Category: Features

{mosimage}During mid 90s, there was no pub or venue in Finland where Smilers did not play. They gained lots of experience in the music circuit, but the success was waiting […]

{mosimage}The story starts close to a river, at a crossroad. This time it's not the Mississippi (next to which "Honeyboy" Edwards came to this world 92 years ago) but the […]

{mosimage}I really had to ask. What was the name again? Talking music over coffee on a grumpy afternoon of the apologetic Finnish spring, the name was dropped like a coin […]

Appropriately in this metal-mad country, the first events are loud and proud of it. Sauna Open Air Metal (7-9 June) in Tampere’s Eteläpuisto kicks the season off with a big […]

The contest started in January. Depending on their roots, participates were divided in four different groups: Afrovision, Arabvision, Latinvision and Asiavision. The winners of each group went to the final […]

For one week (25.4 – 1.5), Espoo's evenings are devoted to music. The main concerts take place in Outokumpu-teltta, a big tent installed next to the library in Tapiola. If […]

Lapko have been amassing a following in Finland for over ten years, and the prognosis is the trio will be alongside fellow "hair band" Disco Ensemble next to break overseas. […]

The competition is open until 23rd of April and the lyrics of the entries may be written from young people’s personal or global perspective in Finnish, English or Swedish. The […]

Luckily there is a guy named Tusovka. Loosely translated from St. Petersburg slang meaning "good vibe" and "a creative get-together of free people", the Helsinki-based promoter has been active since […]

Traveling to Memphis and Graceland is a pilgrimage. It is the same trip he did many years ago before he joined the army to complete his military service and now […]

{mosimage}Although born in Vilppula and educated in art in Lahti, Anssi lives and works in the remote village of Sahalahti, where he finds strange stories and inspiration from which to […]

{mosimage}Toni and Antti, in a telltale sign of the band's do-it-yourself attitude, convinced Sipe to join them on drums. It didn't exactly matter that Sipe had never actually played the […]

Since its first edition in 1981 – at the time it was called Helsinki Biennale – Musica Nova has focused on introducing contemporary music from all over the world to […]

Japanese rock (J-rock), or rather a particularly flamboyant subgenre called visual kei, is hitting it big all over Europe. Visual kei stands simply for “visual style”, and refers to a […]