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 [...]

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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 [...]

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That‘s what we call a line-up! Le Guess Who? 2011 (LGW11) pretty much has every band that the blogosphere is raving about right now and more! You can read Vincent’s tips here, and Peter’s and Frank’s are coming later this week. So keep an eye on our blog! But for now,  you can win 2×2 [...]

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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 [...]

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“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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Did we tell you we really love STRP Festival in Eindhoven? Well, we do. And we’re not just talking about the music here. The 5th edition of STRP Festival is also about 50 years of Dutch media- and technology art. Together with the pioneers, heroes of today and tomorrow’s talent, the STRP EXPO brings you [...]

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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 [...]

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We didn’t have that many rappers on this year’s Incubate Festival, but that doesn’t mean we don’t like hiphop. We love hiphop. Especially hiphop artists that are looking for the bounderies. And then fucks those boundaries up. The duo Dälek (pronounced as ‘dialect’) is that group. And you can see Will Brooks’s (of Dälek fame) [...]

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Woah, many responses for the Shining/Dead Neanderthals show! Thanks everybody. Unfortunatly, we could only give away 2 x 2 tickets. 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 [...]

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