Posts Tagged ‘Helsinki’
Interviews
Interview with The Very Best
The Very Best are a deliciously odd trio. The band formed more than four years ago, after DJ gods Johan Karlberg and Etienne Tron of Radioclit met Esau Mwamwaya after buying a bike at Mwamwaya’s used furniture/junk store ...
Features
The Happy Hollows
It was pretty startling to me that, after listening to only one track from The Happy Hollows, I was able to draw comparisons to nearly every single notable indie-rock band fronted by a woman in the past several years. Now, befo...
Features
LadybiRdS Begin to Take Successful Flight
Cute. It is a four-letter word that has always irked me a bit. I am not sure why either; it is a perfectly legible word in the Merriam-Webster dictionary with three different definitions. Yes, three. Actually, on second thought...
Features
Bark Bark Bark “Haunts” In Debut
Seeing the rampant success of bands like Xiu Xiu and Man Man, Jacob Cooper must have been considering all aspects when deciding on the name for his new solo project. Following the currently popular band-naming ritual of duplica...
Features
Dappled Cities Fly Tweak Their Name and Sound
The five members of Dappled Cities comfortably define themselves as a band who creates “oddball pop”. Oddball pop? Well, the particular specification seems to be getting more common by the day with bands like Daniel...
Features
The Latest From Finland: Husky Rescue
While artists from countries such as Sweden and Japan have seen a surprising amount of Western success in the past few years, several other countries continue to fly under the radar despite producing great music. An ideal examp...
Features
Field Music kicks off 2007 with a roar
Along with yesterday’s The Semanaires, here we are again with another trio that partly consists of two brothers. They call themselves Field Music, and you may recognize their name due to their exceptional self-titled debu...
Features
Another Beach Boys tribute; New Pornographers go Live!
I found a fairly interesting tribute album yesterday. Though there have been dozens of Beach Boys tributes already, Do It Again: A Tribute To Pet Sounds is another nod to one of the most influential albums of all time. The trib...
Features
Sunny Day Sets Fire from all over the world
Music is a universal language. I believe that we can all agree on this, but Sunny Day Sets Fire may understand this slightly more than many. The foursome’s members originate from Italy, Hong Kong, and the UK. Vocalist/gui...