Bulgarian music

Nikola Gruev-Kottarashky is a musician and composer who fuses original recordings.

He personally defines his style as "Balkan psychedelic", but critics consider him as part of the "Balkan beat wave". 

The Bulgarian stands a real chance of winning the BBC Songlines Remix Competition.

Almost 50% of Bulgarians like chalga. This is indicated by the results of a Trend poll. 48% of the participants answered positively whether they liked pop folk music. 41% of the respondents are of the opposite opinion.

The ReForget Your Past exhibition will showcase the results of the project of the photographer Nikola Mihov who invited 30 Bulgarian and international artists - painters, photographers, designers and graffiti artists, asking each of them to transform a copy of his photobook Forget Your Past.

Bulgaria's capital Sofia offers a huge variety of styles and cultural opportunities, a recent feature about the city reads.

Cobined with pictures and videos, the text has been published by The Guardian and authored by Bistra Andreeva, "a literary translator, conference interpreter, culture journalist and Sofia fan".

Kottarashky & The Rain Dogs are the Bulgarian band listed at the upcoming EXIT Festival. The fifteenth consecutive edition of the Balkan festival will be held July 9 to 12 at the Petrovaradinsk fortress in Novi Sad, Serbia.

The Bulgarian band will perform at the EXIT Fusion Stage.

Bulgaria's Council for Electronic Media (CEM) is planning to “limit” the airing of the rap song Vidimo Dovolni (Apparently Pleased), reports the bTV national channel. 

According to the watchdog, the lyrics of the song, performed by rapper Krisko and pop singer Maria Ilieva were “harmful to the moral and psychological health of children”. 

The recently elected for MEP journalist-turned-politician Nikolai Barekov on Sunday called a group of metalheads “a pack of drug addicts”, because they jeered at him.