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Category: Netherlands

Friday, February 21st

only rock ’n’ roll

The Ex, “Double Order,” France (Orleans), 2013


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From the Chicago Reader music section (2/20/14):

. . . hails from the same quasi-grimestep/post-IDM interzone that’s home to artists as disparate as . . .

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This Liverpool trio plays what it calls ‘caveman doom’ . . .

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. . . retrofuturist murder ballad . . .

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. . . works the same territory that grindcore and sludge bands cleared in the 90s.

Wednesday, 4/11/12

only rock ’n’ roll

The Ex, live, Russia (Moscow), 2011

More? Here.

Tuesday, 4/10/12

Boi Akih (Monica Akihary, vocals; Niels Brouwer, guitar) with guest Wolter Wierbos (trombone), live, Netherlands, 2008

Instruments, too, are often stereotyped. Take the trombone. Loud? Blustery? Bull in a china shop? Not here.