Thea Wolfe

"Everybody needs a mustache sometimes"

Beautiful painting by Seattle based artist
Thea Wolfe

Fisher by Yoram Benz

"Ostracized by his village for being different, Fisher is a lonely being who lives in a small cabin at the edge of the sea. His world is turned upside down one day when in a twist of fate, he is forced out of his comfort zone and thrust into a journey of self discovery." Directed By Yoram Benz.

Watch | Fisher

Burn Presents - HeliWake byTokay Matte

Wakeboard world champion Tokay Matte makes this absolutely sick stunt of being pulled by a freaking helicopter for the first time in Europe.

Watch | Burn Presents - HeliWake

Sex Beet - I'm In Love With You video

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3 years after shooting the first official Sex Beet video is out.
Sex Beet are a trash garage surf band from Leicester now relocated to London and are about to record their debut album in Berlin with King Khan and have been busy touring with the likes of Black Lips, Thee Oh Sees, King Khan & The Shrines, The Strange Boys and Best Coast. If they play in a city near you go see them live cause they are super super nice and the shows are wild as f***

Watch | Sex Beet - I'm In Love With You

Picture taken in Amsterdam by Waxorian last August when Luke and the boys played two awesome gigs in Holland possible by a collaboration between Audiopleasures, Pacific Park Amsterdam and Club Tarantula Haarlem

Karen O - Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys (Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson)

Wonderful cover and video from the always super awesome Yeah Yeah Yeah's frontlady Karen O to the Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson classic that resulted from the collaboration between Chipotle Mexican Grill and the Chipotle Cultivate Foundation that is part of the project "Abandoned" to create awareness for the difficult times the American family farmers are sustaining because of the increasing industrialization of the farming sector.

Watch | Karen O - Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up

The Mad Caps - The Mad Caps

Seattle be ware of newbies in the city of Emeralds The Mad Caps, Ted Rader and Jon Real come from behind and share the enthusiasm to the Rock N' Roll cause and together scrapped the wildest blues grooves and sexiest rockabilly with a Las Vegas grinding flavor and a dirty rancorous garage punk allied with sonic swinging riffs, pounding drums and psychedelic vibes, foot clapping, finger slaking and powerful rough vocals that move from slow jams to energetic down hill blizzard smashing everything that comes on their path. ELECTRIFYING, top album and certainly one of the most exciting bands to follow *****

The best use you could give to 5 miserable bucks after you listen to this.

Watch | The Mad Caps - Tube Top


" Rock it, Share it, Buy it." The Mad Caps

zZz + Saelors = Light Light

I've been hearing talks for quite some time about the new zZz formation with two more band mates but actually never heard anything, yesterday by pure randomness two facebook friends liked something called Light Light around the same time and because they are two guys known for their always excellent music choices had to investigate immediately. First visit on Light Light facebook page i could see on the profile picture Boris and Daan two of the most recognizable faces from the Amsterdam underground scene the mega cool punk-organ duo zZz one of the biggest and best Dutch gifts to the music world, unfortunately for my incredible bad luck missed probably the last two gigs in Amsterdam cause i was on holidays and that sucked hard time. zZz shows are some of the craziest wild things i've seen live and i sincerely miss seem them live but they've moved on and now im very curious to see there new band live. The only track available as Daan Schinkel organ all over it, Bjorn Ottenheim backing vocals and sounds like a pretty solid Indie song that will easy see the light of the charts with no problem at all but its to early to make any judgments so we gotta wait for more, about the other band dont know anything but from the info available are a Amsterdam sort of mellow freak folk so make the track "Guru" like a logical idea from what could be the result from this music Amsterdam merge.

Listen | Guru

The debut album is expected next year and in the meantime they have a bunch of shows already booked in Holland and in Paris next year.

24 nov Utrecht - 3VOOR12 @ Le Guess Who
25 nov Leeuwarden - Asteriks
02 dec Den Haag - Supermarkt
03 dec Cayen - Enkhuizen
07 dec Amsterdam - Subbacultcha @ OT301 w/ Maria Minerva
06 jan Paris (FR) - The Maroquinerie

Fidlar - Oh, No Ass

My love with Fidlar is healthy and recommended ... 2011 end of the year best off lists without the trashy garage punk sleazy surf Los Angeles Fidlar's name on it are obviously a complete waste of time ... two new jams for your listening pleasures.

