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Christmas Island
That Christmas Island LP is really growing on me.
You already know it's out on cool In The Red.
Actually I bought it in the shops here some weeks ago.
Now there is a tiny problem.
Wanted to buy the only record Christmas Island released that I don't have (yet).
That is their 7" on Captured Tracks, offcourse you try to buy from the label first.
The 7" is $5.50, postage to europe is $12.50 so that'll add up to $18.00 dollars for two tracks.
About the same as I paid for the entire LP in the local shop.
I'm afraid that 7" is not going to be in Grunnen Rocks City very soon.
To compensate that to the right a bandpic and below that the sleeve of the "missing in action" 7".
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saturday, march 13, 2010 #3
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Eddy Current Suppression Ring 2010 "even bigger hero's in the making" are Eddy Current Suppression Ring. Their 3rd album is out in aussieland but I have not seen it here yet. First two were (re)releleased on several labels, like Dropkick Records, Aarght! Records and Goner Records. I had a go at Eddy Current Suppression Ring's discogaphy, but there is quit some info missing. If you can help: please do email me or twitter me. Also seriously updated aussie punksters UV Race and aussie labels Aarght! Records and Stained Circles. Help is welcome with those lists aswell. For the dutch-language capable people: read all about SXSW, Austin, Texas which takes place upcoming week at sxswnl.posterous.com. |
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Camero Werewolf
Ha, finally got a hold on a decent list of bands NYC legend Camero Werewolf was/and/or/is in.
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Kan dit GFT afval meer fans krijgen dan Kane?
Most detested dutch fake-rock-fake-band is Kane.
I'm not gonna link 'em in any way but whenever you're into any band/label belonging to the core of this site, please ... |
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The XXs Well this is not about that new band The XX (aka "the exes"). I must say that ain't my type of music. Obviously this is about the 2 punkbands named X.
X from Australia started in Sydney in 1977 and still exists and is to be found at MySpace here: X.
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Kylfa Yowsa, didn't know we had this much talent in The Netherlands=NL. In the south is a city called Eindhoven, for the americans: say the New Orleans of NL. Overthere there's a 42-year old threesome make psychedelic loud rock. Mighty cool, especially "Moon Boogie" = "Gonna Dance Until Sun Rise, Gonna Dance Until The Moonlight" and "Will You", the first 2 tracks of their debut CDEP. They're called Kylfa, on average they're 14 and they rock! They'd make a really cool opening act for And So I Watch You From Afar (april 17, VERA). |
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Remember The Dead, All Of 'Em, RIP Well life is short and the deaths of Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous and Jay Reatard (unneededly) demonstrated that once again. It made me think of a lot of other dead people listed on this website. Several were never mentioned so in order to honour them all I made this list. Only people listed on this site and part of the "Grunnen Rocks-core" (as defined by me) are included. In general it's only people that died after the start of this website (that is september 9, 1995). But for various reasons several people who died in the early 90's will be mentioned aswell.
Anybody who thinks somebody is missing on this list or anthying is incorrect
please do email me or twitter me.
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The New Christs
Allright, finally listed this one, me= still slow.
The cool new (2009) album by the seminal aussie garagey-rockband The New Christs.
It's called "Gloria", it's out on newly listed aussie-label Impedance Records, it's on LP and CD
and you definitely need to check band, record and label out.
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Almost Ready Records Allright another cool label fully updated now. This time it's Almost Ready Records. This label is very wellknown for their excellent "The World's Lousy With Ideas" series. That series had 6 volumes (all 7"es) released before 2009, besides those 6 volumes (all 7"es) the label released these 4 before 2009:
In 2009 these 3 releases came out:
BTW I'm still looking for the tracklist of the So Cow's "Moon Geun Young" 7" (ARR-002/MR-01). In case you know it please do email me or twitter me. |
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Hozac's "Spring 2010 Collection"
Cool Hozac Records from Chicago, IL just announced it's spring collection for 2010.
Dum Dum Girls previously released a 7" (HZR-027) and the other 3 are debut releases.
BTW For the LP's I'm looking for the tracklists.
If you know a tracklist please do email me or twitter me.
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S-S Records
And another really cool label fully updated.
Scott Soriano's S-S Records from Sacramento, CA now has all 44 releases, up to SS 046, listed.
Only missing catno's (probably both have not been released yet) are SS 039 and SS 045.
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Vivian Girls
OK, finally updated the Vivian Girls page.
Now their discography is fully up-to-date for singles and albums.
