The Fox Hunt and 9b

This is the greatest thing right now. The Fox Hunt’s new album Long Way To Go (well along with The Fox Hunt’s debut album Nowhere Bound, I just got both of these beauties). I can’t support the activity that is fox hunt, but I sure do love this band called The Fox Hunt. These guys have a huge amount wonderful songs. Just go to their website and listen to songs like Lower Than I Should Be and Troublemakin’ Woman from the new album, then go to their myspace and listen to Crack Shot and Good Girl from the earlier album. I’m pretty sure you’ll love them too after that. More detailed The Fox Hunt praising during the upcoming weeks..

The Fox Hunt Website
The Fox Hunt at myspace

… and then little love for ninebullets.net. Actually if you don’t care about finnish music, you might as well stop reading this blog and just bookmark 9b. During the last few months, this is the place where I’ve found most of my new favorite bands/artists like The Fox Hunt, Otis Gibbs, Micah Schnabel, Kasey Anderson (who is also one of the 9b writers). I can fully recommend that website if you love bands such as Drive-By Truckers (the name is taken from Drive-By Truckers song), Drag The River and Lucero and try to find more good stuff.

9b Website

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News: Cats on Fire & Mieli

CATS ON FIRE:

Johanna Kustannus will release a new Cats On Fire compilation Dealing In Antiques on 12th of may. It will contain songs from their old demos and seven inch singles. There’s also two new songs. The Hague that so far has only been released as a digital single and a White Town cover Your Woman.

Cats On Fire on tour:

12.3. Baby Honey, Buffalo Bar, London, UK
13.3. Big Pink Cake, The Lanes, Bristol, UK
16.4. Pluto, Stockholm, Sweden
17.4. Oceanen, Gothenburg, Sweden
18.4. Copenhagen Popfest, Råhuset, Copenhagen, Denmark
12.6. Songs For Children, Hong Kong, China
13-15.8. Dockville festival, Hamburg, Germany

Cats On Fire Website
Cats On Fire at myspace

MIELI:

If you are wondering what Drowsy aka Mauri Heikkinen is doing nowadays here is the answer. He changed the singing language to finnish and started a band called Mieli. The debut album is due out on Helmi-Levyt next fall. Meanwhile you can check out some demos on their myspace and go and see their (first?) live performance at Bar Kuka, Turku on 19th of march.

Mieli at myspace

Oh and if you don’t know Drowsy the facts were these. He got a record deal from UK label Fat Cat Records as a young man and two aclaimed albums came out in 2005-2006. The music was often compared to things like Acid Folk, Syd Barrett, Smog etc.

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