Fuzz You!
‘the ambition to have no ambition’ is what connects the artists who are part of the Dutch Underground. At least it is according to Marc van der Holst, drummer to fuzz favorites Hospital Bombers and one of the creators of this scene that is not a scene. Van der Holst expounds on this pretentious statement [...]
Crystal Castles were performing at the Melkweg three weeks ago and what a horrible show it was. Not because of anything that producer Ethan Kath or vocalist Alice Glass did or did not do, but because the music was way too loud and because I got smoked out by a whole new generation of self-destructive [...]
Live review Django Django at the Melkweg, Amsterdam November 18th 2012. If the Beatles had synthesizers they may have sounded something like Django Django. Even though the Scottish-English quartet eagerly incorporate every thinkable cool, weird or danceable element from the last four decades into their admirable mix, it still feels like they’ve just stepped out [...]
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 [...]
Concert and album review Neneh Cherry & The Thing, Melkweg, Amsterdam July 16th. If The Cherry Thing had been released a few months earlier the collaboration between Neneh Cherry and Scandinavian avant-garde jazz trio the Thing would have been the biggest hit at Northsea Jazz. The unlikely quartet has recorded a crossover album without compromises. [...]
Album and concert review, Beach House, Melkweg, Amsterdam, May 26th 2012. It took me a couple of weeks to fall in love with Teen Dream early 2010, but once I did it became one of the most passionate affairs I’ve had with an album since the eighties. I immediately bought Beach House’s first and second [...]
Having released their new single in February, ‘All I Know’, the band is starting to get some fuzzy attention. We first caught a glimpse of Shields last year at a slightly disappointing rendition of London Calling last November. The slight disappointment had nothing to do with Shields, they were in our eyes the best band [...]
Looking for something to do this Tuesday night ? The Indiefuzz tip is to head down to the Melkweg for the Joep Pelt fundraiser. Musician Joep Pelt lost his wife in a car accident at the end of last year while travelling in South Africa. Joep was critically wounded in the accident, after many weeks [...]
The atmosphere of every live-experience depends on so many little things, like the day of the week, the weather, the tourschedule, the beer and so on. So, a top ten of concerts is more like a list of moments that were important for me personally, than an attempt to rank the best live-bands of 2011: 1 [...]
The time of year has come – time to take a look back to appreciate it all before making the new list of things to do and see in 2012. The fuzzbabe has reflected and made note of all the super and not so super music of 2011… or at least in my opinion. I [...]