It’s Queensday here. The annual celebration of our Royal Family. Normal people aren’t working but some of you are. If you are right now: stop! You need a break and you know that. And we should too.. There’s a duck on our roof, quacking all the time. We’d love to shoot it so were revealed [...]
After office hour game: Duck Hunt
April 30, 2009
Special: Oi! punk – Last Resort (part 4 of 5)
April 30, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAbmy-JSRPE] Our 4th Oi! tip for this week is Last Resort’s ‘Violence in our mind’. A classic that has been covered by many bands including Discipline.
It's Indie Queensday!
April 30, 2009
Since the Queen of England seems to have a great music taste, we decided to give our own Queen some nice tips as well. Indie tips, of course. Are you listening, Bea? It’s Indie Queensday! First off: man that Dan Deacon record is growing on us! If you haven’t heard it yet, make sure you [...]
Special: Oi! punk – Sham 69 (part 3 of 5)
April 29, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31esOvVNnQU&feature=player_embedded] One of the many cool things about Oi! is that its songs are short. So you can relax at the end of your hard day at work with a quick dose of raw energy. Enjoy Sham 69′s ‘If the kids are united’!
Neurotic Deathfest line-up complete
April 29, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oey85FGHOHc] Indoor metal fest Neurotic Deathfest (May 29-30 2009, at 013) have completed their line-up with the addition of Behemoth and God Dethroned. The killer line-up brings thirty-six bands to Tilburg including: Behemoth, Entombed, Aborted, Vital Remains, The Acacia Strain, Unleashed, Misery Index, Rotten Sound, Brutal Truth and Leng Tch’e. The die-hard ZXZW fans will [...]
Artist Exposed: Fol Chen
April 29, 2009
Indietronicact Fol Chen will play ZXZW Sunday 20 september. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovl_rh4T_JI&feature=player_embedded]
We pity the fools
April 29, 2009
Everyone’s childhood hero, Mr. T. aka B.A. Baracus has picked a new fight: He hunts nazi’s down in South-America. Virtually that is. In the soon-to-be-released game by Zootfly: The first game will see Mr. T take on Nazis and their gigantic machines in the varied universe of South American rain forests, lost ancient cities, industrial [...]
Talking about (the) Queen
April 29, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht96HJ01SE4&feature=player_embedded] All the talking about the Queen on the office (Tomorrow it’s Queensday, Generation Bass becoming music supplier of the Royal British family (see here)) makes you thirsty for some cool Queen tunes. So what do you get when a festival like ZXZW – that uses top-notch social media technology for promoting its artists (Twitter [...]
European elections are coming up
April 29, 2009
The European elections await us Dutch Europeans, and in the Netherlands the Socialist Party has started their traditional poster war (their poster is posted above – it says: ’61.6% The Netherlands wants less Brussels‘ (the HQ of the EU)). Victor from Velpse Belevenissen has started his own guerilla war: check it out! (‘The Netherlands wants [...]
Special: Oi! punk – Cock Sparrer (part 2 of 5)
April 28, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nQ-Bvce9yc] To continue the Oi special another gem: ‘Cock Sparrer – England Belongs To Me’ Live in Germany. Just to be sure: it was an anti-fascist song.
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