Subbacultcha NL july/august2013

By Sofia Ciechowska Illustration bi Basje Boer

Unruly Music Magazine July and August 2013

Food

What’s Cooking

The Idealism Issue

Cloud Boat, Petite Noir, Warm Soda

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The Idealism Issue

This is an image of a plastic bag hanging from a cardboard box in the offices of NY-based record label RVNG Intl. The photo was taken

by David Brandon Geeting when he visited label owner Matt Werth and his work environment (see page 25). The plastic bag is talking to you. It thanks you for using it over and over again. It translates a widespread notion into a self-referential message printed on its surface. A notion that it’s better to use plastic more than once rather than to just throw it away after one use. A notion that did not exist, say, 50 years ago. Behold the power of idealism. Act now!

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Content

The Idealism Issue

Petite Noir

Warm Soda

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Cloud Boat

Agenda

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Top 5 New Music We Saw You Petite Noir Warm Soda PHoTO ESsay: Rvng Intl.

CLoud Boat Featured Artist reviews Film

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BOOKS Fashion FOOD horoscope Agenda subbacultcha! shows eye candy other shows Free Stuff after midnight

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As our generation becomes more positive about individual prospects, we also seem to become more cynical when it comes to social awareness. I mean, Do we really get upset when we read the news (you know, Syria, Mali, anti-gay protests in Paris, etc. etc. etc.) or do we detach ourselves by placing screens between us and the world? Has reality become something we can pick and place within our personal context rather than seeing it as a given fact? If it doesn’t fit the profile the red ‘close-this-window’ button is just as easy to click as the ‘like’ button. Or is it? Let’s search our souls and find out.

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Who we are and what we do

Subbacultcha! magazine is made at our office in Amsterdam Da Costakade 150, 1053 XC Amsterdam, the Netherlands www.subbacultcha.nl. magazine@subbacultcha.nl We are Editors in chief: Leon Caren and Bas Morsch Editor: Brenda Bosma Editorial assistant: Megan Roberts Design: Bas Morsch and Marina Henao Master of affairs: Loes Verputten Online editor: Phil van der Krogt Distribution: Patrick van der Klugt (distribution@subbacultcha.nl) Interns: Floor Kortman, Milou Hautus, Andreea Breazu and Rose Donohoe Good Guys: Keimpe Koldijk, Michiel Klein, Bram Nigten Printing: Drukkerij Gewa, Arendonk, Belgium Contributors: Carly Blair, Basje Boer, Koen van Bommel, Brenda Bosma, Leon Caren, Zofia Ciechowska, David Brandon Geeting, Gerlin Heestermans, Marc van der Holst, Keko Jackson, Kathrin Klingner, Nico Krijno, Bas Morsch, Lonneke van der Palen, Carlijn Potma, Mandy Sharabani, Nina Strebelle, Gert Verbeek and Xiaoxiao Xu Distribution: Amsterdam: Tessel Dekker, Sandrine Mary, Fedor Oduber, Stefan Stasko, Patrick van der Klugt, Dineke Tuinhof, Agata Bar, Charlotte van Brakel, Katharina Olson, Denis Wouters Utrecht: Emma van Meijeren, Sandy Seifert, Erik Armust, Jitske de Vries Groningen: Hedwig Plomp, Marinke Kerkhoff Den Haag: Dineke Cornelissen Rotterdam: Nahry Dougarem, Lukas Dikker, Ilse van der Spoel, Ozge Zaydin, Marijn Verbiesen Leeuwarden: Jan Pier Brands Leiden: Milou Laan Haarlem: Yannick Tinbergen, Bert Zaremba Nijmegen: Lubine Adema Tilburg: Luuk van Son Eindhoven: Mees Welmers Deventer: Marjolein de Vliegher Delft: Daniel Enciso Breda: Vera Siemons Alkmaar: Tom Verkerk Den Bosch: Bas Heijmans Pick up Subbacultcha! magazine here (among 500 other places): Amsterdam: Kriterion, EYE, Canvas, American Apparel, Episode, CREA, De Balie, Melkweg, OT301, De Nieuwe Anita, Restored, Zipper, Concerto, Roest, Trouw, Studio K, Atheneum, 16cc, Time Machine Utrecht: Ekko, ‘t Hoogt, Tivoli, The Village, Revenge, Plato, dB’s, Cafe het Hart Rotterdam: Worm, TENT, Rotown, Lantaren Venster, De Witte Aap, Willem de Kooning Academie. And: De Effenaar - Eindhoven, Het Paard - Den Haag, Patronaat - Haarlem, Extrapool - Nijmegen, Vera - Groningen Advertising To advertise in Subbacultcha! magazine send an email to magazine@subbacultcha.nl.

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Last month at our office

Label: Sacred Bones

Any label that releases both country folk rock (Case Studies) and disturbingly loud noise music (Pharmakon) within a month of each other deserves a mention in our top five.

Their output is impressive in quantity, and almost all their artists are amazing. Kudos.

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Hotspot: Het Nieuwe Diep

Hidden in the Flevopark in Amsterdam, based in an old pump house, lies Het Nieuwe Diep, a distillery and café with a gorgeous lakeside view. But don’t tell anyone: it’s our little secret.

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Exercise: Biking to Utrecht

On a nice spring day we took out our bikes and rode all the way from Amsterdam to Utrecht, making a pit stop at Loenen aan de Vecht, enjoying the view, living the life.

Summer is here, kids.

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Zine: Girls On Film / Boys On Film

We caught on to Girls On Film and Boys On Film when we saw the cover of one of their recent publications, featuring a photo by Luis Vaquez of The Soft Moon taken by Isolde Woudstra for our magazine. Well, as it turns out, it’s a really great up-and-coming photography zine. Last month MoMa in New York purchased the entire back catalogue for their library archive. Just sayin’.

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Thoughts: Sudden awareness

The world is saturated and imploding at an extremely slow pace. Polish your ideals kids, you’re gonna need them.

Right now!

