The cream of the crop of the Dutch metal scene Textures is hitting the road again.  Together with the British metal band Sylosis they’ll visit eleven european venues for an European tour. The last gig is on 11 March at the 013 here in Tilburg, and we are giving away 2×2 tickets.

What do you have to do? Simple, mail us to win@incubate.org and we will randomly choose 2 entries. Make sure you add your first and last name and put ‘Textures’ in the subject line.

Dualism by Textures

Incubate is the first European festival opening up the source of their festival information for the use of applications. Incubate is constantly in search of new ways to serve the audience and this is the next step in that search. This way, Incubate wants to share data with their visitors, to create a more pleasant, more interesting and more meaningful value to visiting the festival.

The internet has changed in the last five years, and one of those changes is the importance of apps. Due to apps, websites are getting less important. Web- and software developers can build their own Incubatewebsite or -application through the Application Programming Interface (API). Information about artists, timeschedules, venues or the latest festivalnews can be easily collected. This information can be used in apps for devices like iPhone, Android or Blackberry.

Developers can create (for example) apps with a game element (Incubate quiz, guess the location, artist or newsfact) or apps that can save the visitors’ new music discoveries during the festival, with a link to Spotify. Or they can create a flirt-app or maybe an app with all the venues. These are all possible ideas, thanks to API.

That’s why Incubate is launching a competition together with internet company Freshheads. Everyone who think he has a good idea and makes an app or a website for it, gets the chance to win 500,- euros. There is a seminar on the 10th of February at Freshheads, where more information will be given and a detailled explanation about the available content of the API will be presented. More information about the competition is available at the seminar on the 10th of February and via this blog. From that day on, the applications can be submitted. Every submitted application will be shown in an overview on www.incubate.org.

Previously, Incubate made it possible for visitor to submit text, audio, video and photomaterial to the festivalwebsite www.incubate.org via a ‘wiki’ method. They also put their business and policy plans online on www.socialfestivalmodel.org, so everyone can use it.

Gaudeamus Muziek is giving away 3×2 tickets for Enfant Terrible presenteert Elitepop. It’s on Thursday the 2nd of February in Huis a/d Werf, Utrecht. Elitepop is an evening with electronic live music from the universum of Dutch label Enfant Terrible. All you have to do is send an e-mail to win@incubate.org and put ‘Enfant Terrible’ in the subjectbox.

A total of five acts will give a performance that night. Those five acts are, Logosamphia, Woud, Neurobit, Puin + Hoop and Neugeborene Nachtmusik. These artists all have an electronic background that’s between pop and art. Logosamphia is coming with a live performance which tends to noise and improvisation. Lo-fi, experimental, ambient and improvisation are the keywords of Woud. Neurobit is performing with Nintendo Gameboys and DS-devices to create minimal music. The last to Puin + Hoop is making improvisation with experimental and Neugeborene Nachtmusik creates dark and ritual post-electro music.

These five artist all have one thing in common, improvisation. A great way to spend your thursday, don’t you think? So send an e-mail to win@incubate.org and win those tickets! Good luck.

You having a night off, this Friday? Well, maybe this one’s for you then. And for those who didn’t win the tickets to Elbipolis in Theaters Tilburg earlier, here’s another chance to see Elbipolis!

We can give away 3×2 tickets for Hauschka and Elbipolis Barockorchester with DJ Brezel Göring at De Effenaar, Eindhoven! This event is part of the Club Cross-Linx.

Those who follow Incubate already know Hauschka. He performed his neo-classical/post modern piano songs on the second edition of Incubated (oh, the early days!), and the man was kind enough to grant us permission to stream that entire liveshow.
Elbipolis Barockorchester lounge their classical baroque style up with beats and bleeps from no other than Stereo Total’s Brezel Göring!

What you have to do to win these tickets? Simple. Mail us to win@incubate.org and we randomly pick 3 winners. Two rules: One, make sure to mail us your first and last name and two, put ‘hauschka’ in the subject line.

Good luck!

Barock Lounge: Outer Space from RADIALSYSTEM V on Vimeo.

Man from the South is playing with Bird at Ketelhuis in Eindhoven this sunday, January 22nd. The show starts at 15:00 and it ends at 18:00 and you can win tickets! Man from the South is a solo-project of Paul van Hulten. He is also known as Paul from Woody & Paul. It will be the first time he plays solo on Eindhoven’s soil.

