Our friends from INDIE INDIE are organizing the last time a lot of cool evenings at Meneer Malasch. The first edition was with Ceremony and the second one was with the French guys from The Feeling of Love. For next week, the 2nd of June, they arranged the Swedish punkband Holograms. They’re releasing there long-awaited seftitled [...]
[Win] 2 tickets INDIE INDIE #3 with Holograms (SE)
May 23, 2012
Complete lineup for SOTU festival (1st edition)
April 17, 2012
Brand new SOTU Festival is set for their first edition. They presented a lineup around alternative and independent music culture. Earlier, the following names already got confirmed: Rivers Area Juke Squad (GB), Martin Duvall (NL), Teen Radiation (Vincent Koreman), Bazooka (GR), Gay Anniversary (GR), U.S. Girls (U.S.) Cute Heels (BE ) Lucky Dragons (U.S.). SOTU (Sound Of The Underground) takes place [...]
[Watch] The creation of Parra’s Weirded Out mural in San Francisco
April 4, 2012
Graphic artist from Amsterdam Parra made a special mural at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Parra is also known for his work for his own brand Rockwell, Vans, Nike and music group Le Le. Here below you can watch how this mural is made in 2.08 minutes, of course in real-time the mural took [...]
First edition SOTU Festival
March 16, 2012
Amsterdam will be captivated 11,12 and 13 May by the first edition of SOTU festival (Sound of the underground). As you may have guessed SOTU is a festival for the musical underground. A festival that focuses on the alternative and independent music culture and pays attention to genres such as noise, improv jazz, psychedelic, indie-pop, global bass, avant-garde and underground dance. For [...]
[Win] 1×2 tickets voor INDIE INDIE met o.a. Ceremony!
February 27, 2012
Our friends from the Dutch music blog INDIE INDIE are celebrating their second anniversary. That’s why they are organizing a cool event at 17th of March in venue Meneer Malasch, Amsterdam with a cool line-up: Ceremony (Former members of Skywave!), Katadreuffe and The Lost Rivers. And because it’s monday we are gonna give away 1×2 tickets! So [...]
[Go see] Sonic Acts 2012
January 27, 2012
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 [...]
[Win] 2×2 tickets for Deafheaven/Hierophant/FWWU in Winston, Amsterdam!
January 10, 2012
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 [...]
[Tip] Amsterdam DNA @ The Amsterdam Musuem
January 4, 2012
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 [...]
[Art] Surgical graphic artwork
November 21, 2011
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 [...]
[Win] 2×2 Tickets for Morphine documentary + live shows on Play Festival in De Melkweg!!
November 16, 2011
“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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Exitmusic – Passage This duo consists of husband and wife Devon Church en Aleska Palladino, from (Shit, again?!) Brooklyn, New York. With EP From Silence, which they released a year ago Exitmusic showed us their first sign of life.. Passage, their debutalbum, is a bit more bombastic, but still got the sultry sound. Next to this sultry [...]