Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Special: Neurotic Deathfest (Part 4 of 5)

Since Neurotic Deathfest is taking place in our beloved Tilburg tomorrow, we dedicate this week’s special to this very cool death metal festival!
Whereas ZXZW 2009 has Impure Wilhelmina including ex-Knut members, Neurotic Deathfest has also an ex-knut members band. By the name of Mumakil these Swiss dudes try to destroy everything around them sonically. If [...]

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Special: Neurotic Deathfest (Part 3 of 5)

Since Neurotic Deathfest is taking place in our beloved Tilburg this weekend, we dedicate this week’s special to this very cool death metal festival!
Next: Order of Ennead, a progressive death metal band incorporating two members of the well-known Deicide (Kevin Quirion – Vocals & Rhythm Guitar and Steve Asheim – Drums, Acoustic Guitar, Piano).
What is [...]

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Special: Neurotic Deathfest (Part 2 of 5)

Since Neurotic Deathfest is taking place in our beloved Tilburg this weekend, we dedicate this week’s special to this very cool death metal festival!
The New Dominion was in 2007 one of the acts at ZXZW.
We wrote about in 2007 about them: What’s ZXZW without a band from hometown Tilburg? And what’s ZXZW without a band [...]

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Special: Neurotic Deathfest (Part 1 of 5)

Since Neurotic Deathfest is taking place in our beloved Tilburg this weekend, we dedicate this week’s special to this very cool death metal festival!
Since grindcore/deathmetal outfit Leng Tch’e played  ZXZW 2005 we’ll start with paying some attention to them:
LENG TCH’E aka death by a thousand cuts, is an ancient Chinese torture ritual where the victim [...]

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Special: Black Cab Session: The Felice Brothers (5 of 5)

This week our special will be about the great idea called Black Cab Sessions: One cab, one song, one take.
Blackcabsessions.com: “Thanks largely to the efforts of bros Hanson and the hapless ‘nil points’ Gemini, the track record of bands made up of siblings is not too hot. Ok so maybe we do have a soft [...]

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Special: Black Cab Session: Daniel Johnston (4 of 5)

This week our special will be about the great idea called Black Cab Sessions: One cab, one song, one take.
Blackcabsessions.com: “It was an honour and a joy to have Daniel and his college mate / demon guitar player Brett Hartenbach on board as we cruised around north London. There was one scare along the ride [...]

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Special: Black Cab Session: Spoon (3 of 5)

This week our special will be about the great idea called Black Cab Sessions: One cab, one song, one take.
Blackcabsessions.com: “Spoon just happens to be the very first sessionist in the cab to don a pair of sunnies. Maybe if we’d ever had bono and his orange perma-specs on board then the duck would have [...]

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Special: Black Cab Session: Sunset Rubdown (2 of 5)

This week our special will be about the great idea called Black Cab Sessions: One cab, one song, one take.
Blackcabsessions.com: “We’re in Kilburn, North West London, standing outside The Luminaire venue, waiting, predictably, for a taxi to swing by. Behind us, the crowd is already gathering around the entrance, 2 hours in advance, patiently waiting [...]

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Special: Brian Wilson: Black Cab Session (1 of 5)

This week our special will be about the great idea called Black Cab Sessions: One cab, one song, one take.
Blackcabsessions.com: “Dear Black Cabs,” the email began, “would you please consider filming a session with Brian Wilson (of the Beach Boys).” They really didn’t need to add that last bit about the Beach Boys. A few [...]

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

Special: Cool cover versions: Gloomy Sunday (Weekendbreak)

This week you can wake up to some cover versions to get you kickstarted!
Today we shift our attention to the ‘Hungarian suicide song’ “Gloomy Sunday” originally composed by Hungarian pianist Rezső Seress who committed suicide in1968.
It was covered many times here’s an overview containing Björk, Billie Holiday, Portishead, Diamanda Galas: