At the beginning of this month the Californian band Sic Alps came to our Incubated evening to give a really stunning live show. Together with Dan Sartain they played a show at our 17th edition of Incubate.
Now, exactly four weeks later we’re glad to announce that you can listen to that live set of Sic Alps. If you’re not coming to tonight’s Incubate Scene Report you can also listen to 54 other live sets on our Soundcloud-page.
It’s Thursday, 3 o’clock, time for another Incu Thursday. Again we got a lot of artists to add to our line-up, but sadly we also have a cancellation and a replacement, but that shouldn’t spoil the fun.
We are thrilled to announce Sleepy Sun, Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat, Richard Buckner, Greg Haines and Bill Orcutt for Incubate 2012. Also confirmed are Warm Digits, Twinsistermoon, Lettera 22, Toxic Shock, Pink Sock and Doug Paisley. We are sorry to tell that Dead Skeletons cancelled their planned tour and therefor Incubate 2012. Also Guilty can’t come but will be replaced by Full of Hell.
If you’re just like Jan Smeets and you don’t know any names from our line-up, check out our Spotify playlist or hover over the photo on top for some extra information and audio previews. You can also check the artist profiles on the Incubate website.
Tickets for Incubate 2012 are on sale now. You might want to get your hands on a limited edition early-bird ticket which are still available for only €60,- until they run out. There are also Daytickets available. You can buy your tickets for Incubate 2012 on incubate.org or via the store below.
Attending Incubate 2012? Go to Facebook and Last.fm so you can see who of your friends are going as well and stay up to date on the Incubate 2012 news! Tune in on our weekly updated Spotify Playlist to listen to the confirmed artists.
Harvey Milk will be playing at the upcoming Incubated 18 (June 7). Together with Circle they will probably blow the roof of the intimate Paradox. 2 days ago (May 25th) they performed at the Trix in Antwerpen. The entire show has been recorded, so if you want to know whats coming, check out the following videos.
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Thanks to MrDonkeyville
One of the coolest festivals in the Fall in the Netherlands is Le Guess Who. This year they decided to organize a one-day event under the name Le Guess Who May Day, with a lot of cool acts at Tivoli, Ekko, ACU and Neude (which was part of Festival Aan De Werf)
Sleepy Sun
I began this evening with Sleepy Sun at Ekko. The band returned this spring with a brand new record called Spine Hits, a bit more lightweight compared to previous record Fever. Live it took a few songs before the show took of.  The sound on stage was not optimal and the bandmembers weren’t at their best. After they started to play some songs of Fever it started to roll; frontman Bret Constantino came more on fire and the psychedelic groove where the band is known for came back. Also I’ve got to give some credits to light engineer for a stunning light show. With this gig they proved that Sleepy Sun can also exist without singer Rachel Fannan. (Oh.. and I can already reveal that we’ve got some nice news about this band this week.)
Bear In Heaven
Then I had to choose; Willis Earl Beal or Bear In Heaven. Beal didn’t really convince me with his album, but after seeing this live performance from Swing On Low I started to doubt (later that night I found out that this performance became legendary by another reason). Eventually I chose for Bear In Heaven, because weirdly enough I never saw them live and Beast Rest Forth Mouth was definitely one of my favorite records of 2010. Just like Sleepy Sun they came with a new record last month and at the first turns of this cd it didn’t really convince me. Luckily that changed during this gig. Their new songs turned out really good live, but this is mainly due to the rhythm section; the bassplayer and the really tight drummer created a really solid base where singer Jon Philpot could just go crazy on with dancing and singing. That was right away one of the negative sides of this performance. I was really surprised that Bear In Heaven is performing with only three guys, as their albums are filled with layers of (mostly) synths. This was solved by two MacBooks, which were controlled by Philpot, who was singing out of tune at some moments by the way. An extra bandmember to play keys would be a useful extension for this band. But besides that, Bear In Heaven was on some moments really on roll, especially when they played the mesmerizing tracks Lovesick Teenager and Ultimate Satisfaction.
