One of the most popular bands of last year’s Incubate was, without a doubt, ‘The Men‘. With their breakthrough album ‘Open Your Heart‘ and an amazing performance, they made a lot of critics, and audiences, shortlists. Well The Men are back, both sonically and physically. -Sonically they return with ‘New Moon‘, a new album coming out March [...]
[Win] 2 x 2 Tickets for The Men on March 20th @ Merleyn, Nijmegen
March 4, 2013
[Listen] The Men – ‘Electric’
January 9, 2013
The Men announced new album ‘New Moon‘ today. It’s release is on March 5th via Sacred Bones. The record’s first single,’Electric‘, is out on January 22 on 7″ vinyl, but allready here to stream. Check it out in the embed below.
[Listen] VÅR – The Boy or the Boot
December 17, 2012
Photo by Tom Roelofs Incubate alumni Vår is the ‘lo-fi post-punk meets Chicago house’ duo made up of Iceage frontman Elias Bender Rønnenfelt and Sexdrome‘s Loke Rahbek. A brand new song ‘The Boy or the Boot‘ is recorded for a compilation in honor of Five Years Sacred Bones Records. Consider this as a solid warm-up, [...]
[Listen] re-issue of Lust For Youth’s Growing Seeds + Bonus tracks
November 13, 2012
After moving their business from Avant! Records to Sacred Bones, the Lust For Youth album Growing Seeds is now re-released by Sacred Bones with three additional tracks. Listen to the full album in the embed below
[Spotifriday] Your Weekend Soundtrack Week 45
November 9, 2012
The Soft Moon One man project by Luis Vasquez recently released the album Zeros. A little more engaging and open than previous records, this album is certainly worth a listen. Listen to the seventh track Die Life in the embed below Crystal Castles The first track of Canadian Crystal Castles release ‘III‘ Guided By Voices The track released by [...]
[Photos] The new kings of Denmark by Tom Roelofs
October 29, 2012
Freelance music, documentary and portrait photographer Tom Roelofs followed the great Danish invasion in VÅR, Lower, Lust for Youth and Iceage during their performance on Incubate 2012. This results in an awesome photoset covering every inch of their activities about their stay and show in Tilburg last September. You can view all photos here.
[InQ&A] 7 Questions for Amen Dunes
July 24, 2012
Less than two months until Incubate 2012. For the past few months we’ve been announcing new artists every week. But with 200 + artists coming up in September we can imagine you losing your hold. That’s why we compiled the Incubate 2012 Spotify playlist. Subscribing to this playlist will get you acquainted with most of the bands. Apart from their [...]
[Incu Thursday] Cult of Youth + UV PØP (Sacred Bones in residence), Jameszoo release party + 12 more artists confirmed
July 12, 2012
Many things found their completion this week. Earlier this week we announced Global Mashups vol2., the complete art program and the DIY Conference for Incubate 2012. In the meantime Sacred Bones completed their program. We got Incubate-friend Jameszoo to release his EP during Incubate, something that he will celebrate with some of his friends and fellow artists. And besides all that we managed [...]
Incubate DIY Conference expands to two days. Get your tickets now.
July 10, 2012
For the first time our conference will be held on two seperate days. In Theater De NWE Vorst an extensive program about Do It Yourself culture will be hosted on Friday September 14th and Saturday September 15th. Tickets are already available and the visitor can name his or her own price. Robert Levine is the author [...]
[Incubate Scene Report] A Guide to Gothenburg
June 25, 2012
It’s time for another Scene Report about a European city. This time we chose Gothenburg (Göteborg). It’s the second biggest city in Sweden and is situated on the west coast. Fun fact: The most annoying sound on the internet and a big sensation from a couple of years ago, Crazy Frog, originated from Gothenburg! There [...]
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[Friday Afternoon Silliness] Terrible Trap Songs (mutilating songs you used to love)
May 17, 2013
Trap is all the rage these days, sparking internet memes and making tiny white kids seem cooler by proxy. But as we all know, when a “new” genre comes to town -brandishing legitimately interesting music- people hurdle over each other to take that “new” genre and paste it on everything in sight… and it is terrifying. This all [...]