Hot town, summer in the city! The music never stops…but at some point, your loyal correspondent will need a break from slaving over a hot computer in the concrete jungle of Vienna-Neubau. With that in mind: behold, your Austrian Music Highlights for … read more »
There’s a lot to hear this March and April. The releases keep releasing and the good vibes keep flowing – just in time for the festival season about to kick off. Music is to spring like butter is to bread – it’s … read more »
A new feature of the Waves Conference program this year, “POPULAR MUSIC, EQUITY, DIVERSITY: The Struggle for Creative Justice” was created and hosted by Rosa Reitsamer and Rainer Prokop from the the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (MdW) and offered … read more »
Growing up in the working-class district of Ottakring in Vienna, the siblings Esra and Enes Özmen have found in hip hop the perfect medium to make themselves heard and to give recognition to their own world with all its conflicts. Together they … read more »
Esra and Enes Özmen are Austrian siblings with Turkish roots. As EsRAP, they give the outside world access to their inner conflicts and feelings. This past weekend at the Vienna Waves Festival Conference, Esra contributed to an inspring Roundtable on “popular music, … read more »
What do sports cages, concerts, block parties, podcasts and art exhibitions, as well as the Wiener Symphoniker, Dorian Concept, KeKe, Gazelle & the Bear, EsRAP, Lukas König, Elis Noa and Laura Winkler, ALL have to do with one another? If you attend … read more »
Asia is geographically the largest continent on the earth: it reaches from Siberia to India, from Lebanon to Japan. And as equally as diverse is the asian music scene in Vienna, almost the entire continent is represented in the city – a … read more »