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Unruly Music Magazine The Dream IssueMarch 2012

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The Dream Issue

This image was googled by Molly Nilsson upon our request to ‘google the universe’. A request she gladly complied to, since - as you can read in the little interview printed on page 29 - the

universe is her muse. What a dream of an answer for the Dream Issue. Not really a surprise though, since - given the large amounts

of dark, hazy, airy and chilly sounds that reach us through the blogosphere every day - Molly’s fascination for ‘Dark Skies’ is one

that is globally shared in the music scene these days. Sweet dreams!

Content The Dream Issue

WU LYF

Page 18

Molly Nilsson

Page 28

Chad VanGaalen

Page 32

Agenda

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FILM 49FaShIoN 50FooD 51BookS 52horoSCoPe 54ageNDa 57SuBBaCuLTCha ShoWS 59oTher ShoWS 67Free STuFF 76aFTer MIDNIghT 77

Most of us are simply too consumed by our everyday life to spend much time thinking about dreams. Sleep is just a black hole we dive into at night and emerge from in the morning. a shame, really, considering we’re asleep for about one third of our lives. So to come to terms with that black hole, we’ve made the Dream Issue. It was also to get our heads around all those psychedelic dream scapers out there that have been pushing modern mu-sic into a deeper and darker direction. So sit back, close your eyes and read without reading. enjoy.

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Top 5 Last month at our office

1 Science: Meteorology vs Holy Other on the night of the Tri angle showcase at Trouw, amster-

dam was struck by heavy snowfall and temperatures close to -20ºC. So we biked across town, finding the city quiet and practically without cars. The perfect build-up to a great party. especially the set by holy other was outstanding.

2 Music: Spilt Milk - Carnet de Voyage The new 12” by Spilt Milk truly is something else. one of

the best things to come out of the Netherlands in a long while. We’ve had in on repeat, jamming out to the killer opening track ‘Our Despised Decay’ at maximum volume. We’ll be sharing it with you soon, so stay tuned.

3 Real Estate: New Rehearsal Space We have a new rehearsal space, located 50 metres from

our office. The perfect excuse to occasionally step away from our computers and indulge in being the noisemakers that we are. Who knows, there might even be a new The Moi Non Plus record sometime soon.

4 Song: Molly Nilsson - Skybound Molly Nilsson’s career has really been skyrocketing at our

office recently. She went from ‘isn’t that the girl who wrote that john Maus Song?’ to playlist regular in the blink of an eye. especially ‘Skybound’ has been on heavy rotation. It’s up-tempo, sad and beautiful. The stuff dreams are made of.

5 Food: Chavroux Goat Cheese a goat cheese spread! What an invention. The perfect ad-

dition to our office lunches. Simply add a touch of honey and enjoy.

This is Claire Boucher aka Grimes having some fun while chilling out in a bed with pristine white sheets at the Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam.The photo was taken by Isolde Woudstra.

Lounging with... Grimes

Dracula Lewiswww.soundcloud.com/dracula-lewis

This romanian musical conjurer extraordinaire has fled his Transsyl-vanian castle to live in Italy, where it is common to call him a ‘gypsy’ - not that you should call him that. Dracula Lewis sticks samples of YouTube pageant queens in a box and saws them through in a furious rage of blood and gore, to then reveal a psych-horror mutant of noisy electronics. Let this one sink its teeth into your neck and carry you far away from the light of day. Check out Dracula Lewis’ split with Duck-tails, his Soundcloud music tricks and his first official release Vernas-ca, Valhalla on hundebiss records. It’s the product of a broken mixer, two open mics and some heavy duty darknet excavations.

Halo Halowww.halohalomixmix.blogspot.com

London-based friends rachel, gill and jack named themselves after a multicolour Filipino pudding that is made from shaved ice, fruit, sweet beans and evaporated milk! Perhaps beans, milk and ice doesn’t sound like the most mouth-watering treat in the world, but if you just get one load of the sweet craziness that rushes through this motley mix of banjo, drum, guitar, keyboard and shanty chants, you will prob-ably crave nothing else but this fucked-up musical dessert. oh, and they call themselves a ‘dance-sinawi-pop trio’ which basically means they like playing around with this improvisational korean music called sinawi that some people use for shamanistic rites. Check out their vid-eos, they are very, very, very good.

New Music This month’s recommendations By Zofia Ciechowska

New Music

Zammuto www.zammutosound.com

Nick Zammuto has cut through the umbilical cord to The Books and is charging forward with his new band named after himself. Zammuto lives in this hippie fantasy spaceship shack in vermont with his wife and three kids, and they primarily eat homemade blueberry tart while Nick builds more house extensions and fiddles with music equipment in his cool little music shed. The result will please both die-hard Books fans and new listeners. It springs, beats and jumps with familiar acous-tic ease, but a newfound independence lingers throughout. his self-ti-tled full-length is out this april, in the meantime, feast your ears on his extremely nice and good Idiom Wind eP.

Trustwww.ttrustt.com

austra’s drummer Maya Postepski and robert alfons got together a while back in Toronto and formed this eerie two-piece. Their LP, re-leased in February, is called TRST - not hard to remember, eh? Well, their spooky synthy beats will blow through your ears like a gust of icy Canadian wind, make you wanna get an alt-piercing, maybe wear an upside-down cross/triangle necklace and pout at your laptop cam-era in your dimly lit room. I kid, I kid, these two are pretty fun actual-ly, check out their creepy, cool house beats and maybe do a funny ro-bot dance to them.

New Music continued

葛蘭 (Gě Lán) Grace Chang

In food terms, grace Chang is not your local Chinese takeaway or frozen spring roll, she is a piping-hot honey-glazed duck served with those amazing little pancakes and hoisin sauce. Born in 1933 and still alive and kicking (as far as I know), this little singer has appeared in a staggering 33 films, in which she has sung some pretty mind-blowing Western-influenced Chinese ’50s and ’60s pop. YouTube will provide you with the glamorous, glittering visuals, if you search for ‘achoo Cha Cha’ and ‘Calypso’ from Tsai Ming Li’s film The Hole. Trust me, your iPod has never been this vintage.

Amerigo Gazawaygummysoul.bandcamp.com/album/fela-soul

This dude amerigo from Nashville’s gummy Soul has released some-thing that, as a concept, sounds as vom-inducing as synthesising Mo-zart sonatas. and then I put Fela Soul on, an alleged ‘musical tapestry’ (cough, cough) that’s emerged from the combination of samples from De La Soul and the legendary Fela kuti, and I was proved wrong. This record is super cool, not only because it makes your head bop uncon-trollably to this afrobeat-hip hop soup, but perhaps mainly because gazaway has dug up some funky musical roots that have made these pretty different dudes into absolute bezzie mates.

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Wu LYF Features

What are the perks of being in a foun-dation?

It’s just like being in a band re-ally. You get to travel the world. It’s also nice to meet like-minded people thatsupport us. Meeting these ‘fans’ feels pretty much like making new friends. We’re just a couple of kids who got a chance to do this and we’re loving it.

When we first got introduced to WU LYF, you were all covered in cloaks and refused to do any interviews. Now I’ve read you want to break the mys-tique, because it’s ‘boring and cheesy’. Can we expect a WU LYF reality show any time soon?

[laughs] I don’t know. I don’t think we’d have an interesting one. We’d rather concentrate on the way the

Okay, so we know about WU LYF’s sensational launch onto the scene. These ‘four dumb kids’ (as they call themselves) were surrounded by a veil of mystery and got quite a following playing their

‘heavy pop’ exclusively at a local café. It’s the oldest trick in the world to make someone deeply long for you: never let them get too close, or else it

might break the mystique.

