Canadian musician, songwriter and producer Devin Townsend started out as a lead vocalist for guitarist Steve Vai in the early 1990s before going on to form his own bands (such as Strapping Young Lad and the Devin Townsend Project), creating side projects, and releasin
Ever since the world’s first satellite was launched in 1957, all kinds of debris have accumulated in space, creating a risk to spaceflight. In addition to the 2,000 working satellites orbiting our planet, there are over 3,000 abandoned ones...
Swedish post-metal group Cult of Luna brought a bombastic and hypnotic fusion of post-rock, doom metal, and electronic atmospheres to the Z7 Konzertfabrik in Pratteln, where they were supported by post-rock trio A.A. Williams (UK) and the punk-ish post-hardcore Brutus (Belgium).
Monochromatic but far from monotone, Greg Gonzalez and his Brooklyn-based dream pop band Cigarettes After Sex entranced their devoted audience at the delightfully intimate Plaza in Zürich.
There are rock stars, and then there are Rock Stars - capital R, capital S. Rival Sons singer Jay Buchanan is a Rock Star. Blessed with powerful vocals and oodles of charisma, he brings to mind the strutting frontmen of yore.
"Right, chaps, are we ready?" is not a phrase you would necessarily expect to hear at a progressive metal concert. But that's exactly what amiable Opeth singer Mikael Åkerfeldt asked his fellow musicians midway through the band's show at the Volkshaus in Zurich, before launching into another of their complex, multi-layered songs.
What do you get when two masters of between-song banter share the Baloise Session stage? A highly entertaining evening and music to die for. Both Tom Walker and Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody have a knack for telling stories, taking the mick, and just generally spreading cheer.
Cowboy hats and cowboy boots - that's the first thing you noticed walking into the Baloise Session on October 15th, 2019. Switzerland's country music fans had gathered to see one of the genre's biggest stars, Brad Paisley.
You know someone's a star when they step onto a stage and command a whole room in two minutes flat. Not only that, but they have such a distinctive voice that you'd recognise it anywhere within seconds. One such star is German singer-songwriter Herbert Grönemeyer, who opened this year's Baloise Session.
