The province of Zuid-Holland is not only home to me, but interesting musicians too. The Popunie takes an active role in promoting them and produces a double-CD with some of the most interesting musicians each year. The latest one is already a few months old, but I’ve only now had a chance to properly listen [...]
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Blood red shoes have been around since 2005, but I’ve only recently learned about them, as they’ll be playing at the Lowlands launch party next month (unfortunately sold out). They make what I can only describe as highly danceable grunge, which is great news not only because it is great music, but also because it might mean [...]
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Cold War Kids released the four-track “Behave Yourself” EP in December of last year. The only disappointment about it is that it is not a full album.
“Audience” is one of Cold War Kids’ poppiest and catchiest songs to date, while the others required a few listens before I took to them. Since then, “Santa Ana Winds” has [...]
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Recently I have taken several steps towards adulthood. Not only did I join the ranks of middle-management and buy a dining table, I also stopped caring about the world at large. That means there’s little left for me to rant about.
As becoming an adult is one of my worst nightmares, I have compensated by buying [...]
By popular demand (well, one person, but my alternative right now is to go shopping) it is music time again and this time I’m jumping on the retrospective bandwagon. Some of them are albums, some singles, some album tracks. I’m very bad at choices, so it’s quite a long list, so without further ado, my [...]
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It’s music time again! Australia is no longer just exporting a dislike of Vegemite, but also some decent music. No, Kylie did not count.
First up is Expatriate (homepage, myspace). They’ve been around since 2005 and their only album “In the Midst of This” dates from 2007, but they finally seem to be picking up pace [...]
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Those of you who know me, will probably know that I spend a lot of time listening to music. As I suck at explaining what music sounds like and the internet has recently been extended with multimedia facilities, I thought I’d occasionally post links to music I’m listening to, without much of an explanation. As [...]
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