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	Finnish Music Information Centre
		Rock music began in Finland in the late fifties, just like everywhere else, but much of it was copied from abroad.
		The birth of original Finnish rock pretty much coincided with the progressive rock movement that was unfolding in the global market.
		Hanoi Rocks was an exceptional group in the sense that it reached popularity both in Finland and abroad.
	www.fimic.fi /fimic/fimic.nsf/pages/mic74.htm (1476 words)

	Music of Finland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Karelian culture is perceived as the purest expression of the Finnic myths and beliefs, less influenced by Germanic influence, in contrast to Finland's position between the East and the West.
		Finnish folk song ( laulu) is commonly understood to be runolaulu, a four-footed trochaic form using only the first five notes of a scale.
		Wellknown Finnish folk music groups of today include JPP and Frigg representing the Kaustinen sound (although the latter is part Norwegian), Troka and VÃ¤rttinÃ¤.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Finnish_music (1821 words)

	Exporting popular Finnish music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Finnish popular music was already finding its way onto disc in the 1940s and 50s, but it continued to be very inward-looking right up to the 1960s.
		Only ten years ago Finnish footballers were as little known outside Finland as Finnish rock stars, but now, spurred on by the example of Jari Litmanen, they are all over the place.
		Finnish companies have also been carrying out export projects of their own, such as an annual campaign in Tokyo.
	www.musicfinland.com /classical/fmq/articles/letkis.html (1564 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| How horror rock conquered Europe
		Finnish metal band Lordi, who dress in monster masks and outlandish fantasy costumes, have taken the Eurovision Song Contest by storm.
		This hard rock band were already successful in their home country, but have now become a phenomenon in Europe.
		They thought the Finnish Eurovision board had made a mistake when they approached the band to take part in the contest while they were recording their third album.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/5001578.stm (542 words)

	Finnish Igneous Rock Age (FIRA) Database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The register is based on published age determinations, which comprise predominantly U-Pb zircon data produced at the Unit for Isotope Geology of the Geological Survey of Finland.
		There is also a stable isotope facility doing H, C and O measurements principally on carbonates, organic carbon and water samples.
		The information given consists of location data, rock type, method, mineral analyzed, age data, comments and references.
	www.gsf.fi /explor/wwwigneousregister.htm (277 words)

	Kayah the rock band
		They also participated at some Finnish bandcompetition, where they made it through the semifinals which were in Kauhajoki's Krouvi, to finals in Espoo, Finland, with five other finalist bands.
		Finnish media was very interested in Kayah, and they were interwiewed to Finnish television like channel four and channel one's main news broadcasts.
		Kayah also had an honour to be in a television again, when Finnish channel one wanted to make a story about Popcity-project for their main evening news broadcast.
	www.kayah.com /eband.htm (598 words)

	Finnish rock - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The initial rock and roll boom of the 1950s was preceded by a long tradition of popular culture.
		Suomirock (or suomirokki) associates to Finnish rock sung in Finnish.
		Helsinki was the centre of Finnish rock and pop music during this period.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Finnish_rock (627 words)

	Folk, jazz and rock music in Finland — Virtual Finland
		Finnish jazz will be celebrating its 80th anniversary in a few years, since jazz was brought to Finland, as the story goes, by American musicians who arrived on the M/S Andania in 1926.
		Finnish jazz is alive and evolving, and the newest generation is coming along splendidly with a number of original artists.
		The trickles of diversity in the field of Finnish pop and rock have merged into a stream allowing for all kinds of music, and increased professionalism and stiffening competition has not managed to stifle the greatest asset of Finnish popular music: unprejudiced experimentation and a sense of humour.
	virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/lightmus.html (1255 words)

	Finnish Music Quarterly
		But apart from the language requirement, rock culture can today be considered universal, and in that respect Finnish bands performing in English are on an equal footing with their American peers.
		The only Finnish manager with deep connections in the US music industry is Seppo Vesterinen, who has been responsible for both of the artists with national success in the United States - first Hanoi Rocks 20 years ago, and recently HIM.
		Finnish labels have also lacked the business contacts and understanding of the US industry necessary to work effectively with their American counterparts.
	www.fmq.fi /articles/ar_2006_4_sv.html (1302 words)