We called up bass player/vocalist Tom and talked about reality shows, seeing rabbits in your sleep

and how to make your dreams come true.

Skype interview by Brenda Bosma. Images found on www.worldunite.org.

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music presents itself. People shouldn’t get so hung up about our image.

Okay, but who would be the ‘Snooki’, who ‘the Situation’ and so on?

Our drummer finds the best things to say at any time. He would be the ‘Opportunist Speaker’. Evan, the guitarist, is a guy that, you know, could do it, and probably should do it, but maybe tomorrow. Ellery, our singer, is the ‘Eternal Worker’, some-one who would dig to the centre of the earth, because he thinks he can. But we’re all just glorified nobodies really. Who we are is not important.

Were you ever infatuated with someone as a kid, like a pop idol or the silent girl in biology class?

I am very prone to worship in a lot of ways. It ranges from my fa-ther to Alex Chilton and a few oth-er songwriters. I become totally pre-occupied with them. It’s also trying to relate. For instance I like to listen to Paul Westerberg’s early material and compare it to his later work with The Replacements. It’s reassuring to know

that’s it’s okay I write some bad songs, I know I’ll improve some day just like he did.

What was the first thing your manag-er and former Factory Records employee Warren Bramley said to you that made a deep impression?

He often tells stories about his days at The Factory. He has never re-peated one yet, so he must have quite a few. I like the way he always tells us we’re the greatest band in the world. I think if you would look up ‘moral’ in the urban dictionary you’ll see a pic-ture of him. He’s the type of person that would spoil a child to death. He surely spoils us. You could totally take that the wrong way and write him off as a nodhead/yaysayer, but it’s rein-forcing really. And it’s fun to laugh about it.

What would the urban dictionary say if one was telling fire to the mountain?

It means standing up for what you believe in. Something like: quit shouting and throw your fists in the air.

‘anybody can be a glorified nobody if you set your mind to it.’

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Have you ever told fire to the rain?No, but I think Adele has.

There are a certain dreams that have symbolic meaning, like the one where your teeth fall out. Do you have a recur-ring dream like that?

I have this dream a lot where I’m talking to rabbits. It starts with me and my brother walking into some-one’s garden, because we think we see a rabbit. Then all of sudden there’s three of them. We’re having a nice chat and even help them over the fence. Then the owners of the gar-den come down and we feel nervous, because we’re not allowed to talk to strangers. Then I wake up. It’s not a bad dream, I don’t wake up in a sweat. I’d like to know what that’s all about.

Google says: to see a rabbit in your dream signifies luck, magical power and success. You have a positive outlook on life. Alternatively, rabbits symbolise abundance, warmth, fertility and sex-ual activity.

[laughs] Wow.

When was the last time you pinched yourself to check you weren’t dreaming?

The day after our performance on David Letterman, I was walking down the road near Broadway past

the CBS studios, heading for Central Park. There was this afterglow and I just couldn’t believe how much we’d done in a year. It felt surreal.

Did you dream of this life as a kid, while you were shaking your percussion egg in music class?

I always sort of knew I wouldn’t have a regular nine-to-five job. I just felt there was something that I’m much better at. Not that I was des-tined to do this or anything, I’ve just thought I was destined to be real-ly good at something else ever since I was little. I discovered that if you set your mind to it, you can be the person you admire in your head. You can be a glorified nobody! That also means you have to brag and take shortcuts to be in the same place that others might have worked harder to get to. That’s not bad, it just means you get there quicker. [laughs]

So dreams do come true?

I think so. The stupider or the more complex the dreams are, the better. The more little things you have to work out to make your dream hap-pen, the more fulfilling it feels.WU LYF play on 06 March in Melkweg in Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacult-cha! members.


Bitchin Bajas

The solo project of Cooper Crane, guitarist/organist of krautrock outfit Cave, relies heavily on meditative keyboard swells crafted from analogue synths and organ tones. You can easily get cuddled

up in his ambient drones and snooze your way through the aural bliss. We asked Cooper about

his dreams and nightmares. Zappa’s music clearly belongs to the latter.

Multiple choice questions sent by email by Brenda Bosma. Photos shot in Chicago by Bryan Lear.

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1. If you describe what your music is particularly good for (for example, lis-tening to Zappa’s Hot Rats is great for doing the dishes with a smile), what would it be?a) Letting everything get covered in

dust and watching the birds on the wallpaper fly away.

b) Collective kumbayah-ing around a crackling campfire.

c) Other, namely: Hopefully peo-ple aren’t trying to sync up Zappa with Bajas while washing dishes, you might need a helper to con-trol all of that. I wonder if Zappa’s Hot Rats would be the ideal record to mash with us Bitches? Finding your zone would be supreme bliss for everyone we’re sure.

2. What’s your worst nightmare?a) Our Cave singer, called Rotten

Milk, spilling milk all over my vin-tage equipment and not recording the sound that’s coming out of it.

b) To get lost in a perpetual labyrinth of krautrock rhythm and not find-ing the fade-out button. Although

that could also be eternal bliss, come to think of it.

c) Other, namely: People trying to sync up Zappa and Bitchin Bajas while washing dishes... alone.

3. Do your dreams have, like, a mean-ing?a) No, when I dream of Michael Stipe

in my REM sleep I do not neces-sarily want to hurt anyone.

b) Yes, for instance when I dreamed about that baja that was bitching.

c) Other, namely: The ones where I’m a detective in a Law and Order dream episode sure do.

4. If dreams come true, what would be a pure untruth?a) That having a solo project frees

you of awful smells in the tour van.b) That having vintage analogue

equipment is not all hosanna. c) Other, namely: HEAVEN.

Bitchin Bajas play on 30 March in De Nieu-we anita in amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.

‘hopefully people aren’t trying to sync up Zappa with Bajas while washing dishes, you might need

a helper to control all of that.’


Googling the Universe with Molly Nilsson

‘We’d like you to google the universe,’ we told Molly Nilsson. ‘I love that!’ she answered. Not really a surprise, since her wonderful dark and dreamy music evokes images of black skies, glooming lights and stellar stars and nebulas; her website is called Dark Skies Association; and if that isn’t enough,

her recently released album History has been hitting the blogosphere with a big bang. And hey, in the universe, history is now.

Questions sent by email by Bas Morsch. Images googled by Molly Nilsson.


Subbacultcha!: Why did you choose these images?

Molly Nilsson: They’re each beautiful in their own way. They pos-sess unexpected simplicity.Had you ever googled the universe be-fore we asked you to?

Yes, many times. How big is the universe?

Bigger than our minds, and that’s all we need to know.How big is it to you?

Endless, but not infinite.What amazes you the most about the universe?

I love the emotional vertigo we all

feel while looking up at the dark skies. The stars offer great comfort. And it never fails to show us how small we are within time and space, with all our pains and problems.How does the universe inspire you?

It seems so far away, but at least it’s always there. I think Laurie An-derson said that the reason she loves the stars is that we cannot destroy them, and I would agree with that.Do you understand the universe?

No. If I, or anyone else, did, it would only be a wallpaper. Do you know what a black hole is?

A black hole is a point in space


at which gravity is so strong that no matter can escape it, not even light. That’s very similar to our perception of death: it’s where we’re going.What is your fascination with ‘Dark Skies’?

