Indica

Romantic All-Girl Pop-Rockers Debut in English and Hit Top 20 in Germany • "A Way Away" out now via Nuclear Blast/Warner, produced by Tuomas Holopainen of Nightwish • Chart positions: Finland # 8, Germany # 20, Switzerland # 32, Austria # 52 • One platinum record and two gold records in Finland, done two European tours with Nightwish, German tour coming up in October Read more Listen

Metal/Hard Rock

Pop/Rock

• Tuska Open Air Metal Festival: Sold Out - Again!

• Finntroll (Century Media) to Headline a 24-Date European Tour with Samael, Rotting Christ and Metsatöll

• Children of Bodom (Spinefarm) Joins Black Label Society's North American Tour; Demoing Material for the Seventh Album

• Melodic Metallers Ghost Machinery Ink a Worldwide Recording Contract with Limb Music

• Turisas (Century Media) Collaborated with Piano Virtuoso Iiro Rantala in Ruisrock Last Weekend

• Michael Monroe (Backstage Alliance) Invited as Special Guest of Motörhead's 35th Anniversary UK Tour

• Download 22-Pistepirkko's (Bone Voyage Recording Company) Biography Book for Free!

• Eppu Normaali (Poko) and Lauri Tähkä (Universal) Introduce a New Finnish Music Concert Run: Stockholm Sisu Nights

• Suburban Tribe's (Cobra Records) Ville Tuomi Joins Leningrad Cowboys

• Parasite City's (Hype Records) "Minstrel's Creed" to Be Released by Marquee/Avalon in Asia

Indie/Electronic

World/Jazz

• Circle Hailed as "The Best Rock Band in the World, in Every Category" by Sweden's Largest Newspaper Dagens Nyheter
• Zebra And Snake Releases a Digital EP in cooperation with Kaiku Studios Berlin
• Beati Mortui (Danse Macabre) Occupies Deutsche Alternative Charts' (DAC) Top Ten for the Fourth Week in a Row
• Helsinki's Flow Festival Offers an Intriguing Selection of Beats and Styles
• Rubik's (Fullsteam) "Dada Bandits" to Be Released in France and Switzerland by Talitres Records

• Celebrated Drummer Teppo Mäkynen and Vocalist Johanna Försti Introduce a New Project, Jo Stance (Ricky-Tick Records)
• Ohne to Represent Finland in YNJC Finals
• Jazz-Espa 2010: Premium Finnish Live Jazz for the Whole Month of July for Free!
• Abovoice Unleashes Two Top-Notch Jazz Duo Albums
• Ricky-Tick Big Band: A Fresh New Big Band Consisting of Finnish Jazz A-listers

Other News

• Music Export Finland Embarks on Women's Clinic, a Programme to Empower Women in Music Exports

• Spinefarm Signs Vinnie Paul's Supergroup Hellyeah (USA)

• Equal Dreams Music Service Company Shakes Hands with 7digital Ltd. - Get's a 6 Million Song Repertory

Behind the Scenes

Daniel Lioneye released its second album "Vol. II" this spring. Daniel who?! Daniel Lioneye is a not-so-serious side project and alias of HIM guitarist Mikko "Linde" Lindström. The band debuted as a hard rock act on its first album "King of Rock 'n' Roll", and the title track was picked up by Bam Margera, a huge HIM fan, as a theme song of his popular Viva la Bam TV program. Linde was in charge of the vocal and guitar duties, while his HIM band mates Mikko "Mige" Paananen played bass and Ville Valo pounded on the drums. On "Vol. II" the line-up is completely different: Linde on vocals and guitar, Janne "Emerson Burton" Puurtinen (HIM) on keyboards and Bolton (Enochian Crescent) on drums. The music style has also changed dramatically: from tongue-in-cheek rock to avantgarde black metal.

Behind the Numbers

82. The number of Finnish summer festivals listed on Finland Festivals' website www.festivals.fi . So, if you are visiting Finland, and hope to see live music in the sun, there are plenty of festivals to choose from every weekend. The event capasities vary from a few hundred to over 200 000. According to FinIand Festivals' calculations, there were 1 870 306 festival goers in Finland in 2009. Not bad for a country of 5,36 million inhabitants!