A word of warning. This section seem to contain some personal mumbo jumbo that isn't interesting to anyone. The important info about the updates is in the very beginning of each entry. You may and it's probably advicable to skip the rest.

MAY 2009

This is where the action is:

http://onechord.wordpress.com/

Take care


FEBRUARY 6, 2009

3 am

Best of 2008 lists updated (top 3 little records and top 5 retro)

I recently subscribed Shindig! magazine and I can fully recommend it to everyone who is interested in 60's and 70's rock / garage / powerpop / psych etc. How could you not love a magazine that has Flamin' Groovies on the cover?

Shindig! Website

That's all for now.

Take care


JANUARY 30, 2009

3 am

News updated

Time flies fast, but I hope can get my act back together now. Eventhough it seems that I don't have too much passion for this website at this given moment. But the situation should improve, because if this upcoming release schedule doesn't get me excited, I'm definitely the wrong man for this job. There's new full lenghts coming up from Samae Koskinen, Cats On Fire, Burning Hearts, The Rollstons, Wojciech..

Lately I've been mostly listening to Liam Finn's I'll Be The Lightning. I'm totally addicted to it and I think it would have made my top 3 in my albums of the year list If I hadn't already written it. Okay, it was a 2007 release in Australia and New Zealand, but because it was released elsewhere in 2008 it would have been eligible. Better To Be, Second Chance and Gather To Chapel is one hell of a trio of songs to start an album with it. This guy is a pop genius.

That's all for now.

Take care


DECEMBER 21, 2008

4 am

Best of the year 2008 lists updated

Album list ready. Song list, little discs list and retro list coming up after the christmas period.

Happy holidays and merry christmas!

Take care


DECEMBER 20, 2008

4 am

Best of the year 2008 lists updated

Albums 28-34 added to the album lists. More tomorrow night.

I try to complete the album list tomorrow. If I can't, than it probably has to wait until christmas is over. It's hard to complete the list though. Six places left and still almost sixty 2008 albums left to choose from. Ok, maybe only 15 real candidates, but it's still do damn difficult.

Take care


DECEMBER 19, 2008

4 am

Best of the year 2008 lists updated

Albums 22-27 added to the album lists. More tomorrow night.

This thing seem to take a lot of time, so I'm not sure do I manage to do anything else before christmas.

I did buy Fatboy's new album and I like it. The only question is should I add it to the list and if so what would be a correct place.

Take care


DECEMBER 18, 2008

3.30 am

Best of the year 2008 lists updated

Albums 16-21 added to the album lists. More tomorrow night.

Or should I hold on and go and buy Fatboy's album before adding any more albums. I bought the older one yesterday from 8raita and it sounds wonderful to me. Maybe I should go and buy the new one asap.

Take care


DECEMBER 17, 2008

3.30 am

Best of the year 2008 lists updated

Albums 11-15 added to the album lists..and some songs too. More tomorrow night.

Take care


DECEMBER 16, 2008

3 am

Best of the year 2008 lists updated

#8, #9 and #10 added to the album list. More tomorrow night.


Take care


DECEMBER 15, 2008

9 pm

Best of the year 2008 lists updated

#7 added to the album list. A few more during the nighttime.

Take care


DECEMBER 15, 2008

4 am

Best of the year 2008 lists updated

Added three albums and a bunch of songs. More tomorrow night.

Take care


DECEMBER 14, 2008

4 am

Best of the year 2008 lists updated

Just added albums #2 and #3 and a couple of songs. More tomorrow night.

Take care


DECEMBER 13, 2008

3 am

Best of the year 2008 lists added

This putkiremontti is finally almost over and I'm back in Turku for more than just a couple of days. Still no toilet or shower available, but hopefully these wonderful things are back in the game early next week. Anyway, the goal is to start updating again and do some bits and pieces before christmas kicks in. Some reviews and some news gathered up from the past month or two should follow next week, but now I just started with the end of the year lists.

This time I'll do this the other way and announce the album of the year tonight and add more albums later on. I know it's a bit of an anticlimax to do it in this order. But I can't do a countdown because the places 12 to 40 is still a mystery to me as well. So I start from the album of the year and one day hopefully reach 40. Goal is to get it done before christmas, so you can expect more than 1 album to be added every day (Ok, it might 1 on one day and 4 on the other, but you'll get the point).

Onechord.net's albums and songs of the year lists

That's all for now. More picks tomorrow night.

Take care



OCTOBER 16, 2008

2 am

Reviews updated (Sera Cahoone, Neil Halstead)

Only two reviews tonight. Sorry I'm really tired. But don't worry, I will review all my 2008 releases this way eventhough these so called "reviews" are now even weaker and less informative than before because I don't spend much time writing them. I don't know are these better than nothing but I hope so.

Ok, that's it for now. Maybe a few reviews tomorrow, I'm not 100% sure. There will be a longer break coming up starting now or tomorrow, but when I return I should have loads of reviews done & dusted. Including bunch of Jim Basnight albums that are way overdue. I got into writing these 2008 reviews and so I've been neglecting that bigger project. Shame on me, but at least now I've been doing something.

Take care


OCTOBER 15, 2008

3 am

Reviews updated (Gary Louris, Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, Ben Weaver)

That's tonight's reviews. Sorry only three this time. I wanna sleep a bit more now.

Take care


OCTOBER 14, 2008

3 am

News updated (Artisokka, Egotrippi, The Soft Rabbit)

Reviews updated (The Quarter After, The Gutter Twins, Astrid Swan, The Black Crowes, Death Cab For Cutie)

That's it for tonight. Hopefully more tomorrow night.

Take care


OCTOBER 13, 2008

2 am

Reviews updated (Drive-By Truckers, Fleet Foxes, Hayes Carll, Mudcrutch)

Another set of reviews. Again just country or folk albums. Should I change that title to finnish country site.

More reviews to come during the week. Oh and the links are still not there, but you knew that without saying.

Take care


OCTOBER 11, 2008

4 am

Reviews again (Felice Brothers, Hundred Million Martians, Danny & The Champions Of The World, Dropkick, Daniel Wylie)

And I didn't bother to add the links. Someday I will. Probably.

That's it for now. Tomorrow's a busier sport day and I have to support JJK, JYP and Finland, so probably not as much as time for this. Especially because I have to get up early on sunday morning and can't stay up until 4 am. The plan still is to keep on writing, but the next patch might not arrive until sunday or monday night. We'll see.

Take care



OCTOBER 10, 2008

4 am

Tonight's set of reviews (Boomhauer, Brent Cash, Tindersticks, Tyler Ramsey, Robert Forster)

I still haven't added those links. I'll do that eventually. Eventhough it's really boring...

More reviews tomorrow probably. I think I still have something like 30 records left to review. Busy times ahead, if I try to do them all.

Goodnight...

Take care



OCTOBER 9, 2008

4 am

Reviews updated (The Draytones, Ally Kerr, Johnny Flynn, Dutchess and The Duke, Bonnie Prince Billy).

That's tonight's set of reviews. The links don't work yet. I'll add them tomorrow, but now I want to go to sleep.

More reviews maybe tomorrow night, maybe some other night. Some reviews of finnish albums will be coming up during this week as well.

That's all folks

Take care



OCTOBER 8, 2008

2 am

Reviews updated (Justin Rutledge, Ken Stringfellow, Mando Saenz, The Summer Suns)

Okay, it seems I'm not doing these in any order. Just going with the flow and quickly reviewing what ever I feel like listening to at that moment. Oh, and I should have closed this website today but I didn't. I try to write as much as I can within a week and after that I don't have a clue. There's a putkiremontti starting at this building next week and it might make living a nightmare and probably kills this sudden burst of onechord.net action. Well it probably wouldn't last long anyway, so no harm done.

But this week I try to write a lot more of these short reviews including those Jim Basnight albums. I don't know will these short reviews do anyone any good. Probably not, but at least I've done something to keep this site alive.