I was interested when I first heard about the organisation IDA [Interna-tional Dark-Sky Association; an or-ganisation connected to the dark-sky movement, which is dedicated to re-duce light pollution so the stars can be seen better, and to reduce the ef-fects of unnatural lighting on the en-vironment] and decided to steal their name. The only difference is that they

only work with one sky, whereas I work in the plural with many skies. I like the image those words put to-gether evoke. How can there be more than one sky?

There are multiple skies, just as there are different days and moments; they’re all part of the same timeline.What role does the universe play in your music?

The universe is my muse.

Molly Nilsson plays on 23 March in ex-trapool in Nijmegen and on 24 March in roodkapje in rotterdam. Both shows are free for Subbacultcha! members.

Everyone says you hardly leave the house. What’s your creative space like?

It’s full of pretty cool stuff. This is my synth zone over here. Through that door you go downstairs and there’s a skateboard ramp. If I’m go-ing crazy I go and skate for a while, then I come back up here.

Wow, if you put a jacuzzi in, you might never leave!

Jacuzzis are weird, though. It can get pretty weird once you start add-ing jacuzzis.

Cool place! Are your daughters allowed in there, too?


Chad VanGaalen

Chad VanGaalen is a Jack of all trades. Besides releasing a steady stream of eclectic indie folk/rock that he writes, performs and produces himself, he’s also an accomplished illustrator and animator. The

notorious recluse gave us a peek into his home studio in Calgary, dubbed Yoko Eno, where he makes weird and wonderful dreams come true.

Skype interview by Carly Blair. Photos shot by Jeff Thorburn in Chad’s family home in Calgary.

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Yeah. My oldest daughter and I are in a band called Crocodile Teeth and the Snugglers, and then I’ve got a band with my two-year-old. It’s a techno band, and we’re called Banana Bread. Banana Bread’s pretty fucking crazy, actually.

You actually trained as a lithographer. That sounds so formal, and a bit old-fashioned.

Well, my grades weren’t high enough to get into the drawing pro-gramme at the college I was going to, so they stuck me in the printmaking programme, which was fucking hor-rible. Not that I hate printmaking, but it’s super process-oriented... I just wasn’t into it.

Your work is often described as ‘dream-like’, but you’re also a pothead. Is this stuff really inspired by your dreams, or is it coming from a different place?

I smoke a lot of pot when I’m working on animations, mostly be-cause it’s monotonous work, so I’ll get really distracted while I’m doing it.

[Smoking pot] allows me to zone out on it. But it’s easy to criticise yourself and fuck stuff up by over-analysing things. It’s not like you’re censoring yourself in your dreams. Obviously, subconscious ideas are less filtered. So maybe they’re a little bit more honest. [Dreaming] is just an easy way to find that in my own mind. Usually if I’m coming up with stuff when I’m so-ber and awake, it’s pretty bad. It just seems contrived.

You’ve said at one point that your ear-lier animations were like a screensav-er, and that you wanted to start incor-porating more of a linear element into your animations.

There’s an animated short I fin-ished last year that has more of a sto-ry, and I’m working on a full-length animation right now that actually has dialogue, and I’m writing a screenplay for it. The morphological stuff was awesome... but, you know, it was for me. It felt like I was alienating my au-dience. Now I’m trying to figure out what I like about storytelling. I want

‘It’s kind of crazy actually. I feel pretty fucking lucky. and I feel like no one’s really noticed

either how lucky I am.’

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something that people come away from with a story in their head in-stead of just this psychedelic stoner art. Which is cool, but I think it’s be-ing overdone, and it definitely doesn’t take much effort. That isn’t bad, it’s just, I want something different now.

You’re ready for a new challenge. Is it some-thing you’ll share with your kids too?

Oh yeah, they have tons of input. Af-ter I finish rendering stuff, I’ll show my old-est daughter, ’cause she can give pretty honest feedback. We watch pretty heavy cartoons, so they’ve got a good sense of what’s entertaining.

There’s a long line of psychedelic anima-tions that both children and adults can appreciate, like Yellow Submarine or something.

Yeah, totally, stuff like that, René Laloux, all the Moebius stuff. Every-body can enjoy it. I’m pretty stoked about it. I haven’t been this excited about something in a long time. So, things are going well. You’re having

a good time being a father. Your creative pursuits are all going well. You seem like a balanced person. What are your dreams for what happens next?

It’s kind of crazy actually. I feel pretty fucking lucky. And I feel like

no one’s really noticed either how lucky I am. I’m pretty stoked to be a dad right now. So I just hope I get to keep on doing this. I get to work from home so I get to spend a lot of time with my kids, which is pretty lucky. And my wife works from home as well, so we’ve got it pret-ty sweet right now. I wanna do a bunch of camping this summer,

I don’t think that’s too ambitious... [laughs].

Hey, you know, everything is relative!I’m gonna camp. I wanna throw

some rocks in the river and have some fires. Pretty excited about that.

Chad vangaalen plays on 08 March in oT301 in amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members. other live dates: 11/03 FabrIQ Festival, Den Bosch.


Still CornersWe battled the gloomy winds of London and met up with Tessa Murray and Greg Hughes of poppy

shoegazers Still Corners to talk about dreamy dreams and taking trains. Their band’s music

makes you think of all that nostalgic stuff. Y’know, misty forests, David Lynch, cashmere, cherry pie and coffee. But then - bang! - the two admit that

Woody Allen is actually more their cup of tea. Exceptional excerpts printed here. Read the full

interview online.The interview was done in London by Zofia Ciechowska. Photo shot on film in London by Laurence von Thomas.

Have you ever had the classic ‘coming to school naked’ dream?

Tessa: Not really, but I’ve had a scary dream where my teeth fell out. Has anyone else had that dream?

Greg: The most vivid dream I ever had was when I was eight years old and I dreamt of having a conver-sation with a giant ant. It was so real

that when I woke up I went to the place down the street where I dreamt it had happened and looked for the ant.

Tessa: I dreamt I got chased by a motorbike gang that drove me off a cliff. I fell out of my bed and woke up.

Greg and Tessa: Actually, there are a lot of good dream sequences in


Rosemary’s Baby and Picnic at Hanging Rock and even Vertigo!

Yeah, I’ve heard you like your films, what’s up with that?

Greg: Well, with the whole dream pop thing, people expect us to be into David Lynch and Laura Palmer and stuff but actually, as much as we like

that, I actually love Woody Allen. Hannah and Her Sisters is the best. I could just ditch the band and go and write a Woody Allen book. [pauses] I’m kidding, I’m kidding!

Still Corners play on 28 March in oCCII in amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacult-cha! members.

Danny Gonzalez

Danny Gonzalez is actually playing bass in Jacuzzi Boys, a gritty three-piece from Miami spitting out sunny garage songs that sound like Beach Boy Brian Wilson got stuck on an island with Johnny and Dee Dee Ramone.

While contemplating an interview with these Florida lads, we dis-covered that Danny is one hell of a photographer with an amaz-ing eye for the wonderful details of everyday life. His photos show a very subtle and observant view on reality, resulting in wonderful images of seemingly unimportant stuff. We’ve printed a small selec-tion on these pages but check out Danny’s frequently updated blog, kokomolife.tumblr.com, to get a full taste.

jacuzzi Boys play on 04 april in rotown in rotterdam and on 06 april in aea 51 in eindhoven. Both shows are free for Subbacultcha! members. other live dates: 31/03 Merleyn, Nijmegen, 05/04 Paradiso, amsterdam.

