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ZIKAMART FESTIVAL

September 11 & 12  the Zikamart Festival awaits you @ the Belle Usine in Fully (VS) for 2 nights of Rock & Electro… as well as to get ready for next year’s party (the festival will celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2016…:-)

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Friday will rock with Bottle Next, Black Box Revelation, Duck Duck Grey Duck:

& The Last Moan:

who’ll be presenting a special project for the occasion.

Oh and good news:  17.00 to 19:00 it’ll be free entry for you, with Overgrass:

On Saturday the gas goes on with Vouipe:

Larytta:

Bloody Beetroots (SBCR DJ Set) and Carbon-Airways who’ll make you dance ’till the early hours of the morning!

C U IN FULLY FOLKS!!!

TOHU BOHU FESTIVAL

11. edition for the Tohu Bohu Festival, september 4 & 5  2015 in Veyras sur Sierre.
Many international as well as Swiss acts will guarantee a great and varied musical highlight.

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4. September: Charlie Winston, Talisco, Goose, Aurélie Emery, The Last Moan, Vouipe, QLONS
5. September:
Youssoupha, Protoje & The Indiggnation, Blitz The Ambassador, Shantel DJ Session, Kya Bamba, Helium Echoes, The Giants with Special Guest Sola Kamba

C U THERE FOLKS!!!

JVAL, JVAL, JVAL!!!!

A garden in the vineyards, herbs along the paths, a vegetable garden right next to the stage, a few bars surrounded by roses and shrubs: here’s is the unique context of the incredible JVAL Openair.
Don’t miss out on great international acts like Balthazar, Andy Shauf, Pulled Apart by Horses or Madjo and just as great swiss acts like:

LiA:

Jonas:

Dear Deër:

Monoski:

Solange La Frange:

La Gale & Tunksten

Here’s an exhaustive playlist brought to you by JVAL with all the swiss acts of this edition:

MYCOKEMUSIC SOUNDCHECK 2015

Der grösste Newcomer- Band-Wettbewerb der Schweiz bietet dir und deiner Band wieder die Chance, in die Fussstapfen von ehemaligen Siegern wie 77 Bombay Street, Rambling Wheels, Rag Dolls oder The Bullet zu treten!

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Der Sieger erhält eine Barsumme von CHF 20’000 für karrierefördernde Massnahmen wie z.B. Studioaufnahmen, Musikequipment, Videoclips, Fotoshooting, Website etc. Zudem werden CHF 30’000 in Form von Beratungsleistungen und Hilfsmittel an die Gewinnerband zur Verfügung gestellt.
Melde deine Band sofort an und lass sie von der Fachjury (Noah Veraguth von Pegasus, Produzent Roman Camenzind und Musikmanager Reto Lazzarotto) in den Halbfinal wählen!
Als Halbfinalisten erhält Ihr bereits karrierefördernde Tools wie Fotoshooting, Videoclips, und ein Workshop für Social- Media und PR mit einem Musikprofi.
Das Publikum erhält dann in einem zweiten Schritt die Möglichkeit, Euch als eine von drei Bands ins Finale zu wählen.
In einem spektakulären Finale mit Live-Auftritten am 31.10.2015 im Plaza Zürich wird die Fachjury den Gewinner des Soundcheck 2015 küren.
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SOYEZ GOURMANDS!!! VENEZ AU CHOCOLATE FESTIVAL

Venez goûter à la 10ème édition du Chocolate Festival

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… les Pyramides de Vidy, au bord du lac Léman à Lausanne, vibreront à nouveau aux sons d’artistes suisses tels que Masaya, Patrick Podage, Central Rodeo, Jacqui et Reber. Une ambiance croquante dotée d’une vue savoureuse assurera deux jours de dégustation rythmée de sonorités électroniques acidulées!!!

THE SUBURBAN SOUNDS AWAIT!!!

Always very much appreciated for its cozy and relaxed atmosphere, as well as the quality of the line-up of course, the Vorstadt Sounds Festival offers an exciting overview of the Swiss music scene on May 15 & 16  2015 with innovative, fresh bands in Zurich-Albisrieden.

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With 21 bands on 3 stages it offers an attractive and varied programme at absolutely reasonable prices.

Line-up Friday, May 15: Tobias Carshey, Josh, Yellow Teeth, Missue, Les Bon Vivants, Myself When Young, Artlu Bubble & the Dead Animal Gang, Torp & Abraxas Axents
Saturday, May 16: Reza Dinally, Huck Finn, Silver Firs, The Birthday Girls, Tawara, Transistor Girl, Mettiwetti, Zebra, Akin To Parrots & Loophole

XTRA BOOST FOR YOUR MUSIC

SWISSCOM MUSIC BOOSTER is a fresh, interactive approach to sponsoring.

smb_maIt doesn’t matter if we’re talking equipment, tour, special concert, new CD or video clip… start your crowdfunding campaign on wemakeit right now and benefit from the Swisscom Music Booster!

But you gotta get a move on: Swisscom will pay the second third only to the first 20 bands and musicians who’ll secure 33% of thier funding goal…

This is real, true, proper support ladies & gentlemen…

Got a plan or a project??? LET IT BE BOOSTED!!!smb_fm

LES HIVERNALES… how cool was that!

All good things come to an end… so it’s with a heavy heart that we say: C U NEXT YEAR FOLKS!!!

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Les Hivernales ladies & gentlemen is one of the finest things that winter brings to the music lovers in good old Switzerland.

4 days of rock’n'beat in plenty of different venues all over the lovely town of Nyon, with worldwide known acts but also great local bands and artists.

Here’s the proof (our special correspondent Onésia made some great pics we’d like to share with you):

ROOTWORDS – NEW BROOKLYN VIDEO

Rootwords won the Swiss Live Talents URBAN AWARD in 2013!!!
This brought him to New York in october 2014, where he performed several shows at the CMJ festival…

He took the opportunity to shoot a video in the streets of Brooklyn & here it is.

Enjoy folks! It’s called THE BOX:

PS: you can still register for Swiss Live Talents until 14.2.2015… & as you can see, it’s worth a try!!!

BEST SWISS VIDEO CLIP – time to vote!

The m4music-Festival & Solothurner Filmtage  – in collaboration with Mx3 – are looking for the BEST SWISS VIDEO CLIP 2015
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235(!!!) videos entered the contest and have been screened at the 50. edition of the Solothurner Filmtagen gezeigt.

Jury selected the 5 following clips:

“Du bisch willkomme” – EFFE
“Into the Wild” – BONAPARTE
“Countless Roads” – JAMES GRUNTZ
“Solar Soliloquy” – AUDIO DOPE
“Osama Obama” – LARYTTA

Every nomination got 1000.-, sponsored by Fondation SUISA!

You can vote now for your favourite clip. The winner of the public award will get 5000.- CHF!!!

The «Best Swiss Video Clip» will be awarded on march 26,  2015, for the opening of the  m4music-festival in Lausanne.