The compilations aren't listed, if you know anything, please do tell me about them.
As you guessed they released their albums on In The Red, what else is new?
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In The Red continues #3 OK, now I'm officially done with "IN THE RED"-day march 2010. On the internet or in my email there ain't no more info to be found that should be included in the In The Red-discography. So offically missing are:
If you can help me: please do email me or twitter me. |
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Christmas Island #nowplaying the excellent LP by Christmas Island. As you guessed this is out on In The Red. We'l transfer this day officially into "IN THE RED"-day. Christmas Island is especially for you if you're into lo-fi pop. And is even more for you if you are, like yours truly, into Beat Happening and/or Modern Lovers. Cool band, cool album, cool label. |
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In The Red continues #2 Dug up (on the internet) another newly listed In The Red-release: ITR 116. That is Country Teasers' "Live Album" CD (it is not on LP I think). If you can help me: please do email me or twitter me. |
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In The Red continues Just found out (thanks people) ...
If you can help me: please do email me or twitter me. |
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In The Red
Featured label of today:
(a lot of This was previously posted on Twitter but what the heck?)
If you can help: please do email me or twitter me. |
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Slovenly Recordings
Today we feature a label that should have been featured way before (what's new, me=slow).
But here we are because they deserve it ...
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RecordStore Day Funny idea. April 17 will be "RecordStoreDay", see RecordStoreDay.com. Local recordstore Elpee, Groningen is participating aswell. Same goes for Plato Groningen and De Jongens Van Hemmes. All participating dutch recordstores are listed aswell. RecordStoreDay looks like a cool idea. Be sure to keep buying records and to keep buying them at your local recordstore aswell, otherwise we'll end up with internet-shops only and I'd really hate that. |
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New French "RockStar" Listed: Arsène Obscène
Newly listed star: Arsène Obscène.
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The Winners of FREE VINYL #103 As stated previously I'm horribly slow lately. Anyway here's the winners for the FREE VINYL #103 competition. The winners are Raymond S and Tanna Carpenter. Hope they can email me their street addresses. They win a Silver Lion's 20/20 7" (released on Sweet Velvet Vinyl). Offcourse they'll also get a The Monroes 7" (released on my own High Maintenance). The sleeve of the Silver Lion's 20/20 7" is pictured to the right and was made by mighty cool Tim Kerr. |
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Cosmic Psychos Ha, third day with old geezers on the "newpsage". Last days I played some old stuff by Cosmic Psychos in order to prepare for their gig next thursday (march 11). Men they were (and probably are) really great. Don't ask me why but I think they will live up to the expectations you get while listening to their best stuff and especially their best album. IMHO that best one is the second album, released on Mr. Spaceman back in 1987. It is appropriately named "Cosmic Psychos" and still sounds as strong as it ever did. This band defined and is the sole act making BULLDOZERPUNK. No "stoute punker" (= "naughty punker", quoting 39 months old "dutch-language only sofar" Gosse here) can truly exist without this seminal aussie band's best records. Ross, Dean & John: Looking forward to seeing you (again) a lot. |
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"Our Boy Roy" - Tribute To Roy Orbison LP Ha, since we're into covering old geezers anyway. This post is on a new release: "Our Boy Roy" - Tribute To Roy Orbison LP. Offcourse this is a LP with all Roy Orbison covers. It's out on the newly listed canadian label Telephone Explosion Records. It has an all star line-up including Charlie And The Moonhearts and the acclaimed (and still much overlooked) Cheater Slicks. Charlie And The Moonhearts do "Chicken Hearted" and The Slicks do a version of Roy's classic "Crying", also done by the horrible Don McLean by the way. And, speaking of classics: Holy Cobras do a version of "Domino", also done by The Cramps offcourse. Be sure to get your hands on a copy of this outstanding release. I hope there's one left for me. |
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Johnny Cash does Kris Kristofferson's "For The Good Times"
OK dead people release music.
Well they don't but sometimes there's this still kinda funny phenomenon called "posthumous release".
Anyway there's a new, supposedly final (but who really knows?), album by the late Johnny Cash.
It's called "American VI: Ain't No Grave" and it has all covers from the "American Songbook".
Best track is the awesome "For The Good Times" written by Kris Kristofferson.
