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] VÅR – The Boy or the Boot
December 17, 2012
[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.
[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 [...]
Incu12-band War changes his name into VÅR + new music video
May 8, 2012
You’re probably not gonna notice a lot on the pronunciation, but the Danish band War has changed his named to VÅR, the Danish word for ‘spring’. The duo, who we announced a month ago for our festival, wrote about their new name : ‘”the name change happens in spring and is named thereafter“. Thats seems pretty clear, [...]
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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 [...]