Helsinki-based Husky Rescue is hard to define with direct musical comparisons. Instead, their music is easier to describe through movies, cardinal directions, emotions, times of day, temperatures, natural phenomena or even last night’s dreams.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Jussi Puikkonen
Handsome Furs is by any standard a very eccentric rock band indeed. And Helsinki-lover, too.
Text Teemu Fiilin
There are probably countless reasons to why Afro-American funk and its derivatives are so popular in the Helsinki nightlife. The least of these is not the Funky Elephant festival, which will take place for the fifteenth time this year.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Kai Kuusisto
The life of a hip hop artist in the heavy metal loving, recessionridden Finland is far from glamorous. Redrama is realistic about the situation but refuses to give in to the defeat mentality.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Kai Kuusisto
Le Corps Mince Françoise dig the blue Leonardo Di Caprio from the end of Titanic. This Helsinki-based electro-pop trio has a British manager, pr-agency and booking agent, and their tour calendar features gigs in the UK, France, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands as well as back home in Finland.
Text Heini Lehtinen
Photos LCMDF
If you actively follow the electronic music scene, you’ve most likely heard of the Scandinavian skwee movement during the past few years. However, you probably haven’t actually heard the music itself.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Kai Kuusisto
Running an indie record company with its own terms and own policy might seem like an easy job to an outsider. It’s not, however – ask the founders of New Judas, a Helsinki-based label that focuses on electronic club music.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Kai Kuusisto
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20X0 – A Journey into the Future
8. October 2011
Heureka – The Finnish Science Centre
Yellow City – Illustrated Stories from Helsinki
16. January 2012
All around the city
20. January 2012
Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art
Outi Heiskanen – Primordial Sea
11. February 2012
Didrichsen Museum
15. February 2012
City Museum Helsinki
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