Cloud Nothings
The most buzz of this evening was probably around the Cleveland band Cloud Nothings. Their second album Attack On Memory, which they released at the beginning of this year, is probably gonna end up at many people’s year list. So I was pretty curious to see if this band can live up to these high expectations on stage. The songs they were playing were really good, especially the fact they are making grunge-music, but without copying typical grunge bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam. But still, the time schedule said that they would play an hour and now they played just 40 minutes, while they got three albums. Besides they played a couple of times a break with only a lot of noise for 10 minutes long. It really took the momentum out of the show and it felt like they only played this to fill their set. Please if you’re wanna play a short set take an example to Iceage, with 12 songs in 20 minutes.  I can’t say that it was a bad show, but still it was a bit disappointing.
Young Magic
A good thing about the short Cloud Nothings set was that I could still see almost the whole show of Young Magic. I’ve seen the band play the night before in a not filled Stage01 at 013, so I was quiet happy to see that this trio pulled a fully filled and sweaty basement of ACU. It also looked like the audience appreciated the performance more than the night before, and I think the band members noticed this as well, they played a longer set and with more enthusiasm.
For the people who don’t know Young Magic; this band is playing a weird kind of psychedelic pop, with tribal drums and eastern influences, think something like Gang Gang Dance. Personally I think Melt is the best record I’ve heard so far in 2012. But lets face it; that doesn’t say anything about a live performance. This band had a similar problem as Bear In Heaven; On Melt the most songs are filled with a carpet of sounds and like BIH they’re playing with only three people so a lot of sounds came out of box. I know a lot of people won’t bother and will not notice, but still.. An advantage of a lot of sounds out of a box is that it doesn’t sound messy or empty. Even though, I really liked this adjuringly performance, although the show went in waves of excitement; some songs of their debut were a lot of more thrilling than others.
Mmoths
Last but not least was Mmoths, the 19-year old kid who we just announced a few hours ago for Incubate 2012. Not a banger as afterparty (maybe next time LGW?), but a set of dreamy chillwave. Jack Collera played, like most acts in this genre just with a MacBook and a controller songs of his excellent EP. Nothing wrong with it of course, but I was expecting a bit more excitement or variations of the songs. Maybe next time (September at our place!) he could experiment more or make it more danceable. Ok, I have to admit; I can’t be too critical! This youngster is just 19 years old and for his age he’s a fucking genius and I’m really looking forward to hear new work from this Irish hipster!
This Thursday there is already the third edition of Incubate Scene Report. This time with 2 bands from Rotterdam. You can read the entire scene report here.
First up is the noisepop trio Crowds.
and right after Neon Rainbows, with members of Fever Dream and At No Bikini Beach. Their last record is released on Subroutine and sounds like a good mix of pop with Sonic Youth-like noise.
This event is completely free of entry, you can let us know if you’d like to come on this event page.
Info:
Incubate Scene Report: Rotterdam
May 31, 2012 – Cul de Sac, Tilburg
Open: 20:30 (Crowds starts at 21:00)
With: Crowds + Neon Rainbows
Today we can add another 3 artists to the ever-growing bill of this year’s Incubate festival. 3Â additions that bring even more versatility in the line-up. From pioneers to explorers, here we go.
| Nurse With Wound Friday, 14 September Infamous and obscure band that influenced many other infamous and obscure bands since ‘78 Con-dom Saturday, 15 September Mmoths Friday, 14 September Attending Incubate 2012? Go to Facebook and Last.fm so you can see who of your friends are going as well and stay up to date on the Incubate 2012 news! Tune in on our weekly updated Spotify Playlist to listen to the confirmed artists. |
Want to know more about the artists? Check the artist profiles on the Incubate website. Tickets for Incubate 2012 are on sale now. You might want to get your hands on a limited edition early-bird ticket which are still available for only â¬60,- until they run out. There are also Daytickets available. You can buy your tickets for Incubate 2012 on incubate.org or via the store below.
