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The Internet is a funk/soul band formed in the late 2011 by OFWGKTA (Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All or simply Odd Future) members Syd tha Kyd and Matt Martians along with touring members Jameel Bruner, Patrick Paige and Christopher A. Smith. First time I saw The Internet on the stage, was at Coachella 2014. Being one of the Coachella nerds and making sure never to miss any gig (that is worth s...

m4music festival is happening every year, since 1998, at the end of the March, for 3 days in (2 days in Zurich and one day in the city of the French part of Switzerland). The event is organized by Migros Pour-cent.m4music is not just another music festival. While it features many concerts on the four stages in beautiful Schiffbau complex, it also offers interesting panel discussions and conference...

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording of a song in a different song or piece. This phenomenon used to be most obvious in hip hop, but with hip hop becoming mainstream and crossing to other genres (together with hip hop producers) it is nowadays visible everywhere in the music world. Listen more care...

Since 2011, I've been doing special editions of the Gimme A Beat shows that I called appropriately Daytrottering. In these shows I show love for one of the coolest music websites out there: Daytrotter. I started listening to Daytrotter long time ago. In the beginning, daytrotter dudes were giving 7 original sessions, 28 songs for free each week. Over the years they recorded more then 2000 sessions...

Andy Allo is Cameroonian born singer-songwriter, guitarist, pianist, model and actress. Being a huge Prince fan, I came across Andy few years ago when she joined his band, the New Power Generation, and start touring with him around the world. Last year I got reminded about Andy when Prince covered one of her songs, People Pleaser, on his concert at Montreux Jazz Festival. After his gig, I re-disco...

Gavlyn is 23 year old LA based rapper. She is a member of the Organized Threat movement and part of the Broken Complex record label. Organized Threat is a collective of the international artists that aims to support good quality hip hop and keep it fresh, poetic and therefore timeless. Perfect place for somebody like Gavlyn to grow creatively and without any inhibitions. Gavlyn has been rapping si...

Since 2003, Rock En Seine festival is happening every year at the end of the summer, last weekend of August, at Domaine National de Saint-Cloud, at Château de Saint-Cloud's park just outside Paris, inside the garden designed by Le Nôtre in 17th century. In the beginning this festival was happening only during one day and had 2 stages and 10 bands. Nowadays, over the 3days this festival features ma...

Blue Balls Festival is an annual music festival happening in a beautiful surrounding next to Lake Lucerne, Switzerland, on the various locations like an Open-Air Pavilion, the Lucerne Culture and Convention Center and The Club at the Schweizerhof Hotel. Started with an audience of 300 people, back in 1992, this festival, with slightly inappropriate name for an English speaking artists and audience...

In 1967, while he was director of tourist office in Montreux, Claude Nobs organized his first Montreux Jazz Festival. Festival lasted 3 days and was immediate success, locally and internationally. Even today, jazz is still very important part of the festival, however, nowadays the festival features wide variety of music styles. The festival also grew length-wise dramatically: from 3 days to 2 week...

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (commonly known as Coachella) is an annual three-day music and arts festival held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, in the Inland Empire's Coachella Valley. First official Coachella festival happened in October 1999.  Then, after the break of one year, to avoid intense heat during the summer, time of the festival moved to April. In following...

m4music is a 4-days music festival which, since 1998, at the end of the March, takes place every year in Zürich and in one other city of the French speaking part of Switzerland (usually Lausanne). The event is organized by the Migros Pour-cent culturel. As a music festival m4music features four live stages in the beautiful Schiffbau complex. But m4music is much more then just another music festiva...

In late 1995, after he had just graduated from high school, Ryan Schreiber  launched Pitchfork Media, one of the most innovative and relevant online music magazines. While it has been sometimes criticized as being too hipster and über cool, the fact is that guys behind Pitchfork have impeccable music taste and are usually very accurate in their recommendations and reviews. I think I share view of...