Ketelhuis is a beautiful industrial room which accommodate the perfect atmosphere and acoustic for the melancholic semi-acoustics song from Man from the South. His supporting program is Bird. Bird is a trio from the Netherlands. Two guys and a woman playing indie/folk like acoustic songs. They make records DIY-style and playing at places where there’s a breathing space for music. A place where Bird feels at home.

Both artists have played at the Incubate festival and now it’s chance to see them live again! All you have to is send an e-mail to win@incubate.org and put Man from the South in the subjectbox. We’ll pick one lucky winner and notify him or her as soon as possible! Good luck.

At last years’ Incubate Festival, Martijn van Dalen customized 4 Fatboys by painting them. And now you can win one! We’re giving away the 4 Fatboys and all you have to do is buy a ticket for Incubated 14 in the pre sale and you’re automatically in the run of winning one of those special customized Fatboys!

Incubated 14 has a great line-up, with artists The Caretaker, Library Tapes and Sleepingdog. A very relaxing evening, with some fine, calming tunes and what better way to relax to the music by listening to them on your very own Fatboy! If you win the Fatboy, you get an e-mail on the day of Incubated 14, which is the 2nd of February. And when the evening starts you can chill and listen to the three acts on your own Fatboy, which you can bring home afterwards. You can buy your tickets for Incubated 14 below and here, we hope to see you there!

The Caretaker is all about lost memories, amnesia and nostalgia to old times. Creating a deep beautiful, but sometimes sinister atmosphere he tries to take you back in your personal history through electronic ambient music. Pleasant memories, bad dreams, being alone in the dark, all these emotions overtake the listener. If you’ve seen the Kubrick movie ‘The Shining’, you will get an idea of the beautiful but disturbing feelings The Caretaker tries to evoke.

The Swedish David Wenngren is Library Tapes, pioneer of post-classical/neoclassical piano music. Library Tapes started in 2003 with David Wenngren and Per Jardsell. Wenngren hadn’t even touched a key of a piano, let alone played the piano! But he practised and listened to great artists like Sylvian Chaveau and Goldmund and he developed his own style. After the first album Per Jerdsell went his own way and David Wenngren became Library Tapes. The sounds that Wenngren produces are like subtile field recordings, with scratching and ticking noises of old 78-RPM record.

Sleepingdog has two members Chantal Acda (Chacda) and Adam Wiltzie (Stars of the Lid, A Winged Victory for the Sullen). Chantal Acda has been performing as Sleepingdog since 2006 and in that same year she played at the ZXZW Festival (former name of Incubate). She worked on her first two albums with Adam Wiltzie and he became such an essential part of her music, that he became a member of the band. Sleepingdog is based on the fairy-like atmosphere of Iceland and goes beyond the limits of New-Folk and Folktronica.

Earlier this week, we gave away tickets to a metal-show in Winston (you can still respond till January 18th!), and today we are happy to give away tickets to a classical baroque concert. No wait, this is really cool! Just read this:

After continuously growing audience numbers in Berlin and Hamburg, Barock Lounge comes to Tilburg! In Barock Lounge club culture and baroque music meet each other. In a relaxed atmosphere, the Elbipolis Barockorchester Hamburg intertwines their music with the music by Berlin club-DJ Brezel Göring (you may know him of the pretty cool and über-German group Stereo Total). The soothing sounds by Corelli, Purcell and Händel get transformed by Göring, who creates extra dimensions to the music with his samples. Balletmusic enriched with science fiction sounds. The famous Canon by Pachelbel becomes a wonderful B-movie soundtrack. Baroque improvisations versus electronica jams.

Yes, we do think that’s a very cool concept!

So have you got an hour to spend on January 29th? Because thanks to the great people at Theaters Tilburg we can give away 3×2 tickets for this cultural event! What you have to do? Not much. Just mail us to win@incubate.org. And on the 18th, we randomly pick 3 winners. How does that sound?

Oh yeah. Three amazing metalbands in the Winston in Amsterdam! Genre-defying black-metal band Deafheaven and crust-punk/hardcore troupe Hierophant on one bill. Holy shit.