Oh and eventhough it's extremely unlikely that anyone a) reads this website anymore b) could help with this subject it still doesn't hurt to try. So if you or someone you know live in the Turku area and want to rent a small flat for the time period of 25.10-21.12 give me or my girlfriend a shout and we turn it into a new onechord.net headquarters. (shorter period, like november or something is also okay, because we can live here. It will just be extremely inconvenient, because water is quite an useful element if you start to think about it).

That's all for now.

Take care


OCTOBER 7, 2008

3 am

Reviews updated (Langhorne Slim, The Avett Brothers, The Explorers Club, Justin Townes Earle)

That's four more. Only something like 49 to go. Eventhough it looks I have to shut this down tomorrow.

That's it for tonight.

Take care


OCTOBER 6, 2008

2 pm

Reviews updated (Old Crow Medicine Show, Matthew Sweet)

That's it for now.

Take care


OCTOBER 6, 2008

3.30 am

Reviews updated (six new reviews)

Okay, these new reviews are extremely short and very hasty. It would probably be better not to write them at all, If I don't do them properly. Still I thought I hastily go through even some of the records I've loved the most during the year so far. That's six done tonight and only about 55 2008 released albums left to review. But if I could do about 10-15 best of them with this new pointless method that would be enough. But first I need to write about those excellent Jim Basnight records in two days or I need to shut down the website. This all probably means that the next update will happen in december or something. Me sucks.

The Soft Rabbit on the other hand is still absolutely wonderful. Check out his new demo song on his myspace.

The Soft Rabbit at myspace

Take care

OCTOBER 1, 2008

1 am

News updated (Jolly Jumpers, Eadweard Muybridge)

Nothing more tonight. Have to sleep, because they are trying to make a truck driver out of me (not gonna happen) and therefore I have to wake up early and go to listen what they have to say. I try to get back to that update I mentioned later this week if I can shake of this minor flu. If I won't get that Jim Basnight thing I've promised to do ready within a week, I will destroy this whole damn site. I just hate myself, because I don't get anything done. It's just so disgraceful and disrespectful that I don't manage to keep my promises.

Greatest album yesterday and today:

Old Crow Medicine Show: Tennessee Pusher

Hello Saferide rules as well. Tomorrow new Jolly Jumpers, Lambchop and Ben Folds albums. Maybe I leave Ben Folds for later and just buy the other two for now.

Take care

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

3 am

News updated (Dirty Fingernails, Janne Laurila, The Everglades)

Hello Saferide's new album will be out next week and I'm excited about that one. I loved the first album and I'm also totally addicted to her new music video Anna. I've watched it something like 40 times and I love it so much eventhough it breaks my heart every freakin time. Watch it yourself on her website.

Hello Saferide website

Next update during the last few days of september. Either on monday 29th or tuesday 30th september. Hopefully it will be a slightly bigger update this time, but I really don't know yet.

Take care



SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Links updated

A Pleasant Dream added to the links. It's a new blog about nordic pop music. You'll find it here.

Don't know will that 1 update be available before last week of september, because there's so many hockey games coming up. We'll see.

That's all for now.

Take care



SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

3 am

News updated (FOTM + other news)

So it looks like it was closer to two months then. I don't know will it get much better in the upcoming months, but there's still a part of me that wants to keep writing. Too bad that part has been on the losing side for the last few years, but who knows. At least I've promised to do something within a couple of weeks. So there will definitely be 1 update in mid-september.

Oh and I've been totally into Langhorne Slim and his latest album is the album of the year so far.

Take care



JULY 7, 2008

4 am

Reviews updated (Chatham County Line)

I know. I don't believe it myself either. I wrote a review. Not a great one, but I'll take anything I manage to do. It was even quite fun after a long break and I think it turn out to be half decent. At least I've written several worse than that one. I still wouldn't get your hopes up. I don't know will the next review be up on the site in 2 days or 2 months. We'll see.

Currently in love with:

Sloan: Parellel Play
Great record with several killer songs. Highly recommended.

Other great things:

Jean-Luc Godard box set
19.90€ at stockman. And I almost bought it for something like 60 euros six months ago. A great price for 10 movies. Only problem is that I probably never have the time to watch the movies. Well I suppose I never have the time to listen the records I buy either so no worries there...

Oh and the movie Once was pretty good. In fact it was great.

That's all for now.

Goodnight...


Take care



JUNE 23, 2008

4 am

News updated (lots of stuff)

Recently I've been supporting Russia. Starting from the game against Greece, they've been my favourite and they've certainly played some fantastic football. I hope they win the whole tournament.. and after that become rubbish, because I certainly won't support them when the qualifiers begin in the fall. Oh and Euro 2008 has been really great so far. Well apart from tonight's Spain-Italy maybe, but thankfully Italy is out now.

That's all for now

Take care


JUNE 14, 2008

2 am

It's been a while since the last update. I'm not sure will it get any better now, because neglecting onechord.net has not felt that bad. It's actually been quite a relief. I get so easily stressed and therefore it's been a good thing that for a while I didn't need to be stressed about the progress of this tiny website. Nevertheless, I think I might slowly start doing some minor things. For example write some sort of news entry that sums up what has been going in finnish pop music during the last few months. I plan to do that sometime next week. After that I'm not so sure. I hope I've learned not to stress about this and can just write reviews etc whenever I feel like it. After all, I do love writing those pointless emotion-filled reviews from time to time and it would be a shame to complete abandon the website. Onechord.net has given so much to me and certainly is the only thing I'm somewhat proud of (eventhough my low self-esteem and lack of self-confidence are doing their best to make me forget it). I did pay the domain bill, so one way or another this will live at least until the end of may 2009. Hopefully there will be a few updates before that..

..oh and I still wouldn't send any promos. I don't think it's worth it at the moment, because I can't promise that I will review them. I'm more than happy to buy the albums I want (basicly if your band or your label's band is listed in the band section, you don't need to send a promo, I'm happy to buy the album). Of course if you want me to hear something that is not in the shops (or it's something that I wouldn't normally buy), you may send a promo. However, I still don't promise to review it or write about it.

A quick list of things that I've loved during the months I haven't updated:

1. The Soft Rabbit at pikku-torre
- about the best concert ever, eventhough he only played six songs

2. Goodnight Monsters: Summer Challenge
- truly stunning second album. One of the albums of the year so far

3. Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Lie Down in The Light
- Wonderful. I really love it. His best album I've heard (well I only own three others, I See A Darkness, Superwolf and Sings Greatest Palace Music)

4. Justin Rutledge: Man Descending
- A wonderful third album from this canadian folk/country troubadour

5. Chatham County Line: IV
- The Carolian is one of the songs of the year. A great album as well

6. Tindersticks: Hungry Saw
- More than welcome comeback

7. Robert Forster: The Evangelist
- Thankfully he continued making music and wrote a marvellous album.

8. James Taylor

9. Tom Petty

10. Steve Earle

Probably forgot something obvious, because it's been such a long time since the last update, but at least those have been important.

That's all for now. I hope to come back sometime next week with that news update that somehow sums up what has happened during last months in finnish pop music.

Take care


MARCH 27, 2008

00.15 am

News updated (Hundred Million Martians)

Wohoo! An update and even an important one. Still I wouldn't get my hopes up. I have no plans for future updates. I still believe that I won't let this completely die (eventhough I perhaps should), but at the moment I don't really know when I start writing these things again. It might take a week or a month or 3 months. I don't have a clue. Let's just say that at the moment I don't think it's worth it to send me promos (if it ever has been). If you still do, I try to review them eventually but that might take a really really long time..

Still totally in love with music though and I spend all my savings on records. Lately the biggest obsession have been Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young + their solos and other projects. Singing just doesn't get much better than that. Harmonies have always been my thing and perhaps therefore 70's country rock, folk rock and even soft rock seem like the best thing there is. Oh and today I bought the 2CD Everly Brothers definite collection. Only had the Roots album before and I've been meaning to get more for ages. Damn gorgeous material. Yeah and eventhough it's a bit different Kris Kristofferson's debut album also sounds bloody good to me. Perhaps I need to start a country website when I start writing about music.

