Machinefabriek (ZXZW 2006) is really nice to us. He’s offering a free download for ‘De Jonge Jaren’, including 18 exclusive tracks he (Rutger Zuydervelt) produced in 2001 to 2004. You can download (115mb) the .zip file here. Enjoy!

Out on March 8th: The new Burzum record ‘Belus’. You can listen to previews of the songs on Amazon.com. Check it out!

Tim Armstrong, the singer/guitarist from Rancid, has created an internet detective series. Svengali pays heavily respect to 70’s detectiveseries as Hawaii Five-0 and Starsky and Hutch, just like the musicvideo for Sabotage by The Beastie Boys. He will be portraying a cop and an evil scientist. The first episode aired this week on the website of Svengali. Above [...]

Until the moment artists finally decide to make all their music available for free, we’re happy that at least some labels provide new tracks of upcoming records for free. It’s a first step… Here are some free downloadable tracks of records that might interest you:
Eluvium – The Motion Makes Me Last
The Besnard Lakes  – Albatross
Xiu [...]

So this is definitely one of the coolest things from 2011. A cruise, 5 days, 40 metal bands performing. Cheapest huts are only 666$ (+tax, but the 666 sounds pretty \m/ doesn’t it?). First bands announced are Amon Amarth, Sodom, Uli Jon Roth, Witchburner and more.
Check the awesome options and awesome trailer on http://www.70000tons.com/ [...]

Fuck crabcore! Here’s electroschlager!

Mister Nightlife is the P.I.M.P. of the week. Also check out the blond chicks forgetting their choreography on 1:23.

On Sunday the 24th of January, Savage Republic played an excellent gig at TAC in Eindhoven. The people from TAC filmed it and KindaMuzik wrote a review. Read it here (in Dutch).

At a Sunday afternoon I’m looking for Siegesäule and suddenly it looks like Egypt has won the Afrika cup. Cars with green and white flags are driving around an blowing their horns. After a while they are joined by cars with red/green flags carefully constructed to their window. Might the final be a draw? Impossible. [...]