Phobia is a webzine focused mainly on the underground metal music scene with occasional flights to mainstream bands.
Phobia is a webzine focused mainly on the underground metal music scene with occasional flights to mainstream bands.
Each of us can be a frontman, this is one of the starting points of the new magazine for active musicians Frontman, which officially launched on Wednesday, March 13, 2013. Its intention is to support the Czech music scene, be an inspiration for beginners and advanced musicians, inspire them and in the long run horizon to significantly contribute to the improvement and enhancement of the Czech cultural environment.
Frontman.cz is operated by Kytary.cz.
HardMusicBase.cz is exclusively an informative web, based on the database of groups and performers from the hard & heavy music scene. The goal is to provide quality and reliable information to people who are mostly interested in metal and rock music including its various offshoots. The content of the website is made up of our own creative work as well as materials from publicly accessible sources such as YouTube, Bandcamp, Facebook social networks, Twitter etc.
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Online portal about non-comercial music which is looking for new ways of art expressing. It is also focused on composition, improvisation - jazz, ambient, noise etc.
Mission
The Czech Music Information Centre provides information about Czech musical project and events, and promotes contemporary Czech music both at home and abroad.
Activities
The Czech Music Information Centre gathers documentation pertaining to Czech contemporary composers, musicians and events, maintains an archive of sheet music and recordings, mediates information about Czech musical life, holds lectures and classes, organises concerts, sells CDs and issues publications (see below).
Financing sources
The Czech Music Information Centre provides its services owing to grants from the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the City of Prague, the Czech Music Fund and other public sources.
Publications
1. Czech Music Quarterly – a quarterly in English.
2. HIS Voice – a bimonthly in Czech, since 2015 only in an online version.
3. Composer Portraits – a series of CDs with Czech composers profiles.
Documentation and archive
The Czech Music Information Centre’s public archive possesses the largest collection of scores of works by Czech composers, most of them dating from 1945 up to the present time. It also contains CDs, LPs and audio tapes with music by contemporary Czech composers, books, magazines and copies of articles. The Centre is in close contact with libraries, publishers and festival organisers in the Czech Republic, and provides comprehensive information about Czech classical music. It cultivates a multimedia online database of Czech composers at the address www.musicbase.cz. The Czech Music Information Centre website also encompasses lists of the deaths of composers, a summary of anniversaries, a digest of competitions and training courses, news and other information.
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Praha
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Praha 7
17000