Deafheaven is a melding of epic Post Rock leanings (Envy, Godspeed You! Black Emperor) with experimental Black Metal (Xasthur, Weakling, Leviathan), and classic era “Screamo” (Orchid, Crimson Curse) into something never successfully experienced before.
While Hierophant is a band for fans of Trap Them, The Secret, Black Breath and Oathbreaker.
The night will be opened by Dutch band Fire Walk With Us, who make a solid combination of post-rock, post-metal and shoegaze. You can download their debut for a pay what you want price here. That’s always a good thing.

Do you want to win these tickets? Great. The only thing you have to do is comment (below) on this post that you want to win these tickets. And make sure we can see your first and last name or else we can’t put you on the guest list. We’ll pick the winners randomly on January 18th.

Awwww yeah!

We’re lost for words. Our very own artistic leader Vincent Koreman is nominated for the Tilburger Of The Year award! Other nominees include the mayor of Tilburg, so the competition is huge. Please vote for Vincent by clicking this link! You don’t need to fill in an e-mailadres or anything, you can just click vote!

We have only got 2 hours, so please hurry up!

Damn. A mouth-watering bill. This is the absolute top of Dutch folk music. Anyone that likes folk music should be at this concert.  And you can! Thanks to De Effenaar, we can give away 3×2 tickets to this triple bill on December 22nd! Awesome!

We probably don’t have to introduce these bands, but here it goes:
TIKA make beautiful alternative rock with a subtile alt. country sounds. It consists of Marien Dorleijn (Moss) and David Pino (El Pino & The Volunteers), 2 heavyweights in the dutch indiescene. They went to the Canadian town La Peche for ‘In A Cabin With…‘ to record with local musicians. The outcome was called TIKA.
I Am Oak‘s ‘Oasem’ won a 3voor12 award for best album. And rightfully so! This melancholic folkgroup by Thijs Kuijken became one of the best folk noir groups of The Netherlands in the last couple of months.
Akward I is another pearl. Djurre de Haan (also playing bass in that other amazing Dutch band Alamo Race Track) keeps his folk music very minimalist. Vulnerable, but unbelievably beautiful. His debut ‘I Really Should Whisper’ is full of those songs.

So what do you have to do to win these tickets? Quite simple: mail us to win@incubate.org and put ‘TIKA’ in the subject line. The first 3 to respond get 2 tickets!

Those who don’t try, will never win

Good luck!

Yesterday, we wrote down our tips for State-X New Forms. We already said then, that you can win something. Now, here we are. And we give you 2×2 X-Passes for State-X New Forms in The Hague, starting this Friday!

X-Pass? What’s that? Alright here’s how it works. There are different tickets for different programs on State-X. If you buy tickets to Omar Souleyman, you can’t go to Kanagawa, which is on the same day. There isn’t a full festival-ticket for all the shows. But there is an X-pass. This X-pass gives you a 50% discount on all the shows. And some concerts become free!

So if you’re short in money, you still want to win this X-pass. Because it basically means this:

FREE TICKETS TO TERZIJ DE HORDE/CARCERI/JESUS CRÖST on December 10th!
 

That’s a pretty fucking loud metal package, isn’t it?
We already put Terzij De Horde in our tip-list, so it’s pretty clear we dig this band a lot. But you can also see the extremely loud talented Dutch death-metal troupe Carceri and underground metal band Jesus Cröst!

That’s pretty much worth the visit, innit?

Next to that, you can also visit the great double DJ-bill Broken Note (Incubate 2009)/Brokenchord on December 15th! Oh, and Kanagawa on 13-12!

“Alright we get it! What do we have to do to get those amazing X-Passes?”
It’s very simple. Mail us to win@incubate.org, put ‘X-Pass‘ in the subject line.  And tell us why YOU want to win 2 X-passes! If you make us laugh or cry, or have a logical explanation why you want to win those passes, we’ll let you know.

Good luck!

Oh, and do you want to win tickets to Omar Souleyman on State-X? Make sure to check out our blog later this week!

Gaudeamus Muziekweek is giving away 3×2 tickets for ‘The Invisible City’. It’s this thursday, December the 8th, at Huis aan de Werf in Utrecht. An evening where the heterogeneous sound of the contemporary city is centralized. Electronic meets acoustic meets ambient meets noise. An improvisation session from ‘Electro-Harmonics’ and an exclusive live set from BJ Nilsen. A wide range of music, so if you want to go all you have to do is send an e-mail to win@incubate.org. Put your name in the e-mail and ‘The Invisible City’ in the subject and that’s it!

