Our new assistant booker Jan Vrijens -from Brussels, Belgium- has already booked a couple of artists for upcoming Incubate, but his very first booking was the intense hardcore/black-metal/doom band Hessian. However, since Hessian was a Belgium band and we smelt some nepotism, we let Jan go see Hessian live to see if they held up to [...]
Our new booker went to see Hessian @ De Kreun, Kortrijk
May 17, 2013
[Listen] Shannon & The Clams stream new album “Dreams in the Rat House”
May 15, 2013
Shannon and the Clams make us happy. Their, catchy 50′s rock ‘n roll surf is the perfect thing to dispel the greyness we are experiencing today. So rejoice, because yesterday the AV Club premiered their upcoming album “Dreams in the Rat House” which is out May 21st on Hardly Art records. Oh, and by the way, what a coincidence, luck has [...]
[Listen] Hooded Fang premiere new album “Gravez”
May 13, 2013
One of our favorite garage/surf/indie/just-plain-cool bands, Hooded Fang, are releasing their third album, Gravez on 27th of May on Full Time Hobby. But… you can get an early listen for this Canadian lo-fi garage pop, because they JUST premiered their new album on Hype Machine. Well if the first single was any indication it’s gonna [...]
Incubate launches brand new website
May 8, 2013
We’re proud to tell we’ve just launched a brand new version of the Incubate 2013 website. A completely restyled portal for everything you need to know about Incubate 2013. It is THE place to prepare for your visit to our festival in September. Some key features of www.incubate.org you’re really gonna like: – Easy audio [...]
[Listen] New RA podcast from Kyle Hall + Levon Vincent mix
May 7, 2013
The weather outside is too nice for our tastes. Damn the sun. Update: It’s raining. We want to crawl into a nice dark hole and dance until it’s September. Lucky for us Kyle Hall, the Detroit Techno wunderkind released his fantastic debut album “The Boat Party“ on his own label last week, and now he [...]
[Incu Thursday] New Incubate ’13 metal confirmations: Behexen, Woe, Terzij de Horde and 12 more
May 2, 2013
It’s Thursday again, which means we can finally open our mouths again and let loose on another part of the Incubate 2013 line-up. After adding 92 artists to the line-up the past few weeks and amazing feedback it’s time for another gutteral list of deathmetal, black metal, grindcore and slam death metal. We are adding [...]
[Listen] Beneath’s contribution to the latest Tectonic compilation
April 29, 2013
Beneath, who we are delighted to welcome on Incubate this September, has made a contribution to the influential Tectonic Plates series. Over the last years Tectonic has proven to be an early indication for quality material, very early featuring artists like Digital Mystikz, Flying Lotus and Skream. Listen to the song below. And if you like what [...]
[Incu Thursday] New Incubate ’13 names: Dj Pierre, Maybeshewill, Supersilent, Psychic Ills and many more!
April 25, 2013
After the previous two weeks’ big updates, we’ve been getting overwhelming positive feedback on the initial line-up. And it’s a good thing our tickets are mainly sold online, because if we had to print them, our printer would be only a pile of smoking melted plastic. Thanks for all the support so far! But this [...]
[Incubate Week Blouwout] Week 16 – Your weekend sound
April 19, 2013
No blowout this week. Listen to this.
[Incu Thursday] Immortal, Mayhem and many more confirmed for Incubate metal line-up
April 18, 2013
Last week we announced the first 65 names for Incubate festival 2013 with 808state, Front 242, Built to Spill and many more. From now on we will release confirmations every week in our Incu Thursday announcements. Today, we are elated to announce 13 names for Incubate: Confirmed for Incubate Friday, September 20th: Immortal Mayhem Khold [...]
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Strolling along with Purling Hiss at Area51
May 24, 2013
After seeing Thee Oh Sees nearly destroy Area51 last week I was glad to see the place still standing. What were we to do without our regular supplier of garage bands? Luckily the skatepark/venue was still where it ought to be, this evening containing Purling Hiss and Richie Dagger. After 10 minutes spent judging the skaters [...]