	TIME Fast Forward: Prick Up Your Ears
		Clubbers throughout the continent are dancing to the beat of a different drum, one with a distinctly Finnish rhythm.
		Aside from Hanoi Rocks, the wild glam-rock group of the early 1980s, Finland has failed to produce acts to rival Sweden's steady stream of pop successes, like ABBA and Ace of Base, or those bad boys of Britpop, Oasis.
		When the group burst into the Finnish charts back in the early 1990s, the three band members and a group of friends did everything themselves, producing, marketing and distributing their own CDs on their own independent label.
	www.time.com /time/europe/specials/ff/trip1/finnpop.html (1038 words)

	Dusted Features [ The Big Finnish: Jyrock rock fest ]
		Bridging the transition between winter and summer in Finland is Jyrock, the country's first indoor rock festival, held every mid-April in the central Finnish university city of Jyväskylä.
		Period." This year’s festival, drawing groups from Finland, Estonia and Sweden, combines the trendy with the timeless, the youthfully energetic with the stage-savvy, the pristine melody with the raucous outburst, the technology wise with the primitive grunt.
		Rättö, singing in Finnish in a voice that would not be out of place on an Iron Maiden record, delivers pseudo-science fiction lyrics, as if pulled from a Phillip K. Dick novel, full of letter and number combinations and wordless chants.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /features/372 (1243 words)

	Snarling in triumph, Finnish rock monsters come home heroes - Turkish Daily News May 24, 2006
		Finnish monsters of rock Lordi returned exultant to a heroes' welcome on Monday after becoming the first heavy metal act -- and the first Finnish entry -- to win the kitsch Eurovision song contest.
		The rock mutants beat off artists from 23 countries across Europe to win with their song "Hard Rock Hallelujah" at the 51st Eurovision contest, held Saturday in Athens.
		Putaansuu's hometown of Rovaniemi, capital of Finnish Lapland, earlier announced it would name a square in honor of the group, Finnish news agency STT reported.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /article.php?enewsid=44215 (407 words)

	musex finland
		After being hailed as the best music exporter in Europe in 2004 according to the Billboard Magazine 's Border Breakers chart, Finnish professionals are continuing the increased co-operation activity in Japan by introducing the finest music companies and the hottest new bands to the Japanese professionals in Tokyo May 12th-14th.
		Finnish music industry is increasingly keen on forming stronger ties with Japanese partners.
		Finnish Music Days in Tokyo is an opportunity to meet representatives from over 20 top Finnish music companies: Labels, publishers and agents are bringing forth the abundant talents in pop, rock, electronic, world music and of course metal.
	www.musexfinland.fi /tokyo2005 (912 words)

	Get Ready to ROCK! Review of DVD featuring Finnish rock band Nightwish called End Of Innocence
		The first is to inform the new fan and to tell comprehensively the story of the evolution of the band from one student’s acoustic project into one of the biggest female fronted prog-metal bands in the world with a fanatical following in parts of South America and Europe.
		The second is to explain the story behind some of the tensions that arose within the band as they went quickly from performing National Service to becoming rock stars, touring the world while simultaneously putting to rest once and for all the stories about the band breaking up.
		The video of their performances in Korea and in South America is particularly striking, with the audience both cases being frighteningly enthusiastic about the band’s music, while the perils of life on the road in Russia and Poland is confined to the ease with which good quality vodka is available.
	www.getreadytorock.com /reviews/nightwish_dvd1.htm (807 words)

	HelloGorgeous: 01/16/2005 - 01/22/2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		All bands are different variants of the metal genre of rock, proving that Finland is a capital for producing harder rock.
		Also apparent in the modern rock music is the melancholy tones in both lyrics and melody that is uniform in most of the music, literature and other forms of art that are products of the Finnish culture.
		The earlier of the Finnish rock groups to gain attention worldwide were the almost American Hurriganes and the punk group Hanoi Rocks in the seventies, and on to the pop-rock band Dingo and speed-metal group Stone in the eighties.
	sigillumhdiaboli.blogspot.com /2005_01_16_sigillumhdiaboli_archive.html (1028 words)