The evening will begin with the ‘Electro-Harmonics’ who will give a live improvisation session where musicians from both electronic and acoustic music come together on stage. On the spot they will produce layered process music; a unique and not repeatable event. Martijn Pieck (The [Law-Rah] Collective) came with the idea and the first edition will be with Pieck, Zeno van den Broek (Machinist, electronica and field recordings), Peter Johan Nyland (Hadewych, percussion) and Coen Polack (Living Ornaments, saxophone).

After the ‘Electro-Harmonics’ there will be an introduction to BJ Nilsen about noise and urban sounds and a short interview with Nilsen. He is going to play an exclusive live set based on the album ‘The Invisible City’. ‘An image created by the unseen and unheard sounds of the city, in a shape of complex and desolate narrative suite full of ambient sounds, noise, rustling and cracking that explore the unsuspected and unpredictable physical and psychogeographical impact of the urban sounds and its bursting vivacity.’

What do you get when you combine the filthy 60s sound of The Sonics with the punk sound from The Ramones? The band Black Lips. You can win the latest Black Lips album ‘Arabia Mountain‘ which is a great album full of garage rock and rattling pop sounds from the 60s. All you have to do is send an e-mail to win@incubate.org, put ‘Black Lips‘ in the subject box and maybe you’ll be the lucky winner of ‘Arabia Mountain’!

If you want to see a live performance of Black Lips, you better go to Eindhoven at the 16th of December. They are performing in the biggest indoor skatepark of Europe, Area51. A concert that is an collaboration with the Effenaar who wants to host intimate concerts throughout Eindhoven. So who doesn’t want to see the garage punkpop band Black Lips in a massive skatepark? This is a once in a lifetime experience, you can get your tickets here.

Were you at Incubate 2011? And did you see Nadja, Thought Forms, Nadar, Dead Neanderthals, Ruisgenoot, Preliminary Saturation, Loud Squirt, Oliver Cole, Plinth, Chris Corsano + Dennis Tyfus, This Frontier Needs Heroes or Laatste Haalte? Too bad, that means you’ve missed Miracle Fortress.
We’re kidding of course, there is a shitload of to-see bands in one hour. But the Miracle Fortress show in 013 Kleine Zaal got some good reviews. So this is your chance to see them live this time, or maybe see them live again! Thanks to the great guys and gals at EKKO, we can give you 2×2 tickets to an exclusive show on December 7th!

The only thing you need to do is to like this post on Facebook (and you need to like Inlog, else we can’t contact you!) and we will pick 2 random persons to win 2 tickets! We will draw the winners this Wednesday.

Good luck!

Effenaar exists for 40 years now (if you haven’t noticed yet). That’s pretty damn long, so you should congratulate them for it. And you can. We have already given away tickets for D.A.F. and Shaking Godspeed amongst others, and now we give away 3×2 tickets for Low Yo Yo Stuff on December 7th!

After the huge succes in Theater De Machinefabriek in Groningen, Noord-Nederlands Toneel (Northern Dutch Theater) brings the Captain Beefheart-inspired Low Yo Yo Stuff (LYYS) to De Effenaar.
In this play, Frank Lammers plays Rikkie Black, a fan of Captain Beefheart who thinks he’s born in the head of the Captain. The idea behind LYYS  is retrieving the artistic and social freedom. LYYS is a search to the ‘Lost Record’, the album that was recorded by Beefheart in 73, but never released. It’s a hallucinating trip through life and the world of Captain Beefheart. Don van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart), just recently deceased, formed the group Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band in the sixties. Their album ‘Trout Mask Replica’ was produced by Frank Zappa and sent out a shockwave through the pop-, rock and bluesculture. His music contains elements of blues, acid-rock and free-jazz.

If you want to win two of these six tickets, just mail us to win@incubate.org, put ‘Low Yo Yo Stuff’ in the subjectline and answer the next question: Where is the name of the play ‘Low Yo Yo Stuff’ taking from?

Good luck!

