“Rubik is one of Finland’s best indie bands and are also increasingly being picked up beyond national borders, according to their booking at Primavera and the upcoming performance at Incubate (September 18). Their latest, third album Solar appeared silently in the Netherlands and despite some positive reviews, the Jonsi, Efterklang and Arcade Fire fans have [...]

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Only three more months until Incubate 2010. For the past few months we’ve been announcing new artists every week. But with 200 + artists coming up in September we can imagine you losing your hold. That’s why we compiled the Incubate 2010 Spotify playlist (http://incu.at/spotify). Subscribing to this playlist will get you acquainted with most [...]

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aovaRsVV28] This is Hevisaurus, with the song Jee Hevisaurus. The group, which rocks on about homework and monsters, played its first gig, a charity event, only last September but its fan base of mainly five-to-seven-year-olds has grown rapidly. The band was born when a flash of lightning and witches’ spells revealed, cracked and brought to [...]

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[youtube=http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=0D-3VHyUEpE] Enough def rappers, but this is the first deaf rapper. The group Signmark, is led by def leppard deaf rapper Marko Vuoriheimo. He’s doing a singmark video and nearly won the Finnish finals.

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1nzvDYycUw&hl=en]It’s almost a philosophical question: do you need to wear Spandex to play Spandex rock? And do you need to play bud music to participate at Eurovision Song Contest? This is the Finnish contestant.

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