Exitmusic â Passage
This duo consists of husband and wife Devon Church en Aleska Palladino, from (Shit, again?!) Brooklyn, New York. With EP From Silence, which they released a year ago Exitmusic showed us their first sign of life.. Passage, their debutalbum, is a bit more bombastic, but still got the sultry sound. Next to this sultry vibes, we have to add with capital letter MELANCHOLIC. Maybe new music for the ones that didn’t like the last album of Beach House.
MV & EE â Space Homestead
Like Exitmusic Matt Valentine and Erika Elder, shortly MV & EE, are husband and wife. But their music is nothing like Exitmusic, this music is more for hippies who don’t know that Internet is exciting. These neo-hippies are making really nice psych folk songs since the beginning of this century, and this new record, Space Homestead is no exception. A nice thing to know it that this duo, who are touring every time with other band members, are playing live with a sound and light system which they created their self. And now the best thing; they will be playing this year’s Incubate, so make sure you’re gonna check this out!
alt-J â An Awesome Wave
alt-J, or â (if you got an Mac keyboard), is an artpopband headed by Joe Newman. Newman is (like most bands) inspired by death, love and tragedy. That sounds like a pretty trite combination, but we promise you; this album sounds much more original than that you probably think. At our office we were trying to find a band which sounds similar, but that was actually pretty hard. The best where we could think was ‘Wild Beasts on XTC, with Smashing Pumpkins‘ Billy Corgan on lead’.
El-P â Cancer 4 Cure
The problem with this kind of (tropical) temperatures is that you became languid, lazy and everything what you do takes a lot of effort. If you are in this mood, we recommend you to listen to this new record of El-P. Just listen to first song Request Denied and you’re immediately awake and paying attention again. When El-P announced a new album since five years, we first heard the awesome track The Full Retard, which was a perfect warming up for this new record. Jaime Meline, El-P’s birthname, started in the nineties with his trio Company Flow and has made with C4C his fourth solo album. With this record El-P let us hear that he’s still the leader of the underground hiphop.
Mount Eerie â Clear Moon
Since Phil Elverum first alias The Microphones released an album with the title Mount Earie, his nickname changed into this name. With Clear Moon he made under this last name his sixth album. And Elverum revealed earlier that we he’s gonna release his seventh album, Ocean Roar, in the fall of this year. He stopped performing for a while, just to take some time to record these two records together. This album was a bit more clear, the follow-up is gonna be more dark & weird. We really getting curious, because Clear Moon is again a really stunning album.
Friend and former Incubate dancecurator Sonja Augart starts a workshop Feldenkrais next weekend. Feldenkrais is a method based on Somatic Education and emphasises on the connection between thinking, feeling and moving. A moment to rediscover the pleasure of moving.
Time: 10 - 15 hours ( 1 hour break)
Teacher: Sonja Augart
Location: Yoga Surya Chandra
Molenbochtstraat 64
5014 ER Tilburg
Price: €75 (with lunch)
Required: Easy, warm clothing annnnddd socks!
Apply and info : Sonja.augart@tele2.nl
Our hero R. Stevie Moore is coming back to the Netherlands. This bassplayer is a lo-fi pioneer with more than 400 albums/tape releases on his name. In the end of 2011 Moore showed us by playing at Incubated that this living legend is also legendary on stage. On saturday the 16th of June he’ll be playing at Bitterzoet, presented by Paradiso.
To give you the opportunity to see him live (again) we’re gonna give away 2x2 tickets for this awesome gig. If you want to win one of those tickets make sure you answer the next question:
With who made R. Stevie Moore a 61 tracks-counting tape with the name Ku Klux Glam?
(Hint: We posted earlier about this collab on our blog!)
Do you (or Google) know the answer on this question, send an email to win@incubate.org before next friday. At the beginning of June we’re gonna chose the lucky ones.