But for now,  you can win 2×2 daytickets for LGW11!!! “That sucks”, we hear you think, “What if I don’t want to see anything that particular day?”. No worries! Because we let YOU decide which day you want to go!
So do you want to see The Devil’s Blood or Zomby on Saturday? Or are you dying to finally witness a liveperformance by Panda Bear on Sunday? You can! Just mail us the day you want to go to win@incubate.org and mail us the answer to this question:

(Le) Guess who is performing on both Le Guess Who?! and Incubated 12?

Don’t forget  to put ‘LGW11′ in the subjectline. Good luck!

You can still win 2×2 tickets for New Music For Early Instruments tonight, thanks to Gaudeamus Muziekweek! It’s this evening at Huis a/d Werf in Utrecht. If you want to go all you have to do is mail to win@incubate.org and put ‘New Music For Early Instruments‘ in the subject! The evening will consist of new music that will be played with ‘old’ instruments.

There will be three artists performing thursday evening R. Keenan Lawler, Gregg Kowalsky and Jozef van Wissem. The trio worked together in Brooklyn, New York on The Issue Project Room which is a fellow stage of Gaudeamus Muziek. Now they are coming to Utrecht to perform for you! R. Keenan Lawler will kick off the evening. He is playing the resonator guitar with an historical awareness for the finger-pick tradition and a skill to improvise. After Lawler, Gregg Kowalsky is lined up, he build cassetteplayers and repared elektronic acoustics  to loop and create a multi-dimensional reality. Last but not least is Jozef van Wissum, a Dutch lutenist who lives in New York and works with a lot of international musicians to bring the lute out of the musuem and give it a new meaning!

“One plays drums, one plays 2-string slide bass and one plays two saxophones at once. Together they call themselves Morphine and theirs is a sound unlike any other, as you’re about to see”

Morphine is definitely one of our favorites, here at Incubate HQ. To say they were innovative is an understatement. A completely new sound back in the day. Legendary songs like ‘Cure For Pain’ and ‘You Look Like Rain’. And of course, the band of Mark Sandman. The frontman and famous for playing bass with just two strings. It had never been done before.
Sandman passed away some years ago, and now PLAY Festival in De Melkweg, Amsterdam shows the official documentary about the man himself and Morphine. Oh, and you can win 2×2 tickets for it on Saturday November 19th. But that’s not all.

In honor of Mark Sandman, the other bandmembers perform that night as Members Of Morphine. A very special and unique liveshow with Jeremy Lyons bringing the grooving rocksound to the stage once more. You have to be here!

And if that’s not enough, you can also visit the liveshows of the great Califone and the well-known Lucky Fonz III. And if you’re not tired yet, you can party all the night through with CTRL+ALT+PLAY with DJ (Mad) Ed, Tommi, George and Arnold. And, come on, a live show by the Members Of Morphine! What are you waiting for?

Mail us to win@incubate.org, Put ‘Cure For Pain‘ in the subjectline, give us your full name and maybe you’re watching the ‘Cure For Pain’ documentary and Members Of Morphine in De Melkweg this Saturday!

Good luck!

Gaudeamus Muziekweek gives aways 2×2 tickets for the concert New Music For Early Instruments! It’s this thursday, the 17th of November at Huis a/d Werf, Utrecht! It’s part of a series of concerts that is being held at Huis a/d Werf. But we know what you may think, what does New Music For Early Instruments mean? The name basically says it all, new music will be played on ‘old’ instruments.

There will be three artists performing thursday evening R. Keenan Lawler, Gregg Kowalsky and Jozef van Wissem. The trio worked together in Brooklyn, New York on The Issue Project Room which is a fellow stage of Gaudeamus Muziek. Now they are coming to Utrecht to perform for you! R. Keenan Lawler will kick off the evening. He is playing the resonator guitar with an historical awareness for the finger-pick tradition and a skill to improvise. After Lawler, Gregg Kowalsky is lined up, he build cassetteplayers and repared elektronic acoustics  to loop and create a multi-dimensional reality. Last but not least is Jozef van Wissum, a Dutch lutenist who lives in New York and works with a lot of international musicians to bring the lute out of the musuem and give it a new meaning!

Everybody has a solo piece during the concert, but at the end Gregg Kowalsky and Jozef van Wissum will perform as a duo. Bringing the lute and old skool cassettes together! So are you curious about how this all sounds? And really want to hear how this sounds in real life? Then mail to win@incubate.org and put ‘New Music For Early Instruments‘ in the subject!