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Music Reviews New releases worth your while By Carly Blair

Frankie RoseInterstellar

(Slumberland)

Frankie Rose has made a name for herself by lovin’ (or at least drummin’ for) and leavin’ the Vivian Girls, Crystal Stilts and Dum Dum Girls. She then formed a ’60s revivalist group of her own, Frankie Rose and the Outs. They quickly released their self-titled debut back in 2010, on which they very effec-tively channeled the lo-fi girl group sound. Clearly not one to stand by her band, as Rose is back with Interstellar, af-ter just one record the Outs are out. With producer Le Chev as her co-pilot, Rose has left be-hind the reverb-soaked retro of yesteryear, setting her course instead for some downright heavenly dream pop. While In-terstellar isn’t quite that stellar, the clean production does help her huge voice and knack for melody reach previously unat-tained heights. Since she seems

to gain confidence with each move, I’m anxious to see where this rolling stone heads next.

Dustin WongDreams Say, View

Create, Shadow Leads(Thrill Jockey)

Apparently, every time Balti-more art rock spazzes Pony-tail have made an album, they ‘go on hiatus’ immediately, ru-mours fly that they’re broken up, ‘former’ members do solo proj-ects and eventually they reunite. Hopefully this will be the case once again. In the meantime, guitarist Dustin Wong is play-ing his part, serving up a second solo album. Using only guitar and various effects pedals, Wong weaves together altered, looped and layered guitar sounds into an intricate and hypnotic sonic tapestry. He conjures up a sur-prising amount of good mate-rial, given the tools he’s working with, but after the hour of run time it starts to feel limiting.

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But fans of the upbeat experi-mentation of Ponytail, Battles and Delicate Steve should find plenty to enjoy here.

Julia HolterEkstasis(RVNG Intl)

This LA-based sound artist has released five albums since 2008, but last autumn’s Trag-edy was her first widely avail-able full-length. Although she’s studied classical piano and can cite various brainy influenc-es - for example Robert Wyatt or Greek tragedies - Holter as-serts, ‘I don’t know what listen-ers hear when they hear my mu-sic but, to me, it sounds like pop in the sense that I’m trying to make something I want to hear. I’m not academic. I just pull things out of my imagination and do whatever I want with them.’ I can handle a nearly un-limited amount of experimental weirdness in a song, as long as it somehow acknowledges the ex-

istence of a listener by including even just one ‘poppy’ element. Luckily, on Ekstasis Holter suc-ceeds at least in making some-thing I want to hear; it’s not just experimental and it’s not just poppy, it also has a singular way of sounding simultaneous-ly surprising and utterly organic. If you’ve worshipped at the al-tar of Julianna Barwick, but find her music a bit too angelic (or orthodox), give Holter’s other-worldly wonders a try.

FensterBones

(Morr Music)

This Berlin-by-way-of-New York trio recorded Bones, their debut, in a frozen Berlin over the course of eight days, be-fore ever having played live to-gether, and during the process a window fell on one of the band member’s heads and shattered. At some point, someone likened them to an American version of The xx (which I would not have

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thought of without prompt-ing). Little else about them is known. Maybe they’re private or under-promoted; perhaps all the juicy gossip on them is in German; maybe they’re just ex-tremely normal. In any case, I recommend they undertake a grand adventure, or add a midg-et to their line-up, or otherwise construct a marketable backsto-ry, and stat, too, if they want to ensure that the world discov-ers their stripped-down and of-ten quietly stunning take on in-die folk.

TennisYoung & Old

(Fat Possum)

Though being a husband-and-wife duo is adorable almost by default, Tennis’ backstory was particularly charming: they met in college, and after graduation sold their belongings, bought a yacht, and set off on an eight-month-long sailing voyage. Af-ter returning to life on land,

they started writing songs as a means of reliving their adven-ture. Though their ’50s-channel-ing pop seemed sincere, it was sweet to a fault, and the whole affair felt a wee bit too elit-ist to truly relate to. On their ‘difficult second album’, Ten-nis have the experience of hav-ing toured with a full band and the production chops of Black Keys’ drummer Patrick Carney at their disposal. Their sound is still thoroughly nostalgic, but Carney’s input gives their new material a more muscular feel. Something like a flattering pho-tograph rather than a painting, Young & Old is a portrayal of a couple in love that’s still roman-ticised but has a more human feel to it than their debut.

GrimesVisions

(4AD)

Montreal’s Claire Boucher, the 23-year-old experimental elec-tronic pop singer/producer also

known as Grimes, came of age within Montreal’s blossoming DIY scene. Working in such a creative hotbed has helped her maintain a prolific output and a rapidly-evolving sound. Al-though Visions is technically her third full-length album, Bouch-er has said that she considers it her true debut, in the sense that she’s finally making the music she wants to make, as opposed to the music she can. Her basic approach remains unchanged: working with GarageBand, she typically tops a danceable foun-dation with girlish vocals and synths influenced by whatev-er dozen or so things she’s ob-sessed with at a given moment (eg Mariah Carey, Korean pop music...). However, not only are her vocals higher in the mix on Visions, but the whole affair is more accomplished and com-pelling than ever. Seemingly in-finitely malleable, and a perfect balance between sweet and ur-gent, addictive and rewarding, we’re lucky if this is indeed a vi-sion of pop’s future.

Perfume GeniusPut Your Back N 2 It

(Matador)

After a period spent living away from home and basically fuck-ing up his life, Seattle’s Mike Hadreas took refuge in his mother’s suburban Washing-ton home and started compos-ing songs for piano. This self-imposed exile at home spawned his 2010 debut as Perfume Ge-nius, Learning, which was strik-ing in its fragility and brutal honesty. On his sophomore al-bum, the overall tone is still somber, the arrangements still spare. However, the somewhat lusher instrumentation and re-assuring lyrics give you the feel-ing that with his demons exor-cised and a hit under his belt, Hadreas seems to have found a measure of peace. He has said, ‘being emotional might not be innovative, but it’s definitely not wimpy.’ This is empowerment for the fragile in musical form.

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A Dangerous MethodDavid Cronenberg, 2012

In his latest achievement, period piece A Dangerous Method, Da-vid Cronenberg’s usual theme of violence has taken the (by Cronenberg standards) rather innocent shape of S&M. It’s the eve of World War I, and a cer-tain Carl Jung has taken to psy-choanalysis to treat young Sa-brina, a screwed-up but awfully sexy patient of his. As it turns out, Sabrina’s lust for a good spanking can only be cured by... a good spanking. Meanwhile, Jung discusses business with the founder of psychoanalysis, Sig-mund Freud. A Dangerous Meth-od is a stylish, somewhat formal drama that is many things - but not dangerous. Soon-to-be-su-perstar Michael Fassbender plays Jung, the ever-cool Viggo Mortensen is especially superb as Freud. (BB)In cinemas from 15 March

Die BlechtrommelVolker Schlöndorff, 1979

One of the best German post-war films gets the full HD treat-ment. The Tin Drum, adapted from the Günter Grass novel of the same title, tells the epic sto-ry of little rebel drummer boy Oskar (played by the unforget-table, then twelve-year-old Da-vid Bennent), who observes the adult world with disgust. On his third birthday, he decides to stop growing. With fascism on the rise in hometown Danzig (today’s Gdańsk), Oskar beats his own wayward rhythm and emphasises his punches with a glass-shattering shriek. The Blu-ray edition of this re-issue also contains the director’s cut, which is 20 minutes longer. I could’ve lived without the fly-ing nuns and the Ra-Ra-Ras-putin fantasy sequence, but the film does look better than when I first saw it in my local reperto-ry cinema in 1980. (GV)Re-released February 2012

By Gert Verbeek and Basje Boer New Films and DVDs Film

Fashion Worn Out By Karin Wolters

These items of clothing were worn by several people on 3 February at the Tri Angle showcase in Trouw, Amsterdam.

