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Already this Sunday 26^th of May, are Sea and Air – if you translate it from German (Sie und Er) means she and he – coming to the LMB. They are on spring tour through Europe now, stopping also in Prague. This married duo – German rocker Daniel Benjamin and Greece dancer Eleni Stavros – is able to bring the magic to the stage, with their airy vocals and the knowledge to play 5 instruments at the same time. They don’t need samplers; they just need an acoustic guitar, cembalo, organ, drums and a glockenspiel. Their music is described as atmospheric indie rock with cembalo, More

This Thursday is the very talented reggae singer Gappy Ranks coming, the voice of European urban music! He will show us, how reggae, dancehall and hip hop can go together. His family has roots in Jamaica, but he grew up in the streets of London, where he made in the beginning of 2010 contact with the famous label Greensleeves Records. Here his first album “Put the stereo on” came out. In this particular time he was supported by the producer and owner of the label Peckgings and they started to release new songs on old reggae riddims, e.g. “Studio One”. More

Rhytms and melodies of the roots reggae can be soon heard in Prague’s Lucerna Music Bar this August! The music band Groundation belongs together with SOJA to the absolute base of current overseas reggae scene. Their music is influenced by everyday life as well as rastafari spirituality. Groundation will perform for the first time ever in Czech Republic during their European festival tour on August 12 at Lucerna Music Bar. „If you don’t know your past, you don’t know your future,“ is a statement that captures Groundation’s music fully. More

Kurt Vile has a way of tying time in knots. You can hear it on his new album Smoke Ring For My Halo from the get-go – the pinwheeling guitars and reaching atmospheres of ‘Baby’s Arms’ are as strange as they are familiar: a demonstration of how Kurt can put worn methods and sounds through himself and end up with something that isn’t emotionally or sonically obvious. Instead we’re left with a record that contains traces of the past but doesn’t waste precious time in the now being reverent. Once compared to Leonard Cohen, Tom Petty, Psychic TV, and Animal Collective in the same review (for 2009’s Childish Prodigy) More

We have two news, which will make the fans of Front Line Assembly happy: Bill Leeb & co. are right now finishing their new album, which will come out in June. And they will go on tour through Europe, with a stop in Prague! Already last year we informed you, that Front Line Assembly are working on their new album, with the plan to go back to the roots. So get ready on 15^th of August, support band will be the legendary band Haujobb! More

In 2009 was one of the biggest surprises at Planet Festival the British band The Boxer Rebellion. About their great show were written many great reviews, musicserver.cz wrote: “great, great and great!”. The Boxer Rebellion are a phenomenon of alternative rock, which does not like to follow any rules. “This band can change your life”, wrote the British NME. Their songs are unbelievably epic and surprisingly personal and melodic. More

The concert of the American band Stone Sour, which was planed for the 20^th of June in the Lucerna Music Bar, is for many weeks sold out already. Because of the big interest, the concert will be moved to the big hall of Lucerna. The tickets bought for the LMB are valid. Tickets are still available for 750,-Kc (+fee) at Ticketpro, Ticketstream, Ticketportal and Eventim. More info at www.dsmacku.com a www.stonesour.com.

In case you like modern reggae dancehall with a little spice of R&B and hip hop, then you heard for sure of this very talented guy named Gappy Ranks. His family has roots in Jamaica, but he grew up in the streets of London, where he made in the beginning of 2010 contact with the famous label Greensleeves Records. The song “Heaven In Your Eyes” became a #1 reggae hit in Great Britain and got Gappy a spot in the big radios. Already in 2008 he released a crazy combination “What Do We Do” in the production of Kray Twinz feat. Twista, Lethal B. One year later came the hits “Rising Out of the Ghetto”, “Billionaire” and “Stinkin Rich” out. More

Jake Bugg, Nottingham’s newest hitmaker has announced his premiere show in the Czech Republic! To date Jake has taken the UK by storm. He’s been on Radio 1 playlists, supported The Stone Roses at an already legendary secret gig in London and has support dates with Noel Gallagher in the UK and Europe on the horizon, as well as his first trip to the USA in support of Noel and Snow Patrol. Support has come across the board, from the NME, Clash, The Fly, i-D, The Observer, Independent On Sunday, The Sun, The Daily Star and more. He is a unique artist right now, a working class kid with an acoustic guitar set to take the world by storm with his perfectly poised songs about growing up and his hometown of Nottingham. More