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Benjamin Clementine
Benjamin was indeed an unusual rebel. He escaped from family problems by playing the piano and listening to Classic_FM. As truant, he would run to the library, where would randomly pick books from shelves and spend days reading them. At the age of sixteen, he failed all the subjects except for English…
Future Islands
In this decade, music audience is increasingly captivated by bands that play genres that have until recently been considered minority, such as folk and country music, or by bands that are nostalgically returning to the “overcome” sound of eighties. One of the most successful representatives…
Boys Noize Live
Alex Ridha made his DJ debut at the age of fifteen. Under the stage name of Kid Alex, he supported Felix Da Housecat and DJ Hell. Since 2004, he’s been performing under the alias of Boys Noize. In 2005, he established the eponymous record label Boysnoize Records, whose aim was to maintain artistic…
Black Box Revelation
Belgian garage-rock band Black Box Revelation consists of singer and guitarist Jan Paternoster and drummer Dries Van Dijck. They have released four albums so far: Set Your Head On Fire (2007), Silver Threats (2010), My Perception (2011) (recorded in LA at Alain Johannes—Queens of the Stone…
Heymoonshaker – Pohoda Párty in A4
Heymoonshaker merged blues and beatbox that are seven decades apart. Angry bluesman Andrew Balcon and fizzling beatboxer Dave Crowe kept on improving their art mainly in front of the most straightforward club in the world – the street. And it was the street (at the opposite end of the world) where…
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Tommy Cash grew up in a “post-Soviet Baltic ghetto” in the middle of Russian art and pop music. The portal Noisey wrote about him: “He seems strange and unbridled among the apartment blocks as grey as the skies—an unrestrained splatter of colour on a black and white canvas. He…
Shobaleader One
In the summer of 2009, a group of relatively unknown musicians got in contact with Squarepusher and wanted to form the “fantasy group” he had written about in connection with his album Just A Souvenir. At first, he thought it was a ridiculous idea, but impressed by their perseverance, he…
Mark Lanegan Band
In 1985 he and Conner brothers founded band Screaming Trees, which is, along with Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Temple of the Dog, and Soundgarden, considered one of the pioneers of the Seattle group and grunge. They released the successful albums Uncle Anesthesia and Sweet Oblivion with hits…
Sleaford Mods
The Guardian, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Observer, NME, Mojo, Uncut, and many other media rated the last album of post-punk band Sleaford Mods as 8 out of 10. According to the Guardian, they are the “Britainʼs angriest band, their sweary rants a brutal stream of working-class disaffection”.…
Squarepusher – IDM legend
Tom Jenkinson was introduced to music by his father, a jazz drummer. That is why the artists who most influenced his musical direction include people such as Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, and the important reggae and dub figure Augustus Pablo. Jenkinson started playing the organ at the local cathedral.…