Jóhann Jóhannsson is a composer and producer from Reykjavík in Iceland and makes neo-classical ambient music that is evocative of icy Scandinavian landscapes. His 2006 album ‘IBM 1401 - A Users Manual’ featured heavily on my playlist and is one of the most interesting ambient albums that I have heard in some time. [...]
Photo by Tim Saccenti
This gig has already been and gone, you can find a review here.
Flying Lotus is a producer from Los Angeles. He produced one of my favorite albums of 2008 (Los Angeles) and his excellent EP ‘Shhh!’ has been vibrating my speakers a lot recently. He unfortunately had to cancel his world [...]
The Yohimbe Brothers are DJ Logic and Vernon Reid in collaboration with many guest musicians (including Doug Wimbish (Living Colour), Slick Rick, Prince Paul, Latasha Nevada Diggs, Leon Gruenbaum, Deantoni Parks and Ricky Quinones).
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Its the start of 2009 and a good time to look back at the gigs that we liked last year. Here’s a list of some of the gigs that we liked in no particular order.
The Chap @ The Nieuwe Anita
This art rock pop act from the UK played a very nice set in the basement [...]
The experience of live music is difficult to capture in words, you really have to had been there to experience it. Audio or video recordings can never convey the experience of being there and feeling it. Though it was a Saturday night, Mercury Rev were playing to a not quite sold out Paradiso. The venue [...]
Until this year Mercury Rev had released six studio albums but last month they have topped it all off by releasing two new albums at the same time. I first heard Mercury Rev when a flatmate ran excitedly into the room clutching a copy of “Yerself Is Steam” and we all crowded around the turntable [...]
On Wednesday night while looking at our map trying to orientate ourselves we wondered what kind of insane planning results in a train station exiting through a shopping center. Yes we were outside on a rainy Utrecht night trying to work out our up from our down. After several false starts followed by some decidedly [...]
Unfortunately this gig has been canceled. Hopefully he will come back again soon.
Flying Lotus produced one of my favorite albums of 2008 (Los Angeles) and has been vibrating my speakers for most of the summer. His music skips across many boundaries but if I was to try and classify it I would describe it as [...]
Under Byen, pronounced “Oh’nah-Boon”, hail from Denmark and their name means “Below the City”. True to their name they have managed to avoid the mainstream despite being on the go now for thirteen years. Their sound is a lush atmospheric soundscape with elements of trip-hop, jazz, pop and rock. If I had to give [...]