LIVE: Rolo Tomassi Impress Intimate Patronaat Café
What better way to spend the first day of Easter at Patronaat’s intimate Café than to experience Cryptodira,...
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LIVE: The Beatles Stage Triumphant Comeback in Eindhoven
It’s been a long time coming, but last night it finally happened! Liverpool’s finest musical collective, The Beatles, marked their comeback...
Fu Manchu in Haarlem: Rated Gnar
Baggy pants? Check. Long, sweaty hair? Check. A good amount of fuzz and wah? Check. Today saw Fu...
Inside 5 Seconds of Summer’s Chaotic Dutch Return
It’s been a little less than two years since Australian pop rockers 5 Seconds of Summer took to the Dutch...
Live: ALVVAYS AND FOREVER (✩✩✩✩✩)
It was a diverse crowd in attendance for Canadian indie-pop stars Alvvays in Nijmegen’s Doornroosje. An inclusive crowd that had...
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard in Amsterdam: Two Nights of Revelry, Chaos and New Music With the Band of the Moment
Jesus christ, it certainly feels like déjà vu to mention King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard in the same sentence...
LIVE: ALGIERS ARE THE BAND WE NEED, NOT THE ONE WE DESERVE (✩✩✩✩✩)
Algiers are one of the most exciting bands of our time. In a world where our political climate...
LIVE: STEF KAMIL CARLENS HAS STILL GOT IT (✩✩✩✩✩)
Despite being one of the most creative and exciting bands of the late 1990s, for some reason dEUS...
Hookworms Transform Amsterdam Into Spiralling Hellscape
Last week, Leeds outfit Hookworms‘ put out their enthralling and all encapsulating new album Microshift. In support of the record, they’ve...
LIVE REVIEW: NILS FRAHM WOWS DOORNROOSJE ONCE AGAIN (✩✩✩✩✩)
Nils Frahm is a restless man. To many, he’s the author of an extensive back catalogue of creative,...
LIVE REVIEW: Frantic Enter Shikari Tear Down the Paradiso With Effortless Ease (✩✩✩✩✩)
Back in September, when St Albans’ Enter Shikari put out uplifting new record The Spark, many fans wondered if the band could translate it...
All Time Low in Amsterdam: Better Than They’ve Ever Been
All Time Low are the kind of band who tend to blow hot and cold. The first few records...
BON IVER IN UTRECHT: A Spectacle Like No Other
There aren’t many instances where an artist is capable of leaving a 2,000-strong crowd absolutely speechless for the...
LIVE: LCD Soundsystem Transform Paradiso Into Underground New York Paradise
“The time has come, the time has come today” proclaims LCD Soundsystem mastermind James Murphy on the cowbell-heavy,...
Enter Shikari Destroy the Benelux, Part 1: Utrecht’s TivoliVredenburg
This year, St Albans’ very own genreless quartet Enter Shikari are taking their seminal debut album Take to the Skies across Europe...