Effenaar-bookers Tom and Robert will visit The Great Escape, happening this week (starting tomorrow) in Brighton UK, . Tom and Robert will give us a daily update on this blog so we can explore all new talent at the very beginning. Tom also did a daily report via ZXZW Blog last year. Check these updates [...]
Effenaar-bookers reporting The Great Escape Festival
May 13, 2009
Generation Bass update
May 13, 2009
Generation Bass update! Here’s an update about the weblog activities surrounding the non-western dance program at ZXZW! The most visible infiltration of the Dutch media by Vince the Prince (the man behind the blog) was last month . He sent an cd filled with good music to the Queen of England, and was rewarded with a nice [...]
Win: 2×2 Bidi-Bookings anniversary (Dÿse and more) @ W2 Den Bosch tickets
May 13, 2009
You can rock on your own, with a beatlesque four or just with two mofo’s. Less is more, you know. Dÿse (on Myspace) is a two-man band, formed in the Spring of 2003 and named after the Dysecatmotel in Amsterdam where they’d first met. It began as a fun, drunken side project for Jari Rebelein [...]
Anti fascist punk band sued for using the double 'S'
May 13, 2009
From the website of German punks SS-Kaliert: “I’D RATHER BELIEVE IN THE VIRGINITY OF A PROSTITUTE, THAN IN THE JUSTICE OF GERMAN LAWS!!” – Slime (Gerechtigkeit) We couldn’t have expressed it better than German Punk-heroes Slime in their song “Gerechtigkeit” (Justice) about the following happening: German Prosecutor sued Punkband SS-KALIERT due to the use of [...]
Negura Bunget split:"so I have killed my baby of fifteen years"
May 13, 2009
The black metal scene has a new 2009 soap opera coming! First there was the much talked about split of Gorgoroth, leading Gaahl and King ov Hell to start God Seed. Now it is Negura Bunget that is fighting its personal wars on the internet. On the ‘official’ Negura Bunget Myspace, drummer Negru announced that [...]
Special: Cool cover versions: Army of Me (Part 3 of 5)
May 13, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpGS-Z8opqk] This week you can wake up to some cover versions to get you kickstarted! A song that has been covered many times particularly by metal bands is Björk’s Army of Me (maybe that is because of the heavy metal umlaut in her name?). Helmet has done one (see ‘video’ above), Caliban, which I could [...]
Rapper´s Delight in German
May 12, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pQ5Xqv6bQk] Maybe you might have missed me, cause our homie Jelle is doing the blog now. But what the shizzle! I’ve found the clip of Rapper’s Delight in German. GLS United are Thomas Gottschalk, Frank Laufenberg and Manfred Sexauer. They create some hard stuff. Just wanted you to know it. Cheers!
Support The Pirate Bay by sending money to their enemy
May 12, 2009
The Pirate Bay guys that got convicted a couple of weeks ago have received their bill, they will have to pay (if they are convicted the second time again) because they are guilty of copyright infringement. But it might be just the case that you can help annoying the lawfirm that represented the money making [...]
It's not easy being independent :)
May 12, 2009
Green Day is seriously in danger of being labeled themselves by their previous album title: American Idiots. The wannabee-punk-band-turned-out-to-be-boy-band have signed a world exclusive deal with media dictator Murdoch‘s Sun newspaper to stream 21st Century Breakdown, the Californian trio’s latest album aptly titled “21st Century Breakdown”. The Guardian had this to say about it all: [...]
Get the ZXZW Early Bird discount now! (before it's too late)
May 12, 2009
As you might know, we’ve got the special Early Bird discount on a limited number of week- and weekend passepartouts for ZXZW 2009. For Weekend passepartout, you receive a €5 discount, a Week passepartout still is €10 cheaper than the regular price. The presale of these passepartouts is going well, so you better get your [...]
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