These hipsters wearing some serious outfits won’t offer you organic-fair-trade coffee in a warm cup. They’ll make your heart beat faster in a different way: via wild post punk full of passion, fear, rage, euphoria and a motley of emotions processed through amps, effects and hands of five guitar lumberjacks from Bristol. BBC, Louder Than War, The Line of Best Fit or Annie Mac all agree it would be hard to find a band with wilder and more frenetic music to offer. Visitors at our festival don’t have to look any further as IDLES are the latest confirmed name for Pohoda 2017. → read more

Parisian duo Acid Arab play acid house inspired by melodies and rhythmic structures of oriental music that causes people to fall into a trance. 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 Arab Collections “is among the most enthusiastic collections of any sort of dance music to come out in recent memory.” The faves of BBC’s DJ and broadcaster Gilles Peterson will be playing Pohoda 2017.   → read more

It is not customary for a homeless English street musician from the Paris underground to conquer French festivals. It is not customary for a debut of an unknown artist to receive the rating of 8 out of ten from newspapers such as The Observer and The New York Times. It is not customary for a budding artist to win the Mercury Prize and leave behind names such as Florence + the Machine, Aphex Twin, and Jamie XX. But it is a good practice for Mercury Prize winners to play at Pohoda. We are therefore honoured to announce that Benjamin Clementine will perform at the Trenčín airport. → read more

The band started as a lo-fi electro-punk band for connoisseurs, and its fan base has grown mainly due to their superb concerts. The turning point in their career came in March 2014, when they released album Singles and performed its song Seasons (Waiting On You) in the Late Show with David Letterman. Supported by the eccentric dance expression of singer Samuel T. Herring, the video went viral and the band gained recognition not just from Pitchfork reviewers but also millions of people around the world. Future Islands are now an American synth-pop icon that can be seen on big stages of the most famous festivals, and at Pohoda, too, in a few months. → read more

According to Rolling Stone, he’s one of the 10 DJs that rule the Earth. Beatport named him Best Electronic Artist three years in a row. He remixed Daft Punk, Depeche Mode, David Lynch and Nine Inch Nails and collaborated with the likes of Snoop Dogg, The Black Eyed Peas, Jean-Michel Jarre, Santigold and Mark Ronson. His sets have made the biggest clubs and festival such as Coachella, Lollapalooza, Fuji Rock or Berlin-based Berghain dance. DJ and producer Boys Noize will be playing techno and acid house at the beginning of July in SLSP Space Arena. → read more

Belgian rock band Black Box Revelation starred in David Lettermanʼs Late Show and their songs were used in series such as Californication, The Vampire Diaries, Sons of Anarchy, and True Blood. Their anthemic hit “I Think I Like You” is played before and after every match of the first league baseball team Pittsburgh Pirates. To hear this and other great songs, you do not have to go to PNC Park, simply come to Pohoda 2017. → read more

British duo Heymoonshaker will play on Saturday, 4th February at Pohoda Party in the A4 club. Their loaded combination of beatbox, raspy vocals, and blues guitar was one of the best concerts of Pohoda 2015.  → read more

The work of the young Estonian rapper Tommy Cash is in an extreme contrast to the post-Soviet greyness of Tallinn block of flats. Influenced by the music of Pharell Williams and Kanye West´s album Graduation, he follows his own path, which brings him early success: millions of views on YouTube, articles in magazines such as Noisey and Highsnobiety, and concerts all round the world. It was at one of his concerts (at Eurosonic) that his great show won us too, and you will be able to see him at Pohoda 2017. → read more

Squarepusher will be introduced to you at Pohoda as a bass player and front man of band Shobaleader One as well. The band features keyboardist Strobe Nazard, guitarist Arg Nution and drummer Company Laser. On March 10, they are going to release album Elekrac featuring instrumental versions of Squarepusher’s 11 hits. → read more

Mark Lanegan is one of the most outstanding figures of grunge and also the first singer of the golden era of this genre to have performed in Slovakia. In 2012, he played a memorable concert at the Zrkadlový háj hall. He has been part of the bands Screaming Trees and Mad Season (with the Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley), the Queens of the Stone Age, and has worked with Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Moby, and Isobell Campbell (Belle and Sebastian). It is for his raspy, deep voice and mesmerizing dark atmosphere of his songs that he is likened to Waits, Cohen, and Cave. Any comparisons are useless. Lanegan is unique, just as each of his performances. Visitors to Pohoda 2017 will see one of them. → read more