Guitarist Panu has left finnish hardcore act St. Hood citing personal reasons. There's no word on a permanent replacement yet, but Antti from Down My Throat will be filling in in the meantime.

MP3: Tigerbombs - Shaking the tree

Tigerbombs might come off like a finnish carbon-copy of Caesars/Caesars Palace, but they sure one-upped those dudes by enlisting Klas Åhlund's ex-wife Paola to help out on their new record "Thing that go boom". Otherwise, the sound is more or less the same: revved-up organ-driven garage rock with a definite retro/lo-fi vibe. It's fun stuff, perfect for the onset of summer. Original? Naah, but neither were Caesars either.

Tigerbombs - Shaking the tree

Check out the video for "Humanity" from finnish hardcore act Flippin' Beans: https://www.fullhouserecords.com/fhr/goodies/flippin%20beans%20-%20humanity.avi

Check out a new soundclip from finnish experimental/psych act The Polka Dot Sunflower Bed Orchestra: https://www.myspace.com/thepolkadotsunflowerbedorchestra
The group will have a new record out on Foxglove in the near future.

The Monotonik netlabel has posted a new release from finnish artist Aleksi Eeben: https://www.mono211.com/content/releases/mtkmp183.html

The finnish netlabel Swaeg has a new EP from Toiminto for free download: https://www.swaeg.net/

MP3: Giglinger - The prime suspect

Our second demo band of the week is Giglinger, a finnish act that desperately wants to be Big Black. Not that there's anything wrong with that, especially since they don't fall into the trap of attempting to ape Steve Albini's dystopian lyrical style. So that leaves you with a pair of shrill noisy guitars dueling over cheap, machine-made drum beats. It's pretty easy nowadays to create quality drum loops with even the most basic equipment and applications, so I appreciate the artistry of sticking with such clearly outdated sounds. It fits the style well and the addition of a few short synth lines on this particular track is bonus. Aside from obvious issues of originality, I like this a lot.

Giglinger - The prime suspect

finnish brutal doom act Paganus has two new tracks posted on myspace: https://www.myspace.com/paganusdoom
RIYL Khanate.

finnish indiepop act Cats on Fire will return to the UK in late July:

07/26 - Brixton Windmill, London
07/27 - Red Rooms, Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
07/28 - Indietracks festival, Derbyshire

finnish act Blanket is offering their entire new album as free download in order to attract new fans and maybe even encourage more sales of the physical disc: https://www.blanket.fi/bl/mp3.php

finnish rock act Fume has decided to call it quits and has posted the final two songs they recorded for free download: https://www.fumeband.com/
Bassist Juho Salmi will continue on with his work in IAT favorites Plain Fade while the rest of the band can now be heard in A Thousand Bright Tomorrows. Listen to them here: https://www.myspace.com/athousandbrighttomorrows

Fat Planet on finnish artist Jimi Tenor: https://www.fatplanet.com.au/blog/2007/04/20/jimi-tenor-finland/

Harp talks to finnish singer/songwriter Astrid Swan: https://harpmagazine.com/articles/detail.cfm?article_id=5505

finnish hardcore/punk act Abduktio has started to post new European tourdates on myspace: https://www.myspace.com/abduktiofinland

The Kahvi Collective netlabel has posted a new (old) release from finnish artist Lackluster: https://www.kahvi.org/145.php