Foreign Friday: Latvia

I love doing these posts. I love that I found a Latvian music collective even more. It makes my job easier. So all three of these bands are involved with TORNIS, a society formed in 1998 to support Latvian underground and unsigned artists.

I really like this, but no surprises there! Also, according to google translate, this band's name in English is Pigeon Full Yards. To my Latvian readers (I know you're out there!) is that right? Balozu Pilni Pagalmi, Mans Zirgs

I know this one! I know this one! Well, the "October" bit, anyway. It almost reminds me of Sunny Day Real Estate. Sarkanais Oktobris, Iedoma 

I love all these songs. I just wish I spoke Latvian so I could understand the lyrics! Bernibas Milicija, Ara

Moll x

Foreign Friday: Denmark

This fixture is turning out to be quite intriguing, what with me listening to bands I may never have even heard of, let alone listened to.

You tend to have two camps in rock. Alternative rock, and mainstream rock. You get crossover, of course, but I don't think it's usually all that mind-blowing. I'm looking at you, Foo Fighters. This, on the other hand, is everything crossover rock (I'm patenting that) should be. The Floor Is Made Of Lava, All Outta Love

Going off the fact that I have actually heard of the Raveonettes, I would assume they are relatively well-known.
Or maybe not.
The Raveonettes, Attack Of The Ghost Riders

I know I say this all the time, but I really wish I'd been a teenager in the nineties. Because this is awesome. Psyched Up Janis, I Died In My Teens

And as always (but especially with FF) if there's a band you know that you think I'll like - even if it's the kind of thing I don't usually post, I'll listen to anything once - let me know, either in the comments or by sending me an email via the box on the right. I say especially with FF since I use Wikipedia to find these bands, and hence  they might be quite popular in their home country and I'd rather post more underground stuff as you know.

Thanks!
Moll

Foreign Friday: Ukraine

The second instalment of FF comes from the Ukraine, which accounts for sixty-four of my blog hits (ie forth highest country)

I'm loving this. Am I insulting anyone if I call this harmonic industrial metal? I hope not, they don't sound like the kind of people you want to get on the wrong side of. Komu Vnyz, Shiva

Something totally different now - ethereal folk music, flutes, the whole shebang. T'are good. Fleur, Remont

I always look in the "Metal" section of HMV now. I don't know quite why - they don't stock very much music I like generally, so why should they stock a good range of metal? To be honest I think it's just the first step on my way to coming out of the metalhead closet. Drudkh, Distant Cries Of Cranes

Mollx

Foreign Friday: New Zealand

Possibly to become a semi-permanent fixture - Foreign Friday! (I did promise alliteration)

Not quite what I was expecting, but it's really good. Tall Dwarfs, Nothing's Gonna Happen

Some eight years before that whole C86 wave - jangly, trippy and a fair bit kooky: just my thing! The Clean, Are You Really On Drugs

You probably caught a few seconds of this on the beginning of Nothing's Gonna Happen, and here you have the whole thing. The Bats, North by North 

Mollx