By Zofia Ciechowska What’s Cooking? FoodPhoto by Basje Boer

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• Puttheflourinalargemixingbowl, add the butter, sugar, cin-namon and egg. Add the lem-on zest. Now stir, stir, stir until it turns smooth. • Wrap the dough in someclingfilm and stick in the fridge for about 40 minutes.Preheatyourovento175C.• Sprinkle some flour on yourkitchen top and roll the dough into a half centimetre-thick sheet. • Here’s the fun bit: cut thebiscuits into shapes with either cookie cutters or a sharp knife. Stuck for ideas? Letters, drag-

ons, genitalia and emoticons will take you far.Place your biscuits on grease-proof paper and bake for about 10-15minutes, or until golden.Careful, these babies burn easily!• Leavethebiscuitstocool.Ar-range them on a big plate, find the biggest armchair in the house, locate the TV, turn on crap reality show and balance theplateonyourbelly.Proceedto feed yourself biscuits. Yell at younger sibling to fetch you a tall glass of milk. Spit crumbs. Do not share under any circum-stance.

300g plain flour200g unsalted butter

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Grated zest of 1 unwaxed lemonGreaseproof paperLoads and loads of crazy-shaped cookie cutters

Books Illustration by Viktor Hachmang

By Marc van der Holst How to read... Books

First of all, don’t call ’em that. They’re called comics. Just be-cause they don’t have a bitter-sweet punchline in the last pan-el, like Peanuts, or aren’t as much fun as Donald Duck or Tintin, and go on for too long, is no rea-son to start calling them novels. They’re stories with pictures and balloons, and ‘comics’ will do just fine. Secondly, don’t read them. They’re bad for you. You will lose your imagination and eyesight, and hair will start growing on your palms.

Having said that, I was young once, too, and I remember there being some great ones out there. Even some lengthy ones, with-out much in the way of punch-lines, that were worth losing your imagination and eyesight for. And hair on your palms isn’t so bad, really, I’ve found. It’ actu-ally pretty nice in winter.

I remember Daniel Clowes’ Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron being really good, for example. Very Lynchian. All of Clowes’ books

are pretty sweet, actually. This also goes for Chester Brown, whose Ed the Happy Clown is one hell of a trip. Jimmy Corri-gan, the Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware is downright dev-astating, as is Art Spiegelman’s Maus.

I should probably mention Rob-ert Crumb, Sophie Crumb, Will Eisner, Stan Lee, Alan Moore, Lewis Trondheim, Joann Sfar... once you get sucked in it, there’s a lot of good stuff out there, real-ly. Dutch collective Lamelos are working on a Kaasheld gr*ph*c n*v*l, and Typex is smurfing up Rembrandt’s life, so those are two to look out for in 2012. If you’re young, can read Dutch and have too much time on your cold hands, that is. If not, might I once more recommend Infinite Jest?1 It doesn’t have any pictures, but it’s really good!

1) See Subbacultcha!, August 2011 issue.

Graphic Novels

Horoscope By Brenda Bosma Illustrations by Kathrin Klingner

ARIES 21 March – 20 AprilSometimes it’s good to

feel bad, sometimes it’s not good to steal someone else’s boyfriend.

TAURUS21 April – 21 MayYou feel like a cat who’s

just come out from anaesthesia after the veterinarian has deprived him of his pride. Yes, this month you’re licking your phantom testies, while a melancholic, but mostly empty feel-ing looms over you. We’re very sorry.

GEMINI22 May – 21 JuneOpinions are to you

what an appetite is to a bag of mini KitKats. You don’t really have any, but you spill them anyway. What did you utter?

CANCER22 June – 22 JulyYou’re still not a big

fan of death. You drown everything and everyone out with your overac-tive behaviour. Did you know this is exactly what may cause a slow and painful passing? You wanna end up as that creep from the Edvard Munch painting?

LEO23 July – 22 AugYou’ve got everything

back on track again. Could you let us in on how you flipped it?

VIRGO23 Aug – 22 SeptThis month, your flat-

mate is doing a Christina Aguilera on your stress levels. Try to estab-lish a more Barbra-Streisand degree. How? Well, subtlety doesn’t apply to Miss Dirrty’s vocal range (or closet) now does it? Don’t be gentle, trooper.

LIBRA23 Sept – 22 OctYou’ll find yourself in

quite a predicament at the end of this month. Let’s not hope it has anything to do with the LCD tele-vision you bought through a ‘Buy Now/PayLater’-deal.

SCORPIO23 Oct – 21 NovWe don’t know when

you will have your big break. Is it when Mars is in the eighth house of Venus? Or when it’s raining Kit Kats? All we know is to stop asking these difficult questions. They only raise more silly questions. Hmm, they are quite amusing though. Go ahead, ask away!

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SAGITTARIUS22 Nov – 21 DecWhat’s up, Sag? Lit-

tle frolics become banal, short- and long-term goals feel ridiculous? Are you finally growing up? Learn from this.

CAPRICORN22 Dec – 20 JanLet us remind you that

you are not a serf imprisoned by the feudal system. Shake yourself free of your (inner) landlord and live a little. We’ve said it once before.

AqUARIUS21 January-19 FebruaryJust like last month, you

won’t win the lottery and you won’t meet Mister/Miss Perfect, so whythe smiley face? It puzzles us. You are the most upbeat sign. What is wrong with your brain?

We know you have mixed feel-ings about shopping for new clothes. You hate that distorted image you see of yourself in the fitting room. Yes, those mirrors are fucked up. Sometimes it’s like you’re parading in a funhouse. Guess what though, this month you buy yourself a new pair of skinny jeans, even though, and we say this respectfully, you’re ac-tually too big boned for it. Then, at a party at a friend’s house, as you stumble your way into the bathroom, you catch your reflec-tioninthemirrorandyouthink:‘Man, I really look good in these jeans!’ You firmly pat yourself on that bonbon of yours. ‘Pats!’Damn, girl! This month is all about embracing your BMI and you know it. Vogue on.

PISCES 20 February-20 March

Listen to This: Bang on a Can All Stars + free side programmeSaturday 17 March, 18:30, Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ

This night is part of a special Listen to This weekend. The Listen to This series is a selection of cutting-edge modern classical concerts that are complemented with a free side programme hosted by Amsterdam’s finest music organisations. On Friday 16 March, Lunapark plays Squarepusher, and for Saturday 17 March, Bang on a Can All Stars have compiled an amazing set list: Music for Airports (Brian Eno), 2x5 (Steve Reich) and various compositions by Dirty Projectors’ David Longstreth.

On Friday, 22Tracks will host the pre- and after-parties, and on Saturday, Subbacultcha! and Future Vintage will present a line-up of some of the most challenging acts of this moment: Woud, Ssaliva, Cosmo V and Treehouse. The night is completed with Red Light Radio DJs.

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Future Islands01 March - Ekko, Utrecht

20.00 | €10 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

On their new album On the Water, Baltimore synth pop trio Future Islands once again combine throbbing rhythms, addictive melodies and stirring vo-cals into a collection of songs that’s bound to bring the house down live.

WU LYF06 March - Melkweg, Amsterdam

19.30 | €12 | Free for Subbacultcha! membersManchester’s WU LYF (World Unite/Lucifer Youth Foundation) gained an early burst of hype and curiosity from bloggers on the basis of their anti-establishment branding and aesthetics and their reputation for mysterious-ness. Luckily, they play heavy pop that’s substantial enough to withstand the scrutiny. Their 2011 debut Go Tell Fire to the Mountain is thunderous, haunting, wistful, roughly hewn and beautiful. Ellery Roberts’ howled vocals and their mantra-like sing-alongs feel like a call to arms: come answer their battle cry in the pit that’s sure to result.

