The culture of memory
Vlada Divljan receives a bust in Zagreb
Musician, author and frontman of the cult band "Idols", Vlada Divljan, will receive a bust in the Rock and Roll Theme Park in Zagreb
TV Maniac
Silence on the streets... and then noise!
"Masts", Try a naked man, Excellent hamster, 2024
We never looked retro, but the way people who are not ready to humiliate themselves look. Who is to blame for the enslaved majority who humiliate themselves by following seasonal trends?
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.
Music reportage
I will burn in the campaign.
The escapist detachment from the banality of the modern world and the almost monastic dedication to the calling made Pogorelić a preacher who, in a time of general saturation with classical music, offered the audience its new meanings.
Ecology in music
Massive Attack: Environmental champions to role model
The popular UK electronic band Massive Attack has broken a specific record - not musically, but environmentally. In July, the band is visiting in Kragujevac
Culture
Without the name and work of Isidore Žebeljan during the event "Zrenjanin - the capital of culture of Serbia"
The heirs of Isidore Žebeljan demand that her music in videos and programs, and all attachments related to her and her work be completely removed from every segment of the program of the "Zrenjanin - Capital of Culture of Serbia" event.
From the newsletter
Heavy metal, deep underground
How a man from Belgrade created a death metal magazine based on pure enthusiasm, which is bought from Greenland to Australia
New "Time"
Laibach: How to screw up the system
Once the masses were controlled secretly or by force, today the algorithm does it publicly and with your permission. And people think they are free, because they choose the color of their own chains of slavery, says the collective Laibach in an interview for "Vreme".
Interview: Milica Đorđević, composer
About the victory of fireflies over darkness
what do you think, What do the scrolls say??
Have you ever eavesdropped?
their dreamy whispering in the August grass?
(Miroslav Antic, Firefly)
Muzika
The legendary Morrissey on July 8 at Kalemegdan
Morrissey is considered one of the most influential figures in British pop, and ranks among the greatest songwriters in the history of rock music.
New album: Cindy Lee – Diamond Jubilee
Nostalgia for the present
Cindy Lee is the name of the most challenging contemporary alternative rock project
Muzika
A gem shines in every corner...
Remembering 2024: Marigold - A Light Burns in Every Heart (Geenger Records)
Muzika
How the voice became the instrument of the year
Unlike other instruments, the voice costs nothing, and almost everyone has one. That is why the human voice was declared the instrument of the year in Germany
Hollywood Bowl
For the benefit of the people, as the Americans do
This is the story of the people who created an amphitheater for art and culture and presented it to the citizens of Los Angeles a hundred years ago, about which an exhibition has been opened, the author of which is a woman from Novi Sad, who has been the director of the Hollywood Bowl Museum and Archives at the Los Angeles Philharmonic for ten years.
New Album: MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks (Anti- / Epitaph)
Old new world
Young singer-songwriter MJ Lenderman released the best American alternative rock album of the year
A memory
Miss Margita's sense of sound
And yet she is happy all the time, strong, it simply emanates from these photos, and that happiness and strength keep her in the capsule of a time that resisted breaking for a long time - Margita Magi Stefanović
New album: Lucinda Williams sings the Beatles from Abbey Road (Highway 20 Records/Thirty Tigers)
In his own way and for his soul
Lucinda Williams is the greatest when, in the manner of a storyteller, she touches that America that we sense, a country where everything is far away, and even for the most ordinary human touch you have to cross the entire expanse, which can sometimes be the width of a kitchen table, and sometimes it is the size of a prairie. But Lucinda Williams is bigger than the biggest when even that doesn't matter anymore, it only matters who is within reach and what happens between the two, and her songs spin in that vortex that often throws out some unwanted things. The point of her expression - that one can inevitably live with unwanted things - gives an epic tone to all the stories about little people that she has told so far.
Dragan Ambrozić – Country Today, Lucinda Williams
("Time" No. 662, 2003)
New album: King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Flight b741 (P(doom) Records)
An imaginary masterpiece from 1974.
No one remembers how King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard got the weirdest long name in modern rock 'n' roll, but they've certainly lived up to it with an even longer run of intriguing records, including Flight b741 one of the best this year
New Album: The Cure – Songs of a Lost World (Fiction)
The clown is crushed
Saying goodbye to us, The Cure recorded an album that represents the emotional climax of their career
In memoriam
Quincy Jones (1933-2024): The Man Who Made Music History
Quincy Jones' collaboration with Frank Sinatra, Aretha Frankin or Michael Jackson forever changed the understanding of popular music and paved the way for today's music stars
Muzika
"You can always listen to Priya": Concert of the Serbian folk star in the biggest hall in Germany
It sold out three Belgrade arenas and five Arena Zagreb. Now Aleksandra Prijović performed in the largest concert hall in Germany. What is the secret of the success of the popular Prije?
Column
Cultural Wrath - May 9, 2024
Muzika
Replay of the beginning: "Bajaga and the instructors", the first four decades
The group "Bajaga and Instructors" presented their cult debut album "Positive Geography" 40 years ago in what was then the Trade Union House, and now the MTS hall. On that occasion, they did a "remake" performance on Sunday, playing only songs from their debut album
New album
Beyoncé – “Cowboy Carter”: Through African-American and Female Heroes
On the album "Cowboy Carter", Beyoncé takes us through the complex history of the relationship between black and white America, letting us know how many seemingly traditionally "white" things actually had their dark-skinned pioneers, heroes and audiences. This is a big record, no doubt about it
Music and holidays
The story behind the song "Last Christmas"
You either love this song or you want to play it half-heartedly when you hear it. Because it is inevitable during the holiday season. Wham! For almost four decades, this duet accompanies us with the song "Last Christmas". How did it come about?
Rock and roll phenomena - the "lost" album: Neil Young - Chrome Dreams
Chrome dreams
Neil Young's lost Chrome Dreams album went down in oral legend by not being around when it was recorded in the mid-seventies. If it had, it would have been considered a masterpiece of its time, as it clearly is now that it has finally been released in its entirety.