3331 search results
Everything Everything
Everything Everything released their debut Man Alive in 2010. NME named the band “pop’s new Picassos” and BBC noted that they “are willfully eccentric, and endlessly entertaining”. Pitchfork wasn’t as impressed as the media on the British Isles back then, but the band…
Eurosonic 2019 focusses on Czech Republic and Slovakia for the first time ever
Slovak artists used to appear in Groningen more or less sporadically, which Pohoda and Wilsonic teams declared, for example, by naming their foosball teams “Why There Are No Slovak Artists Playing at Eurosonic”. This partially changed in 2016 thanks to focus on central and eastern European…
Concert for Ján and Martina
David Koller Jozef Lupták, Marián Svetlík, Andrej Baran, Martin Ruman Vec Bez ladu a skladu Korben Dallas Živé kvety Billy Barman Para Michael Kocáb a Karpatské Chrbáty Longital Modré hory Muzička B-Complex …
Onuka
“We discovered Onuka at Eurosonic 2017. They put on an amazing show; their use of tradition in electronic music is exceptional, imaginative and unforced. I think that any artist from Kraftwerk to Prodigy would like to compose a song like “Vidlik”,” said Michal Kaščák. Eugene…
Yasmine Hamdan
The first time we saw Yasmine Hamdan was in 2004 when she played with her project Soapkills at Womex. Together with Potkan, host at Hudba sveta_FM (World Music_FM) program, we were standing in the front row, completely mesmerized by amazing music and since then, we’ve been trying to have Yasmine…
tUnE-yArDs at Pohoda 2018
NYC native Merrill Garbus first played in several bands on the East Coast, but after she worked with Nate Brenner on her first album, she moved to California. The debut BiRd-BrAiNs was originally recorded DIY-style with handheld voice recorder and then released on recycled cassette tape. Its…
Ride
Ride founding members Andy Bell and Mark Gardener met in 1988 at Cheney School, appearing in the school’s musical theater productions. Laurence Colbert and Steve Queralt joined them at art school in Banbury. Jim Reid of The Jesus and the Mary Chain came across the copy of their demo and it then…
BadBadNotGood
Matthew Tavares, Alexander Sowinski and Chester Hansen met in 2010 through the Humber College jazz program in Toronto. As a trio, they started out with hip-hop covers of hits by Gucci Mane or A Tribe Called Quest. Soon, they released their debut BBNG, which Sputnikmusic describes as “a welcome…
Re-TROS
Re-TROS is Liu Min (singer, bass guitar, keys), Hua Dong (singer, guitar, keys) and drummer Jin Huang. At the beginning, they were inspired by the likes of The Cure, Joy Division, Siouxsie and Bauhaus. On their latest album, they are closer to the bands such as Battles, Liars or TV on the Radio. The…