	Articles - Music of Finland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Modernized bands composed of these instruments include Primo, Karelia and Tuulenkantajat, many of whom were inspired by early recordings of masters like Feodor Pratsu, a jouhikko player recorded by ethnomusicologist A. VÃ¤isÃ¤nen in 1916.
		These led to distinctively Finnish forms of these dance musics, including humppa and jenkka; these are collectively known as pelimanni music.
		Since the 1960s, Sinfonia Lahti's reputation as one of the most important Scandinavian orchestras was cemented by conductor Osmo VÃ¤nskÃ¤ ; this helped to cause a boom in opera's popularity during the 1980s, while the form was increasingly seen as archaic elsewhere.
	www.greensky.biz /articles/Music_of_Finland?mySession=89b443b494769c7095d470bec0e55130 (1747 words)

	Rocks Saunas Vs. Far Infrared Sauna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Thermostats are great for convection (Rock) saunas but work against an infrared sauna system because they alternately turn the heaters off and on to control the temperature of the unit.
		In an infrared unit the benefits are received from the gentle radiant heat massage, not the air temperature that a thermostat measures.
		Both Rock and Far Infrared saunas accomplish these tasks but new medical research is proving that Far Infrared saunas are much more effective in detoxification than traditional rock saunas.
	www.sundance-sauna.com /rock-vs-farinfrared.html (876 words)

	[ rock/pop ] titles at Aquarius Records
		As with all good prog rock albums, this is a conceptual album of sorts about the Pori River in Finland and a regiment of the Finnish army who fought at that river in the Finnish War of 1808.
		And, like many good prog rock albums, this is a conceptual album of sorts about the Pori River in Finland and a regiment of the Finnish army who fought at that river in the Finnish War of 1808.
		This is apparently some sort of rock opera, with the lyrics all divided into lines by different characters, but as far as we can tell, Pollard plays all the parts.
	www.aquariusrecords.org /cat/rockpop28.html (8115 words)

	Marja-Leena Rathje: Finnish Rock Paintings
		"Finnish rock paintings are an unique link to the world of the Stone Age people.
		The paintings are made 6000 — 3000 years ago in vertical rock surfaces.
		This is the introduction to Ismo Luukkonen's extensive site of photographs of Finnish rock paintings with accompanying text in both Finnish and English.
	www.marja-leena-rathje.info /archives/000186.php (396 words)

	Helsingin Sanomat - International Edition - Culture
		They reveal an embarrassingly familiar Finnishness in music that resonates withÂ a full knowledge of the traditions of pop.
		GÃ¶staâs songs are already the common property of all Finns, and everyone recognises the picture of the bearded, round-faced man. Few know the man himself.
		Finnish corporations training global ambassadors for their country
	www.helsinginsanomat.fi /english/article/1076153792943 (1190 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Finnish monsters rock Eurovision
		A Finnish "horror rock" group who dress in monster costumes have pulled off a surprise win at the 51st Eurovision Song Contest in Athens.
		European viewers voted for Lordi's song Hard Rock Hallelujah in a show that is normally associated with catchy pop and big ballads.
		"This is proof that from now on there will be more rock bands who will have the courage to join in," he said.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/4998186.stm (497 words)

	The Scourger's Reviews of Finnish Rock Recordings
		Highlight: Whispers Eppu Normaali Short description: Finnish mainstream Repullinen Hittejä A double compilation from the most successful rock band of all time within the borders of Finland.
		The band started out playing humourous punk rock in the late 70's, but later they gradually got more mainstream and the music reminds at least me quite a bit of Dire Straits.
		The bands don’t all sing out of tune with bad voices, and most of the songs in themselves are pretty cool, with typical Finnish humourlyrics, full of selfmocking and irony.
	www.abo.fi /~mikarlss/Reviews/e.htm (621 words)

