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White Wine
White Wine is an example of what happens when an experienced musician does not care about the music industry for a while and concentrates solely on the music itself and his own satisfaction with the way the tracks sound. He released his debut Chroma Key (as a solo project under the name Vin Blanc) as…
Gallowstreet
Gallowstreet formed in Amsterdam in 2012. Since the formation, they have become an excellent live band that immediately changes any club or festival into a big party. They have won hearts of visitors at festivals focusing on electronic music (PITCH), jazz (North Sea Jazz) as well as hip-hop, rock and…
Tomorrow we’ll see if we are the winners of festival Oscars: Arthur Awards
ILMC can boast with the title “the most respected music industry conference where heads of music industry meet”. Apart from the “gala” participation in an important and funny Arthur Awards ceremony (the festival category has the name of “liggers favourite festival”),…
Mykki Blanco
At the age of 15, he won an Indies Spirit Award (with the performance collective he founded). When he was 16, he ran away from home and later received scholarships to attend two prestigious art colleges but dropped out of both. In 2010, he was doing industrial punk under the stage name of No Fear. A…
Austra
Katie Stelmanis (vocals) and Maya Postepski (drums) first played in a band called Galaxy. At the same time, Stelmanis started writing industrial-inspired soundtracks for performance artist Zeesy Powers. Powers convinced her to start performing her songs live. In 2008, her debut Join Us was released.…
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Rodrigo Sanchezʼs and Gabriela Quintero’s taste in music was shaped in their childhood especially by parents who listened to flamenco, jazz, and rock. In teen years, this mixture absorbed a very important inspiration - Metallica. Rodrigo and Gabriela met when they were fifteen: Gabrielle was fascinated…
Alice Phoebe Lou
At the age of 16, Alice made her first journey to Paris. Inspired by watching fire dancers, she began to perform likewise to get enough money to fund her travelling. She made a breakthrough in here career when she moved to Berlin. The freedom of the city was intoxicating and she immersed herself in the…
Solange
Solange Knowles has been singing since childhood, started writing her songs at the age of nine and signed her first contract at the age of sixteen. The young artist was influenced by the distinctive singers and bands of the 1960s such as The Supremes, The Marvelettes and Martha Reeves. At the end of…
Thurston Moore Group
As an 18-year-old punk fan, Moore moved to New York City and started out as an editor at music and literary magazines. In 1981, together with Kim Gordon and Lee Ranaldo, he formed band Sonic Youth, which, according to AllMusic “redefined what rock guitar could do.” Besides Sonic Youth, Moore…
TaxiWars – dEUS front man is coming back to Pohoda with a jazz project
Tom Barman has been the front man of Belgian band dEUS since 1989. In total, the band sold more than a million copies of their albums. As a long-time fan of jazz, he formed a band with an indeed top class lineup: bassist Nicolas Thys (he played with the likes of Lee Konitz, Mal Waldron, Toots Thielemans),…