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Album and gig review Ducktails, february 17 Paradiso, Amsterdam – Matt Mondanile looks more like the guy you call when your computer has crashed at work than the guy who brings you the warmest of jangle pop on any icy cold Sunday night. But don’t worry, there’s a stereotype for him too: something with college, [...]
Concert and Album review Twin Shadow at the Paradiso, Amsterdam November 3rd 2012. Twin Shadow’s second album, ‘Confess’, has taken me even longer to appreciate than his first one (Forget, 2010). Still, this isn’t why I’ve waited almost four months to review it. The reason is that every time I listen to it, I’m convinced [...]
Album and concertreview Daily Bread, Paradiso, Amsterdam October 16th 2012 – Tuesday evening, on the excessively varnished floor of Paradiso’s upstairs hall, the sexy garage dance quartet Daily Bread revealed their sophomore album to an enthusiastic audience. The band, signed to the leading Dutch label Excelsior, started out as a trio in 2008 and recruited [...]
Concert review of Laura Marling live at the Commodore Ballroom (Vancouver) June 27th by our latest guest blogger Kerry Stansfield. Last week I had the good fortune of accompanying Indiefuzz impresario Willem Schoonbeek to his first ever concert at the Commodore Ballroom since his recent defection from Amsterdam to Vancouver. Drinking Guinness and noshing on [...]
We didn’t get to see a lot of her during London Calling, not because of her hoodie but because of the hype. Vancouver’s Clair Boucher aka Grimes was easily the hottest fairy frolicking in the forest during the spring edition of the festival with the increasingly unfitting name. Paradiso’s upstairs hall was packed with curious [...]
Dublin’s quartet The Cast of Cheers have chosen their band name well. Their bouncy mix of math-pop and new wave is cause for jubilations. Catchy like Two Door Cinema Club, spiky like Foals and edgy like Dutch Uncles, the band, who released their debut album Chariot in 2010 as an online freebee, sound very twenty-tens. [...]
Album and concert review Lonely Drifter Karen, Paradiso, Amsterdam 18th of March 2012 – Lonely Drifter Karen are grist to the mill of the pro-Europe campaigners. Singer Tanja Frinta was born in Vienna, moved to Sweden, formed the band in Barcelona with the Majorcan keyboard player Marc Meliá and an Italian drummer. Recently the band [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We’re giving away 2× 2 tickets for the Yukon Blonde concert at the Paradiso in Amsterdam on Sunday, the 19th of February! Yukon Blonde is a band from Vancouver, Canada, playing fresh guitar-happy folk-rock with some great vocal harmonies. Just leave a funny comment to this post – something with the word ‘yukon’. You can also [...]