That's all for now. Next update hopefully within a couple of days.. no just kiddin'.. hopefully within a couple of months sounds more accurate.

Take care



FEBRUARY 29, 2008

2 am

News updated (Astrid Swan)

Nothing else. This wednesday thing hasn't been working well, but I won't abandon the idea yet. At least I now know what I will do until may, so I don't need to be stressed about that anymore. However, I'm fairly confident I can come up with other things I can be stressed about. That's one thing I'm really good at..

That's all for now.

Take care


FEBRUARY 25, 2008

2.30 am

News updated (Daisy, Marcus Granfors)

Astrid Swan's album and Tero-Petri's album will be released this week. More about those later.

Not so surprising that I didn't manage to write that review. Too stressed and busy to figure out what I want to do with my life. Only week and a half left to find real work or place for work practise. These are moments when I wish that I had a) self esteem b) self belief.. and it would also be rather helpful if I wasn't so fucking shy. So if you need a free employee for about three months, feel free to get in touch..haha..

Currently in love with

Daisy: It's About Time
The Avett Brothers (several albums)
Boomhauer: River Run Deep
Mattias Hellberg: S/T
Gary Louris: Vagabonds
Screaming Tribesmen: Anthology

That's all for now.

Take care


FEBRUARY 20, 2008

8.30 pm

Unfortunately this review every wednesday thing already collapsed. Apparently Kolibri Kasino won't be able to play records tonight at Dynamo and therefore yours truly is Chips Pussy's DJ partner tonight at the Rock'n'Roll Highschool.

Therefore I will do this week's review during the weekend.

Take care


FEBRUARY 14, 2008

2 am

Reviews updated (The Avett Brothers)

Okay, so the goal is to add one new review every wednesday. I guess this is literally a thursday day, but I think this will be the time of the day when the weekly review will be up. Sometime between 10 pm and 2 am. Hopefully I manage to get it done a bit earlier in the future. It would be nice to sleep a bit more than 5 and 1/2 hours. This week's review was not so surprisingly The Avett Brothers. Next week's might be Astrid Swan, but I haven't decided it yet. Of course I might do something extra every now and then, but at least I get something done when I force myself to write this weekly review.

Thoughts On Melody is a new finnish blog (written in english though) that mostly concentrates on power pop. It's a very new blog, but it already seems really interesting. So if you are into this greatest music genre there is, you might want to check that out.

Thoughts On Melody Website

That's all for now. Goodnight.

Take care



FEBRUARY 9, 2008

2.30 am

News updated (Boomhauer, Jarkko Ojakangas)

That's all for tonight. Goodnight and..

Take care


FEBRUARY 4, 2008

1 am

Reviews updated (Captain Cougar)

That's all for now. Probably nothing will end up in here during the next few days. Superbowl fucks up my sleeping patterns and it probably takes a couple of days to recover from that..hah

Take care


FEBRUARY 3, 2008

4 am

Reviews updated (Fireflies)

Captain Cougar review is basicly done, but I think I'll read that again tomorrow before posting it. I started to get so tired that I might have made more silly errors than usual. That will be on the website before superbowl starts.


Now it's time to sleep at least until 1 pm, because I'll have to stay awake the following night because of Superbowl. Monday will be a struggle. It's nice to wake up around 8 am, if you go to sleep at 6 am. Well superbowl comes only once a year.

Take care


FEBRUARY 2, 2008

4 am

News updated (Johnny Superhero)

1 or 2 reviews coming up during the weekend. Captain Cougar for sure and maybe something else if I have the time. Starting now I have daytime activities and have even less time than before to make this. Not that I've recently spent the time I've had on this website. Therefore it shouldn't make a huge difference. But to stop this from completely dying I think I'm going to start reviewing 1 album every week. It shouldn't be a big task for me and I might be able to get something done if I have a goal that every wednesday there will be one new review on the website. I think I will start this on 13th of february and after that a new review every wednesday (if I'm at home of course). Obviously if I have time & energy, there might be more reviews coming up on some particular week. One on every wednesday is a minimum goal.

News section stays the same and new entries appear every now and then. I probably don't have the time to update the band section, but if you want a new picture or a better description, you can obviously send your own and I'll make the changes. That doesn't take much time. I will also keep using the forum to spam it full of things I find exciting. Obviously the forum is just a bad joke, because I'm the only one using. But I use it because it's just helluva lot faster to write things there. I think I pretty much abandon the gig calendar, but you can obviously promote your concerts on the guestbook or on the forum.

I believe that is all for now. Back with a review or two sometime before superbowl.


Take care


JANUARY 24, 2008

8 pm

News updated (Astrid Swan, Daisy)

Just breaking the silence with a couple of news entries. I hope I find the motivation and energy to write a review or two before next thursday, because after that I will have a lot less time to make this. No more staying up until 4 am, if I actually have to get up early in the morning. Not that it chances anything, because lately nothing has been going on in here anyway...

Best song in my world right now is She Used To Smile by Drag The River. Apparently their new album just came out, but this is an old song. Therefore I had to start my Drag The River collection with the album Chicken Demo's that had this song eventhough it just seems to be a collection of songs that didn't make their debut album. One has to wonder how good can that album be if She Used To Smile didn't make the cut.

She Used to Smile by Drag The River at myspace

That's all for now,

Take Care


JANUARY 9, 2008

6 pm

Only added a top 10 of old records to the best of the year 2007 lists. These were new addictions to me during 2007.

That's all for now.

Take care


JANUARY 7, 2008

10 pm

Best of the year 2007 lists updated (best songs and little discs)

I finished those lists as well. I might add a song or two If I forgot something really important. I think I'll definitely add some links and comments about the lists within a few days, but basicly they are ready now.

Here are the best of the year 2007 lists

And that is all for now.

Take care


JANUARY 7, 2008

6.30 pm

Best of the year 2007 list updated

Here is the album list (places 1-40)

Well that list is now ready. I'll probably add some links and some comments later. Best songs and best little discs list coming up within a couple of days.

Take care


JANUARY 6, 2008

9.30 pm

Best of the year 2007 list updated

Here is the album list (places 6-40)

The last five (well actually six) probably sometime on monday.

That's all for now

Take care


JANUARY 6, 2008

4 am

Best of the year 2007 list updated

Here is the album list (places 11-40)

Only top ten to go. I'm not 100% sure do I have the time to finish it on sunday, but I do hope so. If not on sunday than it will be available on monday. And the other lists sometime later next week.

That's all for now. Goodnight and..

Take care


JANUARY 5, 2008

3.30 am

Best of year 2007 list

Well actually there's only the places 30-40 at the moment. I do have whole album list in correct order, but I didn't have the time to write about all of them tonight. Need to sleep as well I think. Therefore I started from the bottom and work my way up. Tomorrow night at least places 20-30. Hopefully even more. I try to get the album list done by sunday. Best songs and best little discs lists probably goes until next week.

Here is the album list (places 30-40)

That's all for now.

Take care


JANUARY 3, 2008

3.30 am

Happy new year!

I spent the holidays with a cat and a dog and they needed more of my attention than onechord.net. Anyway, I'm now back at Turku and the first thing to do is to compile those best of the year 2007 lists. Those will be ready later this week. I've managed to select 36 albums that will definitely be on the top 40 albums list, but the problem is the remaining four spots. I've managed to cut the list of 2007 albums I own from 104 albums to 45 albums and it's been so difficult. And now I still need to find a way to cut five albums. Btw, is some idiot taking this a bit too seriously. I'm starting to think so..

Anyway, that is all for now. I'll be back with the lists later this week. Won't be tomorrow though. Friday night / saturday morning is much more likely. Might even go until sunday. Not that anyone is waiting.

Take care


DECEMBER 20, 2007

2 am

These days before christmas seem to be busy ones. Therefore I think there won't be new reviews before the weekend. But I'll try to write a review or two on saturday and/or sunday. I can't be 100% sure I manage to do that at Keuruu, so it's better to already wish merry christmas and happy new year. It has not been a good year for onechord.net, but at least it somehow managed to survive. Thanks for visiting even then when absolutely nothing was going on in here. I love you all.

