Searching for Sugar Man is an Oscar-winning story about a man who should earn a Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement and the “Nobel Prize for Life”. His songs were copied by millions, they inspired anti-apartheid warriors, and legends were being told about him, while he worked at home at construction sites. One of the best songwriters from the end of the hippies era has finally earned the merited recognition. We are very happy that Pohodans will be able to enjoy his performance. → read more

After the breakup of his parents, he would sell drugs and he ended up behind the bars; after he was released, he began to devote himself to the childʼs dream—becoming a rapper. Obviously, he is very successful with reaching his objectives. According to the Metro Times, he was the artist of the year 2013; his albums have featured Eminem and Kendrick Lamar. A man of contradictions and a jeans-wearing Detroit rapper with a high-pitched voice, inspired by the sound of Joy Divison and Talking Heads. Journalists race to give more acclaim in the reviews of his albums, while he races with himself. At Pohoda 2018, Danny Brown will show you why MTV called him one of rapʼs most unique figures in recent memory. → read more

“What if dance music hit as hard as the fiercest hip-hop and rocked with the visceral force of your favorite guitar banger?” This is what the journalists of Rolling Stone believed was the original conceit of The Chemical Brothers that had shaped their goal. Then Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons entered the studio and recorded the album Dig Your Own Hole that influenced the history of electronic music. “The Chemicals” have so far won Grammy Awards, BRIT Awards, and MTV Europe Music Awards; they have released six No. 1 albums, and journalists regularly include their recordings in the charts of the best of the dance music ever. We are well aware of the fact that the preferences of music editors are subjective—this is why we are very excited that you too will be able to make your own opinion of the legend of electronic music at Pohoda 2018. → read more

The 22nd Pohoda will feature also one of Swedenʼs most famous bands today, Little Dragon. Their breakthrough was the third album Ritual Union, which was included in the Rolling Stone and Clash selections of the best recordings of the year. Their next album Nabuma Rubberband received a Grammy nomination. They participated in Gorillazʼ album Plastic Beach and their song Twice was used in Greyʼs Anatomy and The Vampire Diaries. → read more

Cold Nordic women / rap is meant for male bands only: stereotypes that everyone will cross off their list immediately after seeing “Daughters of Reykjavík” at Pohoda. This 16-member (plus a DJ) all-female band reminds you of a clan where individual solos, duos and trios alternate with a performance of the band as a whole. While they are invisible to the local media, they are praised abroad by the likes of Noisey, Loud And Quiet or KEXP.   → read more

Bristol musician with a wonderful voice, Kate Stables, acting like This Is the Kit, will too perform at Pohoda. If you analysed the most commonly used words in the reviews of this ladyʼs work, you would find expressions such as petting, beauty, peace, depth, colour, melodies, voice... In 2015, she appeared in an episode of the BBC documentary series Music Box hosted by Guy Garvey, who argued that her second album deserved a Mercury Prize nomination. She received no less praise for the third album Bashed Out, which was given the rating of 8 out of 10 by Uncut, The Line of Best Fit, and The 405. This trend continues also with the latest LP Moonshine Freeze, which includes the cooperation with the famous English John Parish (best known for his work with PJ Harvey).  → read more

Pohoda will feature also one of the most striking bands of the Americana style (combining genre from Latino, country, and jazz to hard rock): Arizona-based band Calexico. Their songs have appeared in many films and series and they have had some excellent collaborations: for example, they recorded two songs for a Bob Dylan film with Iron & Wine and Jim James, singer of My Morning Jacket. The darlings of reviewers will release their ninth album at the end of January, and they will present it also in Trenčín in early July. → read more

How would Too Many Zooz, Moravanka, Cypress Hill, and Kool & The Gang sound together? A performing-musical response is offered by an international project with Polish roots, Rebel L Babel. The band was founded, with the ambition to become the biggest band in the world, by the famous Polish rapper L.U.C. (performed also an opening act to Prodigy, Massive Attack, and Wu-Tang Clan concerts) along with the Danish producer and drummer John Feat. In addition to excellent music, they are also known for their cool videos, which are filmed in unusual places (subway, spa...). Also thanks to Pohoda, their set will again grow somewhat larger, as Rebel L Babel will perform here with the folk brass music band Textilanka from Trenčín. → read more

They were split by the revolution, and 45 years later, they were reunited by the love for North African music, Chaâbi. Band members and old friends, Jews and Muslims, rejoice once again on one stage. Musicians that lived the era now hand over the heritage of Chaâbi music to the generation of the age of their grandchildren. Together they perform as El Gusto, which translated means “the good mood”. They will the good mood also to Trenčín in early July 2018.   → read more

Pohoda will host also the authors of the best album and song in Poland in 2016. The band Mitch & Mitch uses guitars, drums, percussions, vibraphone, and brass instruments to offer the first class new jazz and parody of everything all in one. Our Michal went to see then upon the recommendation of a Polish friend: “I saw Mitch & Mitch at the OFF festival in Poland. They were performing after the perfect concert of PJ Harvey, and I just could not understand why anyone would set a band after such a powerful artist – but only until they started playing. Even if at the beginning of their concert I was a little sceptically standing rather withdrawn from the crowd, I ended up right below the stage at the barriers. It is rare to see so much of insight in the music, so much human and artistic interplay. Then you add a really fun way to communicate with the audience, a well working parody of “make some noise” phrases, and great music.  → read more