Kimbra Lee Johnson, better known as Kimbra, is a New Zealand singer-songwriter/guitarist. I saw Kimbra for the first time at Coachella in April this year when she came out at Gotye's gig and sang *Somebody That I Used To Know*, song that not only brought her and him mainstream success but Grammy Nomination as well. At the end of the summer of 2012, I saw Kimbra again, this time at Rock En Seine an...

It is becoming some kind of yearly tradition for Gimme A Beat to visit and review Rock En Seine festival. What is the reason that every year I keep on going back to this festival? I guess it is a perfect balance of phenomenal line-up, location very close to Paris town and lots of cool, stylish visitors that are not only taking care of the style and what to wear, but really know how to enjoy the mu...

Blue Balls Festival took place for the first time in the evening of September 19, 1992, with an audience of 300 on the old steamboat "Stadt Luzern". Many years later and this festival with slightly inappropriate name for an English speaking artists and audience, is an international music festival with 100 000 visitors over nine days in July. The festival presents more then 100 shows with internati...

Exit Festival is an annual music festival that is taking place at 18th century Petrovaradin fortress of Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia since 2000. It started as a student initiated project against the Milosevic regime and over the years grew into the festival that is adored by artists and audiences all over the world. There are seven stages that are considered to be bigger ones: Main Stage, Dance Are...

I've been visiting this festival for few years already and I never got disappointed with a line up or an atmosphere. And  like in the previous years Les Eurockéennes de Belfort 2012 impressed me again. Still, let me remind you about this festival with few facts.. Les Eurockéennes de Belfort is a festival that is taking place on the peninsula of Malsaucy, near Belfort, France. Amazingly enough, eve...

Once upon the time, when MTV was still a music television, there was a magical show called Spankin' New Music. This show featured brand new releases of the moment. Here we are today, in June of 2012 and I feel that since the beginning of this year, music world has already been overloaded with amazing music from hot new artists and returning ones. So I decided to stop for a moment, take a deep brea...

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (commonly known as Coachella) is an annual three-day music and arts festival held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, in the Inland Empire's Coachella Valley. November 5, 1993 is marked as non official beginning of Coachella when Pearl Jam performed before almost 25,000 fans on the lawns of Indio's previously rock-festival free Empire Polo Clu...

California has been one of my dream travel destinations for many years.  And even before going there i had an idea, vivid image of it, based on the movies, books and music. Now, finally, at this very moment, I am not dreaming anymore about it, but experiencing it! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------...

The Duke Spirit is an English rock'n'roll band based in London with frontwoman Liela Moss, Luke Ford and Toby Butler on the guitars, Olly Betts on drums and Marc Sallis on the bass guitar. Even before hearing their music i heard (and read) a lot about their fantastic, energetic live performances. The magazines that I trust wrote good things about them, people that have similar taste to mine and th...

Last year in March, in the Gimme A Beat show that I called appropriately Daytrottering, I showed the love for one of the coolest music websites out there: Daytrotter. When I start listening to Daytrotter they were giving 7 original sessions, 28 songs for free each week. Over the years daytrotter guys recorded more then 2000 sessions and gave it for free to million of music lovers like me. Recently...

New Look is a Canadian husband-and-wife band currently based in Brooklyn, NY. The duo consists of synth-playing vocalist, former model, Sarah Ruba (doing mostly band related modelling nowadays ), and the multi-instrumentalist, producer Adam Pavao. They are signed with K7!, Berlin based label, established for over a decade and known for being one of the most influential independent  labels worldwid...

Nneka is the singer and songwriter, daughter of Nigerian father and German mother, who was born and raised in Warri, Oil City in the Delta region of Nigeria at the height of its new found wealth in the mid 70s. At the age of 19, Nneka made the big decision to leave behind the African way of life. In order to further her education, she moved to Hamburg in Germany, where she studied Anthropology and...

Fiona Daniel is a young, very talented female artist from Zurich, Switzerland. She plays several instruments and on top of that (somehow) she uses her own voice as an instrument as well. I saw Fiona for the first time when she guest appeared at the concert of my good friend, Lee Everton. He told me about her and how talented she was, but he never really prepared me for the experience that followed...