Good luck!

Jozef van Wissum – Tijuana Round

Gregg Kowalsky – Tape Chants IX

R. Keenan Lawler

So that means you can experience the first experiments with electronic music by Dick Raaijmakers in the Fifties, next to the most recent see-through technological installations by Daan Roosegaarde. The first video installations and interactive artpieces like Jeffrey Shaw‘s Legible City, and Erik Hobijn‘s controversial Suicide Machine next to the augmented reality rabbit Tibb.

And not only the EXPO is definitely worth a visit. We’re big fans of Matthew Herbert as well. Matthew recenty helped with Ridley Scott’s ‘Life In A Day’ soundtrack and Björk’s ‘Biophilia’. And he recomposed Mahler’s 10th for Deutsche Gramophon. On STRP he will perform his ‘One Pig‘ project live.

‘One Pig‘ is the story of one farm animal in particular, that was being followed from his birth untill his death and after that. Matthew Herbert recorded it all. He documented the life of the pig from birth to adulthood to, eventually, the slaughter. Due to English laws, he couldn’t record the slaughter itself, but he could document the process before it, the cooking and the consuming. And if that’s not enough, he made instruments from the remaining bodyparts: a drum of the stomach, an instrument based on the blood etcetera.

The result is an ode to the lifecycle of an otherwise anonymous animal. A work that brings up questions and insight in the presence of an animal in a society that underestimates its use and meaning.

Thanks to the great people at STRP, we’re able to give away 2×2 tickets for Matthew Herbert‘s performance, with a visit to the EXPO included on Friday November 18. If you want those tickets mail us the coolest picture of a pig you can find to win@incubate.org. Oh, and don’t forget to put ‘STRP’ in the subjectline!

Good luck!

This is something we really love. Tilburgs very own Bram Stadhouders just released a new CD: ‘Bell Time’ featuring Sidsel Endresen and Jim Black. We already blogged about this some days ago.

During the 2010 edition of Incubate Festival, Stadhouders performed with the Norwegian vocal artist Sidsel Endresen (a.o. Jon Eberson group) and the American drummer Jim Black (a.o. AlasNoAxis, Human Feel). This went so well, that they decided to make an album. So we’re extremely proud about this. And thanks to Muzieklab, we can give away 3 CD’s!

Bram Stadhouders started out as a guitarist and composter. After he won many prizes, he started focussing on jazz, rock, electronic and contemporary music. He played with Staplerfahrer, Spinvis, Laïs and Noel Redding. Next to that, he also did projects with Onno Govaert, Eric van der Westen’s XTD and Terje Isunget IceMusic.
And now he presents his latest project with Sidsel Endresen and Jim Black. It’s jazzy, electronic and even a bit ambient at the same time, with the haunting vocals of Endresen on top of that. It’s wonderful! Take a listen below if you’re still not convinced!

You can win this CD by sending a mail to win@incubate.org. Put ‘Bell Time’ in the subjectline and tell us in which venue Stadhouders, Black and Endresen performed at Incubate 2010.
And if you’re really quick, we’ll add one ticket to their concert in the Bimhuis in Amsterdam this Thursday!

Good luck!

Those who aren’t familiair with the duo Oktopus and MC Dälek,  should check out masterpieces ‘Abandoned Language’ and ‘Gutter Tactics’. And while you’re at it, the 45-minute one track ‘Untitled’ is awesome as well. Truly progressive hiphop.
Anyone, we’re drifting off.
IconAclass is the new project of rapper/producer Will Brooks, also known as MC Dälek. With this project he goes back to his roots, so this is rough old-skool American hiphop, without any blingbling or gangsters. So not only fans of Dälek should dig this, but hiphop fans in general should really check this out.

You can win tickets to the show in dB’s Utrecht by mailing us to win@incubate.org. Put ‘Ticket Bonanza: iconAclass’  in the subjectline and maybe you’ll be the one winning tickets to this must-see show!

Now for our next show: a rockshow with some of the best bands from our tiny country at this moment: Shaking Godspeed and Traumahelikopter in De Effenaar on November 18th!