Captain Cougar's album got a really good review at Rumba magazine and they definitely deserve it. I've been listening to it a lot lately and it's definitely a really good album. However, I'm still not convinced that I'm listening to them when the song Life Is Nothing starts. Maybe it's just me, but I keep thinking... That must be Aimee Mann who is singing on it. Not that it bothers me at all. I actually love it and because there's just that one song that might sound a bit like Aimee it shouldn't bother anyone. it's just one of the many great songs on the album.

Captain Cougar at myspace

The Felice Brothers and The Avett Brothers are still the best bands in my world at the moment.

Take care


DECEMBER 17, 2007

3 am

Reviews updated (short The Star Spangles review)

That's all for now. Just quickly going through some of the albums that I haven't reviewed, but which I still love. There are still plenty of discs left that I haven't reviewed, but which will end up on my TOP 40 albums list (coming up in about 2 weeks I think). It's frightening that this year the total number of albums released in 2007 that I own will be more than a hundred. That's just way too many records. Okay, probably about 15 have been promos and lots of them were used, but it's still an incredibly stupid amount of records. Will I ever learn. Probably not.

More reviews later this week.

Take care


DECEMBER 15, 2007


4 am

Reviews updated.. oho.. ei uskois (John McGregor, Ben Weaver)

I thought I should even review some of those records that will be high on my upcoming album of the year list. I don't think that will be ready before christmas. But I don't think it's a surprise if I can already promise top 10 places at least for Avett Brothers, Cats On Fire, Damn Seagulls, John McGregor, Ryan Adams, Weakerthans.. and obviously Michael McDonald if I decide to include him this year as well. I guess I shouldn't reveal more yet. At least those were in alphabetical order, so there's something to wait for. Not that anyone actually waits.

That's all for now. Hopefully more reviews and a bit of news during next week.

Take care

DECEMBER 11, 2007

2 am

News updated (The Props)

I think that's all for tonight. It's time to go to bed and have a nightmare about tomorrow's visit to the dentist. Not a big fan of those.

Take care


DECEMBER 10, 2007

2 am

News updated (Captain Cougar, Boomhauer, Hundred Million Martians, Burning Hearts, Joe Algeri, Nikujaga)

That's about it for now. Hopefully something more will be happen during this week.

Lately I've been totally obsessed with The Avett Brothers. I can listen to their songs twenty times in a row and I don't get bored at all. I'm totally in love. It's pure and emotional music that has a heart that heals you. Same songs can make you smile and cry. Their album Emotionalism is a huge favourite to win the album of the year award here at onechord.net (okay, If I decide to include Michael McDonald this year as well, there might be some competition).



http://www.myspace.com/theavettbrothers

http://www.myspace.com/theeavettbrothers

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2029047041

Perhaps a review or two later in the week. I won't promise it though..

Take care


DECEMBER 4, 2007

2 am

Guess what. No updates. The sad fact is that at the moment the biggest and probably only goal in my life is to make Nottingham Forest win the premier league. Which might not happen for a while eventhough we are currently sitting comfortably on the second place right behind Arsenal in the early stages of the season 2012. Yep. despite some minor flaws in the game, I'm completely addicted to Football manager 2008 and the bloody thing has controlled my life for the last weeks. I try to quit and get back to onechord.net, but I't ain't easy. Is there a support group for this addiction. Just one more continue, I promise..

But I'm definitely going to do some short news update this week and I do also hope that I can get something decent done here before the christmas. There's only about 30-40 records left to review.. Just a minor task. Well if I'm able to review the ones that matter the most to me, I will be happy.

To add something valuable to to this entry, I'll add the fact that new Boomhauer album will be released in February and you can already listen to two songs from the album on their myspace.

Boomhauer at myspace

Oh and Bridget tomorrow at Dynamo. How wonderful is that. I'm so there.

Take care


NOVEMBER 21, 2007

2.30 am

Just that news update (Samettivallankumous, Koria Kitten Riot)

I did not know that The High Water Marks had a new record out before checking out indiepages tonight. I really liked the debut so I definitely need to order this one asap. Well actually I think I already did order it..

The High Water Marks at myspace

I'm really nervous about the Portugal - Finland match. Honestly, If Finland makes it through, JYP can lose all the games they have left and I would still be happy. It's certainly a really slim chance, but at this stage I just have to believe it can happen. It's just that If both Finland and Serbia wins the heartbreak will be almost unbearable. But even in this case one has to hope for the win, because it would still be a gigantic result.

That's all for now.

Take care



NOVEMBER 19, 2007

2 am

Hi readers (all seven)

It's been a while. I was just bit fed up with music in general and not just with onechord.net. Perhaps I just suffered some kind of music overdoze and for a few weeks I didn't even want to listen to music. It's not that I was depressed or anything. Movies, hockey and football manager 2008 just seemed to be much more touching or entertaining and therefore I drifted my focus towards them. Those will certainly remain in the picture and I'm looking forward to watching the other movies of Louis Malle's DVD box set after really enjoying Au Revoir Les Enfants. However, the love for pop music if certainly back in the frame and I spent the weekend searching for albums I've missed during the past weeks. And it certainly looks like I didn't learn a thing and I'm again buying too much music. I already ordered these:

BMX Bandits: Bee Stings (finally out in uk as well, Japanese import was too expensive)
Saturday Looks Good To Me: Fill Up the Room
The Bank Holidays: As a Film
Tullycraft: Every Scene Needs a Center
The Owls: Daughters and Suns

And I'm afraid I might be just starting out.

Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow at Tavastia on 27th of november and I haven't bought a ticket yet. Scary. Perhaps I should go and stay until 28th so I could see Red Carpet and Bridget as well.

A couple of days ago I finally bought Bruce Springsteen's new album and Samettivallankumous' wonderfully titled debut Täällä mies, kuuleeko nainen?. I like them both.

Anyway, let's stop this craptalk. The only reason for writing was just to break the silence. Onechord.net will return with a couple of news entries during the next few days (Samettivallankumous, Koria Kitten Riot...). I think you might have to wait (not that anyone actually waits) a bit more for reviews and other things. I do want to get to those as well, but it might go until early december or something. And obviously a pointless end of the year list will be here in late december or early january. This is all for now. Back within a day or two.

Take care



OCTOBER 28, 2007

4 am

News updated (Bridget)

Just a quick, but extremely important news update.

Otherwise you shouldn't really wait for updates. Absolutely nothing is happening at the moment. I haven't bought or even listened to records during the last week or two. I've been more into things like these:

Bresson: Pickpocket DVD
Godard: Weekend DVD
Melville: Le Samourai DVD

I know that eventually onechord.net will get active again, but at the moment I don't know whether it will take a week or a month or even more. Well a news entry or two might appear during the next couple of days, but no need to expect anything more because it just won't happen.

Take care


OCTOBER 16, 2007

2 am

News updated (The Rollstons, Red Carpet)

It's seems awfully quiet in here. Good thing is that nobody cares. It's a battle of who could care less and right now it seems that I'm winning the battle. I haven't done much here for years, but usually I'm extremely stressed about it. At the moment I just don't believe in this at all and therefore I'm blissfully relaxed about the absence of updates. But don't start celebrating the death of onechord yet. Onechord.net might have been slowly dying for a year or two, but it hell won't disappear. At least not now when Bridget has almost finished their extremely long-waited album. Bridget and The Sugarrush were probably the biggest reasons onechord.net was founded years ago and ever since I've waited for the chance to be able to praise their albums and now both bands are working on full-lenght albums. And I'm as excited about them as I was back then.

The best albums at the moment:

The Weakerthans: Reunion Tour
Michael McDonald: Finally

Eagerly waiting:

New The Pearlfishers album (It's out and available, I just ordered it yesterday)
Samettivallankumous: Täällä mies, Kuuleeko nainen? (album out 31.10. Myspace)

I'm not quite sure when there will be new updates. Several reviews are in the working state, but right now I can't seem to locate the motivation to actually finish them. I hope I find it later this week, but I wouldn't count on it. Some useless craptalk will end up in the forum obviously, but that might be it for a while. If you think I should use the english language there as well, you better shout. I just thought that it really wasn't necessary.