Dirty Beaches07 March - WORM, Rotterdam

20.30 | €8 | Free for Subbacultcha! membersDirty Beaches is the lo-fi rockabilly project by Alex Zhang Hungtai. He’s cit-ed David Lynch films as major influences on his aesthetic. Corresponding-ly, themes of being on the road and on the run and of the ’50s suburban

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idyll being a mere sugar coating for a deeply ugly underlying reality are re-flected in how Hungtai buries his Elvis-like yelps and croons and occasion-ally very romantic melodies under layers of no-wavey distortion and reverb. Before the show, enjoy the screening of Rock My Religion (1982), a short, inspiring film by visual artist Dan Graham, in which he analyses the emer-gence of rock music as a religion among teenage consumers in the isolat-ed milieu of 1950s suburbia.

Chad VanGaalen08 March - OT301, Amsterdam

20.30 | €9 | Free for Subbacultcha! membersThis historically reclusive Canadian songwriter/producer/illustrator pro-duced Women’s final album Public Strain. The experience was so enjoy-able, it lured him out of the hermetic comforts of his basement studio into a larger recording space for the first time to record last year’s idiosyncratic pop gem Diaper Island. Though he’s still written, performed and produced everything on the record himself, his new material is less insular and more rollicking and confident-sounding than ever.

Mediamatic: New Order02 - Blue Whale10-18 March - Van Gendthallen, Amsterdam

The Blue Whale exhibition is part of Mediamatic’s New Order series, which focuses on the concept of energy in a ‘post-carbon’ era. Expect a whale-sized, energy-conscious installation that’s based on an article by British physicist Geoffrey West, in which he compares the daily energy use of an


average middle-class American to the daily energy use of a blue whale. Head down for the installation, and also to check out Mediamatic’s amaz-ing new space in the Van Gendthallen.

Bang on a Can side programmeft Ssaliva, Woud, Tree House and Cosmo V

17 March - Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Amsterdam21.30 | Free entrance

Whether or not you can afford a ticket to tonight’s amazing Bang on a Can programme, be sure to head down to the Muziekgebouw anyway for an ex-citing free line-up in the café, brought to you by yours truly in collaboration with Future Vintage. Expect live shows by Belgian bedroom producer Ssa-liva, hazy electronic popsters Cosmo V and dark ambient duo Woud, as well as a DJ set by the folks from Redlight Radio.

Molly Nilsson + Maria Minerva + Eekhoorn X + Lafidki

23 March - Extrapool, Nijmegen20.30 | €5 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

Maria Minerva is back in Holland with more of her hypnagogic bedroom funk, and tonight she’ll be joined by hazy Swedish synth pop singer Mol-ly NiIsson, who released her wonderful new album History at the end of 2011. Add Lafidki’s experimental noise drones and Belgian performance duo Eekhoorn X to the mix and you get what’s bound to be a perfect night of noise, beats, synths and samples.

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Molly Nilsson + Afka24 March - Roodkapje, Rotterdam

22.00 | €7 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

Sweden’s Molly Nilsson famously created the excellent song ‘Hey Moon!’ that John Maus awkwardly (charmingly?) sung over the top of last year. While we doubt she minded the tribute (or the boost in exposure), Nilsson’s deceptively simple pop is bittersweet and hypnotic enough to fascinate on its own. That she’s stylish and sexy and wan should also contribute to a compelling live performance. Rumour has it that Rotterdam’s Afka offers up a visual spectacle of Glasser-like proportions, but singer Aafke Klop-penburg’s CocoRosie-esque vocals should command your attention with or without any fancy packaging.

Blanck Mass + White Hills25 March - Ekko, Utrecht

20.00 | €10 | Free for Subbacultcha! membersFuck Button’s Benjamin John Power released a stunning debut album with his solo project Blanck Mass in 2011. Listening to it is like putting your ear up to a snowy television set as a kid and listening intently to the static elec-tricity nibbling on your cheek. Devoid of rhythm, the music surges and pul-sates with beautiful ease as Power layers organ and synth patterns to cre-ate an intergalactic map of sound. New York’s White HiIls blend massive guitar riffs with fuzzy psychedelia and have earned a devoted following with their explosive live reputation.


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The Wonderfully Strange and Surreal Animation of Suzan Pitt

26 March - Melkweg Cinema19.00 | €7 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

Suzan Pitt is an American visual artist who’s made a name for herself with her bizarre, dark and adventurous short animation films. According to Ani-mation Nation, her work is a luscious ice cream cone dripping with despair, surreality, hope and redemption. Well, that’s certainly triggered our curios-ity! Tonight, Melkweg shows four of her finest films, and Suzan Pitt will be there in person to answer all your questions.

Still Corners + The Secret Love Parade28 March - OCCII, Amsterdam

20.30 | €7 | Free for Subbacultcha! membersLike many other bands of late, Still Corners mix ’60s and shoegaze inspira-tions. The fact that co-founder Greg Hughes is a big film buff explains not only the lovely projections that wash over their live performances, but also their particularly cinematic take on this fashionable set of influences: their songs methodically build to a climax, and the denouement satisfies while leaving enough to the imagination to keep you coming back for more. Sup-port by sweet and synthy The Secret Love Parade.

Bitchin Bajas30 March - De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam

20.00 | €7 | Free for Subbacultcha! membersChicago-based Bitchin’ Bajas is the solo project of Cave’s Cooper Crane. With this project he relies on his trusty organ, an array of vintage synthe-sizers and various other pieces of old-timey equipment to create a medi-tatively psychedelic sound that evokes cosmic pioneers of the past as well as modern neo-psych experimenters such as Moon Duo (with who he’s re-leased a split 7”). Bitchin indeed.

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Meneer Malasch - Celebrated gallery owner Rob Malasch recently moved to Amsterdam-West and opened not just another gallery, but a multi-media project called ‘Meneer Malasch’. Meneer Malasch is a platform, a meeting point between cultures, always searching for exciting creative connections. An international network of artists and company’s makes linking those cultural products to the international art circuit possible. Act local, think global. This art-laboratorium wants to break down the conventional approach to art dealing. It’s no longer only about selling art, but several artistic disciplines can be shown in the four project-spaces. With a dynamic and flexible side program of concerts, lectures, installations, releases, party’s and performances Meneer Malasch wants to give the visitor a full experience of contemporary art.

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Future Islands29 February - OT301, Amsterdam

01 March - EKKO, UtrechtThis Baltimore trio make synth pop that’s rife with romance, throbbing rhythms, addic-tive melodies and stirring vocals, and their live shows haven’t let us down yet either. Read more on page 59.

Pterodactyl01 March - Paradox, Tilburg

03 March - Winston, AmsterdamBrooklyn experimental noise-punk quartet Pterodactyl have recently transformed their previously abrasive and melodic sound into melancholic, yet uplifting pop.

Club 4 Reel ft Hieroglyphic Being + Stellar Om Source

02 March - OT301, AmsterdamClub 4 Reel is a new electronic club night combining good DJs and live dance music. This first edition includes performances by legendary Chicago producer Hieroglyphic Being and Stellar Om Source.

Sharon van Etten04 March - Paradiso, Amsterdam

While her earliest material was timid and damaged-sounding, Sharon van Etten’s for-ay into music ultimately proved cathartic and inspiring. Her new album Tramp fea-tures collaborations with various hot shots such as Julianna Barwick and Beirut’s Zach Condon. While she describes songwriting as ‘self-therapy’, she actually finally sounds ready to put up a fight.

