Sonic Acts is a really cool festival. Spreading over 4 days (23-26 februari), the bi-annual Sonic Acts in Amsterdam bring a diverse line-up from everything like classical composters to experimental pop, beatless dubstep and contemporary techno. The line-up includes the likes of new names like Youth Lagoon and to technopioneer Model 500 to the self-made instrumentents [...]

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Oh yeah. Three amazing metalbands in the Winston in Amsterdam! Genre-defying black-metal band Deafheaven and crust-punk/hardcore troupe Hierophant on one bill. Holy shit. Deafheaven is a melding of epic Post Rock leanings (Envy, Godspeed You! Black Emperor) with experimental Black Metal (Xasthur, Weakling, Leviathan), and classic era “Screamo” (Orchid, Crimson Curse) into something never successfully experienced before. While [...]

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Amsterdam DNA is a new department at The Amsterdam Museum. It’s a three-dimensional 45-minute tour through Amsterdam’s history. They made seven intriguing films which explain the versatile story of Amsterdam. The seven films have scripts of about two minutes each, which give you a view of more than 1000 years of the capital’s history. Entrepreneurship, freethinking, creativity and [...]

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Graphic Surgery is one awesome duo! Erris Huigens and Gysbert Zijlstra, both from Amsterdam, create graphic surgical artwork. Does that make any sense? They construct bits and pieces from photos and reconstruct them into altered images by use of digital editing, scanning, printing, photocopying and stencil technique. They cut and paste, make collages, paintings and [...]

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“One plays drums, one plays 2-string slide bass and one plays two saxophones at once. Together they call themselves Morphine and theirs is a sound unlike any other, as you’re about to see” Morphine is definitely one of our favorites, here at Incubate HQ. To say they were innovative is an understatement. A completely new [...]

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Cam Deas live @ Moving Furniture HQ Just like Wikileaks, Inculeaks brings important news and information to the public through Radio! Inculeaks gives the Incubate audience a new role as creative participator and functions as a constant leak of information sent straight from the Incubate audience, to the Incubate audience. Inculeaks collaborates with radio stations, [...]

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Watch this cool short experimental film/music video about a guy who looks at life through a scaffolding pipe (‘Steigerpijp means scaffolding pipe in Dutch). The actors featured in this film as well as the music were created by the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra (ICP), which is a group of jazz musicians from the Netherlands. In [...]

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Vanavond presenteren BLEND, Streetlab en MassiveMusic een speciale New Talent Night in Pakhuis de Zwijger te Amsterdam. Voor de tweede keer zal de New Talent Night volledig in het teken staan van één discipline: muziek. Speciaal voor aanstormend productietalent, muzikanten, dj’s, programmeurs en bandjes staat er een zeer toonaangevende line-up van professionals klaar om vragen [...]

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Go see this installation from a group who call themselves the ‘International Errorists’ in SMART Project Space Amsterdam. This group rejects perfectionism and has therefore started the ‘errorist movement.’ The International Errorist is an international organization that claims error as a philosofy on life. The group consists of visual artists, poets, puppeteers and actors. You [...]

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Amsterdam’ embryopunx Gewapend Beton (ZXZW 2008) recorded a new album called “Big Dumb Kids” which will be released on GSR Music next friday. You can stream the entire album now via this Soundclock page. Punx not dead!

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