Take care



OCTOBER 1, 2007

3 am

Reviews updated (Michael McDonald)

Only made some minor changes/updates to the earlier Michael McDonald review. I've started working on a couple of new reviews as well and I hope I manage to finish them quite soon.

That's all for tonight.

Take care


SEPTEMBER 26, 2007

2 am

News updated

Back at Turku. Not much to say at this point, but it's definitely a plan to get back to updating later this week. Too bad that I've been such a lazy boy during september. A bad time to be lazy, because now the ones who bothered to come and check out the new bands section think that there's nothing going on in here after that. And they might be right. However, I think a review or two might end up in here later this week.

Currently listening to:

Michael McDonald: Finally
The Fast Camels: The Magic Optician
Future Clouds & Radar: S/T
Ben Weaver: Paper Sky
The Star Spangles: Dirty Bomb
Club 8: The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming
Limbeck: S/T

Take Care


SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

3 am

The website didn't die eventhough it might seem so. The main focus just has been on hockey and searching for a job. I'll try to get back to writing news and reviews before the end of the month. But it won't happen this week because of hockey addiction and a funeral.

Oh. and as you might have realised the only concert calendar will now be located at the forum, because I'm lazy and it's faster to update it there. I've only added a few gigs so far, but I do plan to add plenty more in the not so distant future.

Concert Calendar at the forum

I downloaded these two new Weakerthans songs in mp3 format from the label's website an hour ago and I haven't listened to anything else since then. Just these two on repeat and I'm still not bored to death with them. A wonderful band.

You'll find the songs here

That's all for now.

Take care


SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

2 am

Just a quick news update about Matador Jose's new release.

Take care


SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

4.30 am

News updated (John McGregor, Soft Rabbit, Markus Nordenstreng, Indiaanikesä)
New band section added

Well that's it then. I know it's not very good, but I don't have the skills or the strength to make it any better. So it will have to do. I haven't really tested it with different browsers and resolutions. Therefore it's possible that I need to make some tuning later on, but that shouldn't be too hard. New bands might also appear in the future. I had a few in mind, but didn't have the time to add them all. There's already over 100 groups and even if I spend just 10 minutes on each it still takes a while. As always, feel free to give feedback if you wish. You can send the hatemail to the new forum, to the guestbook or to my mailbox. I changed a lot of photos to new ones. If you want a different photo, send it to me. Also if you are not happy with my terrible descriptions of your band, you can write it yourself and send it to me.

I know there are few things that perhaps should be done, but frankly I don't care. The bands are not all in alphabetical order, artists are alphabetized by their first name, the forum has different colours than the website. The navigation system could be better. There could be some kind of cool front page for the band section etc. But I just don't bother to fix these things.

Eventhough there's only a couple of users in the forum, it seems that it will stay there. It seems that it makes me more active. It's just helluva lot faster to praise some album there for example. I don't need to open this file, write it, save it, open ftp program and upload it to the website. I'm sure I will keep writing stuff to this blog as well, but if you want to find out my current music obsessions, you should visit the forum as well (like someone would actually be interested). And feel free to promote your own concerts there. I might start updating that gigs section again within a week or two, but I don't promise it. And even if I do, I don't know all the concerts there is.

That's all for now. I need some sleep. Eventhough the end result isn't very good, I can be truly happy that I tried my best and can honestly say that I gave at least 30 hours to this project during the last two weeks. That should be enough. If I only had been wiser and spent more time with this project in the summer, it would have been so easy to finish it in time. Deadlines just seem to be the only way to force myself to actually do something. But in the end I was still somehow able to do it. It's such a huge relief and makes my life less stressful.

Take care



AUGUST 19, 2007

3 am

Updates are now going on. Well at least when I'm not watching football. Only watched three matches today. It would have been nice if there had been even one good game though haha. Anyway, there's now this new feature online. It's a forum. At the moment it is kind of a test run. I've thought about doing this for a long time, but I've always thought that dead forums just look stupid on a website and I'm quite sure that there won't be a huge need for this. However, I'm now doing other updates too and I thought I'll give it a go. It doesn't hurt to try and it didn't took much time to make it. If it works out, it might give a little boost to the website as well and if it remains dead I can just remove it after a couple of months. You'll find the link below, if you want to test it. I can't promise that everything will work perfectly, because before yesterday I didn't even know how to make one and I still don't know much more than that. Anyway, you can see it yourself below. This might be your only chance, because within a couple of months that whole forum might be gone.

onechord.net forum


That's all for now. Take care



AUGUST 17, 2007

4.30 am

Reviews updated (The Rollstons, Ben's Diapers)

Now that was a real struggle. To get those reviews done I mean. It took hours and still they are very bad reviews. Well at least I can now fully focus on the band section. So before september 1, there will be only news and blog entries in here. On september 1, there should be a whole new band section...

... I don't think that I believe That even myself. I still need at least 20-30 hours to be able get it done. I'm such a slow writer. Thankfully tonight it feels like it's worth it and that I will have the inspiration to finish it. I just try to make myself believe that there might actually be some concrete help for some band, if the band section stays alive. it's hard to believe it though during these myspace, last fm days. Anyway, I will try and you'll see on september 1 how it went. I think I'll be happy if I get something like 2/3 or 3/4 done before that. Then I think I could "publish" it and add some more bands during september.

That's all for now.

Take care


AUGUST 13, 2007

2.30 am

It seems that the heat and the start of the premier league took the victory and nothing happened here. Well no surprise there. It probably wasn't the only promise I've failed to keep. Well hopefully the reviews will be here sometime this week. After this heatwave perhaps.

While you keep hitting that refresh button, you can listen to The Soft Rabbit on another browser window. I should and probably eventually will write a news entry about this, but quick facts are that The Soft Rabbit is Coma from The Sugarrush and there's three great songs on his myspace.

The Soft Rabbit at myspace

That's it for now. Hopefully back within a few days.

Take care

AUGUST 6, 2007

4.30 am

Reviews updated (Sweeties, Tink)

Ben's Diapers and The Rollstons reviews coming up sometime during the week. Don't know when exactly. That still leaves around twenty 2007 releases that I haven't reviewed. Some of them are really great (like Jesse Malin, Lucky Soul) and might be eventually reviewed, but probably not during august. I'll get back to reviewing in september. But those two I mentioned will definitely be reviewed later this week. One or two more is possible, but highly unlikely. Now it's mostly time to focus on the band section until I get fed up and close the whole website.

But now it's time to sleep.

Take care


AUGUST 5, 2007

4 am

Reviews updated (Sister Flo, Aksu, Snow Coloured Kid)

That's all for now. Probably more reviews tomorrow night.

Take care



AUGUST 3, 2007

2 am

It's been slow, because I went to Keuruu for 4-5 days and got back on wednesday. I'll add some reviews later this week (and early next week if I'm lazy during the weekend), but starting next week I will mostly concentrate on the band section. Some news and crap talk entriest might appear, if something interesting happens. But before that about 5-7 reviews should end up on this little website.

I've never really paid much attention to The Coral despite hearing some nice tunes from them a couple of years ago (okay, I did once pick up a cdsingle from Anttila's 1€ bin, but I don't think that counts as paying attention). I might need to change this, because today I ended up listening to their new album Roots and Echoes and it seems to be a brilliant one. It's out on august 6th and you can listen the whole thing on Columbia Records website. Too bad it sounded so good that I needed to listen to the entire album. I planned to do a review or two tonight, but instead I just kept on listening to this beautiful album. I certainly need to order the album, if it sounds as good tomorrow morning when I probably listen to it again.

The Coral album at Columbia Records

Ok. That's it for now. Back with some reviews later this week.