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By Zofia Ciechowska

This month’s recommendations

New Music

Solar Year

soundcloud.com/solaryear

Solar Year (Ben Borden and David Ertel) have become part of the eponymously cool Montreal music family with a bunch of new-age electro-pop tracks under their belt, not to mention some guest vocals from the Grimes goddess herself. The duo have been heard to call their music ‘psalmgaze’, something probably said tongue-in-cheek but immediately pounced on by rabid music journalists like myself – all because of a Gregorian chant sample, ha! Check out their Brotherhood EP, available for free download on the Arbutus Records website and be on the lookout for their full-length, Waverly, which is due to appear at the end of June on Splendour.

Lydia Ainsworth

www.lydiaainsworth.com Brooklyn music lady Lydia Ainsworth is simply thrilling. Lydia, if you’re reading this, come and have pizza with me! Come and have pizza with the world! This former student of Joan La Barbara has composed for filmmakers, visual artists, poets and contemporary dance groups, putting her at the epicentre of artistic expression, making her the coolest lady everrr. Lydia’s otherworldly vocals are accompanied by a string quartet, drummers, keyboards and this brilliant self-devouring fastfood collage animation. Listen and be happy.

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New Music

Pharmakon

www.sacredbonesrecords.com/releases/sbr099

NYC native Margaret Chardiet is one of the founding members of the city’s prolific Red Light District collective DIY space and supreme queen of the underground experimental noise and power electronics scene. Teetering on the brink of total breakdown and extreme control, Pharmakon’s sound is revelatory, cathartic, utterly brilliant. Her new album on Sacred Bones, Abandon, is a head-on collision of layered drones, drums and vocal dips and dives, with maggots and dried flowers on the cover to boot. You won’t find much of her stuff online, but I’m sure she’d play a show for you and your friends if you asked nicely.

Peals

www.pealsmusic.com William Cashion of Future Islands and Bruce Willen of Double Dagger make wonderful music under the name Peals. It is wonderful because it has that simple-yet-complicated quality that is so hard to create. Strung together from guitars, tambourines, toy pianos and the embracing of chance sounds, their music is the ultimate instrumental track for making quinoa avocado tofu salads and putting daisies in your hair (you could also wash your writhing dog to it too, though). A special treat awaits you on their website, but I will say no more. Their Walking Field LP is out now on Thrill Jockey Records.

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We Saw You

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Spotted at Subbacultcha!

Photo by Xiaoxiao Xu

Did you give up on any of your ideals recently? I gave up on being an artist, because I found that being a dress maker is sexier and more fetching.

This is Ting Gong spotted at the the Babies show in Ekko on 15 June, 2013

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Features

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Petite Noir

Ambitious 22-year old Yannick Ilunga, aka Petite Noir, tries to bridge the gap between black and white with his noir wave. Yannick describes his music as new-wave with an African aesthetic; according to The Guardian, it’s the sound of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures meeting Paul Simon in Graceland and to us... it’s pure pop bliss.

We talked to the Cape Town-based producer about how ideals fit into his world ‘Right now I’m not really capable of making much of a difference, but I definitely want to try to make a sustainable contribution for my country and my generation and actually mean something’ Interview by Brenda Bosma Photos shot by Nico Krijno in Cape Town, South Africa

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Petite Noir

In Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s novel, the main character marches through the adult world like a Petit Prince. Is that something you can relate to?

‘Everyone needs to grow and experience what is out there. There are a lot of ignorant people who just stay comfortable in their own little bubble and don’t care about growing up and trying to make some sort of difference. I try to do my share by making the music that I make, music from where I come from, my culture.’

So, you’re not in it to teach kids to get their spelling right?

‘I don’t consider myself a teacher, but if there’s anything I’d like to teach them it’s to do whatever you want to do. So yeah, my band name is misspelled, it should be “petit noire”, but that’s cool. I can do whatever I want.’

You’ve been called the saviour of South African music. Do you feel like one?

‘I don’t think that’s very accurate, but in terms of colliding two worlds, new wave and the African aesthetic, yeah, maybe I am a little.’

Okay, but how are you going to save us?

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you regulate feelings of sadness and even anger, that it’s better to listen to Pantera than to smash a window to pieces.

‘Music is definitely some sort of outlet. It’s a way to relax. I was always interested in anything that wasn’t pop or rap. Listening to metal helped me to discover my musical abilities and play guitar. As my music taste broadened, I started blending genres. All the things I’ve listened to helped make the sound that I’m making right now.’

In the song ‘Noise’ you sing about having a party. You think that maybe that’s the best ideology, to try and make everybody feel good?

‘I don’t think it’s the key to a good life or anything, but it’s good to socialise. With a certain regulation, parties are good. I think for me believing in noir wave is an idealistic way of seeing things. Those things being the bridge that spans the black and the white. Right now I’m not really capable of making much of a difference, but I definitely want to try to make a sustainable contribution for my country and my generation and actually mean something.’

Petite Noir plays on 21 July at OT301 in Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members. Other live dates: 16-18/08 Lowlands Festival, Biddinghuizen

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Warm Soda

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Warm Soda

Even at four in the morning, Californian foursome Warm Soda is kind enough to talk ideals with us. According to the glammy garage rockers in an ideal world we’d never have to wear clothes or those awful looking toe shoes. Maybe that’s why their soda is warm: to keep us comfortably snug in their future funtopia Interview by Gerlin Heestermans Photos shot by Keko Jackson in San Francisco, USA

Do you follow the news? I kind of stopped watching it a year and a half ago. Sometimes I feel guilty about not knowing what’s going on in the world, but in general I don’t really regret it, to be honest.

‘I listen to NPR (online radio station) every day but that’s about it. Do you know Terry Gross? She’s a firstclass newscaster, she’s awesome. I still read The New York Times. Warm Soda is concerned with the world. Everyone’s laughing now, but that’s ’cause

it’s 4am here. It’s true though, we wanna save the world.’

You wanna save the world?

‘Eventually. With love. Ultimately love.’

