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From headliners Volbeat and The Smashing Pumpkins to new discoveries Goose and Bastille to personal favorites Hurts and Triggerfinger, this year’s Gurtenfestival...
In the end, it came down to a battle of the bands. Two giants of the Swiss music scene, barely known outside the country but huge in Switzerland, they’ve both been going strong for 20-odd years, both have had hits that every Swiss child can...
„This next song is more complex“, says Steven Wilson towards the end of his two-hour set at the Z7 in Pratteln. The audience cracks up laughing. Even at his...
Belgium’s K’s Choice played a pared-down set at the Grand Casino in Basel to a highly appreciative audience on January 20th. Normally a six-piece, for this acoustic tour...
New York dance-punk outfit The Rapture are feeling gregarious. As they bid farewell to the crowd before finishing their Zurich show, singer Luke Jenner asks: "You wanna come to...
A curtain obscures the stage. Tom Waits is intoning the spooky What’s He Building in his gravelly voice. The lights on stage flicker on and off, throwing silhouetted shadows onto the curtain, prompting screams from the assembled...
Staring at cows at 2 a.m., dancing in the moonlight, and wearing a cowboy hat in Switzerland – it all made sense at the time. A music festival is nothing if not a world unto itself, and...
Huge stars in their native Denmark, Carpark North are gaining momentum in these parts as well, not least thanks to their tireless touring. It says a lot about a band when...