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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Snowstar Records is 10 years old! And they’re giving us gifts? We ought to have gifts for them, seeing as they’ve been treating us for the last 10 years with some of the best bands from the Netherlands such as I Am Oak, Herrek and Kim Janssen (who all played Incubate). We’re even too late for [...]

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Firework! That’s what the #1 record of 2012 starts with. According to you, Japandroids‘ Celebration Rock is the best release of 2012. The  band that performed at Incubate 2012 got 22 votes and was on #1 in four individual yearlists. 86 top-10 lists were submitted the last few weeks and the toplist is not curated by an [...]

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Damn. A mouth-watering bill. This is the absolute top of Dutch folk music. Anyone that likes folk music should be at this concert.  And you can! Thanks to De Effenaar, we can give away 3×2 tickets to this triple bill on December 22nd! Awesome! We probably don’t have to introduce these bands, but here it goes: TIKA [...]

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We posted the ‘top 486 releases of 2011 according to you‘ a while ago, now it’s time for the individual Incubate employees year-lists! Every day until the end of 2011, we’re going to post the top 10 year-lists of the Incubate employees. There’re also links to Spotify  (or to other sources where you can find [...]

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  86 top-10′s submitted, 486 unique releases submitted resulting in a top 448 releases of 2011; yeah, the call for year-lists seems to be quite a success. It’s not a big surprise the magnificent Let England Shake-album by PJ Harvey ended up on number one in the We Are Incubate year-list 2011, followed by The War [...]

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After playing about 80 shows last year, including Incubate 2010 with a stunning show in the Pauluskerk, I Am Oak will release their second album ‘Oasem’ in May this year. Last chance to see I Am Oak on the ‘On Claws’ tour (debut album, released last year), will be on the 3rd of March in [...]

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Some Dan Deacon, I Am Oak and our artistic leader Vincent Koreman. Find more Kindamuzik on Incubate right here.

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(The note that is being shown to Dan at 01:46) News Flash Lost-Painters about the sixth and seventh day of Incubate Some more reviews at 3Voor12/Tilburg Fileunder about the Incubate Friday Many new photos have been added to our Flickr Fileunder photo: Circle, Josephine Foster, Oo is an Instrument, Thulebasen, I am Oak, Forest Fire, [...]

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The ‘Incubate gospel according to’ section gives you Incubate 2010 tips from insiders. Seventh one: Robert Meijerink. 1.Who are you? Robert Meijerink. Promotes and books shows in Doornroosje, Merleyn, Festival de-Affaire in Nijmegen and is booker of EuroSonic-Noorderslag Festival in Groningen. 2.What will you be doing during Incubate 2010 (Sept. 12-19)? Will visit Incubate probably [...]

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