New album from Puts Marie
Puts Marie from Biel have been extraordinarily busy since their return from a lengthy sabbatical during which all members pursued their own individual projects. In the two years since the release of their comeback album, “Pornstar”, the group has been touring incessantly. In between the many performances they still managed to record a mini-album, “Masoch”, […]
Arielle Dombasle teaming up with the Hillbilly Moon Explosion for album and gigs
The French-American actress Arielle Dombasle has worked with Eric Rohmer (“Pauline at the Beach”) and Alain Robbe-Grillet (“The Blue Villa”). Now she has teamed up with the Hillbilly Moon Explosion from Zurich to record a splendid album full of 1950s Americana, ranging in style from rockabilly to doo wop, and from classic Country to classic […]
Verveine and Peter Kernel at the Rockomotives Festival, Vendôme 24 – 31 October 2015
Verveine, diva of Gothic electronica, and Peter Kernel are the bands to represent Switzerland at the Rockomotives Festival in Vendôme, France. First held in 1992, Les Rockomotives is a festival devoted mainly to up and coming bands. It takes place across the week in several venues in this small and pretty town in the Loire […]
Swiss Music Export at the Waves Central Europe Festival in Vienna and Bratislava 30 September – 4 October 2015
Now in its fifth year, with its two-pronged concept, the Waves Central Europe Festival in Vienna and Bratislava holds a unique position in the European festival calendar. With one leg of the festival taking place in Austria, the other in Slovakia, Waves is an ideal platform for musicians and business professionals from East and West […]
Swiss Music Export celebrates with the Reeperbahn Festival 23 – 26 September 2015, various venues, Hamburg
Hamburg is a special place, and the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg holds a special place in the heart of Swiss Music Export. It is with great pleasure, therefore, and even greater enthusiasm that SME will be joining in with the Reeperbahn Festival’s tenth anniversary celebrations this year. Swiss Contact Lounge @ Sommersalon at Klubhaus St. […]
BOY are back in town!
BOY – the duo of Valeska Steiner and Sonja Glass – have crashed into the official German charts at number three with their long-awaited second album, “We Were Here”! Their hook-laden debut album “Mutual Friends”, even though it had stayed in the German top 100 for a remarkable thirty-odd weeks, only ever made it to […]
La Gale releases new album
After three years of incessant touring across Europe and performing everywhere, from punky squats to major festivals, Lausanne-based rapper and actress La Gale is at last ready to release her second album. “Salem City Rockers” was produced by French beatmasters I.N.C.H. and Al’Tarba. Released by local label Vitesse Records on 2 October, it is distributed […]
Klaus Johann Grobe @ c/o Pop Cologne 19 – 23 August 2015
Cologne’s very own festival of musical discovery, c/o Pop, is getting bigger and bigger. Events of this year’s 12th edition are spread across no fewer than 30 locations. One Swiss act has so far been confirmed: it is the ridiculously in-demand Klaus Johann Grobe; they will be sharing a bill with Pollyester at Yuca on […]
Sophie Hunger @ Pop-Kultur Berlin 26 – 28 August
“Pop-Kultur Berlin” is a new festival, taking place for the first time this year. Six venues are taking part, all of which are located within the grounds of Berghain, the former GDR power station. The organisers are promising a mouth-watering selection of events, promising “interdisciplinary exchange, including contemporary scientific discourse on music, society, and urban […]
Seven shares a stage with the Fantastischen Vier and Lionel Richie
After reaching new chart heights with his latest album “BackFunkLoveSoul” and a rapturously received sell-out show at the Zurich Volkshaus (broadcast live by national radio SRF), Switzerland’s prime funkateer Seven, aka Jan Dettwyler, continues to go from strength to strength. Having already supported the legendary German rap crew Die Fantastischen Vier in front of an […]