Casiokids05 March - Paradiso, Amsterdam

There must be something in the water in Norway, as Casiokids’ danceable tunes are kindred spirits of those of fellow Norwe-gians The Whitest Boy Alive and Röyksopp.

WU LYF06 March - Melkweg, Amsterdam

Wu Lyf play heavy pop that’s thunderous, haunting, wistful, roughly hewn and beau-tiful. Bound to be a glorious show. Read more on page 59.

Blanck Mass (Benjamin John Power of Fuck Buttons) plays on 25 March in EKKO, Utrecht


Neptune07 March - OCCII, Amsterdam

08 March - dB’s, Utrecht

This Boston-based noise band have earned a reputation for their brutal-looking custom-made instruments, which are crafted from scrap metal and found objects. Neptune’s origins are in a sculpture project undertak-en by artist/musician and founding member Jason Sanford way back in ’94. Seven line-ups, twenty-three releases and hundreds of instruments later, the band continues to confound audiences with a calculated mad-ness that has earned them tour slots with fellow experimentalists Liars, The Ex and Mission of Burma.

Dirty Beaches07 March - WORM, Rotterdam

Dirty Beaches’ Alex Zhang Hungtai bur-ies his Elvis-like yelps under layers of no-wavey distortion and reverb. Read more on page 59.

5 Days Off ft Sleigh Bells, The Field and SBTRKT

07-11 March - Various locations, Amsterdam

This year marks the 12th edition of the Am-sterdam electronic music and art festival, which features five nights of dancing to the tunes of renowned artists from around the world, as well as a non-musical programme called 5 Days On. Additional highlights in-clude a special show by Detroit’s Jeff Mills on occasion of the 20th anniversary of his music label (Axis) and a night devoted en-tirely to Berlin underground music.

Chad VanGaalen08 March - OT301, Amsterdam

11 March - FabrIQ Festival, Den BoschThis notoriously reclusive and relentless-

ly creative Canadian‘s new material is more guitar-oriented and rollicking than ever. Read more on page 60.

ULTRA 201208-11 March - Various locations, the

NetherlandsWith standard-bearer The Minny Pops, the Dutch ULTRA movement (1979-1983) cre-ated a strange and heady mix of DIY-in-fused punk, jazz and contemporary classical music that was considered as being among some of the greatest post-punk experi-mental pop in Europe at that time. The UL-TRA2012 events are bringing together the original movers and shakers with contem-porary artists and bands who are busy cre-ating some sort of an ULTRA of their own - it’s not a movement, it’s a mindset.

Alt-J09 March - Paradiso, Amsterdam

For those savages who don’t already know (or don’t own a Mac - double savagery!), pressing Alt+J on a Mac keyboard (appar-ently) yields the triangle symbol. This Leeds band opted to go with the keyboard short-cut rather than the symbol or the name Tri-angle, to pay obscure homage to today’s trendiest shape. Fortunately, their music sounds neither like witch house nor like it was made by a bunch of pretentious whin-ers, but rather like a stripped-down acoustic stylistic blend best called ‘jump-folk’.

Art Rocks10 March - Museum Boijmans van

Beuningen, RotterdamTonight, Museum Boijmans van Beunin-gen presents a fresh new project titled Art Rocks, which invites musicians to compose songs inspired by iconic art works. The proj-ect runs till June and encompasses a com-petition, workshops, concerts and events.


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FabrIQ Festival ft. Xiu Xiu, Chad VanGaalen and others

10-11 March - Various locations, Den Bosch

This ‘festival of intrusive quality’ focuses on the kind of intense, special and lesser-known music you won’t usually find in the larger pop venues. The third edition promis-es to deliver the kinds of pleasant surprises the festival is becoming known for.

Cass McCombs11 March - FabrIQ Festival, Den Bosch

12 March - Vera, GroningenNorthern Californian songwriter Cass Mc-Combs has developed a reputation for be-ing extremely forthcoming in his lyrics and extremely private in person. The odd mix of reclusiveness and confessionalism has helped this enigmatic vagabond quietly build a cult following. 2011 saw McCombs release two acclaimed albums, Wit’s End and Humor Risk, the latter of which he’s de-scribed as ‘an attempt at laughter instead of confusion’. Hopefully the joke won’t be on the audience! Ba-dum chhh.

Slow Magic + Selebrities14 March - Paradiso, Amsterdam

Slow Magic describe their music as being like ‘the sound made by an unknown imagi-nary friend.’ Apparently that friend likes mel-low and dreamy chillwave. Brooklyn-based trio Selebrities shamelessly fetishise ’80s Manchester in pop music form.

Food Film Festival16-18 March - Studio K, Amsterdam

As we become ever more connected to the rest of the world, our appreciation and knowledge of food is only growing. How-ever, so is the human population, and sus-taining it with industrial food production is

putting a huge burden on the planet. This festival showcases more than 20 food films and documentaries, together with cooking workshops, art, debates and music. An ini-tiative of the Youth Food Movement, it aims not only to celebrate a shared love of good food, but also to support the development of a more sustainable food system.

Bang on a Can All Stars17 March - Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ,

AmsterdamThe seventh instalment of the eight-night Listen to This series promises to be jam-packed with cutting-edge experimenta-tion and ambiance. Bang on a Can is a leg-endary classical music organisation that’s worked with some of the most important experimental musicians of the modern era, and their All Stars make chamber music for rock instruments. Tonight’s programme in-cludes Brian Eno’s ‘Music for Airports’, the Dutch premiere of Steve Reich’s ‘2x5’, vari-ous works by David Longstreth (Dirty Pro-jectors) and much more. Not to miss!

Ontrouw17 March - Trouw, Amsterdam

During the annual Ontrouw celebration, Trouw undergoes a complete transforma-tion and guests are not-so-gently encour-aged to do so as well. This year’s theme is ‘A New Tribe’, and costume suggestions in-clude Deformed, Gas Masks and Ancient Accessories. With a secret line-up and a ban on cameras, this party promises to be unforgettable (and/or emotionally scarring).

SoKo18 March - Merleyn, Nijmegen

19 March - Paradiso, Amsterdam20 March - Rotown, Rotterdam

After releasing a hit single (‘I’ll Kill Her’) back in 2007, touring with M.I.A., and collab-

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14 MRT CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX

15 MRT ÓLAFUR ARNALDS

23 MRT PLAID + FUNCKARMA E.A.

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orating with The Go! Team, SoKo dropped off the face of the earth for a few years. She’s recently resurfaced, currently re-sides in LA, dates the lead singer of Ed-ward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros and has just released her long-awaited debut album I Thought I Was an Alien.

Disappears21 March - Vera, Groningen

01 April - Paradiso, AmsterdamLast year this krauty, repetition-loving Chi-cago group lost their drummer, producer, and co-founding member Graeme Gibson to his other project, The Fruit Bats. Fortu-nately, they struck gold in terms of replace-ment: Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley joined their ranks and is now fully integrated into the band. Their third full-length album Pre-Language has just dropped on Kranky and features their most focused work yet.

Grouper22 March - Rumor 69, Domkerk, Utrecht

Portland’s Liz Harris records as Grouper, a name derived not from the giant fish but rather from the notion of a musician as a ‘grouper’ of sounds. Her electro-acous-tic ambient noise has been alternately de-scribed as arty, druggy, meditative, night-marish and devastatingly beautiful. No wonder she’s won the admiration of Animal Collective, who chose her to open on the Merriweather Post Pavilion tour and to play at last year’s All Tomorrow’s Parties festival.

