Throughout the week that starts today, here at GME, we shall be celebrating the Greek cuisine and, of course, the songs that contain references to it, to food and to its social significance. Today, Sakis Rouvas is cooking spaghetti, Arleta is dancing a “tsifteteli” with vinegar, Thanasis Gaifyllias rem...
The Dormition of the Virgin Mary, on August 15, is a major religious holiday. It is also a name day for several names including Maria, Mary, Panagiota and Despina. Here, at GME, we shall be celebrating together with all these people, listening to songs that refer to their names. Maria who was laughing,...
The Earthbound is a Greek band formed in Athens in 1998 by six members and former members of The Last Drive, Honeydive, Rockin' Bones and Engine-V. The band is led by prominent rock figures Alexis Kalofolias and Thanos Amorginos. After playing locally for about a year, the Earthbound recorded its debut...
Greek Music Express: GREEK ROCK PSYCHEDELIA: The alternative rock 1980s | 13.08.2025 The third part of our week-long tribute to Greek garage and psychedelic rock in the past and present turns to the 1980s, a decade of explosive creativity and originality. Our track list includes six bands that marked...
This week, here at GME, we have been returning to the rock soul of Greek music – fascinating bands and artists that demonstrate just how rich garage and psychedelic rock discography has been in this country. Today’s destination? Psychedelic Greece, then and now: Purple Overdose and No Man’s Land. A syn...
The Screaming Fly is an outstanding representative of Greece’s contemporary psychedelic rock scene. Their music, embedded into the best traditions of domestic and international rock, creates an environment of transcendence - timeless, powerful, ecstatic. Their 2019 album “Trip to Venus” was welcomed by cr...
A conversation with Jim Zervanos - writer, painter, educator and Greek-American storyteller whose words travel from hospital rooms to high school classrooms, from the most personal moments of illness to the shared search for meaning.
Jim’s memoir, That Time I Got Cancer: A Love Story, isn’t just abo...
Dimitris Kontolazos conveys the melodic mastery of Giorgos Hatzinasios while Katerina Stanisi and Themis Adamantidis reminds us of the depth and sheer force of Apostolos Kaldaras’ compositions. Zafeiris Melas meets the legacy of maestro Manos Hadjidakis and Konstantina sings Thanos Mikroutsikos. Welcome t...
Folk legend Dimitra Papiou singing an archontorebetiko classic by Nikos Gounaris. Popular divas Litsa Diamanti and Katerina Stanisi serving the extensive repertoire of art-folk maestro Stamatis Kraounakis. Pop-folk star Kaiti Garbi registering her name next to a masterpiece by art lyricist Lina Nikolakopoulou....
Is pop star Despina Vandi compatible with not one, not two, but three of Tsitsanis’ rebetiko classics? What is the connection between the queen of Greek pop, Anna Vissi, and art-folk composer Stavros Kougioumtzis? Has pop-folk diva Kaiti Garbi ever sung live a song by bouzouki soloist Thanasis Polykandriotis? A...
Konstantina’s live recording of a Mimis Plessas’ folk hit, Pashalis Terzis’ encounter with Christos Nikolopoulos, Antzela Dimitriou’s live cover of an Antonis Vardis’ masterpiece, Giorgos Mazonakis’ coexistence with Stamatis Kraounakis; these are some of the ingredients of today’s recipe here at GME, ...
Throughout the week that starts today, here at GME, we shall be enjoying recordings that highlight the blending of different traditions of popular song – unexpected encounters of pop artists or heavy folk vocalists singing art songs, and so on. Kelly Kellekidou sings Stamatis Kraounakis, Filippos N...
What does it mean to be Greek… when your Greek is imperfect?
When your name lives in two languages?
When home feels like both a place — and a question?
With special guests:
Dr. Eleni Hapidou, Greek-Canadian psychologist, on the invisible weight of hyphenated identity and inherited grief.
Artemis Tak...
100 years Mikis Theodorakis: Fresh & live
100 years Mikis Theodorakis: Global Mikis
100 years Mikis Theodorakis: His collaborations with international divas
100 years Mikis Theodorakis: Contemporary electronic remixes
100 years Mikis Theodorakis: His instrumental side
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