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‘Warm Soda is concerned with the world.

Everyone’s laughing now, but that’s ’cause it’s 4am here. It’s true though, we wanna save the world.’

nia. There’s some crack dude probably running around wearing it right now.’

Was it expensive?

‘It was pretty expensive actually.

But money’s not the object here, it had sentimental value. But all things must pass. In an ideal world we wouldn’t have clothing. We’d be in an utopia.

Unless it was really cold.’

What does your ideal world look like? Is it California, where you all reside?

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all moved here, because we wanted to live in a place that was more progressive and pretty. I feel like we’re here ’cause we’re all living in the moment and that’s where the ideal world is. It’s not a place, it’s a state of mind. It’s a frame, like a movie frame.’

What’s the one thing about humanity / society that you can’t (under)stand?

‘I really hate those people that wear those toe shoes where each individual toe is, like, wrapped around.

You can’t trust people who wear shoes

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like that. Luckily they’re rare. It’s always this dude wearing them, camping around a youth hostel. I also don’t understand smartphones. Just everybody staring at them all the time.

And you get them at shows too. Nobody watching the band, but looking at their phones instead.’

Then again, we are doing this interview through Skype on your iPhone...

‘Yeah, but I have, like, two apps and I’ve just had to download this one to talk to you! I’m gonna delete it after this interview too. After that we’re gonna smash this iPhone. You showed us the way.’

How does work on tour though? I guess you have to talk to each other face-toface a lot.

‘Oh, we just text, we don’t talk. I’ll be like, “Dude slow down u r driving 2 fast”.’

Do you drive yourselves?

‘Oh yeah, that’s the only way.

We’re like Chuck Berry: he didn’t trust anyone but himself. Every tour he drove a Cadillac. Driving’s a pleasure over here, ’cause there’s so much space and the countryside is beautiful.’

Doesn’t it get tiring though? There’s so much distance you need to bridge.

‘We’re tough, you know. We’re basically like a gang. We’re tough but tender.’

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Would you play anywhere for cash?

‘Sure, I have no standards whatsoever. Though we’re split on this one… I would say: ethical standards, but to an extent. I definitely would not play a McDonald’s grand opening for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

We’re not in it for the money. That’s an honest answer. We just wanna do shit that’s cool. If we like something, we don’t mind attaching ourselves to it. And if there’s money involved that’s nice. We’d like to ultimately play music and do just that, not have shitty day jobs.’

Do you care about the environment at all?

‘Personally, I’m definitely concerned about the environment. One topic I’m especially concerned with is genetically modified food. That’s serious shit. Fucking up the Earth creating these super weeds, it’s fucked up.

I’m rolling in the organic department.

I also wanna say, we’re against fracking. We’d also would like to grow our own vegetables at home, but we’re sort of between tours, which means we’re pretty much homeless, so not at the moment.’

Warm Soda play on 13 July at De Nieuwe Anita in Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members. For other live dates see page 69.

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Photo Essay

David Brandon Geeting photographs the offices of RVNG Intl.

Brooklyn-based deconstructionist dance label RVNG Intl. has been making a name for itself by releasing prolific albums by genre-defying electronic artists such as Julia Holter, Stellar Om Source and Holly Herndon. We asked NY photographer David Brandon Geeting to meet up with label owner Matt Werth to sneak a peak at where the magic happens. See all images online alongside an interview with Mr Matt himself.

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David Brandon Geeting photographs the offices of RVNG Intl.

On July 05 we’re hosting the RVNG Labelnight at Mediamatic Fabriek in Amsterdam. The line-up features Stellar Om Source and Maxmillion Dunbar and the show is free for Subbacultcha! members.

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Cloud Boat

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Cloud Boat

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Tom Clarke and Sam Ricketts of downbeat electronica act Cloud Boat are the new musical existentialists of our time. The London duo met with me on a grey Friday afternoon to talk about melting polar ice caps and broken ideals. They forgot to bring their black capes so we didn’t take them too seriously, though...

‘There’s a personal rebellion going on inside of us’ Interview by Zofia Ciechowska Photos shot by Nina Strebelle in Brussels

Your music has been described as ‘sad but nice’ – where’s all this sadness coming from?

Sam: ‘I like how people have to say “but nice” as if it’s not enough for people to just say “sad”. I think it’s sad that people need to add that. But no matter if you’re happy or sad, it’s far more cathartic to make sad music.’

You know how far-away ice caps are melting, but because we can’t see them we don’t care that much?

S: ‘That’s one of the reasons why we write sad music. There are things that you can’t deal with or even if you can help, the problem is bigger than

one or two people. That tends to seep through our music.’

Tom: ‘People are living more and more selfishly. They are realising that as a collective we have no real purpose, no real goal and no real ideals and people start experiencing a true sense of estrangement and disorientation. That has two results – people become heavily involved in artistic expression, which is great, but then we also have aggressive rebellion, like the riots in Turkey or the London riots.

All of this comes from a natural response to how people continue to be disappointed by the system.’

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Cloud Boat

Are there experiences that have made you more idealistic?

T: ‘I studied philosophy at university and because of that I feel comfortable with the fact that I have no faith in ideals or transcendent agendas. I studied a lot of existentialism and nihilism, which was confusing and scary, but now I’m okay with it. Everyone comes to a point in life where they will experience disillusionment and rebellion, but if you embrace that state then the result will not be negative. I try to channel all my grievances into creative energy; making music is very conducive to that way of life.’

S: ‘I remember coming back from a show with James Blake at Field Day on the day the London riots started. We’d just played for a huge crowd of people who were so supportive of our music and then we took a train through parts of London that were being completely destroyed by rioters.

The riots were happening right on our doorstep the following day, normally a very peaceful area. We wrote two songs that week. I think witnessing that made us more productive after we saw where it had all gone wrong.’

What does rebellion feel like? What are good ways of rebelling against annoying bullshit nowadays?

