After seeing Thee Oh Sees nearly destroy Area51 last week I was glad to see the place still standing. What were we to do without our regular supplier of garage bands? Luckily the skatepark/venue was still where it ought to be, this evening containing Purling Hiss and Richie Dagger. After 10 minutes spent judging the skaters [...]

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One of the most popular indie bands of the last couple years is playing in Amsterdam. We’re talking about Animal Collective of course, the band that proved that strange, mind-fuckery music can be commercially successful and popular with a big audience… …and our friends at the Melkweg are letting us give away 3 x 2 tickets for [...]

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  It’s been five days since I saw Thee Oh Sees play in Area51, which by internet rules is waaaay too long to still write anything about it. Now, i’m making the brave choice to still write something about it. For three reasons. 1. I’ve become too much of a musicsnob (for my taste) 2. [...]

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Fans of experimental rock pay attention because tomorrow PVT will play in 013, Tilburg. This art-rock band for London and Sydney are familiar faces seeing as they played Playground Festival in 2010 and left quite the impression. PVT make experimental rock with a healthy dose of electronics. Since their forced name change back in 2010 [...]

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One of UK’s greatest melodic hardcore bands, Heart In Hand recently released their new, anticipated album ‘Almost There’. They have recently shot a music video for their main single ‘Almost There’. Heart In Hand is a band I’ve been following since their birth. Over the years they’ve grown as a band and eventually found their [...]

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Tonight we’re going to throw ourselves into other people at Thee Oh Sees who’ll be playing Area51. It’s probably going to be amazing. But before we take the train down Eindhoven-way, we can give away 2 x 2 tickets for another show in Area, next week. Yes, you can win tickets for Purling Hiss, the [...]

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Our new assistant booker Jan Vrijens -from Brussels, Belgium- has already booked a couple of artists for upcoming Incubate, but his very first booking was the intense hardcore/black-metal/doom band Hessian. However, since Hessian was a Belgium band and we smelt some nepotism,  we let Jan go see Hessian live to see if they held up to [...]

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About a month ago Snowstar turned 10 years old. Over those ten years the Utrecht based indielabel has acquainted us with a variety of great artist and probably the most successful of those artists, I Am Oak, is now reissuing their fantastic debutalbum “On Claws”. The album -that garnered a lot of praise back in 2010- was in due need [...]

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Photek’s new 12″ “One”  is available right now and it includes killer track “Pyramid”. The 12″ also includes an “Oshun” remix by Beneath, who will play Incubate in September. Listen below. Buy the vinyl here. Listen below for Beneath’s contribution.

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Shannon and the Clams make us happy. Their, catchy 50′s rock ‘n roll surf is the perfect thing to dispel the greyness we are experiencing today. So rejoice, because yesterday the AV Club premiered their upcoming album “Dreams in the Rat House” which is out May 21st on Hardly Art records. Oh, and by the way, what a coincidence, luck has [...]

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