Take care


JULY 26, 2007

4 am

Reviews updated (Valley Below, The Bishops)

I still plan to review albums/EPs from Aksu, Ben's Diapers, Snow Coloured Kid, Tink, Rollstons and Sister Flo before I focus on that band section. It might be that it goes until next week before these reviews are here. It's DBTL after all and I'm also not sure what kind of life it is to spend three hours every night writing reviews that nobody reads and then waking up at 1 pm because of it. I need a small break and I shouldn't keep thinking that august will be even worse.

That's all for now. Take care


JULY 25, 2007

4.30 am

Reviews updated (Damn Seagulls, Ferns)

I seemed to have a reviewer's block (a reviewer, where, I haven't seen any. I can only see a reflection of some stupid kid who loves music and spends nights writing totally pointless opinions that nobody reads) and it was a real struggle to get even those two done tonight. If I'll get over it, more reviews to come later this week and next week. Well sometime next week updates will probably dissappear almost completely for a month. Then it's time to make that final push and focus fully on the band section. On september 1 there will be hopefully be a fully updated band section in here. Then again it's also possible that I just don't have the strenght to finish it and I will kill the whole section. I hope it doesn't come to that.

That's all for tonight.

Take care


JULY 24, 2007

3.30 am

Reviews updated (Ryan Adams, Wilco, Trembling Blue Stars)

There will be some finnish reviews coming this week too, if you are expecting them. This will be all for now. Still only about 25-26 2007 releases left to review. I should never stop, because then I'm not able to catch up.

Yesterday noticed that the new Grand Drive album Everyone has been released. Guess what? I'm definitely going to buy that. D'oh. Am I stupid or what. Well I'm not stupid for wanting a record from such a great band, but have all those dozens of 2007 releases have been must-buys...That might be questionable. Is there anonymous record addicts organization.. Oh well. At least I try to wait a week or two for Grand Drive. I think I already have something to listen to at the moment..

That's all for tonight. Back tomorrow night. Probably.

Take care


JULY 23, 2007

4 am

Reviews updated (The Broken Family Band)

Just one bad review. More to come later this week.

Lambchop! What a wonderful concert. Certainly the best concert of 2007 so far and Certainly worth the trip. Quite an expensive trip though, because I ended up buying 17 records. Well none of them cost more than 8 euros and seven of them were from Fennica's 2 € bins. Some good stuff there btw. For example Luna's Romantica and Warmer Corners by The Lucksmiths were there but I didn't buy because I have them both (obviously around 97% of those 2€ records were crap). I also had a sudden moment of madness and bought six Rolling Stones albums. I blame the Ronelles getting me all excited about rock music the previous night. But I haven' been dissapointed. I'm loving most of that stuff. Previously I had 0 Rolling Stones albums, now I have Aftermath, Between the Buttons, Beggars Banquet, Exile, Let It Bleed and Sticky Fingers. A decent start I believe, but a guess I still need a few more eventually.

The Bishops cd also arrived and I'm liking it a lot. The beginning of the album is just damn brilliant. Maybe the quality drops a tiny bit in the latter half of the album, but it's a delightful release.

Back tomorrow night. Probably.

Take care


JULY 20, 2007

2 am

Reviews updated (The Ronelles)

That's all for now. Sorry that I didn't managed to do more than that little piece tonight. I was bit too tired and struggled to write anything that makes sense. But 10 reviews in six days. A guess that's a decent start after standing still for months. I try to continue it early next week and review more finnish stuff as well.

Now I'm only focusing on Lambchop. I'm really looking forward to the concert. See ya there.

Take care


JULY 19, 2007

3.30 am

Reviews updated (Sweatmaster, Ilona V, Jason Falkner)

There's another bunch of reviews for your reading pleasure. If anyone actually reads them. All again very praising reviews, because I just try to go through the releases that I've loved the most during the last three months and just keep ignoring the ones I didn't like that much (I'll do them If I have the time, I just prefer writing about albums that I love). I don't think there's more than one five hearts album left though and you'll probably know which one.

That's all for now. I'll probably write a review or two tomorrow night, but not as many as tonight because I can't sleep til noon on friday. I have to catch a train to Helsinki so that I can do some record shopping before the Lambchop concert.

Take care


JULY 18, 2007

3.30 am

Reviews updated (Bergen White, Primary 5, Fountains of Wayne)

That's all for now. I'll try to write more reviews before Lambchop's concert.

Take care


JULY 15, 2007

4 am

Reviews updated (The Loose Salute)

Just recently discovered that The Broken Family Band has a new album out called Hello Love. I though it can't be bad and instantly ordered it. The scare of the month is the new Josh Rouse album. Subtitulo was a decent album, but still a huge dissapointment after the wonderful albums 1972 and Nashville. This new album is getting rather worrying reviews too. Some seem to love it though, so perhaps all is not lost. And well I'm sure I will buy it no matter what. It's worth it even if it has just a couple of great Josh Rouse songs.

While being a substitute DJ at rock'n'roll high school (yes I know, me a rock'n'roll DJ, what were they thinking haha, well at least I left most of my twee pop collection home) I heard about The Bishops. After listening their songs for a couple of days at myspace I ordered their album. This is a whole lotta of fun I think.

The Bishops at myspace
The Bishops Website

Lambchop next friday at Tavastia. Kinda sweet...

And favourite album tonight is...

Harpers Bizarre: The Secret Life of Harpers Bizarre

Take care


JULY 14, 2007

4 am

Reviews updated (Mark Olson, Dropkick)

I try to go through this review pile that has about 30 2007 releases in the next few weeks and then focus on that band section in august. The goal is still that september 1 and I hope can make it. And don't expect 30 reviews. If I can just quickly go through the records I've loved the most during the last few months, I will be happy.

That's all for now.

Take care



JUNE 28, 2007

2.30 am

There doesn't seem to be much going on in here. And this entry is not an improvement. I just needed to praise Ryan Adams' new album Easy Tiger. It's bloody magnificent as far as I'm concerned. After these first 3-4 listenings rating it anything below five hearts would be a mockery. We'll see if I share the same passion when I review it sometime in the distant future. Right now Easy Tiger seems like the best thing ever.

Recently I've been also enjoying BC Camplight's new album Blink of a Nihilist. It does have a few bad tunes as well, but most of it is really enjoyable. That new Tink EP is also really good and that White Stripes album does contain some damn fine tunes as well. I never thought I would even buy it, but I was at stupido before The Lemonheads concert, the record was playing in the store and it just sounded so freakin' good that I had to buy it. It was certainly a good buy and eventhough I'm still not the biggest fan, It's easy to admit that there's at least 4-5 brilliant songs on the album.

Mark Olson's album haven't yet arrived to my doorstep, but I'm still in love with his myspace songs and have really high hopes for the album. But right now it's time to love Ryan Adams. Maybe he isn't the nicest boy on the planet, but he sure can write wonderful tunes.

Take care


JUNE 12, 2007

3 pm

News updated (Les Yper Sound)

I haven't followed Mark Olson's career very well after he left The Jayhawks. I just own one Creekdippers album (which is a good one though). Anyway, today is the release date of his new solo album Salvation Blues and based on myspace songs (My Carol and Clifton Bridge are both brilliant) I'm definitely going to buy this one. Salvation Blues is produced by Ben Vaughn and it reunites Mark and Gary Louris on three songs.

Mark Olson at myspace

And The Lemonheads live on friday at Tavastia. How sweet is that...

That's all for now.


Take care



JUNE 6, 2007

3 am

News updated (One big holiday, Tink, The Sininen, The Sweeties)

Still very much in love with Bergen White's For Women Only. A perfect record.

New interesting releases are at least BC Camplight's second album and Voxtrot's debut full-length. Oh and I need Jenn Grant's debut.. and double oh.. Candie Payne's record must be a great one too.

Sometimes I'm very slow and it took me this long to buy Wincing The Night Away by The Shins. Seems like a great record definitely and they totally deserve all the success they've had.

Take care


MAY 31, 2007

2.30 am

The best concerts of 2007 so far

1. Laurila at Dynamo, Turku
2. Laurila at Klubi, Turku

The Lemonheads, Lambchop etc might change that list during the summer, but Laurila is just fucking perfect live band nowadays. I can even admit that eventhough Death & Sexuality and Number Down are still my least favorite album tracks, both of them sound freakin' good live.