T: ‘I would always consider rebel-

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lion to be a positive force. I am trying to train myself into rebelling against particular ways of thinking about things or doing things. For instance, I actively avoid uncomfortable confrontation at all costs, but now I am trying to teach myself to put myself into these dreaded situations and see what happens. Rebellion is becoming a perpetual state for us, the more disillusioned and detached we become as human beings. For me detachment feels like freedom: your emotional state is too present for it to be influenced by what people might tell you to be. There’s a personal rebellion going on inside of us.’

S: ‘Rebellion makes me feel like Star Wars.’

If you could be the force that changes things in the world (God/Obama/Thor), what would you do?

T: ‘I’d tell people to not follow me and just focus on themselves and take steps that they are capable of taking.’

S: ‘What did he say?! I would stop bad weather. It would always be just right wherever you were. Actually, I’d stop bad weather for everyone except for Tom.’ Cloud Boat play on 17 August at De Nieuwe Anita in Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.

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Art

Featured Artist

Louis Reith

Louis Reith is a graphic designer slash artist currently living and working in Amsterdam.

Reith uses a large variety of techniques but approaches them all with the same attention and the same sharp, smart eye. He takes a simple graphic theme and translates it into collages, paintings, sculptures and even quilts.

His work is focused and clean and reveals a mysterious sort of systematic order which cannot be grasped and yet is evidently playing a leading role ins his art.

Louis’ work has been published and exhibited all over the world. louisreith.com

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Music Reviews

New releases worth your while

By Carly Blair

Sean Nicholas Savage Other Life

Austra Olympia

In February upcoming Montreal artists including Mac DeMarco, Doldrums and Majical Cloudz contributed to a compilation called Taste of Savage: His pupils sing his music. But who was this mysterious teacher?

An influential character named Sean Nicholas Savage, around whom an entire community has developed even as he’s remained out of the limelight. The cover of his latest album depicts two Sean Nicholas Savages, one peering out from behind the other like a shadow. The themes of a fractured self and the blurring of reality and illusion are reflected throughout the album, from the lyrics to Savage’s use of simplistic adult-contemporary instrumentation as a medium to convey fairly devastating sentiments. Once you get past the cheesiness, Other Life’s poignancy and conceptual brilliance are pretty undeniable.

On this Toronto synth-pop group’s 2011 debut, Feel It Break, frontwoman Katie Stelmanis and co wedded the theatricality of Kate Bush with the dark atmosphere of The Knife in a way that was operatic without being melodramatic and totally spellbinding. Interestingly, their decidedly melancholic music was so warmly received by goths and the otherwise moody that their performances often turned into joyous dance parties. This disconnect between the band and their audience inspired them to make a conscious shift towards danceability and to make a more collaboratively written and involved album simply because it would be more enjoyable to play live, and as long as you’re willing to have fun along with them then Olympia surpasses its predecessor.

(Arbutus)

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(Domino)

Gold Panda Half of Where You Live

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Gauntlet Hair Stills (Dead Oceans)

(Ghostly International)

With a name like Derwin Schlecker, Gold Panda was destined to find a profession that justified the use of a stage name; happily his choice was to make warm, crackling electronica flecked with bits of hip hop and folk. He possibly modestly claims to have done little of note in his life before releasing his Mercury Prize-nominated debut, 2010’s Lucky Shiner, which he recorded while dogsitting for his aunt and uncle.

He returns with Half Of Where You Live, the product of and a tribute to a period spent touring the world, picking up influences and ideas along the way.

It finds his signature production style festooned with exotic instrumental touches like souvenir magnets on a refrigerator door, the contents on a par with leftovers of good takeout.

This Denver-based duo, founded by best pals Craig and Andy, make danceable avantpop music. Their 2011 debut was an energetic and enjoyable hodgepodge of Animal Collectivist vocals, blissful, pounding Sleigh Bells-y drum machines, the deadpan delivery of the Dismemberment Plan’s Travis Morrison and guitar stylings that ranged from shoegaze to post-punk. They moved from Denver back to their hometown of Chicago, and found inspiration for their sophomore album in the music of their rebellious teen years. Accordingly, they’ve referred to Stills as ‘a modern salute to Trent Reznor’. Aside from the deeper and slightly more menacing vocals I don’t really see the connection, but that doesn’t mean listening to it won’t get you closer to God.

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Case Studies This Is Another Life

(Innovative Leisure)

(Sacred Bones)

This Oxford, Mississippi garage rock duo’s 2011 debut, GB City, was recorded by singer/guitarist John Barrett using a simple drum set, a guitar, a USB mic and a computer. Its equally blown-out follow-up sounds like a more straightforward take on Ty Segall’s signature sound, but is undeniably catchy and fun.

Master Musicians of Bukkake Far West

All Tiny Creatures Dark Clock

Seattle’s Jesse Lortz started Case Studies following the breakup of his previous project, The Dutchess and the Duke.

Misery loves company, as they say, and This Is Another Life’s brooding Americana can happily wallow alongside kindred spirits such as The National and Red House Painters.

(Important Records)

The Japanese word ‘Bukkake’ describes a group of men ejaculating on the face of a kneeling woman or man. Thankfully, Bukkake’s Master Musicians choose to communally coax out their creative juices by playing ritualistic psychedelia in a way that’s ecstatic and cathartic without requiring the use of antibacterial soap.

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Bass Drum of Death Bass Drum of Death

(Hometapes)

Members of All Tiny Creatures have helped craft gorgeous backdrops for Justin Vernon’s distinctive vocals in Volcano Choir and Collections of Colonies of Bees, but Dark Clock indicates that when the cat’s away, these mice prefer to play energetic electropop that recalls Dan Deacon and Max Tundra.

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Film

New films and DVDs

By Gert Verbeek and Basje Boer

‘Rich, funny and charming. Melanie Lynskey is terrific.’

