Category Archives: music

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History through Dylan pt. 2

Every now and then I can’t help but getting lost in Bob Dylan’s world. Yes, it can be quite a lonely world. A lot of people either hate or barely tolerate Dylan: “That voice, that wretched harmonica…” Well, i’m a sucker for 2 things: music and history. If there’s anything that brings those 2 things [...]

jazzsteppa – America B live

Wow. Very thick sounds here, like a herd of elephants destroying your backyard.

Arpeggi / Weird Fishes

I just came across this wonderfully hypnotic version of Radiohead’s Arpeggi/Weird Fishes performed live at Ether Festival 2005 with the Nazareth Orchestra and had to share it with you.

History through Dylan pt. 1

Every now and then I can’t help but getting lost in Bob Dylan’s world. Yes, it can be quite a lonely world. A lot of people either hate or barely tolerate Dylan: “That voice, that wretched harmonica…” Well, i’m a sucker for 2 things: music and history. If there’s anything that brings those 2 things [...]

documentaire about nighttown

3VOOR12 reports: Documentaire over Nighttown toont unieke beelden Johnny Cash en Nirvana “In 2006 werd Nighttown aan de West-kruiskade in Rotterdam failliet verklaard. Verwoede pogingen om een doorstart te maken hadden geen baat, er was geen redden meer aan. Twee oud- medewerkers, Marcel Haug en Mike Redman, hebben nu een documentaire over de poptempel gemaakt. [...]

eels – that look you give that guy

inspiring:

Avant La Lettre live @ Paradiso w/Passion Pit

We’re support act for Passion Pit this wednesday @ Paradiso Amsterdam, around 19:39. Be there! Kind regards,

band under pressure

Hi guys, We’d like to thank you all 4 the support and great responses. We’ve had a tough 1 week, 2 great shows, 3 sick band members. Groningen & de Balie were great. We met many nice people and saw so many good friends. But nevertheless, being in a band is tough, hard work. Here’s [...]

flavours of the month september

Here’s some of the music that got my attention this past month: Pet Shop Boys Sometimes we have to indulge in our guilty pleasures. Musically this usaully means some crap from the 80s for me. I’m hooked on this right now: The XX These young kids from London have (self-)produced the best record i’ve heard [...]

Coparck presents A DOG AND PONY SHOW

This dutch band will presenting their new album, A Dog and Pony Show, in a couple of weeks. This is certainly worth mentioning, and supporting, seeing as these gentlemen have been steadily coming out with grade A music for quite some time now. Great songs like Into Routine, Surfing on a Rainbow, The World of [...]

8-bit vs lego

In my voyage into modern 80s (and 8-bit) culture for an earlier post i happened to stumble upon this video. It features the perfectly natural encounter between the 8-bit aesthetic and LEGO stop-motion ingenuity. The track is 8-Bit Trip by Rymdreglage: Earlier LEGO music video favourite (ofcourse):