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Lucia: Faith in Romanian pop – restored

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If she had participated in a Romania’s Got Talent show she would’ve left all home-sitting moms with a deep sigh in their hearts. But she’s not that kind of girl Let’s get this straight: Romanian pop music sucks. And it

Brey, UK bass prodigy, shoots his video at a Belgrade flea market

BreY

If you care about up-and-coming bass-driven music from the British Islands, chances are you might soon come across Brey, a 20-year-old producer behind the latest release of Serbian/British Svetlana Industries imprint. Born in Angola as Breyner Laurindo Da Silva Baptista

Ones to Watch 2012: Las Balkanieras

Las Balkanieras

We bring you a selection of Balkan-related artists to keep your eye on in the coming year “You want it spicy? You want it hot? We cook so yummy yummy! Banditos hungry hungry! We make it sweet like honey!” Backed

Top 10 bizarre turbo-folk covers of rock and pop hits

Bosnian Serb folk star Seka Aleksic: from Rihanna to Yngwie Malmsteen

The Balkan turbo-folk artists have been notorious for their fast-paced lifestyle of guns, sex, drugs and rock’n’roll. It doesn’t surprise their musical inspiration comes from unexpected places, including some of rock’s holiest of holies. Brace yourselves 1. Mira Škorić –

The good sides of anti-Serb propaganda

The Serbian side of Mitrovica, Kosovo / Photo © Matt Lutton dvafoto.com

With the Angelina Jolie’s directorial debut In The Land Of Blood And Honey came also criticism from Serbia that the movie is “anti-Serbian” and that it will further damage Serbia’s reputation in the world. After the Serbs concluded the film

Ones to Watch 2012: Stojche

Stojche

We bring you a selection of Balkan-related artists to keep your eye on in the coming year Stojche began his career as a techno producer, raised on the sounds of the Detroit underground, but after releasing his first 12” My

Bojana Radulovic: Illegal Performance (Amsterdam)

Bojana Radulovic

Does multiculturalism present a failed experiment of pseudo-democracy, or it is still a realistic option? What are the costs of the adaptation to new socio-economic and cultural contexts? Young Montenegrin visual artist Bojana Radulovic raised these questions in her “illegal

Ones to Watch 2012: Torul

Torul 2

We bring you a selection of Balkan-related artists to keep your eye on in the coming year Topping alternative charts and winning over clubbers in Germany and a number of central European countries with their singles In Whole and Try

Ones to Watch 2012: Milos Lolic

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We bring you a selection of Balkan-related artists to keep your eye on in the coming year The young Serbian theatre director has been under the radar for quite a while now, with a number of renowned plays under his

“Heartless” by Nina Bunjevac

Nina Bunjevac Heartless

Debut collection of comics by the amazing Nina Bunjevac is due in fall 2012, with an advance preview in May 2012 at TCAF (Toronto Comic Arts Festival). In case you’re nearby, make sure you pop in to get your copy