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By Basje Boer and Gert Verbeek

Do Not Disturb (Yvan Attal, 2012)

Remember Humpday, the mumblecore bromance about two straight buds-for-life contemplating getting it on for an art project? Here’s the French remake, featuring director Yvan Attal as boring Ben and François ‘Intouchables’ Cluzet as fun-loving Jeff. Model-turnedactress Laetitia Casta, Charlotte ‘Mrs Attal’ Gainsbourg and badass Asia Argento are also involved. A fresh and funny take on friendship. (BB) In theatres 11 July.

Blancanieves

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as overtly charming as its French predecessor. It may not be everyone’s cup of sangria but it will prove to be a real gem to some. Plus, Blancanieves features the hottest dwarf ever. (BB) In theatres 11 July.

And we are also looking forward to:

There’s Jeff Nichols’s Mud to look forward to, a gritty drama featuring Matthew McConaughey. Lovely Melanie Lynskey plays a divorcee inventing herself all over again in emancipation comedy Hello I Must Be Going. And Sofia Coppola’s highly anticipated The Bling Ring promises to be a perfect companion piece to Spring Breakers. (BB)

(Pablo Berger, 2012)

And for couch potatoes...

What Richard Did (Lenny Abrahamson, 2012)

Blancanieves has been pinpointed as a Spanish version of The Artist. But this take on the tale of Snow White, though also shot and stylised as a silent film, isn’t

Richard is a diligent student and a good son, young and in love, a firstrate rugby player and he’s just kicked someone to death. When Richard’s conscience is his only witness, will it be his ally or his enemy? (GV) Page 41

Books

Photo by Lonneke van der Palen

Rock ’N’ Roll Library No1: Stoner, by John Williams | No2: Hogg, by Samuel R Delany No3: Alien vs. Predator, by Michael Robbins | No4: Grapefruit, by Yoko Ono Page 42

By Marc van der Holst

Books

Rock ’N’ Roll Library No 4

Grapefruit

by Yoko Ono

This month’s installment is by my favourite beatle, Yoko Ono. Grapefruit, originally self-published in 1964, features over 150 ‘event scores’: instructions of conceptual art for the reader to perform or think about. The second edition, published in the 1970s and reissued in 2000, includes 80 more of these poetic and playful ‘pieces’, as Ono calls them, as well as an introduction by one John Lennon.

Titles like ‘Snow Piece’, ‘Cloud Piece’, ‘Beat Piece’ (‘Listen to a heart beat’) and ‘Cough Piece’ (‘Keep coughing for a year’) should give you an idea of what to expect: sometimes sad, sometimes silly and often both, like ‘Tunafish Sandwich Piece’: Imagine one thousand suns in the sky at the same time.

Let them shine for one hour.

Then, let them gradually melt into the sky.

Make one tunafish sandwich and eat.

Besides these ‘instruction works’, the book features drawings, poems and some conceptual paintings in much the same vein. ‘Smoke Painting’ instructs you to set fire to the canvas; ‘Painting To Exist Only When It’s Copied Or Photographed’ to destroy it after being copied or photographed; and ‘Painting To Be Constructed In Your Head’ lives up to its title, too: Go on transforming a square canvas in your head until it becomes a circle. Pick out any shape in the process and pin up or place on the canvas an object, a smell, a sound or a colour that came to your mind in association with the shape.

Ono believed the grapefruit to be a hybrid of an orange and a citron, and, of course, wants you to ‘burn this book after you’ve read it’ – a spiritual hybrid of Eastern and Western culture.

Try it at home, kids!

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Fashion

€15 outfit

By Mandy Sharabani

Every month we give €15 to someone to compose a complete outfit for a good night out. Yes, quite a challenge.

Petite Noir, the noir-wave musician based in Cape Town, was this month’s inspiration for 19-year-old modelling scout Jelle van der Plas’ €15 outfit.

Man, I like your style. What were you going for?

‘I had a sneak peek at Petite’s fashion blog “Capital of Cool” and it made me think of using my fur coat as the main piece of the outfit, but then I realised I wasn’t that gangster.’

Fair enough. But those swim trunks are definitely something different! Very exotic.

‘Yeah, definitely Eighties style and very easy to wear.

It was a Portuguese birthday present from a friend. I figured I just needed something simple to complete the outfit and found this top at second-hand shop Episode. I felt like I was almost done, but I still had some shoe issues.’

Those would be the first shoe issues in this column. Do explain.

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en to me by a friend, which I liked better. However the size doesn’t fit me very well.’

It seems like you had some tough choices to make.

‘For realz, I could have created many different looks here and I did try them all, but somehow this anti-cool look worked best for me. (Anti-cool is a way of living. It’s all about giving up trying to be seen as cool, and starting having some fun.)’

Top – €7.50 Episode, Utrecht Swim trunks – free Gift from a friend Shoes – free Gift from roommate Wanna go shopping for a €15 outfit? Please send an email to fashion@subbacultcha.nl.

Photos by Isolde Woudstra

Fashion

€15 Outfit

Jelle van der Plas dressing up to go see Petite Noir play OT301, Amsterdam, on 21 July.

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Food

By Zofia Ciechowska

Cooking with

Lydia Ainsworth Valencia Orange Cake

Lydia Ainsworth is a New Yorkbased composer for film and multimedia projects. Over the past few years she’s been secretly writing songs which will finally be released this summer as an album. Her first music video, directed by Matthew Lessner, will feature dancers performing a disco-inspired street dance from ‘70s LA called waacking. On the subject of food, she’s been known to record her own carrot-apple munching sounds and create musical scores from kitchen appliance recordings, so we just couldn’t resist asking what Lydia’s cooking in her kitchen, and to tell us about her favourite recipe.

‘My sister made this Valencia orange cake for me once. It’s so out-of-this-world beautiful; very light but rich at the same time. I have many allergies, so my friends and family think it’s a fun challenge to come up with recipes that I can eat. I guess that can relate to how I approach Page 46

music too. When you set limitations on yourself you can really progress creatively and inspiration can truly blossom.’

How to make Lydia’s Valencia Orange Cake • Place two oranges in a large pot of cold water.

