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Featured Story: Atmosphere & The Flaming Lips at Pitka Kuuma Kesa, Helsinki, Finland

By: David de Young

Atmosphere and the Flaming Lips performed at the Pitka Kuuma Kesa Festival in Helsinki, Finland on Sunday night, and I was there.  Read the blog reports of how I ended up in an abandoned natural gas refinery in Finland.  On the guest list, no less. Meeting Wayne Coyne in Helsinki. Review of the Atmosphere, Flaming Lips show.

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Photo of the Week for June, 27, 2009

One of the thrills of live music is the possibility of everything going catastrophically awry; as a culture we are equally engaged by a slow motion car-wreck as a tale of redemption. For Gospel Gossip, headlining the Turf Club Friday night for the release of their Dreamland EP, things seemed to be headed the way of a collision course crash test. Although everything had gone smoothly for the opening bands, the trio (who had already played an early release show at Carleton College in Northfield) started their set with fan favorite "Sippy Cup" and immediately lost Justin Plank's bass. Later, Ollie Moltaji's tom decided to keel over mid-tune and guitarist/vocalist Sarah Nienaber wound up the show with a torn fingernail and skinned kne...

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Photo by: Stacy Schwartz