Currently listening to:

Keren Ann: S/T
Trembling Blue Stars: The Last Holy Writer
Great Lake Swimmers: Ongiara
Love Dance: Result
Roger Nichols & Small Circle Of Friends: S/T
Snow Coloured Kid: S/T -ep
The Clientele: God Save The Clientele
The Postmarks: S/T
Wilco: Sky Blue Sky
Bergen White: For Women Only
The Rollstons: Songs Folk

That's all for now.

Take care


MAY 23, 2007

2.30 am

News updated (The Rollstons, The Scaramangas)

Some release news from abroad as well. California Snow Story's debut album was released by Letterbox records on monday. They did an EP for Shelflife Records some years ago which I really liked, but then they just vanished. Anyway, it's great that they didn't quit and that there's now a full-length album. I certainly need to pick it up during the next few weeks. So far I've only heard that free downloadable single which is a great one. You can get it from the label's site or from the band's myspace. Oh, California Snow Story is a scottish band/duo whose songwriter David Skirving was a founding member of Camera Obscura.

California Snow Story at myspace
Letterbox Records Website

Tonight I found Yeongene and fell in love with her songs. Such a beautiful voice. No wonder BMX Bandits liked her so much that they wanted to work with her. She's from Korea and she is really amazing.

Yeongene at myspace


Take care

MAY 22, 2007

3 am

The progress of this website seem to be incredibly slow. Because of this I made a deal that I will give myself the whole summer to update the band section. The absolute deadline is September 1, 2007. Then it has to be ready. Hopefully even before that, but at the moment it seems highly unlikely. Anyway, this should give me more than enough time and just 2-3 hours of work every week might be enough to get things back on track. Meanwhile I'm not sure should I just delete the current band section, because most of the information is dated and might just harm some bands.

I will be adding news and some reviews during the summer. Starting tomorrow with some release news.

I got the new The Clientele album today and it seems to be another really great record. Current favourite album is probably Wilco's Sky Blue Sky. I suppose it's not their finest album, but it comes very close. Ghost is Born was definitely my least favorite Wilco album so I'm happy with this new direction. What about Fountains of Wayne then. Some seem totally dislike their new album, but I do like the most of it. I must admit that there's a couple of annoying songs that I don't like at all, but there's also a lot of really good pop tunes on the album. Definitely worth buying and Fountains of Wayne is still a wonderful pop group.

I still need to praise Bergen White's album For Women Only . Perfect soft pop masterpiece that was originally released in 1970. Bergen White is apparently most known as a master arranger who has worked with legends like Elvis Presley and Glen Campbell, but this lost solo album should have made him a legend too.

Bergen White at myspace

And obviously the new The Rollstons record entitled Song Folks is a great one. More about that tomorrow in the news section.

That is all for now.

Take care



MAY 11, 2007

3 pm

Gig calendar updated

Ok, probably noone uses it anymore, because I hardly ever update it. It's still badly up-to-date, but these fine shows I found with quick browsing.

I've wanted a good Glen Campbell compilation for a long time. Now I finally bought one and Capitol Years 65/77 is indeed a perfect introduction. 46 songs of pure class. I suppose he did record a lot of crap too, but during his finest hours he certainly was one of the very best. What a voice.

Take care




MAY 9, 2007

3 am

Jason Falkner's new album is out Japan (later this year in rest of the world). I couldn't wait so I ordered it from Japan and I'm now a happy owner of this beautiful album. I wasn't that thrilled about it after first listening, but these two days have proved that it's again a great album. Not many instant pop hits. More like 4-5 minutes long beautiful pop songs. I admit that I'm still struggling with maybe 3-4 songs, but I do love the most of it. Songs like This Time, Stephanie Tells Me, Runaway, Say It's True and the japan only bonus track I Don't Mind are again fantastic pop craftmanship from Mr. Falkner.

Jason Falkner at myspace

I should be doing either the band section or the review section and my answer to this is that I haven't done either. I feel like the worst person in the world because of it. Thankfully I managed to work hour and half with the band section tonight. Still helluva long way to go and who knows will it ever be finished.

Btw. Bergen White's album Only For Women is amazing.

Take care


MAY 8, 2007

2.30 pm

Just some news bits (Aksu, Monsters of Pop)

A great month for music lovers. For example these were already released or will be released during may:

Wilco: Sky Blue Sky
The Clientele: God Save The Clientele
Elliot Smith: New Moon
Great Lake Swimmers: Ongiara
Keren Ann: S/T
Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
Trembling Blue Stars: The Last Holy Writer
Feist: Reminder
The Rollstons: Song Folks
Aksu: OIOIOI

And I want them all...bugger..

That's it for now.

Take care



MAY 7, 2007

2.30 am

A great weekend. First flavour of the month club on friday. Ben's Diapers turned 10 and it felt damn great to hear the old favourites like Warriorette, Las Vegas and Frankfurt Am Main. They also have a limited edition compilation available and it's obviously excellent. Johnny Superhero had to play without their drummer, so it was a bit hard to tell how great they can be. But I really loved the voice of the lead singer so I better go and see a proper concert on a later date. The DJ of the evening was probably a terrible one. I also run out of records, so I had to play lots of them twice. If I remember correctly I played at least these.

Honeybus: I Remember Caroline
The Choir: It's Cold Outside
Badfinger: No Matter What
Minus 5: Don't Mean It
Corvettes: Beware of Time
Montage: My Love
Ted Leo: Me and Mia
Lucky Soul: Lips are Unhappy / Brittle Heart
Teenage Fanclub: Don't Look Back
The Posies: Sad To Be Aware
Camera Obscura: Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken / Let's Get Out Of This Country
Josh Fields: Sleep So I Can Dream
The Zombies: Kind Of Girl
Big Star: September Gurls
Gin Blossoms: California Suns
Stiv Bators: Make Up Your Mind / Too Much To Dream Last Night
The Byrds: I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better
DM 3: Show You
Daniel Wylie: That Was The Day / Can You Feel The Love?
Primary 5: Off Course / Out In The Cold
Bob Evans: The Friend / Comin' Around
Portastatic: Through With People / White Wave
Whiskeytown: Excuse My While I Break My Own Heart Tonight
Nelson Bragg: Tell Me I'm Wrong
The Ronelles: Bolt The Doors / To See You For The Last Time / She Said No
David Hardman: Corin Can
Locksley: My Kind Of Lover
Dropkick: Wouldn't Hurt To Wait / One Thing / Last To Know
Jesse Malin: Lucinda / Black Haired Girl
Laurila: Solid Ground / Anyone Anywhere
Everly Brothers: Less of Me
Richmond Fontaine: Post To Wire
The Raconteurs: Steady as She Goes
Rhett Miller: Help Me, Suzanne
Calexico: Cruel
Sloan: Another Way I Could Do It / Will I Belong
Nice Man: Fallin in Luv
Michael Shelley: We Invented Love
Jon Auer: Bottom of The Bottle
Sweatmaster: Cut Up In Half
America: Wind Wave
The Pearlfishers: We're Gonna Save The Summer
Paul Williams: Morning I'll Be Moving On
Margo Guryan: Love Songs

And then on saturday it was time for Scarlet's Well and they were just brilliant. I was a little worried that it might be a bit too sophisticated and ambitious for me, but I was so wrong. I loved them a lot.

Current music obsessions:

Lucky Soul: The Great Unwanted
Honeybus: She Flies Like A Bird -The Anthology
Paul Williams: Someday Man
Nice Man: Sauchiehall and Hope (A Pop Opera)

I also like a lot:

Dropkick: Turning Circles
The Ronelles: Motel
Nick Garrie: The Nightmare of J B Stanislas
Nelson Bragg: Day Into Night
The Micragirls: Feeling Dizzy Honey

Updates? uh well.. there will be some updates someday. Tuesday or wednesday would be a decent guess.

Take care



APRIL 28, 2007

2 am

News updated (Ben's Diapers)

I've been way too lazy. Well I've tried to write reviews during the nights, but because it just didn't seem to be working out, I just bought more records instead. I try to be a better boy next week.

