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15 Years of Cool Music on September 19! Allright, allright, we'll be short and clear about this.
Sunday september 19 this website will exist 15 years.
VERA's Pepr and me have been
looking for 1 or 2 cool bands to play at the jubilee-party that evening or if there's no other options in the weeks after that date.
But all those are still in the works/mail/etc or need to be explored asap. So any band that wants to play at the 15 years jubilee party of this website is seriously asked to email the address on the (newly made, me is pretending to be a serious company ;-) business card to the right. Please do so asap, cause time is running out of our hands. And for the rest of the world: any help is appreciated, me is dying for a really cool party! Especially since the website was out of order this morning ;-) |
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monday august 30, 2010
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Barbara & Remco & Chad Today it's a local (Grunnen Rocks City) celebration of something happening in the 17th century. It's called BOMM'N BER'ND and it's a little like a local take on our main national holiday called Queen's Day (april 30th). Off course the entire city will be drunk all over town tonight, but sadly I won't. I'll go to a birthday party in Zwolle, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to (now 4yr old) VERA. If little VERA would not be having her birthday today I'd go to the Kunst Strip Beurs. My friend Barbara Stok today presents her new comic book overthere. Another friend, called Remco Drijver (not him), will go there and buy her new book and have it signed for me. Everything Barbara or Remco does comes recommended, check their websites at barbaraal (dutch) and yadayadaoink (english). OK and now for the seriously autistic only one mind living there "Grunnen Rocks World". This week apparently it's "Ni-band" week. Saw the brilliant Nine Pound Hammer last thursday and before that I got a mail from Chad Channing. He used to be in a band called Nirvana and somehow I like that I got a mail from him? Why? Well it's a little bit of an egomaniac thingy, but I always loved Nirvana. I loved that band back then and I still love specific songs like ...
Back in 1994 when that nasty suicide was all over the music world I was seriously offended by loads of comments on that sad thing. I'm quite sure I'd need an entire week of Hex Dispensers gigs late in the afternoon and at night to keep my head in the correct groove if I'd read that stupid remarks, newspaper articles, etc again. By the way for those who don't know: my father committed suicide when I was 9 and I can safely say I turned an expert in dealing with that later on. Nuff said, back to the real important stuff in life: MUSIC. I never talked or emailed with anybody ever in Nirvana, except (now) for Chad. He played in VERA back in 1989, plays on "Bleach" and Sliver" and here's a warm welcome to a "name from cool record sleeves". I hope him and his 2 new bands will be playing again somewhere else in dutchie-land next year, now that would be cool. And btw Gosse & me like "Doll In Time" by Before Cars (6th pic). |
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If you wanna go to heaven ... You better raise a little hell!
Howdy folks ;-)
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New stuff from Bachelor Records!
Here's good news for one of the coolest euro-labels ...
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Loads of small but important (pfew) things ;-) OK, lazy ass hole post today. Just a shitload of things in random order.
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"NEW WAVE": Joy Division, New Order, Army Of Lovers, etc. Here's a post on 2 legendary bands, 1 legendary album, 1 cool hit and some awesome sleeves. And OK some nagging about a former label-owner and music-genres. Back in the 70's there was a legendary compilation record named "New Wave" (to the right, 1st pic). That record was released on Vertigo in the UK and in The Netherlands on Philips. That had the Talking Heads and loads of punk, punkrock and hardrock bands on it. Later on (in the 80's) you had a fairly poor designed music-genre called "new wave". Main acts were The Cure and The Smiths and (back then for the alternative people) Joy Division. Off course there were loads of others, most notably for me Depeche Mode, but you'll have to get yourself a music encyclopedia (a book) in order to have a good list of those. Had been looking for it for some time but last thursday I ran into Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures" LP. A big thank you goes to Johannes Tonckens. He is one of 30+ neighbouring men and we traded that LP (and some more) for a bottle o' whiskey. It seems like a good deal for both of us. Funny to finally hear this seminal album at home. Sounds like dark doomey danceable music to me. Most people would call this postpunk nowadays. A strange reference if I might add. Lady Gaga and the Army Of Lovers are postpunk too ;-) The Editors and Interpol referring to Joy Division is a no-brainer, but I heard some influences for Birthday Party and Claw Boys Claw too. Anyway a legendary album, good music, AND a great sleeve (to the right, 3rd pic). Being fully predictable I dug up some old New Order stuff. Always liked their monsterhit "Blue Monday". Back in 1983 this was the first ever 12"-only hit in NL. If I recall correctly (I usually do) they even had to alter the "rules" (as if) behind the charts to officially be allowed to include it. That record has one of the best record sleeves ever (to the right, 2nd pic). It was made by Peter Saville who used to make a load of artwork for Factory. The sleeve resembles an (early 5") floppy disc. I do have a CD sleeve with the same idea but that sleeve is a little less cool ;-) Oddly enough later on in 1988 "Blue Monday" returned as a hit, this time in the 7"-format. That 2nd coming was released on a combination of Factory and Rough Trade. Later on in 1991 the Factory label went bankrupt. Years later in 2005 I saw Factory's former (main?) owner Toni Wilson in Austin, TX in a music panel. He stated "downloading mp3s is theft". Won't discuss that remark too much but it ain't theft mister, violence of copyrights maybe, but that's a matter of time haha. Off course he's right in one respect though. Anyone who wants to hear new music the rest of his life (like me) should be aware that the music makers of this world need to be payed.
