä is due out in september. However, you can already take a sneak preview, because today Janne added three new songs from the upcoming album to his myspace. Oh and now Janne’s band has a name. It isn’t called Nopat eventhough that made a good sounding title to this blog entry. It’s called Tuhlaajapojat. So look out for Janne Laurila ja Tuhlaajapojat concerts next fall if you want to see some of the finest live performances this country has to offer.

Janne Laurila at myspace

Nopat also added some great new songs. Tune in their myspace to experience their greatness. Or come to Flavour Of The Month’s summer edition where Nopat share the stage with College Fall (aus) and Jaakko Söderström (Ben’s Diapers frontman’s first solo gig). The event will take place at Pikku Torre, Turku on 27th of june. More information about this FOTM event later on, but now you can already mark it to your calendars. See ya there.

Nopat at myspace

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Drew Danburry: Lynette I Love You

Tonight’s favourite song and music video is Drew Danburry’s Lynette I Love You. I have some of his older material and noticed his myspace bulletin about Weezer cover I Do. I enjoyed it a lot (you can watch video of it here or download it for free…read his myspace blog and you’ll find the link) and therefore I went to see what other things he has done recently and found this beauty. It’s a really lovely bit of “Jonathan Richmanesque” pop music.

 
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Drew Danburry at myspace

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Top of the Week 23

Albums:

1. V/A: D.i.Y. Come Out And Play – American Power Pop I
This is a great series of compilations. Unfortunately I found them so late that they were already out of print. Still I found American Power pop II and UK Power pop I & II quite easily, but it took a few years to find a reasonably priced copy of this. Even now I paid something like 17€ which is quite a lot for a used cd, but this one is definitely worth it.

2. Samantha Crain & The Midnight Shivers: Songs In The Night
This one got most air time in this household during the week. It’s not the best thing ever, but it does have a lot of really good songs and I like it a lot. A good start is to watch this minidocumentary at youtube, if you want to get to know her.

3. Gene Clark & Carla Olson: So Rebellious A Lover
I’m a huge Gene Clark fan but it took me a long time to buy this one. It’s not his finest work, but it’s still pretty damn good. Oh and someone please release Two Sides To Every Story. It would be about time. I would love to buy it, but it’s been out of print for a long time.

4. King Khan & The Shrines: The Supreme Genius Of..
A bit of rock’n’roll is sometimes okay.

5. A Camp: Colonia

Also started listening to this beauty. No final verdicts, because I’ve only just begun…


Songs:

1. Janne Laurila: Tauti ilman hoitoo
2. Samantha Crain & The Midnight Shivers: Devils In Boston
3. Nopat: Yksi joukossa
4. Scott H. Biram: Still Drunk, Still Crazy, Still Blue
5. King Khan & The Shrines: Welfare Bread

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