	Helsinki Cowboy Goes America: The Films of Aki Kaurismaki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A cheeky aficionado of vintage rock and pop — and, famously, of the tongue-in-cheek talents of the loony Leningrad Cowboys, "the world's worst rock band" — Kaurismäki is also a droll observer of American junk culture and its pervasive influence.
		No ordinary fl-and-white Finnish flick with 17 characters named Frank, this ultra-hip absurdist comedy was Aki Kaurismäki’s second feature, and the first in which his trademark blend of deadpan humour, idiosyncratic irony, mannered minimalism and compelling humanism came to the fore.
		After the murder of his wealthy father, a spoiled, shiftless playboy (played by popular Finnish comic Pirkka-Pekka Petelius) finds himself head of a huge industrial concern, and embroiled in a vicious boardroom battle over whether or not to sell off the company’s current assets — in order to corner the market on rubber ducks.
	www.cinematheque.bc.ca /SeptOct03/kaurismaki.html (3027 words)

	Isten's Guide to 20th Century Finnish Hard Rock & Heavy Metal
		It is quite tiresome to answer people's questions on bands who you're supposed to be interested in and informed on just because they happen to be your fellow countrymen, so it makes more sense to write it down ONCE and tell these parties with inquiring minds to point their browsers in this direction.
		TIME: Included are all the Finnish bands that have released a record of their own or have appeared on a compilation album that has been released in 1999 or earlier.
		We have decided to exclude all the bands that clearly fit better to another genre (hardcore, gothic rock, progressive rock or whatever) as well as bands we presume would not like to be associated with heavy metal although their music might be harder and rawer than that of some hard rock bands with make-up.
	www.isten.net /guide (870 words)

	Interview With Olli Koskela of Finnish Rock Band Valerian
		Of course, in 7 years you´ll go thru the whole emotion scale and you´ll go thru it many times but that´s the only way to do it, I mean, there are ups and there are downs as the cliche tells us.
		In rock scene you can´t expect things to happen in one night so what I´ve personally learned, is patience.
		But that´s life, on the avarage we are somewhere between good and very good, which is not a bad place for a band to be.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/rock_music_new/112032 (1160 words)

	gaypix rock rock is zoophiliac amateur orientales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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	www.aliandistud.co.uk /gaypix-rock/rock.html (229 words)

	MYÖTÄTUULIROCK - Finnish Rock & Metal bands in the spotlight ( 2007 RockUnited)
		The band has a good rock attitude and their guitarist Lappe must be a little bit possessed by Elvis.
		Finnish Idols competitor and recording artist AGNES (originating from Poland) was up next, and Finns love her joyful and lively attitude.
		While rocking out Agnes even went among the crowd a few times, and the first row fans were very pleased to see her up close.
	www.rockunited.com /mtrock.htm (2451 words)

	Finland for Thought » Juice Leskinen, Finnish rock music icon, dies at 56 \| Politics, current events, culture - ...
		His style was typified by an unconstrained interpretation of rough, provocative and mischievous elements Ango-American rock lyricism adapted to Finnish culture.
		Very Finnish indeed, but he also spoke very good English (he studied translation in Tampere before embarking on his musical career) and in 1983 released “Deep Sea Diver”, and LP (or was it a maxi-single) in English.
		The ’80s rock songs were derivative inasmuch as rock is derivative, but the sounds he and the various iterations of his backing band established were usually easily recognizable as theirs.
	www.finlandforthought.net /2006/11/27/juice-leskinen-finnish-rock-music-icon-dies-at-56 (4083 words)

	The Scourger's Reviews of Finnish Rock Recordings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		To me it sounds more like a cross between rock and traditional Finnish minor key mainstream music, "iskelmä", but played by a metal band and sung with extreme emotion, semi-melodically somewhere between singing and grunting.
		Highlight: Soul Of A Vagabond Pekka Streng Short description: Psychedelic rock in Finnish Magneettimiehen Kuolema (1970) *** A cult album released on the legendary Love Records label, by the psychedelic pioneer Pekka Streng, who died young in the mid-70s before he ever got that much respect.
		Powerpop, progressive rock, electronic or balladcrooners, Sub-Urban Tribe just can't make up their mind what they want to be.
	www.abo.fi /~mikarlss/Reviews/s.htm (8265 words)

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