I did order that Jason Falkner disc today. The price was quite reasonable at least from cdjapan.co.jp. Something like 17-18 euros including postage. Probably the upcoming US version would have been slightly cheaper, but this was a fair price as well. And at least I will get it sooner now. Really looking forward to it eventhough everyone on the audities list have not been that impressed. However, based on the myspace tunes I'm quite confident that I will love it.

Jason Falkner at myspace

This week I've been mostly listening to:

Sweatmaster: Animal
Sister Flo: The Healer
Nelson Bragg: Day Into Night
Paul Williams: Someday Man
Dropkick: Turning Circles
Primary 5: Go
Daniel Wylie: High Cost Of Happiness
Josh Fields: S/T

Tomorrow Janne Laurila solo concert at Kerttu. Oh how I've missed those.

Take care


APRIL 20, 2007

1.30 am

I'm not sure did anyone try to fill that power pop puzzle I made a while ago. Probably not. Anyway, if someone did try and wasn't able to finish, the correct answers are now available.

Powerpop crossword puzzle
Answers to the crossword puzzle


The good news is that there's finally a new Jason Falkner album out and available. The bad news is that so far it has only been released in Japan. Usa and rest of the world will follow later. The big question is do I want to try to order it from japan or as an expensive import from Notlame, amazon etc or just wait until it gets released elsewhere. Maybe I wait because it would probably cost too much and it kind of feels stupid to pay 30+ euros for it now if I can get it for 15 euros when it has been released in the states. Anyway, there's three full songs available on his myspace



Laurila's concert at dynamo was damn brilliant. I loved every minute of it.

Take care


APRIL 18, 2007

2.30 am

News updated (Snow Coloured Kid, Valley Below, Scarlet's Well)

That's all for now.

Take care


APRIL 17, 2007

2.30 am

Reviews added (Sloan, Bob Evans)

That's all for now. Tomorrow some news.

Take care


APRIL 16, 2007

4 am

Reviews added( Wojciech, Juni Järvi)

Nothing more, just two very naiive reviews..

I don't think I'm a very supersticious person, but soon I'm starting to fear friday the 13th. When we got home last friday we noticed that there's water dropping to our kitchen through the roof. Our upstair neighbor had decided to wash some laundry, but things didn't went as smoothly as usually and a little water catastrophe was born. Well I guess he will curse friday the 13th even more than I do and in the future he probably won't be doing the laundry during this specific day.

Nelson Bragg is great.


Take care


APRIL 12, 2007

2 pm

News updated (Sister Flo, Conquistadors, Tigerbombs)

That is all for now. Some reviews coming later in the week.

Just got the Primary 5 album in the mail a couple of hours ago. Therefore no final conclusions yet, but the first impression is that it's a really great pop album. Now I need the first album too.

Take care


APRIL 9, 2007

3 am

I had a moment of madness and I created a crossword puzzle about power pop. So if you are really really bored you can try to fill it in. I don't know how difficult it is, because this is the first time I've tried this. I guess it's pretty easy if you know your power pop and pretty impossible if you don't. It's not completely about power pop though. You'll find it below:

Onechord's Power pop crossword puzzle

Oh. I love Sloan at the moment. I've finally paid enough attention to their new album that contains 30 songs. Obviously not all of them are wonderful but if I cut it down to 10-15 songs it's like the best album ever. 1/3 of it is perfect, 1/3 of it is really good and 1/3 of it is okay. But I don't think I should really complain, because If Sloan would have removed some of the songs, they might have deleted songs from all the categories and I wouldn't get as many great tunes.

Some real updates later in the week.

Take care

APRIL 5, 2007

4 am

Reviews updated (Cats on Fire)

There was not enough time for Juni Järvi or Wojciech reviews, but I'll promise to write them sometime next week.

Two records I'm probably going to buy in the recent future. At least Primary 5 is a must:

Primary 5: Go
ex-TFC Paul Quinn's band. Some great songs at myspace

The Redlands Palomino Co: Take Me Home
New americana from london. And again their myspace songs are really good.

Tomorrow great bands at pikku-torre. In between these great concerts, you can laugh at me, because yours truly will nervously take some of the dj duties.

I bought the new Sweatmaster album today and it's again brilliant. Jesse Malin's new album is also really good. I haven't completely fallen for it, but it's still a great disc no doubt about it. I might also need to pick up that latest Cheap Trick album Rockford that came out last year. I loaned it from the library and eventhough I might not be totally excited about everything on it, there are several killer tracks.

That's all for now. It might be that there won't be any updates during the easter time. We'll see.

Take care


APRIL 4, 2007

2.30 am

News updated (Sweatmaster, Viola, Minidriver)

That's all for tonight. I try to get a review or two done tomorrow night.

Take care



APRIL 2, 2007

4 am

Reviews updated (The Winnerys, Roger Joseph Manning Jr, Peachy Little Secrets comp.)

That's all for tonight. Some news and reviews coming up before easter.

Take care


MARCH 31, 2007

3.20 am

Reviews updated (Locksley, Someloves, Red Button)

I thought it will take a whole lot of time to get the band section done, so I better start reviewing or I drown into the review pile. Roger Joseph Manning Jr and Peachy Little Secrets -compilation reviews will follow in a day or two, because they are basicly ready. Just going quickly through these albums. I also try to get Wojciech, Cats On Fire and Juni Järvi reviewed before easter.

New Fountains of Wayne scored 3.0 points at pitchfork. Well no worries, because I don't really trust pitchfork when it comes to major label pop albums. I also went to see the movie Music & Lyrics a week ago and I really enjoyd it. And this I mention because FoW's Adam had written the music for the movie. I suppose it's safe to warn you that I actually do like several romantic comedies starring Hugh Grant. So it wasn't that surprising that I liked the movie...

What else. Well nothing else. I'll add more reviews probably on sunday night. Tomorrow it's time for football and Boomhauer.

Take care


MARCH 29, 2007

2 am

News updated (Sister Flo, Plane Is on Fire)

That's all. Too upset about football..

Take care


MARCH 21, 2007

1 am

News updated (Sister Flo, Sweatmaster)

That is all for tonight...

...except that now an hour later I finally decided to listen to samples from the new Jesse Malin album. And bloody hell. These shorts samples are just f***n brilliant if I dare to use such ugly word. I need to buy the album asap.

Jesse Malin at myspace


Take care


MARCH 20, 2007

3 am

News updated (Regina, Montevideo)

Levymessut was getting on my nerves on saturday and I didn't seem to be able to find anything worth buying. Then suddenly there's plenty of power pop vinyls in front of me and I end up picking up the following for prices between 1€ - 5€:

Richard Lloyd: Alchemy
Phil Seymour: S/T
The Records: Crashes
The Records: Shades In Bed
Marshall Crenshaw: S/T
Elvis Costello: My Aim Is True
Bram Tchaikovsky: Funland

These made me a happy boy.

I've been also listening to Malaysian pop music. The band is called Ferns and I got their album in the mail last friday. I really like them. Very sweet pop music.

Ferns at myspace

Favourite pop song of the day has been Blackflower's You Won't Get A Girl Like That. New British power pop and sounds damn good to me.

Blackflower at myspace

Fargo Records will release an compilation called Even Cowgirls Get The Blues in april. I found this out today while checking out their website. The compilation "gathers some of the best kept secrets from the female “indie folk” sphere" and it seemed so interesting that I started checking out the artists that I did not know. And I found lots of gorgeous music. I haven't even heard the names of Bosque Brown, Liz Durrett, Alela Diane, Mariée Sioux, Dawn Landes, but I really end up loving their songs. The bad thing obviously is that now I'm not sure can I just settle with that amazing compilation or do I need to start picking up their own albums.

Fargo Records Website
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues at myspace

One or two of these folk/country ladies had Alina Hardin as one of their top friends. So I also ended up on her page and absolutely love her songs. She is not on the compilation, but might even be the one I love the most right now.

Alina Hardin at myspace

Take care

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