Belgrade Music Scene in NY Times

If you don’t believe me, try New York Times. Rachel Doyle writes about several Belgrade clubs, as well as hot young bands.

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all i’ve ever learned from love …

Leonard Cohen is a gentlemen. The kind, who wears and suit and a hat. Which he raises from his head, in a sign of respect. A kind that will mean less and less in the days to come.
In little more than two and a half hours of playing, he turned Belgrade’s Arena, which is essentially [...]

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They Call Me K.O.F.Y.

A frequent objection to Serbian pop music scene is that it bears no reflection of realities of life in our country, that musicians are too involved with themselves and without ambitions. Then again, the same criticism could be applied to music scene in general. Anywhere. Posture over attitude, crate digging over originality, even indie bands [...]

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what’s next for music

Faced with the widespread torrent or p2p network downloads, record companies are teaming up with social networks trying to monetize on the increasing online participation.
MySpace Music being the last foray in this area.
As a social network, MySpace has been associated with teenagers and unsigned musicians, who hoped to be spotted and propelled into stardom (there [...]

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