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Album and Concertreview – The Secret Love Parade, Paradiso 14th of February 2012 You have to be an absolute killjoy to rain on The Secret Love Parade. They’re so young, adorable and full of likeable musical ideas. Plus they’re from Amsterdam and are signed to the up and coming indie-label Snowstar, which recently surprised us… [Continue Reading]
Plumb, the fourth release by Sunderland’s Field Music equals the level of its double disc predecessor. Considering that Field Music (Measure) was a Fuzz favorite in 2010, to continue on the same level is quite an achievement for David and Peter Brewis. Compared to Field Music (Measures), Plumb is more compact (15 songs averaging 2:30… [Continue Reading]
Concert review – Howler + I Break Horses (Paradiso, Amsterdam, Febuary 10th 2012) ‘Don’t believe the hype, we’re just kids with guitars.’ If US rock-promise Howler are trying to make a statement on Friday night, in a reasonably well filled upstairs hall of the Paradiso, then surely this is it. Any suggestion of mainstream appeal… [Continue Reading]
Last Saturday when Mel Brookes’ sci-fi parody Spaceballs (1987) was shown on MGM, a generation gap manifested itself within our household. Bill Pulman flying an interstellar Winnebago with a bumper sticker that says: ‘I heart Uranus’ still made me grin, even when all around me eyebrows were raised. I feel certain that, despite their young… [Continue Reading]
The kids are sleeping over at friends and family, the sounds of the city are muffled by a soothing white blanket, finally the house is quiet enough to listen to the debut album by slowcore band LUIK in the way it deserves to be listened to. Owls seems to have been recorded in a bubble… [Continue Reading]
The Norwegian punk/rockband Honningbarna was our favorite act at Eurosonic, less than three weeks ago. Today we received this sad press release from their manager: “It’s with a very heavy heart I bring the news to you that the drummer of Honningbarna, Anders Askildsen Eikås (20) died in a car crash tonight. The boys are… [Continue Reading]
Of all the world class albums released by Dutch bands this month, the one that truly surprised me is by a band called Hospital Bombers. The main reason I was surprised is that I had never before heard of this band from Amsterdam, even though they apparently played at SXSW way back in 2008. The… [Continue Reading]
Could the Maya’s have been right? Are major changes coming to the world in 2012? It certainly seems so, what else can explain the fact that the best releases in the first weeks of the new year are not from the US, not from the UK, no not even from Canada (sorry guys) or Belgium, but from… [Continue Reading]
The most hyped act of last week’s edition of Eurosonic must have been the Danish punk-rock quartet of Iceage. Fridaynight, at 1:15, they were the closing act in Groninger rock temple Vera. During their US tour the angry youths build up a reputation as a provoking live act, whose shows regularly end in mayhem. Indiefuzz… [Continue Reading]
They look like a much younger Ruud Gullit and Frank Rijkaard; Marcus Haughton, the curly brother, on vocals and keys, and Miles Haughton, the brother without dreadlocks, on lead vocals and guitar. Fortunately, their three mates, Louis Bhose (bass) and Oscar Manthorpe (guitar) and Ben (drums) look like they have met up at Hogwarts and… [Continue Reading]