Quick guide to Flow festival

Flow Festival starts now! It is the largest summer festival dedicated to cutting edge indie, summer loving pop and blistering electronic music. It gathers hipsters, latte drinkers, Pitchfork readers and  Apple Nokia fanboys during four days of music, dance and Instagram instants.

Apart from the crowd pleasing international acts (Bon Iver, The Black Keys, Feist and Björk, among many others), Flow festival is a great opportunity to catch some of the most interesting Finnish acts. Insteading of following the crowds, checking out the smaller stages might reward you with surprising new music.

These are Glue’s do-not-miss Finnish artists at Flow festival 2012.

Joose Keskitalo ja Kolmas Maailmanpallo

Opening for Bon Iver on Wednesday, Joose Keskitalo is a very peculiar songwriter, who goes a step beyond the traditional Finnish pop music . Even if you do not understand the lyrics, you may find some surprising twists in his songs.

Miau

Come early on Saturday and enjoy Miau’s foolish garage rock with cute melodies. It’s all fun and will get start the Saturday party.

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Black Twig

Raised in the Soliti label factory, Black Twig will bring some loud guitars and noise. High quality distorted rhythm music.

Huoratron

Aku Raski is one of the most reputed electronic music producers and Huoratron is his best known project. Intense and aggressive, his set will take your energy.

Atlético Kumpula

These gentle Finnish folk pop will ease your hangover on Sunday. It’s elegant and well crafted.

Phantom

A few months ago this electro duo made some noise with the song Scars. If your feed don’t fail you yet, you may have a last dance to Phantom’s beats.