• Simmer for about a 1½–2 hours under a lid until soft enough to easily pierce with a fork.

• Drain and set aside to cool.

• Slice oranges into wedges, deseed, and blend in a food processor until a smooth orange paste.

• Preheat your oven to 160C. • Separate egg yolks from whites, and whip egg whites until they turn into stiff white clouds.

• In another bowl, beat the yolks, honey, baking powder and salt.

Gradually add the almond flour and stir until smooth. Fold in orange paste, and finally, gently fold in the beaten egg whites.

• Pour mix into a buttered pan, sprinkle with slivered almonds and bake for about an hour, or until a toothpick comes out clean.

• Serve with homemade sorbet.

Food

Photo by Carlijn Potma

2 organic Valencia oranges 4 eggs ž cup of honey 2 cups blanched almond flour

1tsp baking powder ½ tsp salt handful of slivered almonds

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Horoscope VIRGO

23 Aug–22 Sept

Will your concrete world ever collide with the magical world of that special person? You already know it beforehand without even saying hello to him/her.

Why not get physical and explore the magic? libra

23 Sept–22 Oct

You buy a lovely hat. As you walk outside wearing it, a gush of wind blows it away. You run after it like a madman, but fail to retrieve it. Who knows, maybe it will land on top of someone else’s head.

This month someone will take his/ her hat off for you.

SCORPIO

23 Oct–21 Nov

Comparing apples to oranges, you find they’re actually quite similar, both being round pieces of fruit with a taste range from sweet to sour, and easily bruised. You can identify. Or have you gone bananas?

Sagittarius

22 Nov–21 Dec

You are the captain of your own cleaning department, Saggy! So, start declogging that kitchen sink drain right this instance! No, you cannot reheat that spinach.

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By Brenda Bosma

capricorn

22 Dec–20 Jan

You’re breathing like a dog that has just run after a squeaky toy 1,000 times. You’re not aware of how repetitive this game actually is, but if it makes you feel radiantly alive, why not run after it for the 1,001st time? Squeak!

Aquarius

21 Jan-19 Feb

In the train looking through the window you watch the landscape slide by. Cows, a green meadow, bushes resembling broccoli, your mother in an apron, that hot colleague in a tight skirt, your father yelling at you. The conductor snaps you out of your daydreaming. You hand him your ticket.

Pisces

20 Feb–20 March

The whole world is a backstage area. Free food, free drinks, clean towels and mini candy bars. Unfortunately, you don’t have a backstage pass. Oh well, they’ll be out of mini candy bars by now anyway. Those mini bars are always the first to go. As are you. Home is where the cookie jar is.

Aries

21 March­–20 April

‘Okay, José...’ How many times do you have to tell them, your name is not ‘José’? At least once

Illustrations by Kathrin Klingner

Horoscope

ing, but soon the problems arise, because of, well, yeah, life again.

Traffic jams and nature calling: Pluto is barking in the seat next to you and needs to be taken for taurus a walk. As you look up through 21 April–21 May You’re so stubborn. the windscreen you see a heartWhen your friends invite you to go shaped cloud. There is a Dog.

more, apparently, so you do. ‘Jeez, Louise...’ There’s no end to the stupidity of some people. Just go with the flow, Joe.

out for falafel, you opt for shoarma instead. Alas, the stuff has gone bad.

Instant shoarma, baby. gemini

22 May–21 June

leo

22 July - 22 Aug

Goddamnit, Buddha, get that eternal smirk off your face. I cannot straighten my spine. I am too tired and just want to sit here like a plumb pudding. Yeah, just like you!

The last couple of times at the dentist were quite awful and traumatic, especially when that 22 June–22 July root canal treatment left you with infected gums. That dental drill gives you nightmares while being awake. Lying in the chair again waiting for the drill to enter your mouth, you smell the You’re so confused about all scent of plastic gloves and dethis life happening to you. Love cide to think of the hottest sexuseems to have fallen in your lap al experience you ever had. Back just like that, making you feel home you still hear the buzzing like a dog with its head out of in your head. It puts a smile on a car window, tongue out, going your puffy face. You own your 80 miles an hour. It feels amaz- teeth now.

Cancer

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Shows in July and August

Agenda On the following pages:

Subbacultcha! concerts and films totally free for members Page 52

Other shows Page 61 Free tickets Page 76

This pretty picture is portraying Jackson Scott who is playing on 11 August at the MC Theater in Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.

Events free for Subbacultcha! members

Music See all these concerts for free with your Subbacultcha! pass

RVNG Intl. Label Night ft. Maxmillion Dunbar + Stellar OM Source 05 July - Mediamatic Fabriek, Amsterdam 21.00 | €7 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

This label night for lauded deconstructionist dance label RVNG Intl. will transform the massive Mediamatic Fabriek into a cavern of grooves. Stellar OM Source, celebrates the release of Joy One Mile, her first full-length in three years, with a sampling of her trademark warped retro-futuristic house music. Meanwhile, Maxmillion Dunbar will win listeners over with his exotic and hypnotic halfway-house music. And, to top it all off, we’ll be rolling out the first of our completely immersive experiential environments. Together with Pllant, we’re extending our exploration of talent to the visual realm, merging the performances with visual expression.

I Like To Watch Too

06-07 July - Paradiso, Amsterdam 20.30 (06 July), 14.30 (07 July) | €15 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

As part of the Julidans Festival, Paradiso has programmed two days packed with international contemporary dance and performance art at its most energetic and exciting. On both days, you can enjoy the amazing choreographed pieces of artists such as Fabien Prioville, Fernando Belfiore, Imme van der Haak and many more.

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Sign up for 7 euros per month Metropolis Pre-Party ft. Stellar OM Source + Eklin + WOLVON 06 July - BAR, Rotterdam 20.00 | Free for all

In honor of the Metropolis festival we organise a special pre-party. Antwerp-based Christelle Gualdi, aka Stellar OM Source, will offer a sampling of the warped retro-futuristic house music on Joy One Mile, her first full-length release in three years. Subba buddies WOLVON and the everchanging Eklin join Gualdi in showcasing some of the best music being made in the Netherlands right now.

