On November 15, 2016, the famous French musician, composer and producer Jean Michel Jarre is returning to Slovenia. The pioneer of electronic music performed here once, namely in 2008, when he impressed Halo Tivoli as part of a tour adapted for smaller and more intimate venues. After a six-year hiatus, he is now returning to the big stage.
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Musicians, especially female musicians, have not been afraid to show their bare skin in music videos for a long time, but if you thought the music video for the song Wrecking Ball by the American singer Miley Cyrus was scandalous, then you haven't seen these videos. Madonna, Nine Inch Nails, Nicki Minaj, NWA, Marilyn Manson and Robin Thicke. Who would have thought that these musicians have something in common. But all of them became targets of many music television stations, which for one reason or another banned their music videos.
The traditional creative and entertainment event for young people, Rhythm of Youth, is celebrating its 10th birthday this year. The party organized by Collegium Mondial Travel and Radio Antena is moving from a warm September evening to December. The Rhythm of Youth 2016 is moving to Arena Stožice and this time it will be held on December 9. We are in for a big party with Siddhartha, Big Foot Mama and Umek at the helm. Tickets will be available soon.
Ouch! The Fresh Island 2016 festival, whose beginnings date back to 2012 and which the organizers present as the first European hip-hop festival, will once again take place on the Croatian beach of Zrće this year. You are probably wondering when hip-hop will be held in Pag? July 12-14, 2016. Will you be there?
The FM4 Frequency festival is one of the largest Austrian music festivals. It is prepared and promoted by FM4 radio. The lineup consists of rock, electronic, hip-hop and alternative subgenres. The beginnings of the festival date back to 2001, when the event was still called the Vienna City Festival. The festival was later moved to the Salzburgring, and since 2009 the event has been hosted by the Green Park in St. Pölten. The festival will take place between August 18 and 20, 2016. Tickets are already available.
For fans of the super band Swedish House Mafia, this year promises a big (nostalgic) treat. In Lignano, former members Axwell and Sebastian Igrosso will perform as a duet after the breakup of the group. But that's not all. DJs will delight fans of electronic music as part of the Project X festival with Axwell Λ Ingrossa between July 8 and 9, 2016. Do not miss the opportunity and take part in the biggest cross-border Slovenian-Italian festival to date.
The Electric Love festival (2016) will take place in Salzburg for the fourth time this year. This electronic music festival attracts thousands of fans and famous DJ names from all over the world every year. The excellent location near the Salzkammergut district inspires the event with the magic of nature. Among others, Jack Ü, Armin Van Buuren, Hardwell, Nicky Romero, DVBBS, KSHMR, Afrojack and Alan Walker will perform. Tickets are already on sale.
Summer is also enriched every year by music festivals, which attract the young and the young at heart, lovers of music, fun and the scorching sun, to various venues across Europe. Which music festivals should not be missed this year, and where and when we can go to a festival in the coming months, below. Here are the 2016 music festivals not to be missed!
Ever since they renovated the embankment of the Ljubljanica, called Špica, there are throngs of people there, just like when it was a popular Ljubljana bathing place there. In addition to the renovation of the embankment, credit for this also goes to Špica Caffe, which will soon celebrate its first anniversary. This year's summer will also be colorful on Špica, because there will be concerts, dance events, and educational and children's workshops again. The first gathering of the year with music awaits us already on June 17, 2016, when the Croatian group Otprilike Ovako will fill the room with music in the evening.
Hot producer Gramatik is once again coming to Križanke in Ljubljana, whose unique set varies between dubstep, electro, trip and hip hop. After many sold-out concerts around the world, an interview with CNN, a performance at the Coachella festival in collaboration with the legendary Wu-Tang Raekwon and his remix of Eric Kras' piece Torture in the Narcos series, he returns to his home soil with a musical treat.
The OverJam Raggea festival will once again provide for a relaxed summer vacation this year. In the natural surroundings of the Soča River, not far from the Triglav National Park, between August 15 and 20, 2016, music stages and full tents will come alive under the control of reggae rhythms. The opening party is scheduled for August 15, the festival will take place from August 16 to 19, and an unforgettable afterparty is expected on August 20. Children will also be taken care of, who will be able to participate in various workshops in as many as four languages as part of the Overjam 4 Kidz program. Tickets for the event are now available.
Justin Timberlake recently returned to the music scene after a three-year hiatus. He announced his comeback in style, with the song Can't Stop the Feeling, which many have already declared as the anthem of the summer and the successor to the song Happy, which we rocked to last summer. Before the official music video, Timberlake first impressed with the star version, but now the two got serious competition in the music video, which was shot by the Victoria's Angels for the same song, using the lip sync technique.