Monika

The young band also have a single upcoming NYC show.

The multi-venue Great Escape Festival takes place in the seaside resort town of Brighton, England from May 19 – 21. Like SXSW or Pop Montreal, the focus is really about discovering new bands, but some names already familiar to us include charismatic queer rapper Cakes Da Killa, Dilly Dally, the great Third Man Record-signed country artist Margo […]

It’s an action-packed, international Hump Day with Destruction Unit, Beach House, the UK’s Telegram, Tel Aviv’s A-Wa, Greek singer Monika, Sweden’s Summer Heart, Norwegian garage rockers Death by Unga Bunga and more.

SXSW already announced its initial lineup of 2016 showcasing artists, and now they’ve announced another batch, including White Lung, Tacocat, Blanck Mass, Basia Bulat, Diarrhea Planet, Ezra Furman, Gwenno, Hooton Tennis Club, Monika, PINS, September Girls, Spain, Yung, and lots more…

Because of CMJ, we’re doing ‘What’s Going On’ slightly different this week. Each day there’s a handful of day shows which are listed first, followed by the night sh…

Greek artist Monika releases her new album, Secret in the Dark, next Friday (10/2). As mentioned, it was produced by Homer Steinweiss of The Dap-Kings & Menahan Street Band, features a lot of the Daptone players…

Greek singer Monika was already a star in her native country when she visited NYC a couple years ago. A fan of Sharon Jones and Amy Winehouse, she visited Daptone Records’ Brooklyn HQ, knocked on the front door and ended up playing demos for the Dap Kings’ Homer Steinweiss…