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Kevin

There is more than one artist with this name: 1) Kevin is a band from Fleet in Hampshire, they split up a good few years ago. 2) Kevin is a Danish electronic music producer under F&W Records. 3) Kevin is a Finnish indie rock group. Band members are Antti Alén - drums, percussion, Finn Andersson - bass, vocals, Jussi Ristikaarto - guitars, organs, vocals and Ville Särmä - lead vocals, guitars. The group describes their music this way: "Imagine the MC5 moving to San Francisco, quitting hard drugs and befriending David Crosby.

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Deadlight

Deadlight has decided to release all of their material for free dowload. A place to download their free music is: http://deadlight.org/ Early forms of Deadlight we're already seen in year 2002, but things really started to move forward when the band got it's present form in year 2005 when the name Deadlight was announced. Deadlight is a five piece metal band from Tampere, Finland. Their music could be described by words: dynamic, melancolic, beautiful and even crushing. If some influences are asked, Opeth and Katatonia are the ones to mention.

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Huoratron

Huoratron is the musical solo project of Aku Raski, a bearded powerplant of a man. With his harsh and hardly danceable sounds he has tried to rock dancefloors for years already. Behind the name (“Whore-a-tron”) is Aku Raski, who was involved in the retro electro group Nu Science around the turn of the century, and released his solo debut “Koottava” MCD in 2000. In year 2002 Huoratron was born, first as a project, where Raski very effectively used two Game Boy consoles to produce experimental electro.house

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Weebl

Weebl, (real name Jonti Picking) owner of www.weebls-stuff.com, is a comedic flash animator/musician. Most of his jokes are completely random, or deal with pie in some way. Weebl created the "Weebl and Bob" series of flash animations, which consist of two egg-like objects, a large one named Weebl, and a smaller one named Bob. They talk incoherently, but this problem is fixed with speech bubbles. They have bad grammar (e.g. "You bringed back pie!").

Read more about Weebl on Last.fm.

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Danny

(1) Danny (Daniel Gabriel Alessandro Saucedo Grzechowski) (born 25 February 1986 in Stockholm, Stockholms Län, Sweden) is a Swedish singer who has released 2 albums: 'Heart.Beats' and 'Set your body free', the latter of which includes the single 'Radio' which stayed at the top of the Swedish chart for 2 weeks. He is also a member of boy band 'E.M.D' and will be competing in this years melodifestivalen. (2) Ilkka Johannes Lipsanen, also known as Danny, is a Finnish singer (born 24 September 1942, Pori). He started his career with the band Islanders who released a couple of singles.

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Kimmo Pohjonen

Kimmo Pohjonen (b. 1964) is one of the most respected and in-demand musicians and performers in Finland. An accordionist of exceptional ability and imagination, Kimmo's musical history goes back more than twenty years in rock, folk, avant-garde, improvisation, classical, dance and theatre music projects. In 1996 he embarked on a solo career with his solo 5-row accordion project, featuring extreme and original compositions, live loops and effects, a dynamic and animated stage performance, orchestrated lights and surround sound.

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Korpiklaani

Korpiklaani ("Forest Clan" in Finnish) is a folk metal band from Lahti, Finland formed in 2003. Korpiklaani is the new name of the band previously called Shaman, that was formed by Jonne Järvelä who still remains the mastermind of Korpiklaani. Whilst Shaman recorded songs in the original Saami language, Korpiklaani recorded most songs in English at first, and mostly Finnish lyrics on their most recent albums.

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Getawaycab

Getawaycab is an indie rock band consisting of four guys who share an interest in trying to make the best music they can. The resulting music is a mixture of simple and complex, quiet and loud, energetic and melodic. The band was formed in Kauhajoki, Finland in 2002 by Henri, Tuomo and Juuso. Their first EP, Sleep Forever, was released in summer 2004, after which the line-up came to its current form as Iiro joined in.

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The Wake

There have been at least 3 bands called The Wake, including a Scottish post-punk band, an American goth band and a Finnish death metal band. 1. The Wake were a Scottish post punk and later indie pop band, founded in Glasgow in 1981 by Gerard “Caesar” McInulty (formerly of Altered Images), Steven Allen and Joe Donnelly, who was later replaced by Bobby Gillespie. Steven’s sister Carolyn Allen soon joined, and remained in the band until its end.

Read more about The Wake on Last.fm.

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