Written by Elena Paraschiv Estonia is the country that lies on the eastern shores of Baltic Sea. So over the years, the Estonian culture was influenced by the adjacent areas, […]
Album Review: “Lizard Dusk” – Tracedawn
Written by Elena Paraschiv Tracedawn is a Finnish melodic death-metal band formed by Tuomas Yli-Jaskari in 2005. Initially the project was called “Moravia”, but eventually it was changed in “Tracedawn”. […]
Roskilde: Scandinavian Festival in Hot Summer
Written by Elena Paraschiv Summer is already here and festivals of every kind are rising like mushrooms after the rain. Once the first ray of the summer sun hits the […]
Concert review: Motley Crüe at Kaisaniemi (Helsinki). 07/06/2012
Legendary American rock band Motley Crüe visited Helsinki and FREE! Magazine had to be there to let you know how it went! Personally, I had a special motivation to see […]
Stories of the backstage. Press passes are not candies.
From time to time, there is always some friend who knows that I work as editor and freelance journalist and I have the good luck to cover some great gigs […]
Movie review: The Guard
Through all the cinema history we have seen all kind of unconventional policemen, many of them with Irish roots doing their job in America (remember as an example the unforgettable […]
Book Review: Hour of the Wolf – Hakan Nesser
Review written by Sirpa Salenius It all started on a dark rainy night as he was driving home after an evening out with his buddies. The road was slippery, visibility […]
Interview with singer Lucie Niemelä
FREE! Magazine has a great interview with Lucie Niemelä, a Czech musician located in Finland who is about to release on the 16th of March her debul album Doses. Do […]
Concert Review. Rammstein at Hartwall Areena. Helsinki. 15/02/2012
Sometimes you go to a gig and you feel that you did not get what was worthy the ticket. This is not the case with Rammstein. The Germans visited Finland […]
Book Review: The Killing
Written By Sirpa Salenius Machiavellian politicians in David Hewson’s The Killing David Hewson’s new novel, The Killing, is a good example of how authors have started to use the genre […]
Book Review: The Glass Room
Review written by Sirpa Salenius The Glass Room is Ann Cleeves’s fifth Vera Stanhope story Ann Cleeves calls attention to the writing of detective stories in her new novel, The […]
Interview with Swedish writer Jens Lapidus
Swedish writer and lawyer Jens Lapidus has become one of the most recognized contemporary authors in depicting the crime underworld in both his native country as well as in the […]
Strong Finnish Women
Article written by Sasha Raduntceva “The perfect woman’s task is to be a mother, and a lover, and a warrior. Then we can say that a Princess became a Queen” […]
Concert Review: Deep Purple at Hartwall Areena. Helsinki. 07/12/2011
Deep Purple visited the Finnish capital performing together with the Frankfurt Philarmonich Orchestra, a pre-Christmas gift that no real rock fan could miss! I had seen the band some years […]
Drama Reloaded: Yerma. Interview with director Katariina Numminen
The Baltic Circle Theatre Festival brought to the Finnish capital a wide array of perfomances, Finnish and international, for all tastes. One highlight was the introduction of Drama Reloaded: Yerma, […]