Sex Jams are straight out of Vienna’s throbbing underground DIY scene, and are a thrilling live act that spit out spontaneous bursts of pure pop and overdriven noise-fuzz capable of disarming the mightiest of opposition. Their album Trouble, Honey packages Punk-pop with … read more »
NOISE APPEAL RECORDS is one of the oldest independent labels in Austria. Genre blinders are foreign to this Viennese talent factory. As long as the music has quality. And that is obvious with a look at the catalog including such diverse artists … read more »
Every week on Saturday, 10:40 pm, the popular program Tracks on the German and French TV channel ARTE presents cutting edge sounds, novelties and obscurities in pop culture. This week the program will be celebrating the finest from Austrian pop music in a three-part web series called … read more »
The tenth edition (September 23-26, 2015) of the Reeperbahn Festival 2015 brought 3,700 music industry professionals and media representatives from over 40 countries to Hamburg. The Austrian delegation claimed new record figures with an entourage of eleven local bands and 80 industry professionals … read more »
Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg/DE September 23 – 26, 2015 Going strong for over a decade, the Reeperbahn Festival combines concerts in a variety of pop-cultural genres with an arts program and a platform for professionals in the music and digital industries. It is Germany’s … read more »
At the moment in Austria it’s all about that new-found sense of confidence. Once again, a new breed of sharp, good-looking boys, proper rockstars are standing out there front of stage, proclaiming things like “We’re going right through the middle” (MAURICE ERNST, … read more »
ON THE FRUITLESS SEARCH FOR THE DEFINITE SOUND OF AUSTRIAN POP. By Robert Rotifer. It was June 2013. The singer-songwriter CLARA LUZIA had just played a live session on the MARC RILEY SHOW on BBC 6Music when the DJ stumped her with … read more »
59.400 Heartbeats = 990 Minutes = 22 Shows of 18 Austrian Artists – Austria is the focus country at Eurosonic 2014! The new festival seasons starts with an impressive presence of Austrian music in the picturesque old town of Groningen: showcases, networking … read more »
Bridging the time until the Eurosonic Festival in January 2014, the Viennese video blog collective They Shoot Music Don´t They will present several of the selected artists with six minute video portaits. These “At Home Sessions” are a series of intimate portraits … read more »
Eurosonic Noorderslag is the most important showcase festival in the European live music industry. The 28th edition of the Dutch festival will take place from Wednesday 15th to Saturday 18th January 2014 in Groningen, the Netherlands, with the spotlight pointing to numerous … read more »