Listen | Fidlar - Oh
Listen | Fidlar - No Ass

Dirty Beaches – Lone Runner Video and Holland mini tour

AMAZING new video that makes justice to Dirty Beaches the one man dark lo-fi rockabilly from Montreal hauntingly beautiful music.
A simple concept video that gets you hooked on your screen till the last second and the more the story is revealed the more addictive the song becomes with claps, intense guitar strikes and brutal shouts that create a cloud of despair with a bloody poetic epilogue.

Lone Runner is taken from the upcoming EP “Stye Eye” 7″ out 18 November on Suicide Squeeze.

Watch | Dirty Beaches – Lone Runner

Dirty Beaches gonna rock Europe for the second time this year and in case you've missed him in Amsterdam a couple month ago here is your shot ... highly recommendable

Euro Tour 2011 part II Holland, full dates

03.Nov.11 Incubate, Tilburg
04.Nov.11 Het Magazijn, The Hague
05.Nov.11 FOAM POP UP, Amsterdam
06.Nov.11 Vera, Groningen

Susu Laroche Photography

A visual disturbing soundtrack of a dark, Gothic Art house movie full of ghosts, guilty pleasures and haunting evocative mysterious women that were created out of some bizarre and surreal secret cult experiment. Inspired in chaos and confessed obsessed about Italian icecream and Georges Bataille Susu Laroche is a 22 years old London based experimental analog art photographer.

The Horrors - I Can See Through You video

Fresh new music video for the Horrors, "I Can See Through You" is the second video and the second single taken from the 2011 LP "Skying"

Watch | The Horrors - I Can See Through You

Davila 666 - Muy Chistoso Live - Sideshow Alley

Puerto Rican garage rockers sextet Davila 666 the coolest of all cool bands present themselves for a session on a rooftop in Manhattan for Sideshow Alley

Watch | Davila 666 - Muy Chistoso

The Subs - Decontrol [ Black Strobe Remix ]

The Kings or Acid Paris showing their claws, new MASSIVE ♥ Black Strobe ♥ remix, impressive how they are still the best after all these years !!!!!

Listen | The Subs - Decontrol [ Black Strobe Remix ]

Richard Skelton - Black Combe

Richard Skelton music is in the magic or tragic realm like opposite pools that are obsessive dependent of each other or two colliding parallel universes, its like entering the most beautiful enchanted forest and you know you are being watched, life and death are expecting you and something terrifying will happen but you still gaze at the forest and think how beautiful it is.

"Black Combe" his delicate as silk, emotionally raw, full of repetitive resonance grief and epic fragmented soundscapes, scars embedded in rich melodies that are honest and pure and as all Richard Skelton mesmerizing intimate signatures, its so beautiful but always with a sentiment of infinite loss like a funeral anthem for a loved King that has dedicated his lifetime to please and create in the hillsides of Northern England and now is about to embark on a spiritual healing journey.

Richard Skelton has recently released his complete works in a box titled "Skura" with 20-disc, 90-track and 12-hours. "Black Combe" emerged from a disc of unreleased material and is now available for a full listening with many other releases at Aeolian Edition Bandcamp.

Tim Hecker - Dropped Pianos full stream

For this insanely and amazing music year have already some 5 albums lined up for best 2011 but Tim Hecker new album on Kranky "Dropped Pianos" is the ultimate MASTERPIECE and signs is name on the experimental electronic music genius altar with the likes of Vladislav Delay, Christian Fennesz, Richard Skelton and Ben Frost just to name a few.
One of the attributes that made me so drown to Tim Hecker music was the intensity, density and the magic invisible force field that pulls you straight inside to his drones that seems to be attached to powerful nuclear turbo boosters that makes every living creature or structure shake like the most imaginably violent tsunami all coordinated with echoed harmonic perfection.
I heard the phenomenal Ravedeath, 1972 that came out early in the year but for some reason wasn't really satisfied, like always i expect more and more.
With "Dropped Pianos" i was from the fist note overwhelmed with the simplicity and minimalism from the claustrophobic piano repetitive strokes with the sustained, sweeping drones and beautiful orchestrated microscopical glitchy orgasmic soundscapes that falls under the sub-logic perfect imperfections imaginary world of the abstract dripping Jackson Pollock masterpiece.
What makes "Dropped Pianos" epic, beyond and one of a kind is the perfect combination of Modern Classical, Drone, Noise and Glitch like was achieved by the Richard Skelton 2009 "Landings" but with the piano as main character in this story of music mutations and evolution.
Sketch 9 foggy and dizzy beginning that develops into a explosive and concentrated rocket fuel burst of a gigantic wave of rumbling reverb bass is probably the most powerful and overwhelming piece of music i heard since Ben Frost "Theory of Machines album track". Powerful, Simple, and Intense. GIGANTIC *****

Tim Hecker: Dropped Pianos by alteredzones

Dustin O'Halloran - A Great Divide Video, We Move Lightly - Robert Lippok Remix , Holland Mini Tour

New MEGA gorgeous music video from Dustin O'Halloran new album track "A Great Divide" by the Icelandic artist Kira Kira and a fantastic remix from Robert Lippok to the track "We Move Lightly". Dustin as several concerts in Holland in the coming months with strings and with his new sensational project A Winged Victory for the Sullen with Adam Wiltzie from Stars of The Lid ... unfortunately no concerts in Amsterdam.

