Liverpool Sound City (19th – 22nd May 2010) is the largest music festival and industry conference in the North of the UK.  Every May, Liverpool Sound City presents over 300 artists from over 20 different countries, in 30 city centre venues to … read more »

Sometimes the eligible listener has to wonder where indie-rock bands get their peculiar names from. There are the typical “The -” bands, inspired by legendary British formations, bands with names that come from confusing and sounding word-collages of home, family name, favorite … read more »

Wolfgang Muthspiel, one of the most prestigious and successful jazz musicians in Austria, is a man of deeds. In the year 2000 he founded his label Material Records, which step was based on the sole fact that in the process of recording … read more »

Salzburg in the 1970s – the famous chocolate specialty “Mozartkugel” is already more than 80 years old and the Salzburg Festival is steadily gaining popularity in the era of Herbert von Karajan. Yet as so often, it is the lack of something … read more »

Christoph Pepe Auer is known as a musician who likes to take risks. Not only musically. Disappointed by the insufficient and unsatisfactory label landscape in the area of creative, contemporary jazz and improvised music, the bass clarinetist took the matter into his … read more »

The Munich-based Tyrolean is a musical jack-of-all-trades. The indie band HP Zinker originated from his creative genius just as well as Convertible, Queen of Japan and its resurrection in the form of King of Japan. Besides that he was a member of … read more »

When speaking about Mia Zabelka, we are speaking about one of the most diverse musicians in this country. Categories are completely distinct to this Viennese musician. In her work,  the multidisciplinary violinist and composer rather strives to combine various artistic approaches with … read more »

Miniatures are not a registered form of art  for the music of an orchestra: Too many musicians, too much conductor, soloist, organizational apparatus, perhaps also too much expectation of the concert audience for just 40 or 60 or 80 seconds of music. … read more »

A lot happened in the local music scene in 2010, from many new and promising names appearing on the scene, to heated discussions, for instance, on the recently introduced copyright levy on hard drives. The team of mica – music austria looks … read more »

It is said that Otto Lechner is one of the few musicians who could bring the accordion back and make it popular in Austria again. Born in 1954 in Melk, Lower Austria, the musician turned blind in his early youth, but despite … read more »