It’s almost time: On the 30th of October Wien Modern begins, featuring 55 premieres or first performances in 21 locations throughout Vienna. Heinz Rögl provides an overview of the sweeping program. On the 21st of October Wien Modern and the artistic director … read more »
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IAN FISHER – “KOFFER“
The Austro-American songwriter IAN FISHER will be releasing his next album “Koffer” on November 18th. After writing nearly one thousand songs and playing countless concerts, the well-travelled musician has finally settled down long enough to share his latest creations with his audience. … read more »
THE CRISPIES – “DEATH ROW KIDS”
The single “Bad Blood” is already a hit, and the album is sure to be one too. On the 28th of October the Viennese band THE CRISPIES will release their debut album “Death Row Kids” on Seayou Records. Bored with the affluence … read more »
WIEN MODERN #29 – The final questions
“Where did we come from? Where are we going? And where the heck are we, anyway?” – These are the “Final Questions” the new artistic director Bernhard Günther poses in his first edition of WIEN MODERN. The festival invites a broad audience … read more »
ELEKTRO GUZZI – “CLONES“
ELEKTRO GUZZI once again demonstrate some of the diverse and surprising perspectives that can be used to approach techno on their fourth and most recent studio album “Clones” “Clones” begins with the minimalistic and atmosphericaly dense track “Room”. Some might say that … read more »
THE SCANDAL WON’T HAPPEN – INTERVIEW WITH WALTER KOBÉRA ABOUT THE STAATSOPERETTE 2016
The television premiere in 1977 was one of the few Austrian musical-theatre scandals of the last few decades. For the first time in 40 years the Bregenzer Festspiele presented Franz Novotny and Otto M. Zykan’s “Staatsoperette” on a public stage. Christian Heindl … read more »
Ogris Debris “Constant Spring”
In 2010, Gregor Ladenhauf and Daniel Kohlmeigner released the track “Miezekatze”. A song that created a new musical paradigm and catapulted the duo to international fame. And now, 11 years after their founding in 2005, the electronic duo have finally released their … read more »
A LIFE, A SONG, A CIGARETTE – “All That Glitters Is Not Gold”
In the beginning their was just one. Stephan Stanzel. Ten years ago the Beatles and folk-rock fan decided to start a band of his own. A Life, A Song, A Cigarette (ALASAC). In the course of time his musical influences and the … read more »
Austrian Acts at Tallinn Music Week 2016
MARCH 28 – APRIL 3, 2016 Tallinn Music Week (TMW) is an annually held music industry conference and one of the biggest indoor festivals in the Nordic-Baltic region that has grown into a vibrant city festival, presenting music, but also food, arts … read more »
Copa Kagrana instead of the Copa Cabana – Latin-American Musicians in Vienna
The Latin-American music scene in Vienna is as varied as the continent they come from: singers and instrumentalists from everywhere have ended up in Vienna – from Brazil and Mexico as well as from the Dominican Republic and Argentina. What was the … read more »