The Velvet Violin lets you in on the secret behind those weird metal things that Portico Quartet make such nice music with.

Anthemic indie rockers White Lies evidently know a thing or two about selling records, having scored top chart positions with both their debut To Lose My Life… and their latest album, Ritual, released last month. The British post-punk band’s catchy yet grey-tinged rock tunes show the influence of their predecessors such as Joy Division and [...]

Following last night’s Prague debut of The New Young Pony Club at MeetFactory  (see “The club that keeps the beat” from Feb. 16′s Night & Day), the Velvet Violin thought he’d take a moment to consider the above question. The London post-punk Nu ravers actually wanted to call themselves simply Pony Club, only to discover [...]

Czech Tourism’s relatively new web portal Prague Events Calendar usually does a good job of signposting upcoming cultural events in the Golden City, including of course visits by high-profile foreign bands. British ska/reggae veterans UB40 are no strangers to the Czech capital, having played here as early as April 1989, six months before the fall [...]

When glancing at the gig listings, you would imagine a British band playing a hostel in central Prague would be a familiar formula of four guitars, 1980s hair and mainstream indie ballads. The crowd of mostly student travelers got zero out of three Nov. 20, when Brighton’s Mean Poppa Lean took to the Belushi’s stage. [...]

British post-punk outfit The Futureheads are making a return to The Golden City early next month as part of their latest European Tour. It’s a good time to see the Sunderland band after their fourth album, The Chaos, released this summer, marked a return to the quirky, angular indie rock that first shot them to [...]