You can look forward also to afrobeat at Pohoda 2022, performed by the London band Kokoroko. The winners of the Band of the Year category at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards and Urban Music Awards became popular thanks to the compilation We Out Here. Clearly most distinctive of the selection of contemporary London jazz bands is the poetic song “Abusey Junction” by the, until then, relatively unknown band Kokoroko, which immediately sky-rocketed and now is reaching 100 million hearings on Spotify and YouTube. At the beginning of 2019, they released an eponymous EP, which was also brought to attention by The Guardian and The Line of the Best Fit. Last year they added dance singles “Baba Ayoola” and “Cary Me Home” and just yesterday they announced a new piece “Something's Going On”. The ethereal song with a twinkling promise of a new era is a teaser for the upcoming album, and this all-star band will delight with it the visitors to the Trenčín airport in just five months. → read more

The Pohoda 2022 line-up will have Belarussan band Molchat Doma. Dark yet danceable, and with a heavy dose of goth ethos, their music is reminiscent of the Russian bands from the 1980s. The song “Sudno” was long one of the top viral songs on Spotify and Tik_tok, and the band usually plays to packed clubs in London, Warsaw, Helsinki, and Berlin. At the beginning of July, they will cheer fans of the post-punk, new-wave and synth-pop genres at the Trenčín airport. → read more

After the great set in front of the tram at Pohoda on the Ground, the talented Ukrainian DJ Miklei will also perform at Pohoda 2022. She plays acid, trance, and techno and is quite well known among Slovak fans of electronic music, as she has been performing and studying in Košice for five years now. Her sets are a fresh mixture of 4/4 bangers, raising awareness about Slovak techno producers while adding a spectrum of eastern underground clubbing influences. → read more

The Polish art-rock band Trupa Trupa has been a good example of the scene from Central and Eastern Europe for several years now, with world agencies, festivals, and Western media continuing interest in their work. Their songs are played by Iggy Pop, Mary Anne Hobbs, and Steve Lamacq on BBC 6 Music and they have also appeared on the KEXP and NPR Tiny Desk session. They are praised by The Times, Mojo, and Rolling Stone, and we can expect some more praise as early as the beginning of February, when they will release another studio album. As Pitchfork describes, “Trupa Trupa are the rare dystopian post-punk band to embrace optimism and levity as necessary survival mechanisms. They may not have the perfect prescription for a better world, but they welcome you to imagine one together”. This invitation applies to the Pohoda 2022 visitors as well. → read more

Probably the most played song in the office before Pohoda 2018 was "Boyfriend (Repeat)" by Confidence Man. After Glastonbury, Gigwise described them as one of the best live bands they had seen in recent years which was fully confirmed in Slovakia as well. According to The Independent, they launched into a type of tongue-in-cheek, hedonistic ambiguous disco bangers at Pohoda. Living up to their reputation as the summer’s greatest festival band, an hour in their company was the most delirious fun imaginable, combining the ridiculous, the highly camp, and the utterly magnificent." Since their last visit with us, they have recorded several singles. They released the latest one, Holiday, in November, and at the same time also announced the second album, Tilt, scheduled for release in early April. That’s why we didn’t hesitate when the opportunity arose to book them again, and so, at the 24th Pohoda, you will get to see also Confidence Man. → read more

One of the TOP albums of 2021 will be presented at Pohoda by the great American indie-rock artist Snail Mail. Lindsey Jordan has been performing as a Snail Mail since she was fifteen; she released her first EP Habit a year later. At eighteen, she debuted with album Lush, which was one of the top recordings of 2018. The album (by still only teenagers at the time) was described by Pitchfork as “emotionally wise, musically clear, and encompasses the once and future sound of indie rock.”  → read more

Already in 2019, Noga Erez performed at our festival as a figure with a great deal of fame, which she had earned for her fantastic debut Off The Radar. After her show, it was clear to us that we wanted her on stage again as soon as possible. Especially after March last year, when she and her partner and co-producer Ori Rousso brouhgt up a new project with the accompanying band and recorded album KIDS. Street rap and razor sharp beats in combination with an excellent wind section, elaborate instrumental and vocal arrangements, and even stadium-like choruses left an impression far beyond the borders of her native Tel Aviv. As Neil Kulkarni wrote in a review of The Quietus: “You won’t hear a better pop album this year. I doubt you’ll hear a better rap album this year.” If you watch the videos for songs from the album, such as End of The Road, Fire Kites, Knockout, Views, Story, You So Done, or Cipi, you will understand that this is a record that has no weak spots. Fans of Noga Erez can come enjoy even better moments live at Pohoda 2022.     → read more

“Hi. In my opinion, we should book this young lady from Norway while we can ;) Her live performance was praised in reviews also by The Independent and The Telegraph... and in fact everyone praises her,” said Pohoda PR manager Tono Repka in his e-mail to Michal Kaščák at the end of the year in which Sigrid took over The BBC Music Sound of 2018. For several understandable reasons, it took a while, but we are glad that this energetic Norwegian electropop star will be performing also for the visitors of the 24th edition of Pohoda upcoming in a few months. → read more

Another name in the list of confirmed artists of Pohoda 2022 is the great American folk-rock songwriter Kevin Morby. Pitchfork's review of his album Singing Saw compares him to artists like Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. Six fantastic albums over the past eight years have turned him into one of the most crucial songwriters of the decade in his early thirties. The Telegraph described his album Oh My God described as a spiritual album for a secular age that tries to distil a sense of the divine from the very act of making music. In the fall of 2020, he released album Sundowner, which, according to Pitchfork, brings “a vision of the Midwest that feels mythical and enormous.” Pitchfork appreciates about Morby in particular that he is extremely receptive to the world around him: “His observations require perception. Plenty of what he sees is mundane, but it’s Morby’s gift that the quotidian never feels boring.” → read more

Pohoda 2022 to host Mezerg, an extremely entertaining and talented multi-instrumentalist, sound experimenter, and master of improvisation. This French music showman became one of the winners of Music Moves Europe 2022 yesterday, and a concise quote from the jury members on his behalf speaks for itself: “He is doing something crazy! Good show, good music, good at all!” Mezerg plays mainly dance and electronic music oscillating between funk, house, and acid techno. Instead of pre-recorded samples, you get to see live brilliantly performed instrumental pieces; we ourselves witnessed them at Eurosonic at the beginning of 2020. We danced through the whole show in the first row and left soaking in sweat. The dramaturgist of our club, Matwe, was also excited, and described the artist briefly and clearly: “Genius!” → read more