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CUMGIRL8
This fast-rising punk band from New York is known for its wild live shows. Brooklyn-based female quartet cumgirl8 formed in 2019 and mixes post-punk, riot grrrl, experimental, dance, and rock'n'roll. Hero Magazine wrote about them, "Cumgirl8 feels like going back in time and…
Kimi Djabaté
Kimi Djabaté was raised in Tabato, Guinea-Bissau, a village known for its griots, hereditary singer-poets whose songs of praise and tales of history and legends play an essential role in Africa’s musical life. Centuries ago, Djabaté’s ancestors, a wandering troupe of musicians…
Liniker
Born in Araraquara, in the highlands of central São Paulo state, the singer and songwriter Liniker Barros has been dazzled by arts since she was a child. While growing up, she used to see her mother and uncle perform in samba-rock rodas (musical gatherings in a circle). These experiences set the seed…
Hermeto Pascoal
Hermeto Pascoal is a noted Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist. His compositions appear on albums by Miles Davis and other jazz heavyweights. Pascoal’s sextet is an extra-sensory musical unit that has been with him for over 40 years and used to rehearse daily. The music runs from the lyrical…
Psymon Spine
Brooklyn-Berlin band Psymon Spine will also play at Pohoda 2023. Their melodic and genre-bending music mixes psychedelic pop and post-punk with dance grooves. Michal discovered them at the International Festival Forum in London, "The top agencies in the world have high hopes for them – and…
BigKlit
With its brazenly explicit lyrics and brutal, relentless beats, “Liar“ proved one of 2019’s most provocative hits, first blowing up on TikTok before ascending to multiple streaming charts around the world, reaching #1 on the US Viral 50 on two separate occasions. “Liar“…
Yard Act
Yard Act was formed in 2019 in Leeds. The duo of Ryan Needham and James Smith soon grew into a four-piece band when a drummer and a guitarist joined them. Critics have categorized their music as post-punk and indie rock, but they often use elements of Italo disco and hip-hop as well. Their powerful lyrics,…
Massola
Noisecore band Sedem minút strachu will return to Pohoda in 2023. This time they will share the stage with the similarly tuned Czech duo Massola, who combine jazz and grindcore (and are also known for similarly short but extremely intense performances). It's not yet known for how long they'll…
Wet Leg
At the next edition of Pohoda Festival we will welcome one of the biggest current discoveries and talents in the UK. The indie rock band Wet Leg was formed in 2019. One would think that doing so just before the pandemic was not the luckiest decision. But they used the fact that they could not perform…
shame
shame were tourists in their own adolescence - and nothing was quite like the postcard. The freefall of their early twenties, in all its delight and disaster, was tangled up in being hailed one of post-punk’s greatest hopes. In 2018, they took their incendiary debut album Songs of Praise for a…