Tag Archives: rock

Live Preview: Ganglians @ Klub Final

The California-based band Ganglians, with their blissed out psychadelia and rough garage style, are the abandoned love child of The Ramones and the Beach Boys.

Concert Preview: Mr. Big @ Retro Music Hall

Tune your air guitars, because hard rockers Mr. Big are back in Prague.

Live Preview: Glen Hansard @ Archa Theatre

Anyone who has loved and lost will have an easy rapport with Glen Hansard and his contemplative, moving ballads.

Prague band vying for Hard Rock festival slot

The Velvet Violin reports on how a Czech group is among 40 bands who are battling it out for the chance to play on stage at a major London rock festival this summer

EP Review – The Around Cube (S/T)

The Around Cube are a hard band to like. Made up of Czech-American Peter Zabransky on guitar/vocals, Czech Vojta Stary on keyboards, Australian Lukos Hey on drums, American Andy Simpson on bass, and saxophonist Julian Knapp from Germany, these guys have got to be one of the most international bands in the Golden City. They’ve [...]

Brass funk and camp fun at Prague hostel gig

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. [...]

Indie-rockers The Roads kick off Czech tour

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 [...]

Interview: Tori Sparks comes to Prague

Nashville-based blues-rock songstress Tori Sparks is making her Prague debut later this month, with three dates in the city as part of her latest European tour which also takes in Paris, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Berlin and London among others. The singer has three albums out on her own record label. Her latest, The Scorpion in the [...]