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 »
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Austrian Artists at Reeperbahn Festival 2022
From September 21-24, a selection of some of the most promising young artists will perform at REEPERBAHN FESTIVAL 2022 in Hamburg for this year’s edition of Germany’s largest club festival. The program is out, and on it are almost too many Austrian artists to … read more »
Austrian Music Highlights #13
With broad, teethy smiles, we can finally rejoice and affirm: It’s not only raining rain (though it’s doing that too), but, alas, it’s also raining concerts! Yes, dear people, we hereby declare: The season of touring and live shows has officially begun! … read more »
c/o Pop Festival 2022
c/o pop Festival brings us five days full of pop culture, live in Cologne, from April 20 – 24, 2022! This year, BILDERBUCH is the festival headliner, with FRIEDBERG, BUNTSPECHT, VERIFIZIERT and TAKESHI’S CASHEW packing the lineup as well. Since 2003, c/o … read more »
Verifiziert
The young newcomer Verifiziert from Vienna is no longer just an insider’s tip. With her first EP “Sonntag 17:00” as well as the singles “Schlaflos” and “Asphalt” she immediately became a sensation and generated remarkable reach. On her last releases she collaborated … read more »
“I THINK IT’S STUPID THAT THERE IS ONLY THIS UMBRELLA TERM, DEUTSCH-RAP” – ELI PREISS
With ELI PREISS, the Austrian music scene has gained an exceptionally authentic artist in recent years, who has been met with great acclaim in the German-speaking world. After initially singing English lyrics, the 23-year-old Viennese has now turned to German R&B and … read more »
The Top 10 newcomers from Austria – Michel’s Sound of Music 2022
MICHEL ATTIA is considered “one of the experts on music and the scene,” (Rainer Krispel, The Gap 057). He is Head of Booking & Events at Radio FM4 and was one of the very first editors of The Gap. For the last … read more »
FM4 Soundpark Act of the Month: Verifiziert
The FM4 Soundpark is a web-platform, community, and radio show for Austrian musicians. Every month, one act is selected to be highlighted both online and on air. Pure melancholy and nights of reveling: VERIFIZIERT is the Soundpark Act of the Month of November. … read more »
A New Era – Austro Rap 2006-2021
A slightly overlapping sequel to this “Telling of stories without claiming completeness” from 2013 by Stefan „Trishes“ Trischler (Radio FM4) When the noughties turned into the tens, hip hop in Austria still sounded largely like the so-called “Golden Era” ideal that producers … read more »