Reel23 is releasing a new DVD compiling the short films and documentaries of finnish director Mika Taanila called "Aika & Aine" ("Time & Substance"). Most notably, the disc contains "The Future is not what it used to be", the documentary on finnish electronic music pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi. Other music on the disc comes from fellow finnish musical experimentalists Jukka Ruohomäki, Sähkökvartetti, Ø and Ektroverde. More info: https://www.reel23.com/

DigitalMetal reviews the new album from finnish doom act Swallow the Sun: https://www.digitalmetal.com/reviews.asp?cid=6858

Nominees for the MTV European Music Awards:

Best Danish Act:
Mew
Carpark North
Nephew
The Raveonettes
Nik and Jay

Best Swedish Act:
Kent
Moneybrother
Timbuktu
The Hellacopters
Christian Walz

Best Norwegian Act:
Röyksopp
Marion Raven
Turbonegro
Thomas Dybdahl
Ane Brun

Best finnish Act:
The Rasmus
HIM
Nightwish
69 Eyes
Apocalyptica

finnish noiserockers Fun on tour in Russia:

11/11 - tbc, St. Petersburg
11/12 - tbc, Moscow
11/13 - tba (near Moscow), Russia

The band will be supporting the release of a new tape which includes the group's first EP, the "Szklarka poreba" LP and a few various comp tracks.

Music (for Robots) posts a track from the finnish act Spyritual: https://music.for-robots.com/archives/001166.html

The Monotonik netlabel has posted a new release from finnish-born, now Ireland-based electronic artist Lackluster: https://www.mono211.com/content/releases/mtkmp153.html

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Frivolous volume II: the false security program
If Society

Fierce and "professional" hardcore – what a great way to wake up in the morning on the bus while rubbing shoulders with foul-smelling weirdos. If hardcore and Refused are your thing, then it's worth giving these finnish dudes a closer look. Personally, I think the album wears a bit thin after the first 4 or 5 songs.
- Simon Tagestam

finnish ambient/experimental act Cahier will be supplying music for an upcoming film entitled "Nacimiento" and you can preview two of the tracks at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/cahier

Dusted reviews finnish solo act Keuhkot: https://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/2414
"Imagine the Residents as an out-of-tune Moroccan wedding group with a knack for surreal wordplay and you'll have a rather loose reference point for Keuhkot's lunacy."

Swedish hardcore act Nine will enter the studio this weekend to record a couple new tracks for an EP to be released on finnish label Combat Rock.

finnish noise-rockers Fun have posted their entire debut EP for free download: https://www.noisecorewalze.com/
If you are even remotely into the classic Touch & Go/AmRep style, you better check these guys out cuz they rule.

finnish avant/free-folk label Fonal has posted a video of Kiila's performance at All Saints Church in Cambridge: https://www.fonal.com/videos.html

The WFMU blog posts on early finnish psych-act The Sperm: https://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/09/adventures_in_t_2.html

Dusted reviews two records from finnish free-folk act Kemialliset Ystävät: https://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/2401

Dark Dose posts a track from finnish dark metal act Before the Dawn: https://darkdose.com/?p=74