Bloodhound Gang’s mix of (comedy) rock, hip-hop, metal, punk and other music styles with humorous, often controversial lyrics (which they themselves refer to as ‘Christian Rap’ on their MySpace page) […]
Black Crusade tour to hit Tampere and Helsinki
Links: Machine Head: Official website MySpace Trivium: Official website MySpace Dragonforce: Official website MySpace Arch Enemy: Official website MySpace
Us and them
{mosimage} Once every three years something exciting happens in Jyväskylä – LUMO the International Photography Triennial comes to town. This year celebrates the 7th LUMO event with the theme of […]
Headliner Amy Winehouse cancels Provinssirock
The British soul singer had already arrived in Finland on Saturday, but never made it to the festival ground in Seinäjoki. According to her manager she suffered such a bad […]
Don Johnson Big Band and Mokoma replace The View and Stam1na
Provinssirock, Finland’s biggest rock festival, will take place this weekend (15-17 June) in Seinäjoki. Many of the live performances will be carried on digital TV channel YLE Extra (14 hours […]
Suzanne Vega’s Tampere concert moved to Lahti
Lahden Jazztori 2007 (in Finnish) Suzanne Vega – official website
Sofya Gulyak wins First Prize in Maj Lind Piano Competition
Gulyak won the finals with her interpretation of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3. She will take home the 20,000 euro prize mony that comes with the First Prize in […]
Platinum debut for “HevAri”
Sales of the album instantly exceeded the amount of copies needed for platinum in Finland: 30,000. Fuel for the Fire went straight to Number 1 of the Official Album Chart. […]
Bigger audiences for domestic films at Finnish cinemas
While there were slightly fewer premieres than in the year before, also the total number of cinema-goers grew in 2006. Nearly 6.7 million tickets were sold, about 600,000 more than […]
Russian pianist wins prestigious piano competition in Helsinki
More: Sofya Gulyak wins First Prize in Maj Lind Piano Competition