Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Best Dutch artist ever

Three months ago we let you met fantastic dutch artists with awesome album/single covers. And now Zwar found us a music video of one of these fabulous artists. Recorded at the Tilburg funfair. Enjoy!
Of course this song, Schone Maid, is a classic.

The original version is by Tony Marshall.

But talking about zangers: Zanger Bob, one of [...]

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Download Richie Backfire documentary

A lot of you will know who Richard Bruinen aka Richie Backfire was. And if you don’t: he was the drummer for hardcore punkbands Right Direction, Backfire!, Determined, Swish and One Night Stand. Richard took his own life on March 20th 1999.
If you don’t know him: watch this (Dutch…) documentary, and if you do know [...]

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Dio³

Dio 1 (Ronnie James Dio (b. 1942): Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio, Heaven and Hell, Elf and many other bands)
Performing in The Netherlands: Wednesday 2 dec 2009 in 013, Tilburg: 27,50

Dio 2 (Diorno Braaf (b. 1988) Dutch rapper on the TopNotch label)
Performing in the Netherlands: Thursday 12 dec 2009 in Effenaar, Eindhoven: 12,50

Dio 3 (DIO – [...]

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Remember Serge Gainsbourg

Serge Gainsbourg was a drunkard who smoked three packs a day. He yelled obscenities at world-famous stars and let under aged girls sing about lollipops with anise filling. He wrote a novel about a man who broke toxic winds and recorded the most scandalous number of all times which was banned by the Vatican. Someone [...]

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Generation Bass: Tropical beats from Belgium, Cumbia on Lowlands and more!

Here it is again: the Generation Bass update!
First things first:
Lowlands, one of the most prominent festivals in The Netherlands, has a Global cLIMAx program. This means the Lima tent will be the place to be for peeps that wanna hear something different when it comes to dance music. Fridaynight is definitely the one you DO [...]

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Rachid vs. Damaru

“Ik ben Rachid
Ik zing voor jou het levenslied
[...]
Ik ben wat je ziet
Want ik ben Rachid”
Who do you like more? This exotic Frans Bauer or the Surinamese Jan Smit, Damaru we posted earlier?

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

The Great Escape 2009: Dag 3

Howdy!
Na het succesvolle bloggen vanaf The Great Escape vorig jaar, zijn Effenaar programmeurs Robert en Tom wederom afgereisd naar Brighton om verslag te doen van dit coole driedaagse event. Meer dan 300 bands in 35 venues, dat wordt weer rennen en vliegen door The Lanes en over de Brighton Pier.
Dag 3
Vanaf onze vaste ontbijt en internetstek [...]

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

THE next hit of the Netherlands: Niemand Weet

The 2-unlimited without happy hardcore beats outfit X Ray have recorded a dutch song in remembrance of the drama that happened at Queensday. This Lange Frans & Baas B-like song is called ‘Niemand Weet’ (No one knows) (No it is not inspired by QotSA.)
We think this ´troostrap´ (comfort rap) is gonna be THE next dutch [...]

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

European elections are coming up

The European elections await us Dutch Europeans, and in the Netherlands the Socialist Party has started their traditional poster war (their poster is posted above – it says: ‘61.6% The Netherlands wants less Brussels‘ (the HQ of the EU)).
Victor from Velpse Belevenissen has started his own guerilla war: check it out! (‘The Netherlands wants less [...]

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Art Monday: Bart Hess

Designboom: Work of Dutch artist Bart Hess will be shown as a part of the ‘Dutch Invertuals’ exhibition during the Milan Design Week 09. See more pictures here and here.

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