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Spring Is In The Air and I Kissed Charles March 1 is meteorological spring. It's (almost) in the air today, at least it was this afternoon. Album of the day is the debut album by a 100%-non-garage-punk-or-rock quartet from Meppel, The Netherlands. They're called I Kissed Charles. This is their second release, the first full length. The debut release was a 5-track CDEP released back in 2008. Three songs of that one now are on the album aswell. Just plain happy electro pop, nothing more or less and very happy and totally fit for the season. Cool stuff! Check 'em out @ their MySpace page, which is to be found at the bottom of the I Kissed Charles page at this website. |
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And So I Watch You From Afar
Ha there they are.
Finally listed after a breathtaking show in VERA, Groningen @ EuroSonic.
No garage, rock or punk in it but this is a Northern Irish (Belfast) instro-metal-noise-hardcore quartet with a great liveshow.
Check 'em out:
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Next Up: Cosmic Psychos
Offcourse every living person in this city will be @ VERA, Groningen march 11.
Then the beloved Cosmic Psychos once again (8th time) will trash the place with their seminal aussie bulldozerpunk.
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The Daily Bread - "Well, You're Not Invited"
Ha finally got my hands of a copy of the debut CD by The Daily Bread.
They are a dutch band, frysian even since they are from Leeuwarden.
They make an infectious mix of elekctro, pop, garage and a little trash.
The CD is called "Well, You're Not Invited" and it's out on dutch label Excelsior.
Funny enough this isn't on vinyl, a shame I think. Would buy it instantly.
This is one of the best 3 dutch albums of last year (together with The Accelerators and Roosbeef).
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The Ettes Last night in the world's best club VERA, Groningen: The Ettes. Good show, though I think especially the first half could have been a bit more powerful. And the sound wasn't right: the male guitarist was nowhere to be heard. Great vocals though (reminding a bit of Gossip's Beth Ditto, big shoes to fill) and some cool tracks aswell. They could become #recordoftheyearmaterial since they will be recording another album with Greg Cartwright. He produced their 3rd album aswell, but on the new album he will be appearing on all tracks. Looking forward to that. To the right a picture of their debut 7", the a-side probably was the best track last night. |
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"bigletdown" won a Monroes 7" A small contest will get an italian lady (Valeria Graffeo from Genova) The Monroes 7". She was the first to message me on twitter after the 1000th message. Congratulations. Record will be on it's way asap, but that might take a while since I'm horribly slow lately. |
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1000th Tweet I know I know you fossiles think Twitter sucks, except ... it doesn't. Today I produced my 1000th message (tweet) and counting. I think lately this is the quickest way of contacting me. |
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Sven Kramer is the best but did not win gold at the 10k Speedskating
HOT DAMN! - HOT DAMN! - HOT DAMN! - HOT DAMN! - HOT DAMN! - HOT DAMN! |
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Free download included with the purchase of a vinyl copy
A short post today since I need to do a lot of stuff tonight.
But I must say that these free downloads that accompany a vinyl album do come in really handy.
Would be cool if all labels would do that.
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Ireen Wüst wins gold at the 1.5k Speedskating HOLA! HOLA! Vancouver is dutch. Dutchie Ireen Wüst won the olympic gold for the 1500 metres at the speedskating in Vancouver. The dutchies won 3 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze medal, my god what a surprise, I really didn't expect that. And what's more Sven Kramer will (probably) win the 10k ... |
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Frantic City
Ha Frantic City Records, one of the coolest labels of France/Europe, just released new stuff.
Two singles this time.
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Mark Tuitert wins gold at the 1.5k Speedskating YOWSA! Dutchie Mark Tuitert won the olympic gold for the 1500 metres at the speedskating in Vancouver. Congratulate him through twitter.com/@MarkTuitert. |
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Strange Boys New Album
Yowsa!
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"God Listens To Slayer"
HAHAHA, thanks to Jan Kooi.
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Medication LP
Latest LP release by cool Hozac Records from Chicago, IL.
It's the debut LP (after a debut 7", also on Hozac) by pschydelic garage-band Medication.
They are from New Milford, Connecticut, USA.
Good album, check it out.
On their MySpace-page they describe their sound spot on:
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Sick Of Being Sick LP And another cool compilation LP added. It's already out since 2007 but still available. Mostly italian punkrock on it and it's out on cool startup-label Primitive Records. |
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Bootleg Series Vol. 1 - "Up North/Downunder" LP
Ha cool new compilation LP.
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Old Stuff Rereleased
I know it's my own private party, but anyway ...
Anybody care for the rerelease of older stuff?
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Heavy Trash' 3rd LP: "Midnight Soul Serenade"
And here is ... ... ...
