Nguzunguzu released a video to the track Smoke Alarm, which premiered through Pitchfork‘s Youtube channel. Like any good video should, the amazing visuals add something to the track and feed in to the allready unsettling and eeriness nature of Smoke Alarm. Watch it in the embed below via
[Watch] Nguzunguzu – Smoke Alarm
December 7, 2012
[Read] Pitchfork on rising, young, punk rebels Lower (#incu12)
August 9, 2012
Along with Iceage and VÅR, Lower is one of the precursors of the ‘New Way of Danish Fuck You’-movement. This punk scene from Copenhagen primarily consists of young rebels, who like to mess things up and call their fans ‘victims’. With members of Sexdrome and Girlseeker on board, they already have established quite a buzz [...]
[Report] PITCH Festival – Day two with Nosaj Thing, Shlohmo, Nathan Fake and many more
July 11, 2012
Last weekend it was the second edition of the electronic two-day festival PITCH. This Monday I gave you the report of day one, which included shows from The Weeknd, Jacques Greene, Azari & III, Jameszoo and more. Today part two including Shlohmo, Nathan Fake, James Holden and again many more. I started this day with one of the [...]
[Report] PITCH Festival – Day one with The Weeknd, SBTRKT, Jameszoo and many more
July 9, 2012
Last Wednesday I’ve posted an article including some tips for the electronic festival PITCH. Last year was a blast and this year the organisation took it to ‘nother level. Six instead of four stages, almost twice the audience, two times bigger area and even more (live) acts. Read here my report of day one of [...]
[Report] Le Guess Who May Day
May 29, 2012
One of the coolest festivals in the Fall in the Netherlands is Le Guess Who. This year they decided to organize a one-day event under the name Le Guess Who May Day, with a lot of cool acts at Tivoli, Ekko, ACU and Neude (which was part of Festival Aan De Werf) Sleepy Sun I began this [...]
Five tips for Motel Mozaique
April 18, 2012
Tomorrow the 12th edition of Rotterdam’s finest art and music festival Motel Mozaique is gonna start. With a lot of different performances, arts & bands it’s hard to choose what you have to see. Of course we like headliners like Patrick Watson, The Antlers and Apparat band but we like to give you some tips [...]
[Reminder] The Strange Boys and Woody & Paul at Incubated 16
March 20, 2012
In about two weeks there will be a new edition of our own Incubated. This evening, already the sixteenth time, there are two different bands playing; The Strange Boys and Woody & Paul. Tickets are still for sale for only €9,-. To get your tickets now, scroll down for the embeded store! The core of the [...]
[Report] Frank at SXSW: Part one
March 15, 2012
Our colleague Frank Kimenai is in Austin, Texas right now where is visiting the SXSW festival. He is so kind to let us know what we are missing up there. Today: Report of day one. SXSW: Day one, Tuesday, March 13 After an exhausting travel of about 16 hours in total, thanks to missing connections in Houston, I arrived [...]
New project by former-editors of Altered Zones: Ad-Hoc
February 2, 2012
One of the best blogs in our opinion was Altered Zones. It was the sister site of Pitchfork covering the more obscure and underground music. Sadly, they quit it after posting last years best albums of 2011. They are now trying to raise money for their new project ‘Ad Hoc‘ via Kickstarter. They have big [...]
Premier of ‘Patience (After Sebald)’ on IFFR, stream The Caretaker’s soundtrack
January 27, 2012
Today, January 27th, the documentary Patience (After Sebald) will premier on International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The movie is based around W.G. Sebald‘s book ‘The Rings Of Saturn‘, about his long hike throughout East Anglia. In the film, Sebald’s path is being documented but, just like in the novel, the images of the landscape and [...]
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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 [...]