Pohoda Festival has released the first names of artists who will perform at Trenčín Airport from July 6th to 8th 2023. Visitors can look forward to a selection of rap and punk in particular, but rock, indie rock, world music, and synth-pop will also be represented. For the 26th edition of the festival, the organisers…

Dominic Richard Harrison aka YUNGBLUD returns to Grape festival after five years, but this time as a world-class star. The renowned magazine Rolling Stone called this voice of the new generation “a pop-punk rebel on a mission”. His second show at Grape festival will take place on the main stage on Saturday. FOALS performed at…

The pioneers of electro-oriental music ACID ARAB Live will perform at Pohoda 2022. The Parisian band already stole our hearts away at Pohoda 2017. They play Eastern music on analogue rhythmic and bass boxes and create oriental acid, which is a fusion of cold techno, emotions and drama-charged orient. According to Pitchfork, their album Acid…

They formed virtually by chance and relatively recently, but they already have four Grammy nominations, a euphoric hit with more than a hundred million views on YouTube and, as NME wrote, they gradually made their journey from busking on street corners to becoming one of the USA’s most beloved new bands. They have performed in…

Another re-confirmed name for Pohoda 2021 is the Canadian electro-pop duo PURITY RING. At the Trenčín airport they will come with their third album Womb. Pitchfork wrote about the album: WOMB is some of Purity Ring’s strongest work, a confident and singular statement from a band often imitated over the past decade. Singer Megan James…

Another reconfirmed name of 24th edition of Pohoda festival is legendary DJ, technology innovator, and techno producer RICHIE HAWTIN. The New York Times called him an intellectual driving force of electronic dance music. His music was part of the exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, at the Grand Palais and Center Pompidou in…

After a five-year break, the acclaimed Canadian electro-pop duo PURITY RING returns on the scene with their album Womb. Pohoda organisers are pleased to announce that they will present their third studio album at this summers festival! Singer Megan James and producer Corin Roddick started PURITY RING in Edmonton, Canada in 2010. Two years later,…

Pohoda 2020 will also feature legendary DJ, technology innovator, and world-renowned techno producer RICHIE HAWTIN! The New York Times called him an intellectual driving force of electronic dance music. His music was part of the exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, at the Grand Palais and Center Pompidou in Paris, as well as…

FKA TWIGS appeared at the beginning of the decade with EP1, in the middle of the decade she released LP1 and ended the ten years with the famous second album Magdalene (both of her albums were recordings of the year according to magazines Time and Clash). FKA TWIGS quickly turned from a companion dancer to…

GLASS ANIMALS were supposed to perform at Pohoda festival in 2018, however, they had to cancel the rest of the tour due to drummer Joe Seaward’s serious injury. After a three-year break, the popular British band recorded a new song Tokyo Drifting (with Danzel Curry) in autumn 2019, kindling hope in us as well. Shortly…

Pohoda festival organisers have been trying to book LYKKE LI for almost the entire past decade. She was supposed to perform at Pohoda in 2019, but due to the cancelled flight, her show did not take place. Her agent assured us that LYKKE LI would want to visit the festival as soon as possible. Organisers…

Pohoda festival 2020 will feature the Mongolian band The HU. They combine hard rock and traditional Mongolian music characterised by throat singing as well as exotic string and bowed string instruments. The videos for the songs “Yuve Yuve Yu” and “Wolf Totem” went viral immediately after their release and reached over 50 million views on…

Disco is not dead.” Well, at least according to Paste magazine that used these words to praise the latest addition to Pohoda 2020 line-up – the Australian funk-pop band PARCELS. Les Inrocks magazine described them as humanized Daft Punk who decided to jam along with Steely Dan and Frank Ocean. PARCELS bring a unique blend of contemporary electronics and…

At Pohoda 2020, you will also be able to see another British rap star – SLOWTHAI. As mentioned by Hypebeast, “he is a turbulent punk rocker born in the era of grime.” In May 2019, he released a debut album called Nothing Great About Britain, on which he collaborated with artists such as Mura Masa,…

STORMZY is only 26-year-old London MC who has managed to win twice the Brit Awards, has twice been GQ magazine’s artist of the year, has won the BBC Music Awards, the Ivor Novello Awards, the Q Awards, the MTV Europe Music Awards, the BET Awards, the UK Music Video Awards, and many MOBO Awards. It…

If you open Wikipedia, you will find the following chapters for THE LIBERTINES, in this order: early history, first album, problems. Again, this is quite accurate. In the Cynická obluda diary, there is a section where you can write the names of famous people who you think will leave this world in the upcoming year….

