One of the two European countries without any McDonalds Albania has is own fast food chain: Kolonat. The name doesn’t look suspicious, but their brand imaging does. Being creative it is easy to write a K as an M. Of course, passing by this restaurant in Tirana made me having a look inside. I didn’t taste the food [...]

Armut Macht Geil is the free, NO budget arts festival in Eindhoven on September 25 and 26, 2009 in Eindhoven. The program is a rich mix of music, performance, film and fine arts.
Armut Macht Geil is a statement about the hyper-organized world of music, design and fine arts, which is stuck by rules. To what [...]

Really cool in-depth article about Incubate titled ‘Het virus van Tilburg.’  Written by Miriam van Ommeren for De Optimist.
“Van 13 t/m 20 september is Tilburg in de ban van Incubate, een van de beste festivals van Nederland.”
Read the full Dutch article here (use Internet Explorer, the site doe not seem to work very well [...]

This week on Pitchfork TV you can watch a two hour documentary about LA underground club The Smell. Wanna go there sometime, looks and sounds amazing!

The release of the 100th free album download on the WM Recordings Netlabel label is rapidly approaching. One of the projects surrounding their 100th free album will be the release of an album of cover version of tracks from the WM Recordings catalog.
Do you play in a band? Pick your favorite WM Recordings track from [...]

Exclusive performance of Anaal Nathrakh on Incubate
After Wardruna, Der Blutharsch and Hermann Nitsch the Incubate festival from Tilburg, the Netherlands has added another exclusive and much talked-about name to their line-up. Anaal Nathrakh from Birmingham, UK will shake the foundations of the V39 venue during their exclusive show in the Netherlands on 16 September with [...]

The BUT Film Festival drags you into the exceptional side of cinema
5  days of B-movie, Underground and Trashfilms in Breda
The fourth edition of the international BUT film festival in Breda (NL) will take place from September 9th until 13th, just before Incubate, which starts September 13th.  Extraordinary films of which you did not even know [...]

We’re very independent from now on!

Oops, a little mistake by our great  buddies from Merchsupply.com! We’re glad they gave us the one-of exemplar and also corrected the mistake. But well.. This one might be useful when Live Nation takes over Incubate!

“Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy is a feature documentary that follows one of skateboardings most infamous underground figures. Pro-skater Brewce Martin is the self-declared dictator of a rural Appalachian skate scene so extreme that MTVs bad-boy Bam Margera fled the property on his first visit. The movie follows Brewce for a tumultuous year as he [...]

A month ago we already posted something about Green Day and them being ‘independent’.
Now Warren Kinsella (old school punk rocker, political consultant and author) has made a short but very cool video that sums it all up.
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