Warm Soda + Nouveau Vélo

13 July - De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam 20.00 | €8 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

Many good bands have buckled under the pressure of playing SXSW, and Bay Area garage pop trio Bare Wires counts among the festival’s fatalities, imploding onstage back in 2012 and announcing their breakup soon after. Clearly not one to wallow, frontman Matthew Melton quickly rebounded by assembling Warm Soda and within a year recorded and produced their 2013 debut, Someone for You. Combining fuzzy production with bubbly melodies and bittersweet lyricism, pouring out glammy power pop that’s far from flat. On that note: the amazing Nouveau Vélo will set the mood! Read an interview with Warm Soda on page 20.

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Events free for Subbacultcha! members Petite Noir

21 July - OT301, Amsterdam 20.30 | €8 | Free for Subbacultcha! members Cape Town crooner and multi-instrumentalist Yannick Ilunga got his start in electro-pop band Popskarr before developing the signature sound he describes as ‘noir wave’, a sort of African take on new wave. The handful of tracks he’s released thus far feature guitars that remind me of WU LYF, vocals that remind me of Daughn Gibson, and a general vibe that reminds me of Blood Orange. In other words: promising! Read an interview on page 18.

Monopoly Child Star Searchers + Dolphins into the Future 28 July - Roodkapje, Rotterdam 20.30 | €5 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

The lo-fi synth explorations Clark crafts as MCSS (one half of The Skaters along with James Ferraro) sound like what I imagine wafting into a cell on an episode of Locked Up Abroad: you thought you were going on holiday to a tropical destination ’til they found heroin hidden in your luggage, and now you’re crouched on a dirt floor, hallucinating from hunger and fear. The faint, pleasant rhythms make you dream of escaping some day.

Jackson Scott

11 August - MC Theater, Amsterdam 20.30 | €8 (presale) €10 (door) | Free for Subbacultcha! members

Jackson Scott moved to Asheville, North Carolina to go the college, then promptly dropped out, and recently lost a job at a college bookstore because he ditched a shift to see a Ty Segall show. Clearly a subscriber to the Tao of Slack, he’d better hope the whole ‘promising young bedroom musician’ thing he’s got going pans out. Since his druggy, Syd Barrett-inspired lo-fi pop is already garnering comparisons to Southern indie icons like the Elephant 6 collective and Bradford Cox, I’d say he’s off to a good start.

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Sign up for 7 euros per month Merchandise + Crowds + LOLA 14 August - Melkweg, Amsterdam 19.00 | €11 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

Punk and hardcore scenes the world over are notoriously intolerant, and the bustling scene in Tampa, Florida is no exception. Though the members of this Tampa noise-pop trio built names for themselves playing in area hardcore bands, they also indulged ‘fruity’ krautrock leanings in secret before bringing Merchandise out of the closet back in 2009, thereby revealing that the idealism of hardcore and the romanticism of new wave aren’t such strange bedfellows after all. Their 2013 EP, Totale Nite, is their strangest and strongest work yet.

A day at Hembrug with Grachtenfestival 17 August - Hembrugterrein, Amsterdam 15.00 | €25 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

Amsterdam’s Grachtenfestival (17-25 August, various locations) is broadening its horizon and taking its concerts off the canals and on to het IJ. The Hembrug Terrein is an amazing area around an abandonded munitions factory on the shores of het IJ. The 42 hectares of land hide a stunning mix of mysterious nature and old industrial buildings. The area is normally closed to the public but on this Saturday afternoon the gates will open. You’ll witness two concerts (Ricotti Ensemble and the Dutch Trombone Ensemble) on two different locations. In between the concerts you will be guided from one location to the other by a savvy architect who will tell you everything about the amazing terrain. Don’t miss this experience!

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EventsSeefree for Subbacultcha! members all these shows for free. Sign up at www.subbacultcha.nl.

Cloud Boat + Beacon

17 August - De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam 20.00 | €8 | Free for Subbacultcha! members The bass-heavy electronica pulsating inside London clubs of late has bewitched many burgeoning musicians into making music fit for contemplation (and weed smoking), and Cloud Boats are no exception. Most tracks on their majestic debut, Book of Hours, would sit comfortably next to James Blake or Vondelpark on a mixtape, but their electronic elements are more ornamental than fundamental, since the limelight is fixed firmly on singer Tom Clarke’s stately vocals. Brooklyn duo Beacon will get the crowd in the mood with their sensual, R&B-inflected electronica. Read the interview we did with cloadboat on page 28.

SOLITON (Chris Corsano + Jenny Graf ) 22 August - WORM, Rotterdam tba | €tba | Free for Subbacultcha! members

Chris Corsano is a free jazz drummer fast and multifaceted enough to have pounded skins (and woodblocks, and strings, and various other things) for the likes of Björk, Jim O’Rourke, Thurston Moore, Nels Cline, Six Organs of Admittance, and Sunburned Hand Of The Man. Tonight Corsano and improvisational artist Jenny Graf will be bouncing ideas off each other like two players engaged in an eternal game of Pong.

Cosmonauts

25 August - dB’s, Utrecht 20.30 | €tba | Free for Subbacultcha! members

Normally, if we recommend one of a thousand bands from the same place playing the same type of music, you’d cringe – and rightfully so. But not when we’re talkin’ about yet another psychedelic garage band from California, right? Good, because these kids know how to rock the fuck out.

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Ducktails

28 August - Rotown, Rotterdam 21.00 | €8 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

Real Estate guitarist Matthew Mondanile’s solo project Ducktails started out sounding pretty chillwavey, but has gradually become more refined, with cleaner production and generally poppier feel. His latest album, the slick and fairly sexy The Flower Lane, was written collaboratively with Big Troubles, and features guest spots by Daniel Lopatin, Joel Ford of Ford & Lopatin, Madeline Follin of Cults, Real Estate’s Martin Courtney, and more.

