Groningen is the biggest city in the north of the Netherlands. It’s also a very lively, creative and interesting place with a strong underground scene. VENUES The music scene in this city is diverse. There is De Oosterpoort, which has cabaret, dance, theatre, classical music and some shows from bigger artists. Vera (photo) is a [...]
Incubate Scene Report: a guide to Groningen
April 10, 2012
[Go See] Rocket From The Tombs at 013
March 13, 2012
The band Rocket From The Tombs was founded in mid seventies, but unfortunately after a few years they split up. They only left us some demos and bootlegs. After almost 30 years the record label Smog Veil Records did put all this demos and bootlegs together and rereleased it. The band did get finally the exposure [...]
Incubate @ Eurosonic Noorderslag (#esns12) part 5: report by Peter
January 16, 2012
I have a love/hate relationship with Eurosonic/Noorderslag. The first 25 years of my life i lived in and near Groningen, so i know how the city behaves without music industry people. This year is my 9th time to visit the festival, the first time as a delegate. In the past i saw some amazing shows [...]
Incubate @ Eurosonic Noorderslag part 2: Frank #esns12
January 13, 2012
Eurosonic Noorderslag is an annual festival that takes place in Groningen, the Netherlands. Of course a lot of Incubaters are at the festival watching bands, listening to keynote speeches and drinking some beers. Each of them made a little report of how they experienced it! Today you’re going to hear about the experiences from Frank Kimenai. Soooo, [...]
Incubate @ Eurosonic Noorderslag part 1: Erik #esns12
January 13, 2012
Eurosonic Noorderslag is an annual festival that takes place in Groningen, the Netherlands. Of course a lot of Incubaters are at the festival watching bands, listening to keynote speeches and drinking some beers. Each of them made a little report of how they experienced it! Today you’re going to hear about the experiences from Erik [...]
Vera launches new website including incredible poster archive!
June 1, 2011
We’re pretty sure that we’ll piss off some people for not being at some of these amazing shows, yet this archive is an amazing source of posters from Vera events in the past. Check out the archive here as well as the whole new website here while you’re at it!
[Incu Thursday] The final Incubate 2010 line-up additions!
August 19, 2010
Hi there! This is Incu Thursday. Every Thursday the last few months, on 2pm local time, we announced the musicians that were confirmed for the Incubate 2010 festival during the past week. Whether it’s one or twenty name, as long as we had things to confirm.. Well, it looks like this will be the final [...]
Zstock
July 29, 2008
In collaboration with the American Poster Institute (API) we organize an exposition on concert poster art. Under the name of Z-stock ZXZW and API gives an overview of the work of the most popular concert poster artists working today. It’s the first time API has a convention in Holland. Poster designers from all over [...]
Owsum shop opening in Groningen
April 18, 2008
You might remember the beautiful Vera poster exhibition last year. Mara and friends started a little shop in the centre of Groningen. For at least two months. So if you are a Groningen person: go there and consume!
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Exitmusic – Passage This duo consists of husband and wife Devon Church en Aleska Palladino, from (Shit, again?!) Brooklyn, New York. With EP From Silence, which they released a year ago Exitmusic showed us their first sign of life.. Passage, their debutalbum, is a bit more bombastic, but still got the sultry sound. Next to this sultry [...]