Watch | Dustin O'Halloran - A Great Divide
Listen | Dustin O'Halloran - We Move Lightly (Robert Lippok - Pataphysical Remix) | download

26 November Ekko Utrecht
w/ A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Le Guess Who Festival
09 December Paard van Troje Den Haag, State-X New Forms Festival
10 & 12 December Paard van Troje Den Haag

Sylvain Chauveau news, Bandcamp and Rewire Festival Den Haag 4 November

One of my favorite contemporaneous modern classical composers the French born and Brussels based Sylvain Chauveau as now most of his impressive discography on bandcamp, most of it for really bargain prices that you can decide to buy or not after listening and directly for the artist. A new album and several collaborations were already announced and more Sylvain Chauveau wonders should be out soon.



Sylvain Chauveau @ the Rewire Festival November 4 in Den Haag

The Sonics @ Speedfest 6 10 December Eindhoven

The legendary 60s American garage rock and punk forefathers will play in the 6th edition of Speedfest in Eindhoven.

Listen | The Sonics - Dirty Robber
Watch | The Sonics - Psycho (Live on KEXP)

Speedfest presents an electrifying line up now even more brilliant with the inclusion from The Sonics with Monster Magnet, The Dwarves, Fireballs, The Reverend Horton Heat, The Phantom Rockers, Black-Bone, Black Spiders, Danko Jones, Pentagram, Hookers, Gewapend Beton, Vanderbuyst and the hosts Peter Pan Speedrock.

Maui Reple - Nr 812

Spotted @ Gallery Gaia Amsterdam by Maui Reple

Gijs van Lith, Dutch Abstract Painter Interview

Im thrilled and happy to post the interview with Hertogenbosch based Dutch Abstract Painter Gijs van Lith . I found Gijs paintings for the first time in a random Art walk in Amsterdam, first just by a simply glimpse from the gallery window i could see the massive canvas with abstract structures couldn't resist the appeal and was overwhelmed with the deept and intensity of the paintings.

Gijs van Lith was nominated for several awards and prizes, won the Amsterdam Young Art Talent in 2009 and his nominated for the 2012 Royal Dutch Painting, Gijs paintings can be seen in several exhibitions in the coming months and in private collections like Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.



How do you define abstract art ?

well, personally i don’t see a difference between abstract or figurative art.



But your paintings are mainly abstract ??

Yes my works fall in that category at the moment, but I prefer not to think in those terms and cubicles.
Abstract art for me, is most of the time more pure, clear less distractions. There is more space/room for depth and its more universal. The image is sometimes more dominate and can distract the viewer. And affects the story of a artwork. But sometimes it comes together in the right way.
I’m painter, and currently my work falls within the category ‘Abstract’. But my latest works are both abstract and figurative. They’re called ‘A paintings womb’ and are the remains of painterly actions on a wall, of a artists studio. So some people will recognize this display and some won’t. But that’s oke.

I have two subjects that interest me; but my main focus lies on the paint it selves (the matter its selves, the act of painting, how color and form work, mainly the way the give depth)
The second subject is ‘painting’ it selves (the medium and ((art))history). Where do you place your selves .

So that’s why i show in the personal and introvert studio, no finished museum art piece but its womb.



Is Abstract Art a secret language of the senses?

No but maybe obscure one or language of a very few can speak. Maybe because we people have a more of a ‘you-tube mentality’, a concentration span of 3minutes. So it takes a bit a time, effort to truly see/read a painting and appreciates what the work is about. So that means you (the viewer) understands what decisions where made in the making and thinking--process till how it compare to the oeuvre and other works of the artist. And how it will position its selves with in art as well.
Because most people are used to look at a artwork, and see a more in a direct translation that represents the story. But I believe that it is more interesting to make work that doesn’t react or connect with directly to a situation within society or what is typical for a certain ‘time-geist’. I like that in a work or a series you as a viewer can see a personal development and read the steps a artist takes and appreciate the new things the artist is including in is work. And that maybe later on that symbolize as a mark for that specific time.



what do you think of the concept Abstract being " Everything and Nothing" ?

