Slovenian underground legends Demolition Group will present their new album Pojdiva tja (Let’s Go There) in May at Kino Šiška.
Lured from our homes on Monday night in praise of headliners Trivium the punters exchange pleasantries while slurping beer – it all counts as a warm up to a truly exciting evening.
The Bongo Club know what it’s all about. Likeable guitar melodies, clever lyrics about the trials and tribulations of the younger generations, and cheerful rhythms are the recipe for the indie rock craze that swept the world at the turn of the millennium. The Swedes draw on this sound, sprucing it up for the here and now, and they do that so well they even won over the producer who worked on the best-known Oasis albums. Not bad for a band that’s all of three years old! The home colours at the evening will be represented by the current champions of our Špil liga high school band league, the shagadelic rock youths Joker Out.
The eldest son of Afrobeat and musical revolutionary Fela Kuti is returning with his new album One People One World, released in February. He’s bringing along his positive concert force, which reaffirms the noble Afrobeat tradition, modernizes and intertwines its sound with reggae, soul and hip-hop elements, and instils the social engagement with mature optimism.
After two concert in Ljubljana, young musicians, Sophie and Marco from Vienna, known as Leyya, are returning to Ljubljana for the third time. Experimental electronics and songwriting found a new path together, which couple is presenting on stage in ambiental mood. Before the concert in Kino Šiška we talked to Sophie, who told us about new album, views to music and other experiences.
The idiosyncratic musical visionary and the godfather of nostalgically leisurely lo-fi retro pop, the unmistakable sound of the 21st century, Ariel Pink is coming to Slovenia for the first time! He’ll take us into his appealing oddball world with the help of his September album, declared by critics to be one of the most impressive indie rock releases of the decade and one of Pink’s best albums ever.
After a convincing performance at the first MENT Ljubljana festival in 2015, one of the most successful Baltic bands, Carnival Youth, is coming back. In the intervening time, the indie rock trio released the excellent record Propeller, nabbing the Latvian awards for Album of the Year and Best Indie Album, joined artists such as Milky Chance, Anna Calvi, Damien Rice and Dua Lipa on the list of recipients of the prestigious EBBA award, and started working on new material. To warm us up, the winners of the third season of our Špil liga high school band league, Infected, will give us a shot of their contagious alternative rock.
Ibeyi, James Holden, Kokoko!, Dirtmusic and many more at this year’s Druga Godba.
The former member of Icelandic group GusGus, the frontman of indie folkers Hjaltalín, composer and singer Högni will visit us in April with his solo debut. On it, the newest addition to the Erased Tapes roster faced down the conflicting aspects of his personality, with his intriguing art pop drawing comparisons to Björk, ANOHNI, Perfume Genius and Four Tet.
A pleasantly warm Thursday evening sees psychedelic rock cruisers Motorpsycho make their landing in Channel Zero for what promises to be thrilling, if indeed thoroughly spaced-out evening.
Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture
Trg prekomorskih brigad 3, 1000 Ljubljana
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