Eindhoven, it’s known in Holland as ‘Rock City’, so to live up to their name they should at least have more than a handful of interesting bands. Not all bands are ‘rock’ but I found out that Eindhoven certainly has its fair share of music that needs to be heard. If you want to know [...]
Incubate Scene Report: a Guide to Eindhoven
June 18, 2012
[Listen] Live set of Sic Alps at Incubated #17
May 31, 2012
At the beginning of this month the Californian band Sic Alps came to our Incubated evening to give a really stunning live show. Together with Dan Sartain they played a show at our 17th edition of Incubate. Now, exactly four weeks later we’re glad to announce that you can listen to that live set of [...]
[Reminder] Incubate Scene Report: Rotterdam this Thursday @ Cul de Sac
May 29, 2012
This Thursday there is already the third edition of Incubate Scene Report. This time with 2 bands from Rotterdam. You can read the entire scene report here. First up is the noisepop trio Crowds. and right after Neon Rainbows, with members of Fever Dream and At No Bikini Beach. Their last record is released on [...]
[Incubate Scene Report] A Guide to Bristol
May 21, 2012
Bristol is musically probably best known for the “Bristol Sound”, which was the name given to a group of artist who broke through into the mainstream with a sound that was given the stamp ‘trip-hop’. Best known are probably Massive Attack, Portishead and Tricky, but there were many others. Even though Portishead’s Geoff Barrow later [...]
Incubate Scene Report: A Guide to Rotterdam
May 14, 2012
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 [...]
[Announcement] New Incubate Scene Report: Rotterdam
May 7, 2012
Incubate Scene Report is a project we present in cooperation with Cul de Sac. We recently had our second edition of Scene Report with Groningen bands WOLVON and Earth Control and free shows from Sleep Party People and Pinkunoizu in 013. It was an awesome night, and now we are all the more excited to announce [...]
[Report] SPOT Festival @ Aarhus, Denmark – Day 1
May 5, 2012
It was just about a week ago when we sat around the lunch table that we (Yannick and Stein) suddenly got the opportunity to travel to Denmark for the Spot festival. Due to cancellations of two Incubate colleagues we got asked to go to the showcase festival to spot (ha!) new acts for the following [...]
This Thursday in collaboration with 013: Incubate Scene Report Mini-festival
April 24, 2012
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 [...]
Incubate Scene Report Groningen: Wolvon + Earth Control this Thursday @ Cul de Sac
April 23, 2012
The second live-edition of Incubate Scene Report is on its way. This Thursday 2 bands from Groningen get the chance to represent their hometown at Cul de Sac, entrance is free. First Earth Control, a nice lo-fi garage band with electronics. They got pretty weird Dutch lyrics, including song titles as ‘ Passen jullie maar op [...]
Incubate Scene Report: a guide to Groningen
April 10, 2012
Groningen is the biggest city in the north of the Netherlands. It’s also a very lively, creative and interesting place with a strong underground scene. VENUES The music scene in this city is diverse. There is De Oosterpoort, which has cabaret, dance, theatre, classical music and some shows from bigger artists. Vera (photo) is a [...]
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Chris Moss has a mother. And that mother approves of acid house. We can’t help but feel that if Chris Moss’ mother would have been prime-minister instead of Margaret Thatcher, that the Acid House movement would have been -for better or for worse- very different. Here is Chris’ mom, approving of her son playing acid [...]