Category: Concerts

Metallica – Letnany Airfield, Prague 18.08.2019 – Concert Review

Heavy metal rarely becomes a stadium-size super production. It was never really meant to be a music for the masses, and even at it's commercial peak at the late 80s only a handful of heavy artists managed to cross over to the mainstream. And by heavy artists, I'm not talking about radio-friendly pop-music-with-added-distorted-guitars-to-make-it-sound-like-it's-actually-metal acts who … Continue reading Metallica – Letnany Airfield, Prague 18.08.2019 – Concert Review →

Cascada Live – The Ultimate Party Experience (?)

Let's talk about party music. Normally, when music nerds like me praise a certain song or album, they do so because certain attributes of the music are outstanding. In most cases, it's pretty common sense what these attributes are: the song's structure, its production quality, its lyrical content, its complexity, its melodic and harmonic inventiveness, … Continue reading Cascada Live – The Ultimate Party Experience (?) →

3 days, 2 countries, 2 concerts, 2 opposite ends of Synthwave

Synthwave is among the most exciting genres going on right now. If you're not familiar, it's a relatively new style of electronic music, which draws influence from 80s synthpop and film soundtracks, but combines them with contemporary production techniques. The result - if done well - sounds like a "nostalgia to an era that never … Continue reading 3 days, 2 countries, 2 concerts, 2 opposite ends of Synthwave →