CHINESE LOCKS AVAILABLE AS MP3 DOWNLOAD
You can now purchase Chinese Locks album in high quality MP3 format from a new service called THE GROUND. CD copies of the album can be soon ordered e.g. at Amazon.com and CD Baby, but until that you can order it world-wide here: Record Shop X.

A nice surprise was that readers of Finnish webzine Noise.fi voted Chinese Locks in TOP10 of the releases made this year. Thanks!

21/06/2008 LIARS (US) SUPPORT, a review, a tour and the upcoming album
Murmansk will support Liars (US) when they visit Helsinki on Friday 4th July. The venue is Tavastia, tickets 20 euros. No need to say that we are very excited to do this gig!

Stalker Music webzine posted a review on Chinese Locks, thanks!

The band will make a short European tour in October with Mesmer. The tour will start from the Baltics, end up in an indie festival in Denmark and between those go somewhere in Central Europe. We are working on it.

We have also been working on new songs, despite the fact that its been very busy with everything. We'll head into a studio in November, play live for a long weekend again, and start mixing immediately after that. Chinese Locks should receive its follow-up album during the first quarter of 2009 (...). At this point it seems like the two far ends of our music are getting further away. We'll play a couple of the new tracks at the Tavastia gig in July.

That's it. Enjoy Midsummer!

05/06/2008 A BOOKING AGENCY DEAL & REVIEW
Murmansk has signed a deal with Sam Agency, who will start acting as the band's booking agent from now on.

One more review by Chambers Magazine, which also picked Chinese Locks as the album of the week. Thanks for the review!

27/05/2008 Yle-X radio interview on TUESDAY 27TH MAY & Blog postings
Murmansk visited Yle-X / X-Ryhmä on Tuesday 27th May, on air 19:10 sharp.

A great UK based blog Indie MP3 posted news, here.

There also a review at It's A Trap. Good review, thanks! Just one minor correction though: we haven't started as postrock instrumental trio before Laura joined the band... Sounds more like history of another Finnish shoegazing-band, On Volcano. There's always been a singer in this band, and we can just assure you that no postrock was found here in the beginning (nor now either... although the line between shoegaze and postrock is probably rather thin), but a lot of distortion and stoner rock yes. :)

20/05/2008 A Big Thanks to Karttunen Kollektiv!
Video footage from Murmansk show at Nosturi with Karttunen Kollektiv's Imaginary Friends will be coming out shortly. Look out for that. In the meantime, there's a review and an interview on the latest (May/08) issue of Papper, and a review on Vertigo.

ELMU 30th Anniversary party on Saturday 17.5.!
Murmansk performs this Saturday (17th of May) at Nosturi, Helsinki. It's going to be a one-time special show, as the band teams up with contemporary dance company Karttunen Kollektiv, with a reference to their work My Imaginary Friend Is With Me.

The company is based around Jyrki Karttunen who is one of the frontline Finnish choreographers in the field of contemporary dance, and naturally we are very proud to share the stage with his company. Go and see their works -- even if you haven't seen any contemporary dance before. You'll be surprised.

The night is full of great domestic indie acts and tickets are only 5 euros, so do not miss this. The schedule is as follows:

KAISA VALA 20.45 - 21.15
I WAS A TEENAGE SATAN WORSHIPPER 21.20-22.00
TUVALU feat VJ Lasse Ilano 22.10-22.50
REGINA 23.05-23.45
MURMANSK feat Karttunen Kollektiv 00.00-

07/05/2008 Things here & there
We took new promo photos last weekend, they'll be up at some point. There's a review on the 03/2008 issue of Rytmi, on Noise.fi, and a new interview up on Meteli.net among other things in the press.

16/04/2008 Record release show & Radio Helsinki
Murmansk celebrated its record release at Kuudes Linja (once again -- last time was maybe too early as the release was postponed). It was hosted by London Calling club and Cosmobile opened the night. Check our Myspace for a videoclip from the event.

Moreover, on the same day Murmansk visited Aleksi Pahkala / Mahtavaa Helsinki mahtavaa -show on Radio Helsinki.

09/04/2008 CHINESE LOCKS OUT NOW
Supersounds has distributed Murmansk’s debut album digipacks in stores today, you’ll find it in record stores and Anttila Top Tens around Finland. So if you think this could be your cup of tea, it is now available. It shouldn’t cost that much, as the price was set very low. The critics have been encouraging in general, and we’ve tracked at least Rumba (06/08), Desibeli.net, Skenet.fi, Sue, Imperiumi.net and Ylioppilaslehti 06/2008 (Helsinki). The 04/2008 issue of Soundi and also contains a review.

21/03/2008 Murmansk on Facebook
Well, we gave up and there is a page here, so now you can support us also on Facebook if you feel like it.

Finnish music mag Rumba took a jump start and published the first review of our debut Chinese Locks on their 06/08 issue.

16/03/2008 Noise.fi -interview and Desibeli -review
Can be found here, and here.

10/03/2008 Interview & reviews
Check out the latest issue of Rumba (05/08) for a Murmansk interview. Moreover, the next issue of the magazine will contain a review of Chinese Locks. Also Soundi released a short review on Vague Language, an mp3-single released by New Music Community, here.

29/02/2008 New Website launched & album release
Yes, you're already here. The debut album of Murmansk will be released in mid-April via Around Your Neck label, and it is distributed by Supersounds Music in Finland.

12/02/2008 Interview online
Desibeli.net -webzine released a Murmansk interview, so if you're fluent in Finnish, go and check it here: http://www.desibeli.net/juttu/1489.