The Great Escape 2010 Dag 2, vrijdag 14 mei, Effenaar programmeurs Robert Schaeffer en Tom Ketelaar bloggen traditioneel vanaf The Great Escape showcase festival in Brighton, Engeland. Vorige jaren zagen ze onder andere The Temper Trap en The Ting Tings voordat ze in Nederland doorbraken. Wie worden de nieuwe Crystal Castles of The Pains Of [...]
The Great Escape 2010: Dag 2
May 15, 2010
Also Drowned In Sound visited Incubate
October 5, 2009
It is my second day at the Incubate festival in Tilburg, Holland, and all I can smell is blood. That would be because of all the blood in the room. I look down. I am standing in a small pool of it. I look ahead. A naked woman strapped to a crucifix is having semi-coagulated [...]
The gods among reviews
August 6, 2009
Reading reviews can be pretty boring. But Ben Patashnik made a really beautiful one in the last NME (1 August 2009). Here are some other great ones we came across: Various Artists | How Soon Is Now? Smiths Tribute Niet doen dus. (Just don’t do this) CD, Sorepoint/Suburban Text: Joris Heemskerk Nee! Nee! Nee! Nee! [...]
New Immortal album: “Pure musical holocaust”
June 18, 2009
The Blizzard Beasts that have been named Immortal are about to release a new album. Terrorizer heard it already: While a disturbing proportion of team Terrorizer were sunning themselves in Donington and desperately trying to relive their youth by convincing themselves that nu-metal was at one point actually enjoyable to listen to, one of us [...]
How to get roadburned
April 27, 2009
Missed Roadburn last week, or want to relive the festival you just came home from? Read a nice review here (day 1) and here (day 2): “It’s really easy to tell as you walk around Tilburg who is here for Roadburn and who isn’t. Even when I first got here from Amsterdam on the train, [...]
This is Total Vince
April 15, 2009
Our very own artistic dictator has released his debut album (“You & Me and the Kingdom of Fire”) with his very hip electrorock band called This is Total War. He does the beats and model Magic Mante provides the vocals. Check out this review in Dutch or go to their MySpace Very nice aaaight!
Shit and Shine review
July 23, 2008
You might have seen the master drummers from Shit and Shine at ZXZW 2007. Pitchfork did a raving review on their new record.
We found some new ones
November 26, 2007
Not really new, but new to us. We found two new reviews of ZXZW, here they are: http://toysfornoise.blogspot.com/2007/09/wirwar-rocks-citys-concert-hall_23.html http://www.alternativeteken.com/evenements/09zxzw/2007/
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[Listen] (Not yet released) Ides of Gemini – Constantinople
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“Imagine being followed by a choir of ghosts in ancient, desolated and haunted ruins of the city of Constantinople” is what we wrote about Ides of Gemini when we were announcing this band for our festival. During Incubate this band will play at Friday the 14th of September. Officially their new album will be released [...]