De Speech ft LPG22 March - Paradiso, Amsterdam

25 March - Tivoli de Helling, Utrecht29 March - Vera, Groningen

De Speech, self-labelled ‘magazine for the senses’, is a multidisciplinary project de-signed to expand the enjoyment of music to all of the senses. During its third edition,

Groningen band LPG will celebrate the re-lease of their long-awaited new album The Village, playing it in full live and offering a tour of the place it represents.

New Build22 March - Bitterzoet, Amsterdam

Those heartbroken by LCD Soundsys-tem’s recent break-up may find a beacon of hope in New Build. The band features for-mer members of the ’system as well as of Hot Chip and trades in the kind of disco-informed dance tunes you’d expect given their main projects.

Nate Wooley 22 March - Rumor 69, Domkerk, Utrecht

23 March - WORM, RotterdamColin Stetson may very well have opened the floodgates to avant-jazz entering the in-die sphere. Case in point: Nate Wooley, an improvisational trumpet player from Oregon, whose playing relies on a combination of vocalisation, extreme extended technique, noise and drone aesthetics, amplifica-tion and feedback. Nate Wooley is consid-ered another leader in the American move-ment to redefine the physical boundaries of the horn.

Molly Nilsson23 March - Extrapool, Nijmegen (+ Maria

Minerva)24 March - Roodkapje, Rotterdam

Sweden’s Molly Nilsson crafts deceptively simple pop that’s bittersweet and hypnotic. Read more on page 61.

Summer Camp23 March - EKKO, Utrecht

24 March - Rotown, RotterdamThese Londoners are a duo both on- and offstage. They’ve been courting blog buzz


since 2009, when they released a few songs, made a couple of stylish videos, and briefly pretended to be a group of sum-mer camp friends from Sweden. Given their fondness for storytelling, it’s no wonder they both aspire to be writers. For now, listeners can settle for the music on their long-await-ed debut Welcome to Condale, which came out last autumn.

Blanck Mass 25 March - EKKO, Utrecht (Sunday Noise

Presents)Fuck Button’s Benjamin John Power re-leased a stunning debut album with his solo project Blanck Mass in 2011. Read more on page 62.

Thus:Owls24 March - Paradiso, Amsterdam25 March - Rotown, Rotterdam

Assembled by mastermind Erika Angell and her husband Simon a few years ago, Thus:Owls are a quintet with Swedish and Canadian pedigrees who call Stockholm their home. The experimental folk they’ve developed over two albums, including last autumn’s Harbours, is dominated by An-gell’s persona and a definite penchant for (melo)dramatic tension.

Still Corners28 March - OCCII, Amsterdam

This London quartet use ’60s and shoe-gaze inspirations to develop a particular-ly cinematic take on dream pop. Read more on page 63.

Tracks - Calefax Rietkwintet29 March - Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

Tracks is the Concertgebouw’s hip new ini-tiative to bring classical music to a broader (and younger) audience. A one-hour con-

temporary classical concert with cocktails afterwards to further lubricate one’s clas-sical music initiation. This season’s last edi-tion features the Calefax Rietkwintet, who are know for their groovy, modern take on classical music. Tonight they’ll be playing works by Tchaikovsky and Bach as well as some upbeat jazz.

Bitchin Bajas30 March - De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam

Bitchin’ Bajas create a meditatively psyche-delic sound that evokes kosmische pioneers of the past as well as modern neo-psych ex-perimenters. Read more on page 63.

Memoryhouse30 March - Paradiso, Amsterdam

Though this Canadian dream pop duo/cou-ple take its name from an album by con-temporary composer Max Richter, memory actually does play a key role in their cre-ative process, in that they normally use pho-tographs as starting material for their song-writing. After some healthy incubation time, they’ve just released their first album, The Slideshow Effect. Singer Denise Nouvion’s vocals are more prominent on their new material, which they jokingly compare to ‘Taylor Swift with Built to Spill as her back-ing band.’

Jacuzzi Boys31 March - Merleyn, Nijmegen

When asked if they’d ever consider relocat-ing from their hometown to a place with a more vibrant music scene, Jacuzzi Boys an-swer with an emphatic ‘No!’ Why’s that, you ask? Probably because they’re from Mi-ami, and their practice space is located in a trailer in a state park on a tropical island. Guess that explains their surfy garage pop and sunshiney disposition too. Word on the street is they kick ass live.

Free Stuff Free tickets and goodies

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02 March - OT301, Amsterdam

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22 March - Paradiso, Amsterdam

25 March - Tivoli de Helling, Utrecht

29 March - Vera, Groningen

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01 MarchFuture Islands + Cosmo V

Ekko, Utrecht20:00 | €10 | Free for members

06 MarchWU LYF

Melkweg, Amsterdam19:30 | €12 | Free for members

07 MarchDirty Beaches

Worm, Rotterdam20:30 | €8 | Free for members

08 MarchChad VanGaalen

OT301, Amsterdam20:30 | €9 | Free for members

10-18 MarchExhibition:

New Order02 - Blue WhaleVan Gendt Hallen, Amsterdam

Weekends only | Free for members

17 MarchFuture Vintage & Subbacultcha! present:

Ssaliva + Woud + Cosmo V + Treehouse

Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Amsterdam21:30 | Free for all

23 MarchMolly Nilsson + Maria

Minerva + Lafidki + Eekhoorn XExtrapool, Nijmegen

20:30 | €5 | Free for members

24 MarchMolly Nilsson + Afka

Roodkapje, Rotterdam22:00 | €7 | Free for members

25 MarchSunday Noise presents:

Blanck Mass + White HillsEkko, Utrecht


26 MarchAnimation: Suzan Pitt

Melkweg Cinema, Amsterdam19:00 | €7 | Free for members

28 MarchStill CornersOCCII, Amsterdam


30 MarchBitchin Bajas

De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam20:00 | €7 | Free for members

Overview of all Subbacultcha shows in February

Coming up:Jacuzzi Boys, Those Darlins, Odonis Odonis, Teen Daze + Broth-ertiger, Xiu Xiu, Dustin Wong, Hunx and his Punx, Bass Drum of

Death, 100% Silk Label Night, Moon Duo

See all these shows for free. Join at www.subbacultcha.nl

Kunst en muziek in BoijmansDe Art Rocks! Boijmans Muziek competitie zoekt muzikaal talent!

Laat je inspireren door een kunstwerk, maak daarbij een eigen track en win de hoofdprijs. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen en De Grote Prijs van Nederland roepen muzikanten uit alle muziekgenres op om mee te doen, van singer-songwriters en bands tot rappers, electro-producers en jazz- artiesten. Ga naar artrocks.nl, upload voor 6 mei jouw nummer en maak kans op een video -clip, een live optreden in het museum en de hoofdprijs van 1000 euro! Een professionele jury kiest samen met het publiek de winnaar tijdens de specta-culaire fi nale op zaterdag 23 juni 2012.

Stem op jouw favoriete track

Geen muzikant maar wel muziekfan? Stem dan op jouw favoriete nummer. Dit kan op artrocks.nl, maar ook in het museum.

Kom luisteren, kijken en doe mee: Art Rocks! Workshops & Events

Vanaf 10 maart organiseert het museum drie maanden lang muziek workshops, masterclasses, jamsessies en concerten door bekende muzikanten en muziek-experts.

Check www.artrocks.nl voor meer informatie & inspiratie!

Museum Boijmans Van BeuningenMuseumpark 18-20 NL-3015 CX Rotterdam www.boijmans.nl

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