Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Sometimes absence also makes kick-ass music. This was shown to be true by Stella, who took to the Main Stage after a two-year tour break, their fourth album and a name change for one … Lue lisää »

The Latebirds, a band started ten years ago, is performing at Ilosaarirock for the first time. The Sue Stage tent is filling up quite nicely as the first chords hit the air. It’s a gig of interesting opposites, as I … Lue lisää »

Rokkilokin Rentoshow (Rocking Seagull’s Relaxavaganza, or something, I dunno) couldn’t have lived up to its name more. People started to trickle in, unnoticeably, little by little, spreading over the turf with a few souls finding their way to the boogie … Lue lisää »

Combine a truck load of punk attitude with black metal vocals and the mentality of an axe murderer, then season the sauce with with generous handful of killer riffs and the result is either a total disaster or a perfect … Lue lisää »