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Cococoma's 3rd LP: "Spectrum Of Sounds"
And here is ... ... ...
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Trouble In Mind New label listed. Chicago, Illinois based Trouble In Mind. The label just started, released 8 singles already and is run by Lisa Roe & Bill Roe. Together they offcourse are ...
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Slow Gold Zebra Records NYC based Slow Gold Zebra Records released a new 7" by Snakes and an LP by NYC-punkrockalumni Another Saturday Night. Check 'em out!
And for those who need this or like this horrid tradition: |
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Sven Kramer wins gold at the 5k Speedskating YOWSA! Dutchie Sven Kramer won the olympic gold for the 5000 metres at the speedskating in Vancouver. |
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Hozac Records Big Update Hela Hola Hozac: the world's coolest label right now just released 6 (!) more 7"es and 1 LP. LP is by Medication and the 7"es are 2 from the Hozac Singles Club (called "Hookup Club") by Flight and Teepee. The other four 7"es are by Nerve City, Mess Folk, Myelin Sheaths and current Mac Blackout outfit Mickey. Get 'em all. |
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Fave Sports: Speedskating & Tennis
Just a joke-around non-music post.
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The Monroes Yowsa, miracles still happen. I got a copy of the debut-CD by The Monroes. It's out on cool dutch Tocado Records. It's called "Roulette" and (no surprises here, since I released their debut 7") I like it a lot. Back in 2004 (!) after seeing their 2nd show ever (ORKZ) we agreed on releasing a 7" on High Maintenance. And now 4-and-a-half years after that first release they have their second out. This debut-album has their signature soulfull garagesound and some instrumentals added for good taste (no kidding). Female vocals by Josje and a cover of the immaculate Oblivians makes this a cool release. Check 'em out @ their MySpace Profile Page and buy everything they released! All good things come slow. |
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Brenda Vaqueros
Ha cool new band from Alberta, Canada.
They are called Brenda Vaqueros, there's 5 of 'em.
Garagesoulpunk with organ, kinda like a mix of The Forbidden Tigers
and our local Green Hornet.
Believe me that's a big thumbs up!
In case you don't believe me: The Forbidden Tigers LP and 7" are awesome and
I released an LP by Green Hornet on my own High Maintenance label.
Check those canadians out @ their MySpace Profile Page.
And while we are in Canada anyway: 8 days to go and the Olympics will start.
Offcourse the entire dutch nation (including me) will be following the Speedskating event, way to go dutchies!
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The Cramps Forever OK, I'm oldfashioned, but do I care? NO! Today the whole "world of internet / gadget - believers" is trying to tell me that an iPad will change my world. And what do I do? I just play old Cramps footage on YouTube. You can find amazing cool stuff, for instance try clicking the image to the right ... And offcourse these gadgeteers all say books will disappear. How come I don't believe that? Twitter to @GrunnenRocks in case you feel like chatting me up. And BTW the Hex Dispensers (with @elalexcuervo) play in @beerlandtexas (= Beerland, Austin, Texas) upcoming saturday! |
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Hex Dispensers Cool news. Here's a roundup on fave-band Hex Dispensers, they ...
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Jay Reatard, Earthmen And Strangers & Tokyo Electron
HA!
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Best 10 Records Of The 2000's Two months to go until the astronomical/astrological spring. Can't wait, fed up with snow really. Today the VERA poll will be out. The annual list of what is really cool is published for the 20-somethingth time. Because of humanity actually managing surviving 10 years in the 3rd millennium the VERA poll asked to fill in a list of your personal Best 10 Records Of The 2000's. Here's my list:
Bubbling Under (actually forgot 'em while typing in the first 10):
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Eurosonic/Noorderslag 2010
OK here's my report on the 2010 version of our yearly local Eurosonic/Noorderslag festival.
Quite a few remarks appeared on my Twitter-profile but anyway here's the "story".
BTW my Twitter-profile is updated quite a lot, so you might wanna watch it.