New music is the essence here, newly made that is.
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saturday august 14, 2010
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Harlem plays in VERA on saturday august 21 Allright!
Cool poppy garageband Harlem (from Austin, TX) play in VERA saturday 21.
Not officially, but for me this is the opening of a new VERA-season.
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Popquiz #7 is done The seventh popquiz (2004-2010) is done. A longer report might follow soon in case I find the time but for now we'll leave you with the name of the winner: Wino. Dikkie was 2nd, and Eltjo and 2 guys from Elpee (Jan and Gerhard) were 3rd/4th/5th (don't know in what order exactly). The questions were quite difficult this year. My fave question was the one on "the history of vinyl, shellac, celluloid" etc. There was not that many music in the quiz, and offcourse not too many new music. Lots of people were attending, especially younger (than my girl or than 30) people. From next year on the quiz will have way more focus on younger stuff, since I don't want to become a kind of Leo Blokhuis. Dutchie Leo makes nice quizzes and tells cool stories (in cool books), but I always miss newer and more alternative music. Which bands were not in te quiz? There's not many of them ;-) Here's a few that didn't get mentioned in yesterday's quiz.
And here's some stuff besides music:
GRUNNEN ROCKS RADIO #2.0Details will remain unclear but I think you should check out garagepunk.com regularly from now on. |
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The Dirtbombs new album will be called "Party Store"
FYI:
And in case you have the debut 7" by The Fix on Touch And Go,
do go and visit this eBay auction:
Played these records today:
Oh and btw I need ...
I do need both asap, so anybody wanting to trade stuff on my own label (High Maintenance) for new records
or anybody wanting to buy stuff on that label is mighty welcome!
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The Dirtbombs cover Cybotron on their new LP
Oh lala, cool news form Detroit HQ. |
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Once In A L ... The TALKING HEADS were the best band in the world Oh lala, the music in my head can't wait today. Years ago, say around the time I discovered Girls, Drugs and my own "Mind" I thought the NYC band Talking Heads were the best band ever. Later on they were passed by three+ bands at the least, 1 from NYC, 1+ from Detroit and 1+ from Memphis. We'll explore those bands at some other time. Some time ago the Talking Heads even were out of my all time top 10, but last week they were by far the most played band. This week they enter at #2 in the ATCB. They won't stay at the #2 position in this mighty personal list, but I don't think they will leave the top 10 ever again ;-) Who knows? Me and the TH started off when I read in a national newspaper, De Volkskrant, about the then new movie "Stop Making Sense". That was back in 1983 so Tina + 3 and me go back a mighty long time.
Actually I never saw 'm live, not in any line-up.
Some things are worse in my life but I still regret this quite a bit now and then.
There'sa lot of cool stuff with the TH, but the funny, slightly autistic (it takes a "C-BRainMan" to know a "RainMan") lyrics are among them. Also there's quite a bit of cool artwork/design. Highpoint in this is the special sleeve (said to be released in 5000 copies) of "Speaking In Tongues" by Robert Rauschenberg. To the right you can see two pictures of this class artwork for a classic release. The above one is with a clear plastic sleeve, without the sunny ultraviolet light having degraded it. The lower one is with yellow plastic, I have 2 (!) copies like that. You can read a cool story @ vinylhistory.com about this cool artwork. RR won a Grammy for it in 1983. Here's some personal opinions on TH-related stuff ...
And now it's up to new music and other bands higher in the ATCB then the TH, ENJOY! |
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Eh ... huh? Soccer?
The dutchies, Gosse and me, myself and I, all 5 of us will have a difficult day tomorrow. Pfew, to say the least.
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"WE" LOST And now le'ts go and play a decent JSBX 7" ;-) Congrats to Spain. |
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It's a beautiful ORANGE day
ORANGE ORANGE ORANGE
Orange MusicHere's a list of "orange music":
ENJOY |
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Good things coming up? Yes! OK, new season coming up. Let/s start with the (for me, myself and I "perfect") newspage, "close but no cigar" ;-) Sad things coming up? Nope, sad things passed, we're gonna go for the good things. What did I miss in june/july 2010?
What did I see last weeks?
What's ahead?
As always all communication from you to me is best done by using good old-fashioned email an typing in:
[evert[AT]grunnenrocks{DOT}nl].
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