live

Interview: Publicist, synthesis of man and machine

Publicist

We’ve managed to catch up with Trans Am’s drummer extraordinaire, ahead of his first solo gig in Belgrade, Serbia Trained in drums, bass, guitar and keyboard, Sebastian Thomson is one of the founding members of the legendary post rock outfit

Win a pair of tickets for Dimensions festival

Dimensions beach party / Photo: Marc Sethi

We are giving away 5 tickets for Dimensions festival in Croatia! See below Featuring a staggering lineup of some of the best electronic music the world has to offer at the moment, the festival takes over Fort Punta Christo’s abandoned

Dimensions Festival, Croatia: The best underground music in an abandoned fortress at sea

Dimensions main stage by Marc Sethi

This year, the ruins of a 19th century Austrian fortress overlooking the Adriatic Sea will play host to the first ever Dimensions Festival, featuring a jaw-dropping lineup including Nicolas Jaar, Moodyman, Four Tet, Joy Orbison, Kode 9, Shackleton, Theo Parrish

Twenty-one microconcerts for twenty-one elevators

Lukatoyboy 21 concerts 21 elevators

Not that you really care, but today is World Music Day. Two years a go, on June 21, we followed the Serbian sound artist Lukatoyboy performing his 21 microconcerts for 21 elevators in Belgrade, including a municipality, a hotel, a

Swingin’ Istanbul

Istanbul-swinging-2

One of Istanbul’s best live concert venues for world music – Babylon, organized yet another stellar festival to kick-start an eventful summer season Turks danced to electro swing beats of Caravan Palace (France), balkan-infused ska and trip hop beats of

Tinariwen live @Belgrade (SER)

tinariwen

22 March, 20h Dom Omladine Belgrade, Serbia Tinariwen a band of Tuareg-Berber musicians from the Sahara Desert region of northern Mali. The band was formed around 1979 in refugee camps in Libya but returned to Mali after a cease-fire in the 1990s. The group first started to gain a following outside the Sahara

Kino Siska

Kino Siska

Comprised of four complementary spaces, Kino Šiška is a large high-tech centre for “urban culture” located in the Šiška area of Ljubljana. Striving to fill the niche between mainstream and underground venues (such as Tovarna Rog and clubs of Metelkova

Lollobrigida @Medvode (SLO)

Lollobrigida 3

November 25 (21-03h), Mladinski center JEDRO, Medvode (SLO) Croatia’s supreme electro-punk band Lollobrigida plays Slovenia. Expect a lot of glitz, trash, kitch, pop and some futurised boogie woogie in an all night dance craze. Tickets: 5 EUR / 7 USD

Gala Hala

Photo by Eva Taucar

Occasionally accused of leaning towards the mainstream by alternative die-hards, Gala Hala is arguably the busiest concert venue of the Metelkova City autonomous cultural zone. It’s comprised of a club for 350 people and an outdoor Summer Stage garden in

Jazz Club Gajo

Jazz Club Gajo

As the old saying goes, every decent city needs a nice jazz club. And Jazz Club Gajo sure is nice. Founded by a renowned Slovenian jazz drummer Drago Gajo more than 15 years ago, the club is currently a summer-only