In general the bands that got booked for these 2 days were OK. There was no portugese Coldplay or greek Kane among them, but I really missed "sharp edges". No straight-up punk, no garagerock, artpunk, whatever it is in that is in the core of this website. It should be an easy job to make the festival quite a bit broader (musically). I'd also like to see way more things organised next to the official program. Through the years it gets better, but there could be a lot more. This is especially needed since it is getting nearly impossible to get (the expensive) tickets. The conference for the professionals takes a lot of space and I think a decent festival needs non-pro music-lovers too. For instance these non-pro's move a bit more when there is a band playing :-) day #3 - Saturday january 16, Noorderslag, Oosterpoort Allright the third night of the festival isn't a showcase a festival but a festival meant to show the current state of affairs in dutch (semi)alternative msuic. It is called Noorderslag and it's in the biggest concert-hall of the city clled De Oosterpoort. It started off quite bad since the printed programs were gone. I don't know who thought of that but during the evening it took at least an hour extra to find out what was playing where, a big miss. Me and Bert-René started off with Moss in De Kleine Zaal, aka de 3FM Zaal. An ok band, "I Apologise" was very neat. The 5 boys in the band managed to feature 3 beards. So clearly a band without "sharp edges" like about every band that is popular among the dutch music critics. Even 3 guitars couldn't make up for that. Next up Elske De Wall, she's kind of the dutch take on Sheryl Crow. Kraantje Pappie makes quite boring hiphop. Basically me saying that does not mean a thing since hiphop is not my cup-of-tea at all. The Mad Trist was packed, we didn't see anything but it sounded OK. We missed Bettie Serveert, but they never do anything wrong anyway. Di-rect, a mainstream dutch band with a new singer (now there's 6 of 'em), played in a living room-like stage. The stage was neat, the band is and will not ever be my cup of tea. After Moke, mainstream rock with a cool guitarsound and a-not-so-cool singer, things were finally about to kickoff. Dennis Weening (former Spider Rico singer) announced the what was going to be best band of the night. THE DAILY BREAD A great band, probably the best dutch band around at the moment. Catchy-as-hell-garage-electro that you definitely need to checkout, see/hear for instance their MySpace-page. Then I went to go and hear the (what I think) is best dutch female voice around. JANNE SCHRA (formerly of Room Eleven) makes jazzy songs. Not my type of music all together but hey what a beautiful voice. Next up the biggest national award for popmusic, called "De BV Popprijs" was awarded to Kyteman's Hiphop Orchestra. A mighty impressive band, but over 6 people in a band really is too much for my simple musical taste. Wende is as cool as can be but her gig didn't do it for me. Rigby's pathetic cover of MJ's "Human Nature" needs to be mentioned but please forget the band's name asap. DeWolff makes bluesrock and I can only say this music cause the appearance of punk, I prefer punk. Dio (dutch rapper, not the hardrockband) was OK, funny and at least people danced to his music. De Staat were pretty neat, one of the better bands of the night. And then ... I WAS OUT :-( One more day to go and that day, sunday january 17, brought the best band of the weekend. Offcourse hardly anyone in NL takes notice but man they do make music that you can move to. !!!COCOCOMA!!! |
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Cococoma Live in O'Ceallaigh's
Times are busy: Three days of (semi-)alternative music all over town.
It's called the Eurosonic/Noorderslag festival.
Eurosonic is one of the biggest showcase festivals in Europe and again it was (thu/fri) here in Groningen.
Tonight it's Noorderslag presenting the state of modern music in The Netherlands.
They won' succeed since The Accelerators weren't booked but anyway.
Tomorrow I'll write a (little?) piece on te festival(s).
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RIP Jay Reatard Damn, this morning I read the news that Jay Reatard died at a mere 29 in Memphis. He died in his sleep in the night from last tuesday onto last wednesday. Don't know what happened, I think some higher power lost it once again, but for sure Jay will be sadly missed. Enjoyed his records and the shows I saw with him playing a mighty lot. First time around, 1998, was his awesome, overseen everywhere one-man-band solo-debut 7" on the immaculate Goner Records. The first (1999?) time I saw him play live was with Reatards in VERA, I think I was DJ then. Later on I saw the awesome Lost Sounds at least twice and I'll never forget their best songs, "Plastic Skin" and "I Get Nervous". Back in 2005 there was my sole trip to The Pit's when I saw him with Angry Angles and Reatards again. A memorable day if there ever was one. The AA's "Apparent Transparent" is a song I'll never forget too. I also very much enjoyed Final Solutions' "Eye Don't Like You". And I saw his new "soloband", Jay Reatard, twice, both times in VERA, best songs for me are "Hammer I Miss You" and "Night Of Broken Glass". All together I hate the thought that there won't be another Jay Reatard band anymore, there should have been many more. Love to him, may he rest in what he considered to be peace, and lots-of-strength to everybody else. |
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!!! Happy 2010 !!!
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