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Australian rock icon Nick Cave and his band, the Bad Seeds, are coming to Athens for a single show as part of an eight-week European tour, on Thursday, November 16. Concertgoers will be treated to songs from Cave's latest album, "Skeleton Tree," as well as old favorites. Tickets for the show at the Faliro Sports Arena in southern Athens, costing 40 and 50 euros, are selling out fast.

The OTE Group announced on Wednesday the completion of the first phase of the country's largest telecommunications infrastructure upgrade project in recent decades, with the increase in the number of street cabinets connected with optical fibers coming to more than 13,000.

Twenty of the largest archaeological sites and museums in Greece will gain access to wireless internet (Wi-Fi), according to the Ministry of Culture.

Israeli choreographer Noa Wertheim and her Vertigo ensemble perform at the Kalamata International Dance Festival on Tuesday, July 18, at the city's Dance Megaron. The performance, "Yama" (Pond), was inspired by the movement of water, and addresses the limitations of human relationships and the way we handle adversity.

High-energy British rock band Kasabian are headlining the second day of the Ejekt Festival on Athens's southern coast on Friday, July 14, but the evening also includes enduring Scottish rockers The Jesus and Mary Chain, the legendary Peter Hook (Joy Division, New Order) and his band The Light, American experimental rock band Of Montreal and Black Hat Bones, a local adrenaline-pumping act.

The Ejekt Festival returns to Plateia Nerou (Water Square) in the Faliro Delta, southern Athens, on Saturday, June 24, with bands including Las Vegas quartet the Killers, bluesy punk duo the Kills, Liverpool indie-rock band Circa Waves and Athens-based Deaf Radio slated to perform.

The special tax on pay-TV services introduced last year has damaged what had been one of the country's few flourishing sectors, to the extent that growth in Greece's pay-TV market ground to a virtual halt in 2016, posting a negligible increase of 0.2 percent over the 2015 level.

Cosmote TV, Greece's biggest pay-TV platform in terms of customers, confirmed on Monday it has exceeded 500,000 subscribers, a figure that just a few months ago only rival Nova had reached, before losing ground to the Deutsche Telekom subsidiary.

Basque singer-songwriter Tonino Carotone and local act Locomondo meet on stage at the Diogenis Studio in Athens on Saturday, January 28. The event is part of the ongoing Athens Music Festival. A portion of the proceeds from the concerts will benefit the homeless shelter of the City of Athens (KYADA), as well as community projects by the municipalities of Nea Smyrni and Glyfada.

Turkish musician and composer Omar Faruk Tekbilek performs at the Diogenis Studio on Friday, January 20, as part of the Athens Music Festival. The festival runs through March. Greek vocalists Glykeria and Matoula Zamani will be joining him on stage. The concert begins at 9 p.m. Admission starts at 15 euros.