Rock

Nickelback, the multi-platinum Canadian rockers, will release a new studio album, "Everything Under The Sun", on October 30, 2026. Check out the first single and video, Rattle The Cage (feat. John 5), below. "This album shows every…

Shinedown, the beloved American rockers, have announced that their new studio album "EI8HT" will drop on May 29 via Atlantic Records. They've also released a new single, Safe And Sound. Last year the band already dropped four big…

The Offspring, support act: Simple PlanFriday, 24.10.2025Linz / Tips Arena / Austria And here we are again, right in the thick of covering yet another nostalgic resurgence of 2000s punk rock. Back amid spiked hair, lip piercings,…

Duran DuranSaturday, 12. 7. 2025Forte Arena, Pula, Sardinia, Italy "Nick Rhodes, king of shoulder pads" Fate sometimes takes strange paths. Last year, for my birthday present, I arranged to see Duran Duran in Pula after thirteen…

SUM 41 (support: The Lunar Year)Venue: Opatija / Ljetna pozornica / CroatiaDate: 11. 6. 2023 SUM 41 again, just one day after the concert in Jesolo, Italy (review available here), this time at the Ljetna pozornica in Opatija.…

Self-releasedRelease date: June 19, 2021Production: Drago PopovičGenre: Rock / Pop / BluesRating: 9.0/10 After Hamo And Tribute 2 Love dropped their fourth studio album "4K" in 2019, everything was looking rosy for the band. Not…

Label: Dallas RecordsRelease date: 25. 2. 2021Production: Denis Horvat & Jure LesarAlbum length: 36.55 minGenre: singer-songwriter / Rock / PopRating: 8.0/10 At the end of this February, the second solo album from Slovenian…

Self-releasedRelease date: 31. 1. 2020Production: Matej GobecAlbum length: 28.37 minGenre: Rock/Alternative Rock/Pop RockRating: 8.0/10 Klon are yet another new homegrown rock outfit, this one hailing from the Savinja corner of…

"Rotten GrilZ thus deliver with "Punk You" a unique approach to fusing jazz and rock, and without a guitar! Of course, the scales tip toward jazzy free-spiritedness throughout, but the album (especially thanks to Eva Poženel) also leans…

"A concert of exceptional qualities, as one might quietly have expected. A concert that leaves you with powerful, intense feelings — and one that, even after it ends, holds you in a state of rapt absorption, caught in the creation of a…

Location: Kobarid / Trg svobode / SloveniaDate: Saturday, 20.07.2019 Summer is hot. Finally. Ahh, too hot. After July's concert onslaught, when we got drenched at gigs in Zagreb for Whitesnake, then at Križanke (Marcus Miller,…

"Šinobusi could have pulled off a fully retro-sounding prog rock album, but they'd rather stick to shorter, tightly arranged little tunes that pack in absolutely everything."

"Stik is a gorgeous proof that Jernej Zoran is becoming a great artistic aesthete, and one more confirmation of his flexible, expressive knack for blending the lightness of pop with bold, playful, even lucid, but always full-blooded,…

Location: Vienna / Wiener Stadthalle (Halle D) / AustriaDate: Wednesday, 01.05.2019 The yellow brick road doesn't just lead to Oz. In a career stretching all the way back to 1962, the one and only Sir Elton John has walked it too.…

Location: Ljubljana / Dvorana Stožice / SloveniaDate: Saturday, 27.04.2019 As Slovenia's biggest arena, Dvorana Stožice is usually reserved for the biggest names on the world music scene. Lenny Kravitz, who last played in Slovenia…

"Agora" is the debut studio album from seasoned, battle-tested musicians, the Slovenian jazz and blues rock sextet Emil And The Detectives, and it sounds like the seventies never ended."

Location: Trieste / Teatro Politeama Rossetti / ItalyDate: Thursday, April 18, 2019 It's not every day that Tedeschi Trucks Band roll into Europe. This is a 12-piece outfit led by the husband-and-wife team of the Truckses: slide…

"Right from the start, especially after the quirky and lucid escapades of their cheerful, always-up-for-a-good-joke leader Christian Kühn, Kuhn Fu made it clear they've got a mild, almost hidden "drawl" of parodic provocation, or, to put it…

Location: Tolmin / Kinogledališče Tolmin / SloveniaDate: Saturday, 23.03.2019 "Človek ni zver" ("Man Is No Beast"). Damn right. Compared to man, the beast is small fry. Man is of course far worse. There isn't a word that could even…

YouTube has been the go-to spot for promoting new tracks for a while now, with labels, musicians, producers and everyone else using it. In recent years, rock and metal fans have also been paying attention to players who want to show off…

"'Duša' is a really lovely, polished pop and rock album. In a way it reflects a distant, yet (in terms of Slovenian musical heritage) deeply internalized, 1980s pop-song sentiment, judging by its structure and emotional vibe. A personal,…

"What could be better than closing out the concert year in one of the coziest venues around, in the company of one of Slovenia's hottest bands right now? Cerkno, bar Gabrijel and... Prismojeni profesorji bluesa, of course."

"A night with Bad Notion's brilliance that seemed to have no end. A night of fantastic retro-nostalgic reliving of the elemental feelings written into the saga of the blues, which live on so authentically in the bloodstream of these…

"An album that grumbles with style."

"Brencl Banda won over Cerkno with an incredibly convincing, deeply internalized knack for walking the invisible thin line that fuses the quartet's improvisational sensitivity on one side with a masterfully maintained, highly invasive…

place: Tolmin / Sotočje / Slovenia date: 18.08.2018 If day one of Motörcity festival was the more colorful one internationally, day two, with six acts in total, was all about waving Slovenian and British flags. Around midday the sky…

location: Tolmin / Sotočje / Slovenia date: 18.08.2018 A year has rolled by and the second Motörcity festival has landed in Tolmin. The second! A fresh gem for the Slovenian music scene, which keeps growing and maturing, meaning it's…

location: Bled / Jezerska promenada / Slovenia date: 02.08.2018 English guitar legend and folk rock pioneer Richard Thompson first rose to fame as a founding member of the unforgettable folk rock icons Fairport Convention, with…

We caught up with one of the most exciting bands in Slovenia, Prismojeni profesorji bluesa, before their show at Kino Šiška to talk about their first live album, playing stages in America, and what's next.

"“Stoletni ples” is a magnificent album from a mature band. It took a good while to make, but the payoff is an exceptional level of polish and refinement. In these songs you can feel the band's real power and their by now “folk-classic”,…

"El Kachon don't surprise anymore with »Permanently Lubricated Nuts«. With the new album they're cementing their recognizable spot on the Slovenian music landscape."

"Lukna was really going off that night. The night was long, and the buzz about El Kachon's great new live show didn't fade for ages after the gig. "

Location: Zagradec / Park "Loka" / SloveniaDate: Saturday, 07.09.2013 This time it went off in Lower Carniola! Between Žužemberk and the Krka! Near Zagradec. A stone's throw from one of the most beautiful rivers in Slovenia. I'm…

"In the Bush" is without a doubt a standout for the Slovenian music scene and one of the best records the Slovenian market received in 2013."

"»Drenov Grič« hasn't just held onto the musical identity Nula Kelvina laid out on their debut, it digs deeper into that story and stretches it wider."

"The album "Možgani na paši" is a pearl that the label Celinka found at the right moment, in the right place. Check it out, no excuses. The most authentic gist of Slovenianness in poetry and music. Wash at Nula Kelvina, so your brains light…