Rrrrrround-up!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

URGENT ORGAFUN NEED: Can someone be Portugal in the Europop 2008 fun we're orgafying on Freaky Trigger? The original volunteer has vanished. You'll need to supply one Portugese MP3 per month for the next 3 months, unfortunately starting tomorrow.

THEM: http://www.bbc.co.uk/switch/them/ - has anyone seen this programme? Or indeed "Sound" which is on the same T4-biting schedule on Saturday mornings?

CHINA http://music.guardian.co.uk/rock/story/0,,2264056,00.html - Petridis looks for indie in China.

HURBAN - is there really such a genre as "Hurban", O American readers? What does it sound like?

Israeli Pop

[mcatzilut.livejournal.com]

Firstly, I'm doing a Eurovision column for Jewcy.com (you can read the first post here) basically charting Israeli Eurovision news and whatnot. Though that might interest some people here. Also -- I'm looking for a place to watch Eurovision in NYC this May. If anyone has any ideas, send them my way.

Secondly, just read a story in JPost about the Noble Brats. An English singing Tel Aviv band that sounds a bit like 90's grunge, Sonic Youth, etc. Very cool band. I've been listening to their myspace stuff all morning. I'm a sucker for that Seattle sound abroad.

Hitz from Finland vol. 4

[credoimprobus]

(I was planning not to post this until later in the week, but hell, I wrote it up, why bother to sit on it, eh?)

This will be a long one! Might want to stock up on snacks and beverages before diving in.


Paula Vesala and Mira Luoti met through our first edition of Popstars in 2002, and hit it off so well they afterwards started a band together. They made quite an explosive entrance onto the Finnish music scene with their raucous debut single Rusketusraidat ("Tan Lines" -- as in UR TAN LINES, SHOW ME THEM), which became 2003's indisputable summer jam and the entire year's bestselling single.

This, obv, was only the beginning.

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