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Woog Riots
12+ albums
popindie popgermanindietwee
about
Woog Riots are Silvana Battisti and Marc Herbert. In March 2016 the duo will release their 5th album "Alan Rusbridger". Their career in pop music began in 2004 when they compiled and curated an international tribute sampler dedicated to Manchester's indie icons “The Fall”. The double CD was released on the Hamburg based "What's So Funny About" label, run by Alfred 'the record Pope' Hilsberg, the same label handled the first three Woog Riots albums. Sung in English, their electro flavoured three minute garage-come-broadway-hit songs cover various phenomena of culture, pop and politics. Promotional tours to the USA, Great Britain, Finland, Italy, Poland and the Netherlands have been greeted with zealous reactions and a steady growth of their following on the underground network. 'From LoFi to Disco!'....not only perfectly describes the building blocks of Woog Riots' musical world, but also supplies the name of their own Independent label, launched in 2013 with an album of the same title. Executed with much drive and energy, Battisti and Herbert's new venture has already attracted other artists such as "Umherschweifende Produzenten" (aka Knarf Rellöm) and "The Spaghetti Wings" to release material with them. Art, Pop, Pop about Art… in February 2013 Woog Riots wrote a song as an invitation to the Art exhibition “Powerpoint” by Michael Riedel, which took place in the rooms of New York Top Galerist David Zwirner. The New York press described the song as "up-beat, euro-pop dance t
