I'm going to sound like a name dropping, cooler-than-you, hippster, snob in this post. I don't mean to, I'm sorry, I'm just tellin' like it is. Can you dig it?Here goes...I was in Helsinki, yep the one in Finland, this past weekend. My friends, the band called the Patsy Walkers were haivng a 4 years old birthday party fortheir band. This was in conjunction with a 10 years celebration for the ba...
"The Flaming Sideburns":www.theflamingsideburns.com from Helsinki Finland have emerged as the unlikely leaders of the Nordic Hi Energy Rock'n'Roll Scene. If you we to have Little Richard (in his 50's prime), Roky Erickson, fronting "The Hurriganes":http://www.myspace.com/hurriganesfan (A Finish hardrock group from the 1970's and 1980's) or "The Waliers":http://www.thefabulouswailers.com/ (and ...
If you have been reading me posts for a while you might recall that I mentioned hearing a preview of the new record by "The Flaming Sideburns":http://www.theflamingsideburns.com/ while drinking at Bar Loose prior to heading out to see Radio Birdman. That 10 minutes of listening to rough mixes on a dying iPod was enough to let me get a sense of what the Sideburns were up to with the record....N...
I wish I had found MORE great music during 2007. It maybe that I'll connect with stuff from this past year a year from now, who knows. At any rate, here in no particular order are the albums I acquired during 2007 that are most worthy of note.I'm lying a little bit, as the Flaming Sideburns (of Helsinki, Finland) are first on my list. If you all have been following me long you know how much I d...
I'm going to sound like a name dropping, cooler-than-you, hippster, snob in this post. I don't mean to, I'm sorry, I'm just tellin' like it is. Can you dig it?Here goes...I was in Helsinki, yep the one in Finland, this past weekend. My friends, the band called the Patsy Walkers were haivng a 4 years old birthday party fortheir band. This was in conjunction with a 10 years celebration for the ba...