An unassuming expat ruminates on Bruce Springsteen’s upcoming visit to Prague.

The Velvet Violin reports on the fortunes of Swedish pop-rockers Roxette, who just played a sold-out date at Prague’s O2 Arena but are little known in the US or UK anymore.

Old Town’s Bethlehem Chapel will host some very special guests tomorrow night, in a January treat for choral music fans. The 46 singers and organist of the Princeton University Chapel Choir are coming to the Golden City to take part in a choral triple bill also involving the choir of Charles University and that of [...]

I got my first real six-string Bought it at the five-and-dime Played it ’til my fingers bled It was summer of ’69 Legendary Canadian rock star Bryan Adams has announced he will play a full-band concert in the Golden City next summer as part of a set of European dates taking in Sweden, Norway, Denmark [...]

In some ways, it was the anti-Halloween – a quiet evening of piano and cello away from the ghosts and bangs of the season at Prague 10′s recently restored Vzlet theater. But as it turned out, there were some dark sides to the melodies aired, and both musicians sought to bring a forgotten composer back [...]

Ever hear of electroswing? It’s a new genre combining modern dance music with classic swing dance tunes that has been gaining popularity around Europe in recent years. One of, if not the, pioneers of the new genre are Parov Stelar, a jazz electronica band from Linz, Austria who are heading to Prague on November 10 [...]

This month sees the return to the Golden City of the MOVE Festival for its sixth year. The club music event has brought a number of top dance music names to Prague, including French electronica duo M83 and British DJ veterans Coldcut. Spread over three concerts, the festival is being staged at the Palac Akropolis, [...]

The Taiwanese capital was the scene for an unusual milestone for the Czech music scene, hosting the first ever cultural exchange concert involving the two countries. Milan Svoboda and his Prague Conservatory Jazz Orchestra took their trademark smooth sounds eastward for the Taipei performance late last month. “I am very happy to have performed in [...]

Czech blues-rockers Papa Lam brought their unique mix of backbeat, rockabilly and guitar balladry to the Royal Oak British pub in Prague 2 this past Saturday. While they are new to the professional music game, these local guys can really play guitar, as demonstrated by the many strum-filled, genre-hopping tunes they played. The small, cavern-shaped [...]

Four Czechs and an Englishman walk into a bar in Berlin….It sounds like the start of a joke, but was actually the making of The Roads, an indie-rock band that has just hit the road for a tour of the Czech Republic. Gigging in support of The Witness, the new single from their album of [...]