Rotterdam, it’s the second biggest city in the Netherlands and also host to the largest and most important harbour in Europe. Since I don’t know too much about Rotterdam, this might have been the hardest Scene Report to find information about. I tried to contact locals, but did not get too much response, so I [...]

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We’ve told you earlier before that this Thursday it’s our second edition of Incubate Scene Report. Now we’ve got a special announcement to make: Because Sleep Party People and Pinkunoizu is gonna play the same night in Tilburg, we decided, in collaboration with 013, that we are gonna mix both events and turn it into one free mini-festival. The night [...]

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Tomorrow the 12th edition of Rotterdam’s finest art and music festival Motel Mozaique is gonna start. With a lot of different performances, arts & bands it’s hard to choose what you have to see. Of course we like headliners like Patrick Watson, The Antlers and Apparat band but we like to give you some tips [...]

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The Jacuzzi Boys got noticed in our reports from Eurosonic and SXSW and now they are heading towards The Netherlands for their European tour. If you like unpolished garagerock that make you dance and scream, you might want to visit Area 51 the 6th of April. Listen to the catchy Glazin’ below .

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Our colleague Frank Kimenai was at SXSW last week. After his reports from last week (part one, two, three and four) this is his final report. The week went by really fast; it’s saturday again, so it’s the last day of SXSW. We were invited by the dudes of Howlin’ Rain to come check their show at the Mohawk [...]

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I have a love/hate relationship with Eurosonic/Noorderslag. The first 25 years of my life i lived in and near Groningen, so i know how the city behaves without music industry people. This year is my 9th time to visit the festival, the first time as a delegate. In the past i saw some amazing shows [...]

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Conference: Yesterday was a good day at Eurosonic. I kicked off the conference with a talk about ‘Green Festival Communication’. I know, that doesn’t sound quite sexy at all, but there were two people there from ID&T/Sensation and the Melt! Festival in Germany, and I was interested in hearing what they had to say about [...]

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Eurosonic Noorderslag is an annual festival that takes place in Groningen, the Netherlands. Of course a lot of Incubaters are at the festival watching bands, listening to keynote speeches and drinking some beers. Each of them made a little report of how they experienced it! Today you’re going to hear about the experiences from Frank Kimenai. Soooo, [...]

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Eurosonic Noorderslag is an annual festival that takes place in Groningen, the Netherlands. Of course a lot of Incubaters are at the festival watching bands, listening to keynote speeches and drinking some beers. Each of them made a little report of how they experienced it! Today you’re going to hear about the experiences from Erik [...]

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(Photo by Steph Byrne) The slowcore band LUIK posted a new video clip for the song ‘We’re Both Extermined’. Just little over a week ago they performed at Incubated 13 and this weekend they’re playing at Eurosonic/Noorderslag! A band to look out for in the future. The video was shot in Beijing, China by Beatrijs Dikker and [...]

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