Fuzz You!
We fly to Amsterdam/And in a little bit/We’ll sing our special song/And this is it John Flanshburg sings in the incompressible spy song Black Ops. Why don’t you put your money where your mouth is Johns and get your band over here for the first time in 25 years. I know, I know, there’s not [...]
Live review Dirty Projector at Melkweg, Amsterdam October 24th 2012 – My expectations for the Dirty Projectors gigs were high and the band from Brooklyn well exceeded them. Apart from the statement that people without any sense of rhythm should not be allowed to clap along to anything other than simple quadruple time, I have [...]
If I could listen to records with the same focus and sense of timelessness I possesed before the balance of things in my life toppled over towards the mundane, then there’d be no doubt that Grizzly Bear’s fourth album would be my favourite record of the year. Instead, Shields has to compete will less crafty albums that [...]
Album Review of Dirty Projector’s new album Swing Lo Magellan. Dirty Projectors’ last regular album, Bitte Orca (2009) was a big success, both artistically and in the sense that it got the band listened to outside of the limited circle of NYC Indie initiates. After the digital release of a couple of singles and a collaboration [...]
Here We Go Magic’s third album, A different Ship, starts with a remarkably animated percussive intro. For 51 seconds we are left wondering if perhaps for his latest sea crossing Brooklyn’s Luke Temple has traded the musical leisure cruise of his first two albums for an industrious aircraft carrier. We soon find out that the [...]
Why would one bike into town at 10pm and in minus 5 weather? Well, to see Friends. It was cold but the chill was long forgotten after we entered the Paradiso, caught a few songs of the D’Angelo show, and then headed upstairs to the other room where Friends would be playing. The room was [...]
Concertverslag: Yeasayer in de Melkweg The Maxx, 29 oktober 2010 Do you guys remember Bez? Bez was the non-instrumentalist, non-vocalist member of the Happy Mondays. On stage Bez was given a set of prop maracas, on cd booklets he was credited ‘Bez – Bez’. Basically Bez was there to supply the drugs and to do the [...]