News: Puskii! and Delay Trees

Puskii!

If you are wondering what ultrasport’s Sami Konttinen is doing nowadays, this is part of the answer. He has a new band called Puskii! and Puskii! is about to release their debut album later in the year 2010. You can already listen to the first single Kaalinpäitä ja kraanavettä on their myspace.

Puskii! at myspace
Puskii! at blogspot

Delay Trees

After their really good self-released Soft Construction EP, Delay Trees signed a deal with Johanna Kustannus and their first full-length album is due out in september. The first single is called Cassette 2012 and you can download it from their website. And it’s free. “Tender pop songs that will melt your ears” says their website and that’s pretty accurate. I have high hopes that the album could be both brilliant and still sell quite well.

Delay Trees Website
Delay Trees at myspace

Delay Trees photo Aapo Huhta
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News: Nopat 7″

Truly wonderful news and it took me several weeks to write about it. Debut release by Nopat has been out and available for a few weeks. It’s a seven inch single Yksinäisten tiet / Rauhaton and I love it to bits. Nopat is a fairly new band, but these boys have given us some fabulous pop music with their earlier groups such as Leaky Soles, Red Carpet and Nopat continues on the same level of excellence. Think of younger finnish version of Mojave 3 (Excuses For Travellers -era) or Luna for example. Well better not to think anything that I have to say and just listen to this beautiful a-side of the single below.

 

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Nopat at myspace

Nopat photo by Appu Jasu
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The Good Times and Petty Crimes… and FOTM Summer edition

The Good Times

The Good Times are here. The band recorded some tunes earlier in the summer and you can listen to them on their myspace. It’s a rock’n’roll/beat band which play lot of fantastic cover songs. Some you know by heart and some you might not have heard at all. Like The Beatles in Hamburg was one of the ideas flying around when they were forming the group.

The Good Times at myspace

Petty Crimes

Petty Crimes is a new band led by Damn Seagulls frontman Lauri Eloranta. Petty Crimes’ garage rock is a lot rougher than you might expect if you’ve gotten used to Damn Seagulls’ almost stadium friendly sound but it does sound equally brilliant. Actually this might even sound better to the hardcore indie geeks. I love ’em both.

Petty Crimes at myspace

Flavour Of The Month Summer Edition Vol 2.

Both of these bands will play at FOTM Summer edition at Pikku-Torre, Turku on thursday 29th of july. Yours truly will be part of the DJ Team. It should be a blast. See you there. It’s during the Down By The Laituri festival.

Flavour Of The Month Summer Edition Vol. 2
PETTY CRIMES
THE GOOD TIMES
+ FOTM DJ’s
Pikku-Torre, Yliopistonkatu 30, Turku
to 29.7.2010, klo 21-03
VAPAA PÄÄSY

— More (old) news to come pretty soon —

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