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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),…
Pohoda 97: Auktyon
Auktyon was founded in 1978 by students at the Polytechnic Institute of Leningrad. The band was particularly popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but became less active in the late 1990s when Fyodorov began to produce records for another Russian legend: Leningrad. Their albums were also released…
Baloji
Baloji started at the age of 15 in the Belgian hip-hop band Starflam (he was using name Balo at the time). After leaving the band (in 2004) and a short break, he began his solo career as Baloji in 2006. His autobiographical debut album Hotel Impala contains a powerful response to the letters that his…
We’ve launched sale of the most comfy accommodation options and Valentine’s Pohoda hut giveaway
· INOVEC huts (triangular shape) – 219 € / 2 persons / 3 nights · TRENČÍN huts (wooden cabin) – 279 € / 2 persons + 1 kid / 3 nights (25 huts located in tent city / 15 huts in Family park) · FOX VILLAGE (tent city) – 349 € / 5 persons /…