It’s that time of the year again and just like previous years we’ve been collecting your top ten album releases of the past year and created a list of the top-452 album releases of 2012 according to you. Although this final list including all your entries has been announced allready, the ranking is still on. [...]
Incubate’s individual top-10 album releases of 2012 – Gijs, Yannick and Stein
December 30, 2012
The top-452 album releases of 2012 according to you
December 7, 2012
Firework! That’s what the #1 record of 2012 starts with. According to you, Japandroids‘ Celebration Rock is the best release of 2012. The band that performed at Incubate 2012 got 22 votes and was on #1 in four individual yearlists. 86 top-10 lists were submitted the last few weeks and the toplist is not curated by an [...]
[Report] REWIRE Festival – Day 2 (with Young Magic, Pete Swanson and more)
November 6, 2012
Last weekend I visited a festival for contemporary art and music called REWIRE. Earlier that week we recommended some acts and yesterday you could find here my report of day 1 with Halls, DIIV, Knalpot & Laurel Halo. Now you can read my experiences from day 2 with rhythmically neurotic noise til melting pot music. The Saturday was [...]
[Report] REWIRE Festival – Day 1 (with Laurel Halo, DIIV and more)
November 5, 2012
So last week we recommended you to go to REWIRE, a festival for contemporary art and music. I went there myself to check out a lot of cool acts and heard everything between future-psychedelic electronica and 90s shoegaze guitar music. Here’s part one of the review of the two stunning days I had, which mainly took place [...]
[Report] Le Guess Who May Day
May 29, 2012
One of the coolest festivals in the Fall in the Netherlands is Le Guess Who. This year they decided to organize a one-day event under the name Le Guess Who May Day, with a lot of cool acts at Tivoli, Ekko, ACU and Neude (which was part of Festival Aan De Werf) Sleepy Sun I began this [...]
[Go to] Free show of Young Magic at 013
May 22, 2012
One of our personal favorite albums of 2012 so far is the record of Young Magic. This trio headed by Australian Isaac Emmanual who recorded al lot of different sounds during his trip around the world. That’s why album title Melt is definitely the best way to describe this record. A weird mixture of psychedelic dreampop mixed with chillwave and [...]
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[Friday Afternoon Silliness] Terrible Trap Songs (mutilating songs you used to love)
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Trap is all the rage these days, sparking internet memes and making tiny white kids seem cooler by proxy. But as we all know, when a “new” genre comes to town -brandishing legitimately interesting music- people hurdle over each other to take that “new” genre and paste it on everything in sight… and it is terrifying. This all [...]