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Passport Approved: 10 of Our Favorite Multinational Bands
Back in the day when snail mail was a thing (remember that?) The U.S. Postal service ran a service where you could apply to get a pen pal from another country. While the...
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Finland’s LCMDF Search for Sanity in “Paranoia” Video
Need to find some peace of mind? Apparently so does Finland's electro-pop duo LCMDF. The video of their first single off their upcoming album Mental Health "Paranoia"...
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Rubik’s Bubble Is Perfectly Unsquare
Words and Interview by Shirine Saad.
Finnish rockers Rubik play big, anthemic songs with lots of strange instruments and large choruses. As one of the leading bands...
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Global Goth: 10 Tunes To Keep It Creepy This Halloween
Is goth the new black? It’s seem like everyone from J-pop princess Kyary Pamyu Pamyu to the US's Jhene Aiko is adding a touch of creepy to their videos. Maybe it's...
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Finnish Duo LCMDF To Release New EP “Mental Health Pt. 1″
In need of a life coach? Finnish sisters Mia and Emma of LCMDF are offering up some electro-pop therapy with their latest EP Mental Health Part 1.
The four-track EP...
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Pop Montreal Festival Line-up Announced
There are a lot of music festivals for discerning fans to choose from lately. But this line-up would definitely make Pop Montreal 2012 (Sept 19-23) one of those...
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Soundtrack To An Album: Under the Influence With The Dø
Parisian musical duo The Dø have topped the charts in France, but they're not at all your typical pop stars. They began their musical collaboration working on...
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Finland Rising: Indie Cred Emerges From The Tundra
Words by Shirine Saad
Finland is a dark, stormy, icy land squeezed between Sweden and Russia, which both colonized it back when they were powerful empires. The Finns...
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Mirel Wagner Loves The Blues And Not Knowing Why
Mirel Wagner's haunting self-titled debut album is casting a strange spell over all those who listen, drawing a response rarely associated with solo acoustic acts....
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The Dø Wrote The Book on Baroque Pop
The book is always better than the movie, but somehow that doesn't stop people from making terrible movies based on books. Maybe people should make more music based on...
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The Dø’s New Video: “Gonna Be Sick!”
Finnish/French duo The Dø goes to sea in the video for their latest single. For the garage-rock tinged "Gonna Be Sick!" singer Olivia Merilahti finds herself adrift on...
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LCMDF on Aliens and Dead Cats
Just listening to LCMDF (aka Le Corps Mince de Françoise or "Francoise's Skinny Body") you already feel like you're in capable, smartass hands. Combative, thrashy synth,...
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Artist of the Week: Finnish Sister Force, LCMDF
LCMDF (Le Corps Mince de Francoise) swept MTV Iggy's Artist of the Week, and luckily, we're grateful for pretty much any opportunity to talk about them. The Helsinki...
review
Olympic Games by Siinai
Olympic Games by Helsinki's Siinai isn't a typical concept album. The song titles reference the Olympics directly or indirectly ("Munich 1972," "Finish Line") and there...
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Helsinki’s Siinai Pursues Droning Glory
Somewhere between the classically informed drone of UK indie rockers Electrelane and the simply classic drone of Tangerine Dream you will find the Helsinki-based quartet...
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Coolest Non-English Tracks of 2011
Yes, it's the language that I'm writing in. But I'm over it.
Music lovers around the world must be agreeing with me, because from our view at MTV Iggy, 2011 marked...
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Ice-Cold Pop from Finland’s Rubik
Rubik has been heinously underserved throughout the electropop-philic 2000s -- most likely because they're from Finland. But with three seasoned albums, an EP, and live...
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Rubik — “World Around You”
Rubik, a fiery Finnish octet, orbits the planet of music with a fun jumble of electro pop goodness in “World Around You” from their album Solar. We hope they mean their...
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The Dø’s New Album Out This Fall
The Finnish/French art pop duo The Dø -- Dan Levy and Olivia Merilahti -- announced that their new album Both Ways Open Jaws is getting an international release. The...
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The Megaphone State — “Lights”
The Megaphone State hasn't gotten much play outside of their home country Finland, but their debut album Home of the Knockout Artist could be fresh from a Detroit or...