If you love hardrock music and if you visit shows regularly, you know what to expect of Shaking Godpeed. For those who don’t:
They played hundreds of shows already and it made them a smoking rockmachine. Their sound lies somewhere between The Stooges, Deep Purple, garage and hardrock. Their album ‘Awe’ got virtually only positive reviews.
Support-act is Traumahelikopter. And yes, we love Traumahelikopter. We like them so much that they’re performing on the next edition of Incubated this week (in collaboration with Popronde). So if you can’t make it out this Thursday (but you should. It’s FREE!) in Paradox for Incubated 11, make sure you’ll arrive early for this garagapunk outfit from Groningen!

Back to the show in De Effenaar. What you have to do for these tickets? Simple: mail us to win@incubate.org and put ‘Ticket Bonanza: Shaking Godspeed’ in the subject line. And if we mail you back, that means you’ve won!

Good luck!

Will you win those tickets?

A quartet classically schooled musicians that started out as a jazzband in 1999. Until Shining turned to metal in 2005. That sounds like a 180 degrees from their roots, but that’s not the case. The music on  ’In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster’  is still a jazzalbum. It’s just played and filled with metal guitars and drumming. They perfected their sound on their last album ‘Blackjazz’, mixing metal, jazz and industrial to their own genre,  called err… blackjazz.
Dead Neanderthals aren’t unknown anymore for the most of you. The grindcore/spazzjazz outfit already performed on Incubate 2011. They gave an impressive 15-minute beating and topped it by giving everyone a free disc. Lovely fellows!

So do you want to win those tickets? Mail us to win@incubate.org, put ‘Ticket Bonanza: Shining’ in the subjectline and the first two to respond win 2 tickets!

Good luck!

That’s right, Glorior Belli will perfom in Little Devil Tilburg on November 6th with the likes of Acherontas, Vorkreist and Weltenbrand. Damn!

The French dogs of Glorior Belli have a already build up a steady reputation in the extreme music community for mixing Desert-Rock textures with the brutal, ominous, doom-laden vibe typical of Black Metal. They’re touring to promote their next release on Metalblade Records.
Acherontas hail all the way from Greece to bring you a stab of much-needed Black Metal goodness.
Also from France, Vorkreist mix death metals brutality and bestiality to black metals aggressivity and rawness. Vorkreist is delivering uncompromising satan dedicated death-black metal.
And something different: from the tiny land of Liechtenstein, WeltenBrand have been around since 1995 bringing medievel dark melodies and darkwave sounds to the stages all across the world.

Beware: we can only make one of you guys happy. So who wants 1 x 2 tickets for these 4 bands? Mail us to win@incubate.org, put ‘Ticket Bonanza: Glorior Belli’ in the subjectline and hopefully we’ll mail you back with the news that you have won!

Good luck!

Glorior Belli – They Call Me Black Devil

Acherontas – Hermeticism

Vorkreist – Onwards To The End

Weltenbrand – The Death

But we’ve got one show left. And not the least: Wolves In The Throne Room!
Ever since their first show at Roadburn turned into one sweating mass (we’ve never seen the small hall/green room that packed), all the media wanted a piece of them. And deservedly so. Right now, the atmospheric black metal band is embraced by metalheads to progrockers to indiekids. Did they sell out? Fuck no, they’re just really good. And their last album, which got an 8.6 on Pitchfork (of all sites!), is an example of that.
The opening band, the occult Wolvserpent, are a name to keep in mind as well!

So what do you have to do? Simply mail us to win@incubate.org, put ‘Ticket Bonanza: Wolves’ in the subject line and maybe, you’re pouring yourself in the blackest blackness in 013 Small Hall on October 31st!

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We are nominated for the Best Small European Festival and Best Indoor Festival on the European Festival Awards! And we’d be immensely proud if we could win this. This would really help us to make our upcoming Festival even better!

It’s very simple. You vote for us, we win. So we cannot do this without you. All voters can choose to enter into a prize draw, with a chance of winning two tickets to every winning festival for the following year! The only thing you have to do is register. That means filling in your e-mail (don’t worry, it’s safe), fill in a password, and you’re ready to go.
Next to that, you can also vote for ‘Beyonce – Single Ladies’ as Anthem Of The Year, Coldplay as Best Headline Performance, and Shelah Sue or Wy Luf as Best Newcomer, but we do not know these artists.
So if you want an early ticket for Incubate 2012, or if you were involved in our festival, or if you just like our festival, please vote for us! You can vote until December 6^th. So click here!

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