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James Blake - Mercury Prize winner to play at Pohoda 2016
The eponymous album was nominated for the Mercury Prize, and he released his second album, James Blake won the prestigious award. His achievements list also nominations for Grammy and Brit Awards. This year, he is going to release his third album The Colour in Anything and is coming to the airport in…
Savages
The Guardian says they allow us to see what the beginnings of Public Image Ltd. and Joy Division looked like and reviews mention also comparisons to PJ Harvey and Nick Cave. The post-punk Savages released another highly rated album Adore Life in late January. We believe that thanks to their performance,…
PJ Harvey released the album Hope Six Demolition Project
She recorded The Hope Six Demolition Project before the eyes of the public in an improvised studio in Somerset House. The recording also reflects the journey she took with photographer Seamus Murphy that brought them to Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Washington D.C. Oliver Rehák of Denník N writes:…
Xenia Rubinos
Laura Snapes of Pitchfork says there are 4 basic components of her music: Xeniaʼs electric smoky voice, keys with an expressive drive resembling electric guitar, a lover of syncope – drummer Mark Buccelli, and funk bassist Adam Minkoff. Xenia ideally mixes all her essential musical influences,…
Lola Marsh are returning home
They first came to Pohoda as an unknown Israeli band, but immediately gained many fans here. A small autumn tour in Slovak clubs and another performance at Pohoda followed, the latter one in front of an audience of over 20 thousand people. In the…
Alex Vargas
The Danish singer Alex Vargas started in the band Vagabond, and already at the age of 21, he performed with them at Glastonbury and T in the Park. The Guardian wrote about the band at that time that they had the potential of becoming the biggest new band in the world. Vargasʼ sense of song writing was…
Eagulls - post-punk from Leeds
Eagulls were formed in 2010 by a group of friends from Leeds. The band play a mix of post-punk, shoegaze, hardcore and indie rock and are most often compared with the likes of The Cure and Clash. In 2013, they caught everyone’s attention when they posted a controversial letter about music industry…
Nina Kraviz – techno from Siberia
Siberian born singer, producer, song writer and a DJ is well known for being a passionate record digger and for having outstanding taste for idiosyncratic electronic music that resulted in Kraviz opening a label трип (pronounced “trip"). In 2015 трип was…
Ash Koosha – conducting electronic destruction from Iran
Ash Koosha studied at the Tehran Conservatory of Music. Ten years ago, he formed a rock band named Font. At their first gig, they managed to draw a crowd of 600 to a Tehran suburban villa. What they also drew was the attention of police officers, who were abseiling in from helicopters. It was like a…
We’ve launched a new website
Martin Jenča, CEO at Milk says, “The new Pohoda Festival website is an independent communication channel that is in operation throughout the year, so this is what we bore in mind when we worked on its redesign. We created a simple platform that will enable us to present each festival edition regardless…