Zorica Kojić and Dragan Ambrozić

Interview: Peter Lovšin, Pankrti

Today, the average person is less than average

With some of our poets, a philosopher of anarchism and other friends, we made some happenings where we cooked spaghetti on stage. At two or three appearances of this happening, they kicked us off the stage, because it was too crazy. I was convinced that "Pankrti" would last as long as those happenings. But the following happened: when we played our first concert at Moščanska Gymnasium - which we advertised as "The first punk concert behind the Iron Curtain" - so many people came that we were surprised. If members of law and order stopped by on that occasion, they wouldn't even have been able to get inside, because everything in the hall was completely full, and even if they somehow got in, they wouldn't have understood anything.

New album: Butch Cassidy – Modern connections (Counter)

One good spark

The main motif of the just released album by the band Butch Cassidy Modern connections is the occurrence of love in everyday settings, miserable and glamorous at the same time. The real truth is that we have never had a group like this before

Interview: Laibach, art collective

People think they are free because they choose the color and length of their own chains of slavery

"The world has changed its facade several times, but the matrix remains the same - it only adapts to new technologies of control: the power of capital rules, the masses follow the illusion, history is recycled. Forgetting is the greatest ally of repeating mistakes. When the emotional distance from the horrors of the past increases, space opens up for their repetition - in a new form, with new narratives, but with the same outcome."

Documentary film

What is and what should always be

Becoming Led Zeppelin, directed by Bernard McMahon, Sony Pictures Classics (121 minutes)

Interview: Dragan Živadinov, theater artist and attractor

I am an apologist with a knack for ritualizing history

The world expects a lot from man. The world expects a lot from Belgrade, if not more. A man dies only once, and Belgrade has been destroyed countless times, and is rebuilt again and again from the historical ruins. I swear by cities, not states. I swear by New York and Novi Sad.

Film premiere: A complete stranger (A Completely Unknown)

Sons and daughters are no longer under your command

Bob Dylan is not a sinner, he is an irresistible righteous man. If he ever left anyone in the lurch, it was himself. But let's take a closer look! Those mental binoculars that he pointed at the strange tunes of imaginary bluesman Jesse Moffett (played by Big Bill Morganfield, son of the legendary Muddy Waters) on Pete Seeger's TV show Rainbow Quest - at least as the current film tells us A complete stranger directed by James Mangold - he was involved in it since its inception. Self-born and absolutely independent, Bob Dylan received this cinematic achievement - not a monument, but a living legend of himself as a folk deity who changed pop culture and rock 'n' roll forever.

In memoriam: Goranka Matić (1949–2025)

To be Goranka Matic

It is really difficult to write a fitting text on the occasion of the passing of the one and only Goranka Matić. First of all, because Goranka was not there appropriate person on any basis. Then, because in her life and artistic ethics there was nothing flatteringly appropriate, falsely glamorous, artificial in words, merely bombastic, superficially pleasing to the eye. One then wonders with reason - isn't silence in this extremely haughty, and by all accounts unworthy and uncouth commotion, the only polite way to say goodbye to Goranka and bow before all her immortal crowds

Interview: Davorin Bogović, singer of the Dirty Theater

I still raise people to this day

Our friend drew our attention to the fact that the Zagreb and Belgrade comeback concerts were different - while in Zagreb everyone came with question marks above their heads, in Belgrade everyone came with exclamation points! And you could clearly see that in Zagreb it took a little bit of work to get it rolling, so that in the end it would be total madness, while in Belgrade it was known from the beginning what it had come to and what was eagerly awaited

Interview: Jason Moran, jazz pianist and composer

The future in the digital realm

"Growing up in the 1980s meant that hip-hop was - everywhere. My older brother listened to him a lot, so I heard the same things he did. However, the first band that really moved me was Run-DMC. But as a collective, Public Enemy was exactly the band that changed me. They talked about political issues within their incredibly condensed music, and it was really powerful and enlightening."

Interview: Gavin Bryers, Composer

Don't try to define pataphysics

"John Cage was probably the biggest influence on me back in the day and I have to say that I still feel his influence - although not in the way that my music sounds. Cage's greatness lies precisely in the fact that none of those who studied with him ever wrote music that sounded like his."

Interview: Zoran Kostić Cane, musician and poet

Pyramid brain savings and other stories

"Inorganic time creates inorganic people. Inorganic people create inorganic opinions. So, we now live in an artificial, inorganic world. In one large technological devolution. No matter how much it seemed to us that man now goes where he wants, if we had this artificial intelligence - we are now living in a devolutive time. All love and all feelings have been banished from the system that rules now. Because it shows weakness, and a man who has weakness is not needed by anyone. We need strong people here, who will easily live by other people's directives"

Concert: The smile, Hangar, Friday 14 June 2024.

A crowd pushing to see a man's soul

Just then, a smile arrived

New album: Hali Gali #2 (Pop Depression/Umbrella, 2024)

Real sound of the 21st century

A completely deaf and stupid mass is the ideal of society, so society, of course, looks to shoot down every hearing and every brain where it emerges, here is the brain, they say, and they shoot him, here's the hearing, they say, and they shoot him (Thomas Bernhard, Limestone)

Interview: Slobodan Tisma, writer, conceptual artist and musician

You have to be always on the counter and make fun of the crisis

"After all, literature is blasphemy, pure insolence. We all live with an idea, we are tolerant, we respect the other, and then we realize that there is no reconciliation, the truth must come out, it becomes known that we are ideologically on opposite sides, and then a war begins, a war of words, a soft war that threatens to turn into something much worse. At the end of the day, it's all about words"