News archive 2010

 
  • The 21st Music & Media Finland Conference Offers Outstanding Speakers and New Business Opportunities
    The 21st Music & Media Finland Conference Offers Outstanding Speakers and New Business Opportunities on 2010-07-07
    Music & Media Finland conference is bringing music industry makers and shakers together in the Finnish industrial city of Tampere for the 21st time and is proud to announce its first two keynotes for 2010: Conran Holdings CEO Roger Mavity and Spotify European General Manager and Global Sales Director Jonathan Forster.
  • Music Export Finland is seeking a fixed-term producer for the Nordic partnership programme 2010-2011
    Music Export Finland is seeking a fixed-term producer for the Nordic partnership programme 2010-2011 on 2010-06-18
    This fixed-term, full-time producer will be responsible for work to export Finnish popular music in the Nordic countries: customer contacts, marketing communications as well as projects and financing programmes under the partnership programme.
  • Manna Cancelled - JA JA JA Tomorrow Powered Up by Timo Kaukolampi DJ Set
    Manna Cancelled - JA JA JA Tomorrow Powered Up by Timo Kaukolampi DJ Set on 2010-05-19
    Due to an unfortunate accident, Manna has had to cancel her JA JA JA show at the Lexington tomorrow. No worries, however, as we've got the perfect back-up!
  • Four Days over Tokyo
    Four Days over Tokyo on 2010-05-13
    Japan and Finland go way back. Tokyo and Finland Fest go way back, too. Finnish bands and companies have been making a splash in Japan since the 90s and over the last years, the traffic has been increasingly two-way, with Japanese culture and especially j-rock becoming incredibly popular in Finland.
  • Snowball Falls on Shanghai
    Snowball Falls on Shanghai on 2010-05-13
    Shanghai Snowball is a unique opportunity for music business professionals from China and Finland to do some hobnobbing, networking and calling card trading. It takes place over two days leading up to the Finnish national day at the Shanghai World Expo and will bring together key industry professionals from most of the vast Asian market with representatives from approximately 20 Finnish companies.
  • Novel Finnish Sounds at The Great Escape
    Novel Finnish Sounds at The Great Escape on 2010-05-12
    At this year's The Great Escape, be prepared to witness a different side of Finland from the one you're used to... That's assuming you've ever been exposed to a side. No metal, love or otherwise, and no man-machine eclecticism. Instead of cool northern detachment, it's hot northern passion and much love for loudness...
  • First Round of Speakers at Shanghai Snowball 2010 Announced
    First Round of Speakers at Shanghai Snowball 2010 Announced on 2010-04-30
    The first keynote speakers at Shanghai Snowball - Finnish-Chinese Music Industry Meeting have now been announced. The complete program will be posted on this website on week 18.
  • Pohjola’s Hot Pots Hit the Hot Spot
    Pohjola’s Hot Pots Hit the Hot Spot on 2010-04-23
    Top jazz trumpeter Verneri Pohjola is releasing a new record called Hot Pot Place Around The Corner, and what makes it stand out from your run-of-the-mill jazz album named after an ethnic restaurant around the corner is the fact the the ethnic restaurant ain't ethnic. If you're playing with Chinese musicians, the hot pot place around the corner is just the hot pot place around the corner.
  • Metal Movie for Your Phone
    Metal Movie for Your Phone on 2010-04-23
    In the late 1970s Sarcofagus, guitarist Kimmo Kuusniemi's band, was one of the earliest metal bands in the world. Since then, Kuusniemi has turned his attention to a number of different areas, the latest among them documentary movies. He has just released a film called Promised Land of Heavy Metal dealing with, surprise surprise, Finland's penchant for metal. Kuusniemi's film is the first independent movie to be distributed through the iPhone App Store.
  • Pagan Dawn over America
    Pagan Dawn over America on 2010-04-23
    The Finnish Metal Tour 2010 brings loud, occasionally shirtless Finns to town across the USA. If you haven't caught the touring maelstrom of mayhem yet, there are a lot of big shows left: Portland (OR), San Francisco (CA), Hollywood (CA), Tucson (AZ), Austin (TX), Houston (TX)...
  • “Not your average zine!” - This Is It Zine Scores Silver!
    “Not your average zine!” - This Is It Zine Scores Silver! on 2010-04-16
    The white paper produced for Music Export Finland's Is This It Seminar, which took place in April 2009 has been awarded a Silver Award (that is, the one that comes after Gold) at the annual Vuoden Huiput (The Best Of The Year) Gala in Helsinki on April 15, 2010!