Pohoda 2020 will welcome WOLF ALICE, another Mercury prize winner! The Guardian described their refreshing indie-rock as an innovative contemporary approach to the genres of the 1990s such as grunge and shoegaze. The holders of two NME Awards and the Q Award for the best live band have released two albums and according to the…

“Absolute Joy”; “Most ambitious and pleasurably weird”; “The band have proved their longevity and ability to reinvent, retool and still maintain their love and ability to pen stellar pop songs”, was how DIY, The Independent, and NME described album Metronomy Forever in September this year. After a decade, the British electro-pop band METRONOMY is returning…

After a fantastic concert with Atoms for Peace, THOM YORKE will return to Pohoda in 2020, this time with the THOM YORKE Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes project. Performing works spanning his solo career THOM YORKE will be joined by legendary producer Nigel Godrich, and visual artist Tarik Barri. This is the earliest confirmed big name in…

Pohoda 2019 will also be hosting the Californian band DEATH GRIPS. Their extremely vigorous mixture of experimental hip-hop, industrial noise electronics and punk rock earned recognition from music critics and fans around the world right with their first album. Many media write about them as one of the most interesting bands of this decade, while…

Pohoda Festival 2019 will host the British soul singer LIANNE LA HAVAS. Lianne won the iTunes Album of the Year Award and was nominated to Mercury Prize for her debut Is Your Love Big Enough?. In addition, she has had nominations for the MOBO Awards, as well as nominations for the BBC Sound of Brit…

JEFF MILLS, the founding member of the Underground Resistance and the legendary representative of the “intergalactic” Detroit techno is another artist that will perform at Pohoda 2019. In the 1980s he became known as The Wizard for his combination of incredible producer and DJ skills. From the beginning, his work has been strongly characterized by…

The recent Grammy award winning producer and multi-instrumentalist MURA MASA is going to perform at Pohoda 2019. According to last.fm, he “showcases his minimalist, yet effective approach to UK trap music by combining the energy of electronic production and club culture with the rustic and organic sounds and timbres of traditional sample beatmaking”. Guernsey-born producer…

Pohoda 2019 will also feature the French electronic music producer Pascal Arbez Nicolas known as VITALIC. Pitchfork compared the quality of his debut, OK Cowboy, to Daft Punk’s Homework or Discovery. In addition to creative music, he won his fans over with live performances which are always enhanced by a great visual aspect, as in…

Pohoda 2019 will feature the British MC/rapper and grime star, SKEPTA. He and his brother Jamie (Jme) founded collective and label Boy Better Know. They also collaborated on the latest album, Konnichiwa, for which he was awarded the Mercury Prize (leaving behind Radiohead and David Bowie), and Apple Music editors labelled it the album of…

Millennials’ favourite guy, Vernor Winfield McBriare Smith IV – known as MAC DEMARCO – will make Pohoda 2019 sway to his summer BBQ soundtrack and casual surf-rock. This 28-year-old Canadian singer and multi-instrumentalist managed to release three albums and two LPs during half a decade, with Pitchfork labelling the first two albums “Best New Music”…

Pohoda 2019 will feature one of the most famous voices in history – LIAM GALLAGHER is coming to Trenčín. Thousands of readers of Q magazine and listeners of Radio X called him the biggest frontman of all time. After a several years long break, the founder and singer of the legendary bands Oasis and Beady…

The British soul singer, MICHAEL KIWANUKA, is also going to play at Pohoda 2019. The winner of the BBC’s Sound, nominated twice for the Mercury Prize, recorded a remarkable award-winning Love & Hate album in 2016. It reached the top of the UK sales, while the media such as The Telegraph, Chicago Tribune and Mojo…

Pohoda 2019 will also feature SOFI TUKKER whose debut Treehouse is nominated for GRAMMY for the Best Dance / Electronic Album of the Year. This is the second Grammy nomination of the duo; their first single “Drinkee” was last year among the five best dance records of the year. Drinkee and Best Friend have over…

One of the highlights of the festival will be the Saturday’s concert of the British band RUDIMENTAL. Their live shows, where sometimes ten members meet at one stage are always a great experience. They’re one of the most requested bands on the festival’s forum, and so they believe that they have made you happy! The…

THE 1975, the winners of Brit Awards for the best British band and the NME Awards for the Best Live band will play at Pohoda 2019! They have never been short of fans, as evidenced by the fact that each of their albums reached top sales in the British chart. Initially, however, they struggled to…

Pohoda 2019 will feature one of the best hip-hop bands ever, the legendary THE ROOTS. Their live performances are considered the best in this genre, but due to their duties in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, they are quite an exclusive thing to experience. They only regularly play at The Roots Picnic festival hosted…

Her songs are a frequent choice of film and series creators, and her albums regularly feature producers of the worldʼs biggest stars. “I follow rivers” indeed is a big hit, but as Consequence of Sound sees it, especially the latest album so sad so sexy brings “Lykke Liʼs superb reinvention” as an artist rehabilitating pop in its…