In collaboration with the anarchist quarterly Gramschap (Anger), The Ex release a split 7″ with the Iraqi Kurdish group Awara in 1984, their first encounter with non-western musicians. Non-western music will prove to be of great importance for The Ex in their later developments. In the same year they do a benefit tour with [...]

Punk is not the first word to spring to mind when talking about the GDR is it? But also in the communist dictatorship of the GDR there was quite a scene. Some bands were allowed by the government, others weren’t. There are some very interesting articles (and here) on this matter. Apart from the documentary [...]

In June 1980 The Ex make their recording debut: the 7″ EP All Corpses Smell The Same. Two more releases follow that same month: a 7″ flexi-disc for the anarchist punk magazine Raket from Rotterdam, and a contribution to Utregpunx, a 7″ vinyl compilation. In October they release their first LP Disturbing Domestic Peace.
In August [...]

The Ex has been a highly influential band in punk, experimental and avant-garde scenes for over three decades now. In 1979 the band formed out of the squat scene of Amsterdam and Wormer and has since then developed into a prominent musical force covering such diverse styles as punk, noise, rock, jazz, improvisation, and ethnic [...]

Watch this trailer of Christina Hallström and Mandra Wabäck’s Beautiful Frenzy, a documentary on legendary Dutch anarcho punk/noise/avant garde collective The Ex.
The Ex will perform and curate an evening at Incubate 2010 on Monday September 13th.

National Wake
Punk in Africa is a feature length documentary currently in the making by a team of African and Czech documentary makers. The film will focus on the role of punk music, style and subcultures in the political and social upheavals in Africa at the end of the 20th century. Punk in general has often [...]

Remember the excellent young Norwegian garage band Pirate Love from last year’s Incubate? The band  posted some new songs on their Myspace page. They call their new single “a sonic journey through the vicious hallucinations of psychotropic drug use, mixed with finnish vodka…and ice cream”, sounds good!
Our beloved pirates are heading over to the [...]

Classic nederpunk band from IJsselstein, somewhere in the early eighties.

X is a legendary punk band. They achieved only limited mainstream success, they were widely considered one of the most revered of Los Angeles’ many punk bands. Check this classic one.