Willem de Kooning sad it best, I think.
he was looking for a form that could hold anything, nothing and something. And i believe that I’m getting closer and closer to my form that can hold anything.



How can you define that concept that your looking for ??

well, its a certain necessity, and longing urge



that sounds like Philosophy and Psychology in one sentence ?

Well making is thinking…after making, thinking and analyzing a work again and again is sort of a physical dialog with a work.
The work needs to feel right, like given the right answer the a question. It’s all in there and when you have enough right and wrong answers, you'll figgere out the question(s). But of course you have a starting point that involves your personal interest and fascinations. I’m really interested in the matter it selves, the paint. The way shape and color give depth. Also themes as mentality and time I find very interesting. In my latest two series ‘Skin’ and ‘A paintings womb’ becomes more clear. I see sometimes some similarities in my work and the way ledger is made in a shoe or coat or the rings of a tree. And I’m busy with more general and universal questions like; what is today’s position of painting?



Do you want to express and analyze yourself at the same time in your paintings. Sort of a scientist of the canvas?

No I don’t, I do recognized some parts of me, but in the process I don’t preserve the canvas as a mirror of me when I’m making.



Mark Rothko masterpieces were thought over and over as a mean to awakening of the social triviality of the daily live no to please but to shock

yes he's one of my favorites



What do you like about his work ?

his shows with great extravagance the plus-value of paint and the choice to only act as a painter. There is no other medium that he can use to represent and feel his message. Here painting is irreplaceable.
Why paint and why use paint if there are better-suited media to get your message better across.
Rothko shows that his work speaks to the soul of persons, and at the same time it symbolizes that if you paint and act only in painting, show the necessity of that specific choice.
He sometimes compares his work with a visit to a play in a theater, he sad something like; you could go the a theater but if you really wanna see a great play come and see my work.



what's you fuel ? what makes you feel wild and start painting ?

Sometimes a great show/exhibition. Sometime a good text I read, or a minder-wonder. But mainly it’s in the small things, a glimpse of a visual phenomena, when i see something out-side or in town. Colors/shapes that interest me, i see them for what they are to me, without what they represent to the rest of the world.



what is you biggest ambition as a painter ?

oeh! thats a difficult one, I ll have to call on the fifth amendment ;).
biggest ambition is: when i can say that i found the perfect answer to my question and then I’ll stop painting probably

i work normally 5/6 days a weeks
and i find about 80/90 'answers' a year, and probably about ten/twenty right ones.



After every answer is a new bigger question, so you will paint forever ?

yep;) I found some answers down the last 3 years. But much bigger ones came to follow. Which is nice and interesting how that evolves.

you have a creative and inquisitive mind that is the trade mark of a great thinker :)

The Rapture - In The Grace of Your Love

Stream in FULL the new album from The Rapture out on DFA.

Listen | The Rapture - In The Grace of Your Love

The Rapture @ London Calling Amsterdam 11 November +

Junior Boys – Banana Ripple Video

New music video from the Canadian duo Jeremy Greenspan and Matt Didemus taken from their latest album "It’s All True" out on Domino

Watch | Junior Boys – Banana Ripple
Listen | Junior Boys – Banana Riple (The Field Remix)

Junior Boys + Diamond Rings @ Trouw Amsterdam 24 November

Digitalism Live @ Melt 2011 Full Video

Watch in full the live video from Digitalism @ Melt 2011 ...

Watch | Digitalism Live @ Melt 2011

Teenage, a film by Matt Wolf

"Living in a world where terms like “teen film” and “teen star” are essential to describing such a huge part of popular culture, it’s difficult to imagine a time when the term teenager—not to mention its derivations like tween—was unheard of.

Inspired by punk author Jon Savage‘s groundbreaking book, director Matt Wolf explores the invention and evolution of teenagers in a new, historical film titled Teenage. This teaser’s been floating around for a little while and features narration by Jena Malone and the face of the Coppola family’s favorite leading man, Alden Ehrenreich. It also gives us an excellent guide of what the film will explore; from the flappers of the 1920s to the dance-obsessed swing kids and Hitler youth, teenagers went by many other names before World War II and were often seen as a threat or something that needed controlling."

Watch | Teenage, a film by Matt Wolf Teaser

Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - These Days Video

Fresh new video taken from the wonderful Guadalajara Mexico based Lorelle Meets The Obsolete debut album "On Welfare".

