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I haven’t posted any music for a while, but earlier today came across an artist I used to like some time ago, Justyna Steczkowska. I haven’t heard her latest music, but if the newest video is an indication of her current musical preferences, I don’t think I’m interested. Her older stuff is much more interesting. [...]

If you, like me, have become addicted to Spotify, the brilliant new music service which allows you to create and share free collaborative playlists, you may enjoy this. The link below is the Polski Blog’s ‘Best of Polish Music’ playlist (thanks Kai for the idea) which you can open (using Spotify, of course), listen to [...]

Poland has never embraced a music single in the way the Western world did. There have always been singles, but mainly as songs on the radio – those that were available in shops, if at all, were never popular. Therefore Poland has never had ‘proper’ charts based on record sales. With piracy in Poland in [...]

Another relatively big international name records a single with a Polish artist. This time it’s Wyclef Jean who’s teamed up with a Polish singer Tatiana Okupnik to record a song called ‘Valentine’, released on 14th February (obviously). Tatiana used to be in a Polish group called Blue Cafe but went solo around 2005. She has [...]

My recent music posts concentrated mostly on some new Polish artists, but I’ve just come across a really old video which gave me goose pimples and made me shout with joy. Everybody, may I introduce you to one of the best Polish bands ever, Maanam. At the height of their career – and this was [...]

And now for something completely… quirky. Czesław śpiewa (Czesław Sings) is a one-man band by a 29-year-old Pole, Czesław, who left Poland as a kid and settled in Denmark with his parents. He recently returned to Poland and now lives in Kraków, which probably inspires his quirky blend of rock, cabaret, folk and whatever else. [...]

The American director gave his first ever concert in Warsaw on Sunday night. The filmmaker, playing the clarinet, was accompanied by his New Orleans Jazz Band. Three thousand people gave them a standing ovation. He’d played Budapest the night before. I was surprised to see how many outlets have covered the story online. (OK, it’s [...]

A couple of weeks ago I gave my old Polish friend Joanna a task – find me some Polish music, but surprise me. (After all she’s still in Poland and knows what’s cool.) No shitty meowing, no boring old fart recycling the same stuff over and over again. And she came back with this: Oszibarack. [...]