Author Archives: Jarmo Karonen
Opeth: Heritage (2011) Opeth has been pushing the boundaries of Swedish metal scene with their progressive approach for a couple of decades, but with they most recent offering they actually grow out of their genre of birth. On Heritage the distorted guitars are not quite so distorted anymore, singer Mikael Åkerfeldt has swallowed the vocal [...]
Facebook and Twitter are still the mainstream of social networking. Diaspora is the independent alternative gathering pace. I have used Diaspora actively for couple of weeks now, and I’m quite excited about it. Diaspora combines neatly the best half of basic functions from both Facebook and Twitter. Google+ has in turn borrowed quite a lot [...]
Diaspora core developer team’s recent email plea for donations has been getting bad response. Diaspora raised about $200 000 through Kickstarter a little over a year ago. Some people seem to think it’s just a scam that they are looking for some more money.
The terrorist attack in Norway has been linked to far right ideologies. According to annual terrorism report by European police agency Europol there were no right-wing affiliated attacks in EU Countries in 2010. The same report (released in April 2011) tells us that “The professionalism of right-wing propaganda shows that right-wing extremist groups have the will [...]
Jakszyk, Fripp and Collins, with Levin and Harrison A Scarcity of Miracles (A King Crimson ProjeKct) Is A Scarcity of Miracles friends tinkering or the new incarnation of prog rock band King Crimson? In the view of band’s legitimate self-skipper Robert Fripp, apparently something in between, because it is designated the genus of King Crimson [...]
Last week True Finns party came out with their declaration against discrimination. Let’s take a look at the text first and then amuse ourselves a bit.
Finnish rock group Eleanoora Rosenholm will perform their first ever UK gig. The band will play their apocalyptic murder ballads at Ja Ja Ja Club in the Lexington venue in London on the 26th of May.
Jussi Halla-aho was a popular candidate of True Finns in the general election in April, only shadowed by Timo Soini. Halla-aho was then given the chair of Finnish Parliament’s Administration Committee. The issues handled by the committee include immigration, policy, gun and municipality policies. The immigration and gun policies are among Halla-aho’s heartfelt interests. So [...]
Belgium, a country that has tried to form a new government without a result for a year now, and a home for the European Union and NATO. Finnish journalist Janne Toivonen is doing a half a year deal as a trainee in the European parliament’s web communications. At the same time he’s keeping personal blog [...]
Easter here again… Marillion’s 1989 song Easter captures the feel of this time of year: the Spring, the hope, the light. The song’s about the tensions in Northern Ireland. I think things have fortunately settled somewhat since making this song.
