True Zebra had a great year: Nominated for best alternative song at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards, memorable performance at Bimfest, a Fantastique Night with Ike Yard, an unforgettable day at the biggest Student Party: “Studay” and amazing reviews! + Writing and recording the follow-up to the critically acclaimed debut album!
Thank you organizers and audiences your response was above expectations on these new songs!
“The new album is coming along and is sounding amazing. More extremes, more movement and I’m very happy
with the new songs and the reaction it already generated during the live performances” - Kevin Strauwen
2013 will bring a new era and starts off with True Zebra performing at one of the leading concert venues
in Belgium: The Ancienne Belgique (AB). Together with headliner Vive La Fête we will make friday january 18
a party night to remember!
The Awakening is a 2011 British horror film directed by Nick Murphy, starring Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, and Imelda Staunton.
Synopsis:
1921: England. Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall) is a published author on supernatural hoaxes who works with the police to expose charlatans and debunk supernatural phenomena, having begun her foray into her profession upon the death of her lover in World War I. Upon a visit from Robert Malory (Dominic West), a teacher from a boarding school with the request to investigate the recent death of a student and how it is related to sightings of a ghost of a child, she travels to the school hoping to explain the sightings and the death. The ghostly sightings are at first thought to be a prank played by one of the boys at the school. But of course that's only the beginning.....
This now already British classic is now in the theatres.
Sweden's rocking electro behemoth Agent Side Grinder burst onto the scene in 2008 with their eponymous debut album. The music was an uncompromising, never-heard blend of industrial, post-punk, old style EBM and electro topped with the apocalyptic crooning of singer Kristoffer Grip.
On their second album "Irish Recording Tape", the band developed their musical style further. The songs were maybe more accessible, but the typical elements were intact: drilling industrial sounds, hypnotic synth sequences, feverish vocals and post-punk influenced bass lines. To quote Vice Magazine Germany: "...one of the few bands, which is actually in a position to deal with the legacy of Joy Division". The interest in the band resulted in three European tours and an invitation to support genre forefathers Suicide.
In recent years, Agent Side Grinder has moved towards a bigger and more textured sound. This is evident on their latest work "Hardware". On this record, ASG once again steps into their musical time-machine, has a rendezvous with old masters such as Kraftwerk, Einsturzende Neubaten and Depeche Mode and invite them all on a reckless, rhythmic journey into a bleak future.
This weekend, on Sunday January 13th, they will perform @ Poppodium 013, Tilburg, NL.
Kentin Jivek has a gift. His new ambient-folk inspired EP is a free download.
Here you'll find the "Melancholia" EP.
The first song from "_ever Alive - a tribute to Snowy Red" has just been released. This first song, "Nowhere", originally from Snowy Red's LP "The Right To Die" (1982), is covered by Marburg, a minimal wave/industrial band from Łódź, in Poland. It comes with a video of Łódź featuring "daily post industrial decay".
MARBURG - "Nikąd (Nowhere)" excerpt from "_ever Alive - a tribute to Snowy Red" // Weyrd Son Records 2013 from Weyrd Son on Vimeo.
This first excerpt sounds very exciting! We can't wait for the complete album, due in May, which will feature covers by great alternative bands from all over the world: Animal Bodies, Bestial Mouths, Deathday, Led Er Est, etc. Note that the song "Torpedo Good Luck", will be covered by Safyee, aka Alice Thiel, Micky Mike's daughter and that the album will be released by Weyrd Son Records (Brussels, Belgium), the record company created by Micky Mike's son, Michael Thiel. A great tribute coming from the artist's own family!
Here's the tracklist of the tribute album (due in March 2013):
ANIMAL BODIES - Lies in Your Eyes
BESTIAL MOUTHS - Never Alive
BRIGHT FUTURE - Breakdown
DEATHDAY - Don't Loose Control
LED ER EST - A Picture
MARBURG - Nowhere
MEDDICINE - The Long Run
MIRROR MIRROR - Nowhere
MUSHY - Baby Tonight
NEWCLEAR WAVES - Blood Blood Blood
NOVE MURA - Breakdown
REVELATOR - Euroshima (Wardance)
SAFYEE - Torpedo Good Luck
SCORPION VIOLENTE - Euroshima (Wardance)
STRANGE POWERS - Sinkin' Down
//TENSE// - Deep Desire
VIOLET TREMORS - It's So Good
Cover photography by Betsy Vanlangen, from New Jersey.
For those who live on another planet: Snowy Red is the Belgian new wave legend Micky Mike (real name: Marcel Thiel). Between 1981 and 1989, Snowy Red released 4 albums and 6 EP's/singles. His major hit is "Euroshima (Wardance), a classic that appears on the playlists of many DJ's, including mine. He also had a new-beat hit: "Breakdown" in 1989. Micky Mike died aged 52 in 2009 but is remembered as one of the spearheads of electronic music.
