[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njqRt7PH-5I] And they’re performing at the Effenaar in Eindhoven tonight as their only clubshow this year! At the ZXZW office, it’s My Bloody Valentine Monday today, and that’s why we will post a few of their great video’s.
My Bloody Valentine is great ('Realise') (Part 1/5)
May 25, 2009
Sub Pop goes Oldskool!
May 25, 2009
The great Sub Pop label (known from bands like Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses, Comets On Fire, Foals, No Age and so on) has totally gone oldskool for their ‘Sub Pop Cybersex Digital Sampler‘. You should definitely check it out. The sampler includes bands like Vetiver, Handsome Furs, Red Red Meat, The Vaselines, Fleet Foxes, [...]
R.I.P. Jay Bennett
May 25, 2009
The Chicago Sun-Times reports: Jay Bennett, a rock musician with deep ties to Chicago best known as a former member of Wilco, died early Sunday morning in downstate Urbana, where he had been running a recording studio, according to a spokesman for his family. The singer and multi-instrumentalist was 45 years old. “Early this morning, [...]
Marshall Allen turned 85!
May 25, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiu4zyjiBPA&feature=player_embedded] We wish Sun Ra’s Arkestra bandleaderMarshall Allen “one of the most distinctive and original saxophonists of the postwar era” a very happy 85th birthday. The bandleader of the fabulous Sun Ra Arkestra, which you have seen at ZXZW 2008 ofcourse.
Monday Morning Wake-up: Jumpstart
May 25, 2009
First: turn on your speakers. If this does not gets that horrible nightmare you just had out of your head, nothing will. Then you are beyond repair.
Have a killer weekend !!
May 22, 2009
Special: Black Cab Session: The Felice Brothers (5 of 5)
May 22, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcAi8JAHO-8&feature=player_embedded] This week our special will be about the great idea called Black Cab Sessions: One cab, one song, one take. Blackcabsessions.com: “Thanks largely to the efforts of bros Hanson and the hapless ‘nil points’ Gemini, the track record of bands made up of siblings is not too hot. Ok so maybe we do have [...]
ZXZW Line-Updates May 22nd: Soap&Skin and more added
May 22, 2009
82. That’s the number of artists confirmed for ZXZW 2009 yet. We’re on our way to the first hundred! Early Bird tickets are still on sale. Get them here with discount! These are the eight artists added to the schedule the last 7 day’s: Soap&Skin DJ DistortedChaos Amolvacy Anything Maria Virgin Passages Blues Control Tropa [...]
"Money: It's a gas"
May 21, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gth8_3msnIk] Like Pink Floyd sang in 1973: Money, its a crime. Share it fairly but dont take a slice of my pie. Money, so they say Is the root of all evil today. The BBC made a documentary about this much sung about phenomenon and Art. Monday 25th of May, BBCFOUR Thanks again whatspace!
Special: Black Cab Session: Daniel Johnston (4 of 5)
May 21, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdItsqh-zJ8&feature=player_embedded] This week our special will be about the great idea called Black Cab Sessions: One cab, one song, one take. Blackcabsessions.com: “It was an honour and a joy to have Daniel and his college mate / demon guitar player Brett Hartenbach on board as we cruised around north London. There was one scare along [...]
