From 21 till 24 February 2013, the exhibition The Dark Universe will take place at NASA (New Art Space Amsterdam, previously known as SMART Project Space). The Dark Universe is a quest for the unknown, with installations that trigger our senses through light, sound and vibration, and art that explores the boundaries of our knowledge. [...]
[Go See] Sonic Acts Festival: The Dark Universe
February 14, 2013
[Win] 2×2 Tickets + LP The Horse Company @ Paradiso
November 15, 2012
Incubate alumni The Horse Company is about to present their new album ‘Calypso‘ on November, the 22th at Paradiso, Amsterdam. We are giving away 2×2 tickets to this concert, plus 2 free LP’s. All you have to do is send us a funny or weird video with a horse in the leading. Send your entries [...]
[Win] 2×2 Tickets For Rangda @ Merleyn And Paradiso
September 25, 2012
We are giving away 2×2 tickets for the Rangda show at Merleyn on October 7th and 2×2 tickets for their show at Paradiso on October 8th. Superband Rangda, with Ben Chasny (Six Organs Of Admittance, Incubate 2010), Chris Corsano (Artist in Residence Incubate 2011) and Sir Richard Bishop are playing two shows in Holland and you can [...]
[Win] 3×2 tickets for Lou Barlow (from Dinosaur Jr.) at Paradiso
July 4, 2012
Last monday we gave away tickets for Disappears at EKKO and today we’ll continue our winning week with giving away tickets for the show of Lou Barlow at Paradiso. Lou Barlow is maybe best known as the bass player from Dinosaur Jr. but next to this band is this man also frontman of ’90s lo-fi bands Sebadoh [...]
[Win] 2×2 tickets for Disappears at EKKO
July 2, 2012
Together with our friends from Kicking The Habit is EKKO organizing Disappears next Saturday live. At the beginning of this year the band dropped their excellent third record called Pre Language. On this album their capable of mixing Neu! with good old Sonic Youth. Not coincidentally the drums are handled by Stephen Shelley of Sonic Youth and he [...]
[Win] 2×2 tickets for R. Stevie Moore at Bitterzoet
May 25, 2012
Our hero R. Stevie Moore is coming back to the Netherlands. This bassplayer is a lo-fi pioneer with more than 400 albums/tape releases on his name. In the end of 2011 Moore showed us by playing at Incubated that this living legend is also legendary on stage. On saturday the 16th of June he’ll be [...]
[Win] 2×2 Sufjan Stevens + Bryce Dessner + Nico Muhly @ Het Muziektheater Amsterdam
March 23, 2012
It already got announced last year, that ‘Het Muziekgebouw‘ in Eindhoven arranged a unique live-collaboration between Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner (The National guitarist) and composer Nico Muhly. Together they worked on a song cycle for 7 trombones and a string quartet (New Trombone Collective and Navarra String Quartet ) The show sold-out rapidly, but in collaboration with [...]
[Stream] Listen to the new record by The Hickey Underworld
February 8, 2012
Belgium’s rawest rockers, The Hickey Underworld finally release their new album any day now. But you don’t have to wait any longer, because you can stream it on some site called Deezer. The band performed on Incubate 2007 (is that 5 years ago already?), in its early days. And now here’s their second major label [...]
[Go To] The Night of the Unexpected
August 10, 2011
Maybe you have read about this before. Maybe you really liked it. In that case, we have good news: The Night Of The Unexpected is back. And this time, not only in Amsterdam but also in Eindhoven and Utrecht. The Night of the Unexpected focuses on new developments in contemporary music. Acts include former Incubated [...]
[Go see] Tonight: New Talent Night Music Special @ Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
April 26, 2011
Vanavond presenteren BLEND, Streetlab en MassiveMusic een speciale New Talent Night in Pakhuis de Zwijger te Amsterdam. Voor de tweede keer zal de New Talent Night volledig in het teken staan van één discipline: muziek. Speciaal voor aanstormend productietalent, muzikanten, dj’s, programmeurs en bandjes staat er een zeer toonaangevende line-up van professionals klaar om vragen [...]
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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 [...]