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Have You Ever Seen The Jane Fonda Aerobic VHS?
The Finnish trio with the eye-catcing name “Have You Ever Seen The Jane Fonda Aerobic VHS?” (HYESTJFAVHS) released their album “Teenage Sweetheart” in September last year. Following that, the Finnish professional musicians ranked them on the top of the Tulevaisuuden Tusina poll…
Digital 21 + Stefan Olsdal
What is common for Stefan Olsdal, the co-founder of the band Placebo, and Miguel López Moru (Digital 21), the pioneer of Spanish electronic music, is their passion for electronic, rock, and classical music. This led them to start an unconventional project, in which electronic and club music is…
Ester Rada
Israeli actress and singer with Ethiopian roots, Ester Rada, grew up listening to the likes of Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald and Aretha Franklin as well to the founder of Ethio-jazz Mulatu Astatke. It’s these Israeli and Ethiopian influences and her distinctive voice that have made her a new…
Poliça
Justin Vernon of Bon Iver told Rolling Stone that Poliça are the best band he’s ever heard. According to Rolling Stone, “the sound of heartbreak and celebration happens simultaneously” in their music and Q praises their debut as “bewitching, urgent, magical.” They…
Nederlands Dans Theater 2
“Nederlands Dans Theater is the best dance company currently dancing on this planet”, said about the Dutch company Nederlands Dans Theater Mário Radačovský, the former head of the Ballet Company of the Slovak National Theatre, who has cooperated with NDT in the past. The company…
Easy Star All-Stars
Easy Star All-Stars originally formed as a studio band for artists at New York based label Easy Star Records. Cover versions of famous albums of even more famous artists turned the side project into one of the label’s flagships. However, there is more to Easy Star All-Stars than just being…
It's Everyone Else
Ten days ago, at Ment Festival, we entered club Menza pri Koritu and were left speechless. Hardcore played on synths was streaming all over the place with the two-member band in a mosh pit under the stage. And those vocals! We knew we need to get this band. See for yourself – a bit of…
Kiran Leonard
When the Guardian likened him to artists like Ed Harcourt, Rufus Wainwright or Frank Zappa, and Pitchfork did the same to Joanne Newsom, Kiran Leonard was only 17. Laura Snapes of Pitchfork called his song “Dear Lincoln” the undoubtedly most refreshing song she had heard in the whole year…
Oratnitza
Forgotten folk melodies, Aboriginal motifs and orthodox chanting mixed with trap, hip-hop, dubstep or D'n'B. Band Oratnitza have enriched the traditional Bulgarian music with a contemporary sound. They make ancient harmonies, modern rhythms and timeless melodies with the use of didgeridoo,…
Hańba!
Punk did not arise in British clubs during the noisy seventies: it did in blue-collar suburbs of the Polish Krakow in interwar period! At least so claims the fiction used for the creation of Polish street rebels who perform under the name Hańba!. The band Hańba! was started by musicians with…