Finnish girls who would grab their balls often (and probably in public) if they had them and an all-over-the-place Swedish one-man band. It’s all in this edition of SpaceScan, presenting The Micragirls, who do punkish, retro garage rock, and Rigas aka Henrik von Euler, who’s experimenting heavily within the realms of pop.

Rigas (SE)
Swedish one-man band Rigas aka Henrik von Euler doesn’t lie about the genres he’s chosen to describe his music on MySpace. Pop, R&B and Experimental, he says, but I’ll just underline experimental for him. One minute he’s serving happy-go-lucky pop (‘Simple’), the next semi-gloomy electronica (‘It All Falls Apart’) only to move on to casio-funky hip pop in ‘Dead Like You’ and so on and on and…

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The Micragirls (SF) (Photo)
I was tipped about these three girls by Anna a while back (thanks again), and if you’re in to girl trios mixing early garage rock’n’roll, punk and 60s girl-groups aesthetics this is the band for you. The Micragirls released their debut album ‘Feeling Dizzy Honey?’ in 2007 with the followup, ‘Wild Girl Walk’, coming out September 9. It’s gritty ‘n fun, and if they’d had balls they would definitely be grabbing them a lot…

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