  • Wimme hits the World Music Charts Europe
    Wimme hits the World Music Charts Europe on 2010-04-07
    Wimme has hit the World Music Charts Europe with his newest album Mún. It is the highest rated European album on the chart in the April listing.
  • Lovemetal Up the Charts
    Lovemetal Up the Charts on 2010-03-12
    In February Finnish rockers HIM (Sire Records/ Warner) scaled the US charts. They made all the way to number one on the hard rock album chart. On the alternative album and rock album charts Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice made it to number two. Digitally, it shot up to 15 on the national album chart.
  • Finland’s China-fu is strong, young grasshopper!
    Finland’s China-fu is strong, young grasshopper! on 2010-03-12
    With the Expo 2010 approaching fast, China is going to occupy a nice little plot in the immediate vicinity of the center of the Universe. And in the immediate vicinity of the resulting brouhaha, you’ll find Finland. Lengthy tours and high-profile shows from over 10 acts have taken place already this year and we’re expecting to see that number rising to over 20 this year!
  • South by Southwest by North
    South by Southwest by North on 2010-03-12
    SXSW is huuuuuuuuge. It’s so enormous, it generates its own weather system consisting of beer fumes, mole verde and option anxiety. In other words, anyone that ventures too close and risks getting sucked into the maelstrom needs a guide, an idea, an agenda… Something to hold on to so as to not end up one of lost souls.
  • The JA JA JA Playlist!
    The JA JA JA Playlist! on 2010-03-11
    Launched in November 2009, Ja Ja Ja continues to showcase some of the hottest emerging talent from the Nordic countries. From MusicWeek´s website it is now possible to listen to a playlist representing some of the artists that have appeared at Ja Ja Ja so far.  
  • by: Larm ‘10 Festival Review
    by: Larm ‘10 Festival Review on 2010-03-01
    With temperatures diving to -19°C, constant snowfall and prohibitive alcohol prices, this wasn’t the most welcoming of settings for by:Larm 2010, Scandinavia’s premiere music showcase. Nevertheless, this was a small price to pay for a large injection of emerging local talent that took part in this exceptionally well-organised event held in the Norwegian capital.
  • Finns and Foreigners Build Tower of Song!
    Finns and Foreigners Build Tower of Song! on 2010-02-11
    No divine retribution this time, either, since it’s actually not a tower of song reaching for the Heavens, but a nice and mellow country estate of song: Song Castle. Every year 20 songwriters, 8 of them from abroad and 12 Finns, get together on a secluded estate outside Helsinki to meet and learn from each other, publishers and A&R folks, as well as bang out some tunes.
  • Music Export Finland and Finpro support touring in China and the neighbouring around Shanghai World Expo 2010
    on 2010-02-11
    The support for touring in China and the neighbouring areas in Asia between July 1st – December 31st 2010 will be granted by the Ministry of Employment and the Economy and coordinated by Music Export Finland.
  • Finnish Metal Expo Ready for Blastoff
    Finnish Metal Expo Ready for Blastoff on 2010-02-10
    The annual conference/festival for all that is hard’n'heavy is ready to take on the toughest winter in 60 years and the tickets are selling quicker than ever.
  • JA JA JA Offers Northern Treats
    JA JA JA Offers Northern Treats on 2010-02-10
    In February, JA JA JA, London’s only club dedicated to showcasing the most exciting emerging talent from Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway and Iceland is offering a real treat. From Norway, Ungdomskulen; In the Danish corner, The Good The Bad. And from Finland, the unique sonic tapestry of Vuk.
  • Storming the Vikings at by:Larm
    Storming the Vikings at by:Larm on 2010-02-10
    By:Larm in Oslo has become one of the coolest conference/festivals on the circuit, with a keen ear for the future. The Finnish offering this year rides the gamut from cool to hooligan.
  • Finland at Eurosonic and MIDEM
    Finland at Eurosonic and MIDEM on 2010-01-10
    The first two major European music events of the new, ISO 8601-certified decade are right around the corner. Eurosonic, the live industry’s very own retreat and definitely the sweetest excuse to visit Groningen, will feature six Finnish acts, while the Finnish Pavilion at MIDEM will be once again full of action and goodies.
  • Music Export Finland Reshapes Digital Communication
    Music Export Finland Reshapes Digital Communication on 2010-01-10
    Music Export Finland turned a new page in the book of digital communication today, when its updated, improved website was launched with a handful of new features. Following the website redesign, the monthly newsletter FI News returns from a break of almost a year, with an extreme makeover.
  • Letter from the Director
    Letter from the Director on 2010-01-10
    Finnish music is doing better than ever on international markets. According to music export research, royalties from abroad received by Finnish artists have grown steadily throughout the 2000s.
 
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