The music-hiker’s guide to Helsinki Categories: Features • Finland • Live The music-hiker’s guide to Helsinki Ever been on holiday with your parents? Then you’ve most likely experienced the “midweek desperation”, you know, that inevitable desire to get away from your folks and socialize with people of similar age and with similar interests that strikes like clockwork. But where to go? The next time you hit ... (Click To Continue Reading)
 
Is MySpace really needed? Categories: Features • Finland • Rock Is MySpace really needed? With the internet and especially MySpace it suddenly became exceptionally easy for bands to publish and share their music with the whole world, and on the back of the Arctic Monkeys and Lily Allen “discovered on MySpace” success stories a veritable gold rush ensued. But is it possible to make ... (Click To Continue Reading)
 
Buried Alive: The cursed talent of Andy McCoy Categories: Features • Finland • Metal Buried Alive: The cursed talent of Andy McCoy November 18 Hanoi Rocks released the DVD ‘Buried Alive’ documenting the Finnish rock band’s final show at Tavastia Club in Helsinki in April, the conclusion on 30 years of ups and downs, and here guest blogger Eduardo Alonso from Glue looks at the rise and fall of controversial lead guitarist ... (Click To Continue Reading)
 
Flash forward – The best of 2010 Categories: Electronica • Features • Finland • Metal • Pop • Rock Flash forward - The best of 2010 It’s early November and time for another contribution from our guest blogger Eduardo Alonso from Glue. It seems he’s gotten really in to time-traveling as he follows up on last month’s flashback to 1970 with a look on the immediate future and a selection of Finnish bands and artists we ... (Click To Continue Reading)
 
Back to the fu… ehm, Finnish prog-past Categories: Features • Finland • Rock Back to the fu... ehm, Finnish prog-past For this month’s post on Finnish music Eduardo Alonso from Glue has readied the flux capacitor, jumped in the DeLorean and travelled back to the early seventies to dig out an underground rock gem. Get the story on prog-rockers Charlies, the legendary label Love Records, who shaped Finnish rock in ... (Click To Continue Reading)
 
Lost in translation Categories: Features • Finland Lost in translation Scandinavia is perhaps the most Anglicized region in the world, you know, apart from Great Britain, the US and other Anglo-originals. It’s history, but when it comes to music it raises a question relevant to any Scandinavian band when forming: Should lyrics be in English or the native tongue? Eduardo ... (Click To Continue Reading)
 
The show must on the road – but who gets to go? Categories: Features • Finland • Live The show must on the road - but who gets to go? In the Scandinavian countries there are several places musicians can apply for financial support to record production, touring, etc. Although a really good thing every now and then the very relevant question arise: Is the money spent right and on the right artists? Recently Music Export Finland gave out this ... (Click To Continue Reading)
 
Finnish festivals facing big challenge Categories: Features • Finland • Live Finnish festivals facing big challenge We all know the challenges record labels are facing these years in reinventing their business model. Festivals are beginning to struggle too, and here our guest blogger Eduardo Alonso from Glue takes a look at the festivals in Finland which could be excellent music export showcases for Finnish bands, but ... (Click To Continue Reading)
 
There’s more to Finland than heavy metal Categories: Features • Finland • Metal • Pop • Rock There’s more to Finland than heavy metal You might not have given this much thought, but there’s actually more to Finland than heavy metal, ski jumping and lakes. Here, the very first guest blogger on ALL SCANDINAVIAN, Eduardo Alonso from the great Finnish blog Glue, let us in on the thriving and ever growing indie pop/rock scene ... (Click To Continue Reading)
 
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