Watch | Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - These Days

Gem Club - Twins

Music video for Massachusetts based Gem Club debut album opening track, "Twins" is taken from the wonderful "Breakers" out on Hardly Art. Gem Club are Christopher Barnes on piano, cellist Kristen Drymala and vocalist Ieva Berberian and the album presents itself full of Modern Classic atmospheres with delicate pop sensibility and no fuzz, gaze or drones just pure piano deep strokes, gorgeous layers of cello and the voices melting with each other, impressive !!!!

Watch | Gem Club - Twins

A Winged Victory For The Sullen live video @ Radio Brussel

T.r.a.s.h. - Safe Absence, Humanoid Trilogy Episode 2

Safe Absence (Promo) from trashdanceweb on Vimeo.

" In Safe Absence six seductive women personify the themes of longing, sin and penance.

This second episode of Humanoid Trilogy explores what being a woman really means and represents this in atmosphere and mood. Carnival-like scenes in a surreal landscape, accompanied by intense live music, lead to extreme physicality between reality and trance."

24 October @ the Melkweg Amsterdam, full tour dates in Holland

Fennesz and Sakamoto - Flumina

Renown and world wide acclaimed Japanese pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto and Austrian electronic experimental virtuoso Christian Fennezs new collaboration is a absolute wonder of class, the double LP is creamed with melancholic and minimal pianos by Mr Sakamoto and Fennezs with his powerful arsenal of beautiful and epic soundscapes.
"Flumina" is the follow up from the duo mindblowing 2007 first LP "Cendre"
Highly Recommended for any experimental electronic music, ambient and Modern Classical fans.
Flumina is only available in Japan but soon printed worldwide by Touch

Listen | Fennesz & Sakamoto - 0322
Listen | Fennesz & Sakamoto - 0328
Listen | Fennesz & Sakamoto - 0319

Maxim Zhestkov - Signal

СИГНАЛ / SIGNAL from Maxim Zhestkov on Vimeo.

New sci-fi short by the Russian motion graphs genius Maxim Zhestkov!!!!!!!

Pangea - Summertime

Music video from Los Angeles Pangea, "Summertime" is taken from the excellent debut LP "Living Dummy" ... super fun & trash delinquent surf punk !!!!

Watch | Pangea - Summertime

Club Tarantula 14 October @ Storing Haarlem

Two more weeks to new edition of Club Tarantula the finest underground night in Haarlem, North Holland. In this edition the dirty swamp blues one man band from Wales born Madrid based Drip Dry Man & His One Man Beat Revolver, the Amsterdam punkers Local Spastics, Circus Karbonkel performance, Pietertje Pep & Gijsbert versgemalen! back on the decks and hosted by Mr Weird Beard.

Watch | Drip Dry Man & His One Man Beat Revolver
Watch | The Local Spastics - Daily Routine

Toto & The Bad Eggs - Wallet Droppin' EP

Our London friends from punkslime have literately unleashed a monumental new band called Toto & The Bad Eggs feat. Jerry Tropicano, Luke (Sex Beet), Mark and Ben (Brown Brogues) with a blazing surf fuzz psychedelic sonic trash garage 4 track ep called Wallet Droppin' for FREE and is HOT HOT HOT

The Dictaphone - Past Future Void

vive la FRANCE !!!!!! another bomb coming out of France underground garages !!!!!! grab Thee Oh Sees, The Cramps, Bauhaus and put all in a blender with the strongest Acid around and will sound like this MEGA hypnotic masterpiece, surreal and stunning 2011 album ...

Japanther - Battle of the Hopeless Crushes

Free download Brooklyn's Japanther new track taken form the upcoming lp "Beets, Limes and Rice" out 18 November via Recess Records.

Listen | Japanther - Battle of the Hopeless Crushes
Watch | 2011 Fall Tour Teaser

A Winged Victory For The Sullen

Finally i found time to listen to the full debut from A Winged Victory For The Sullen featuring the fabulous minimal pianist Dustin O'Halloran and the ambient genius Adam Wiltzie from Stars of The Lid & The Dead Texan ... absolute marvelous and stunning masterpiece of Modern Classic, there was so much talk and buzz round this album that the expectation were beyond and i must say that they were fully delivered and no doubt one of the top releases from this year and a must have now and that will echo for eternity ... PRICELESS AND TIMELESS *****

Listen | A Winged Victory For The Sullen – Steep Hills Of Vicodin Tears
Listen | A Winged Victory For The Sullen - A Symphony Pathetique
Listen | A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Requiem For The Static King Part One

26 November @ Ekko Utrecht, Netherlands, more Europe and North America dates