finnish act Amorphis will tour North America this fall with support from Samael, Leaves' Eyes and Virgin Black. Dates at Lambgoat: https://www.lambgoat.com/news/view.aspx?id=10463

Check out a tour film from finnish bitpop superheroes Desert Planet: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4rg4e_short-tour-movie-by-desert-planet_music
It was filmed during the group's extensive 2006-07 tours in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and Finland and includes a few new songs performed live plus a new video for the track "Green fireballs" off their new record "Moonrocks".

finnish indiepop act Cats On Fire will travel to NYC for the NYC Popfest in June: https://www.nycpopfest.org/
Other confirmed Scandinavian acts include Friday Bridge, Oh! Custer and Love Is All.

Fact magazine talks finnish music and interviews Kompleksi: https://www.factmagazine.co.uk/da/73834

finnish indie act Regina will be heading out in May to do a few mainland Europe gigs. They'll play at Flèche d'Or in Paris on May 21 with fellow Finns Shogun Kunitoki and Pets on Prozac and then head off to Germany for 3 gigs (details tba).

finnish act The Crash will have their album "Pony ride" released throughout North America and the UK on May 20 via Rykodisc.

finnish noiserockers Lapko will play a few German dates at the end of April:

04/22 - Molotow, Hamburg
04/23 - Luxor, Köln
04/25 - Columbiaclub, Berlin

For extensive dates around their native Finland, check myspace: https://www.myspace.com/lapko

finnish power-pop act Hundred Million Martians have added a couple new tracks to their myspace page, now that their new CD "Marseille" is done and in their hands: https://www.myspace.com/hundredmillionmartians

Killing the Legacy talks to long-running finnish hardcore act Another One Dead: https://killingthelegacy.blogspot.com/2008/03/interview-another-one-dead.html

Excerpts from the Q108 edition of finnish Music Quarterly are now available online: https://www.fmq.fi/issues.html

finnish humppa madmen Eläkeläiset will be heading out on their 15th anniversary tour in April: https://www.humppa.com/humppaenglish.html

Killing the Legacy previews the new 7" "No coming back" from finnish hardcore act Another One Dead: https://killingthelegacy.blogspot.com/2008/03/no-coming-back.html

The new Desert Planet single "Riot sector 68" is now posted for free download: https://www.desertplanet.com/
As mentioned before, the finnish bitpop/gamepop group will release their new album "Moonrocks" on March 19 in Finland, April 4 in GAS. Highly recommended!

finnish hardcore acts Rites of the Youth and Frivolvol will tour Russia next week:

03/15 - Friday Club, St. Petersburg
03/16 - TIR Club, Pskov
03/17 - Plan B, Moscow

It appears the The Deer Tracks' upcoming record "Aurora" is being held captive by finnish label Next Big Thing. The band signed with them back in December, but keeps finding the release date getting pushed back further and further with the label becoming increasingly distant. Read more: https://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=156053091&blogID=364063349