Art Visit these museums and galleries for free with your Subbacultcha! pass

Artificial Amsterdam

06-13 July - De Appel, Amsterdam (The exhibition runs until 13 October)

Amsterdam is a far more orderly place than Fox News would have you believe. Prerequisite for all that order are extensive city planning and an at least superficial adherence to the city’s labyrinth of rules and laws.

But what lurks under the surface?

This exhibition invites international artists who have called the city home to explore the idea of Amsterdam as an artificial city.

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in July and August free forShows Subbacultcha! members

Mediamatic Fabriek Amsterdam

lands’ first permanent presentation of Dutch photography.

Open daily 12.00-18.00 Free for Subbacultcha! members

TENT Rotterdam

Open Tue-Sun 11.00-18.00 €4 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

This summer this Rotterdam platform for contemporary art will feature work from the Piet Zwart Institute Graduation shows and video work by young Dutch and Greek artists during the TENT Academy Awards.

Mediamatic is slowly transforming a giant old warehouse into an environmentally friendly, weird and wonderful city filled with food, manure, music, animals, beds, yoga and offices.

Make sure you go check out their project. It is the new world!

Foam Photography Museum Open daily 10.00-18.00, Thur and Fri until 21.00 €8.50 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam Open Tue-Sun 10.00-17.00, Sat and Sun from 11.00 €9 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

Through September this museum will host a retrospective of legendary French street photographer Robert Doisneau, as well as Véronique Bourgoin’s life-sized trompe l’oeil installation, VRAI OU FAUX? | WAAR OF NIET WAAR? ACT I & ACT IIand De Donkere Kamer, the NetherPage 58

Through mid-July you can check out Monica Nouwen’s series Look At Me And Tell Me If You Have Known Me Before, as well as Brian Duffy’s shots of David Bowie and work by Stephen Gill, Laura Dhondt, Edward Steichen and Marnix Goossens.

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Film See these films for free with your Subbacultcha! pass

Pre-premiere: Hello I Must be Going

Shokuzai

09 July - 16CC, Amsterdam 21:30 | €8 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

Director Todd Luioso’s tragicomic tale about a young divorcée who starts up an affair with a 19-yearold after being forced to move back in with her parents in suburban Connecticut was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore

30 July - LantarenVenster, Rotterdam tba | €9 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

After a nine-year-old Japanese girl is brutally murdered, her mother curses the four playmates who are unable to help identify her daughter’s killer. Fifteen years later, the four girls are still struggling with the guilt, each paying for it in their own way. The five-part series - played in one sitting - unravels each character’s prolonged turmoil as the murder continues to wreak havoc on their lives.

10 July - Melkweg Cinema, Amsterdam 20.30 | €9 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

This presentation will feature film, images, and stories pulled from legendary song collector Alan Lomax’s travels through North America between 1978 and 1985, as well as Mississippi Records’ enormous archive of folk, blues, gospel, international and punk music, dating back to 1890. Current label head Eric Isaacson hosts the evening, incorporating slides, audience participation, and highlights from his own extensive 7" collection into his lecture.

The Look of Love

27 August - LantarenVenster, Rotterdam tba | €9 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

Michael Winterbottom’s biopic profiles property baron and head of the Soho smut business, Paul Raymond (Steve Coogan), whose porn empire earned him the name ‘The King of Soho’. But like so many others, the success he created in business couldn’t translate to his personal life, nor prevent him from destroying the daughter he was grooming to take over the empire.

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G rachtenfestival amsterdam presenteert

za 24 auGustus

Jungle by Night & jongNBE dj’s nuno dos santos & patrice Baumer terrein open: 19.00 uur

zo 25 auGustus

Neoclassico met nils frahm / anna von hauswolff terrein open: 15.00 uur

marineterrein amsterdam Koop nu je kaarten op www.grachtenfestival.nl

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These are video snippets taken from Staging Silence by Hans op de Beeck, which will be on display alongside works by various Dutch and international artists between 29 June and 13 October as part of the Artificial Amsterdam Exhibition at de Appel Arts Centre in Amsterdam. The second week of the exhibition (06-13 July) is free for Subbacultcha! members. www.deappel.nl Page 61

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Audio Film Games Web Animation

• PRAKTIJKGERICHTE TRAINING • UITGEBREIDE STUDIO FACILITEITEN • INTERNATIONALE ERKENNING • MACBOOK 1 ON 1 PROGRAMS • 54 SCHOLEN WERELDWIJD • CERTIFICAAT | DIPLOMA | DEGREE

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Metropolis Festival Showing no signs of a quarter-life crisis, Rotterdam’s Metropolis Festival turns 25 this year. And whilst the annual gathering spanning globe and genre has given many big names their start (Radiohead, The Strokes, Interpol), it remains a springboard for undiscovered talent and future favourites 07 July – Zuiderpark, Rotterdam

Parquet Courts

Parquet Courts Brooklyn’s Parquet Courts recalls ’90s collegiate punk, and their latest album, Light Up Gold, provided plenty more frenetic riffs to get the crowd jumping.

Bombino Bombino (derived from ‘little child’) brings his protest music from the Niger desert, expertly cutting dry riffs behind a soulful voice. His latest album, Nomad, has found its place atop the world music charts.

Mozes and the Firstborn They’ve been called the Netherlands’ answer to the Black Lips and Ty Segall, but comparisons are E-Z to make and this kind of energy-laden garage pop is not.

Stellar OM Source Stellar OM Source just released her eighth album Joy One Mile on

Sic Alps

cutting-edge label RVNG Intl., a fill of acid house couched in blaring synths and grooving bass lines. She headlines our Metropolis Pre-Party at BAR, Rotterdam on the eve of the festival.

Sic Alps Their line-up may have changed a lot since 2000, but Sic Alps have consistently pushed out unapologetic pop through their Woodsist and Siltbreeze channels, and now bring their notoriously energetic live show our way.

Warm Soda The Oakland quartet’s videos feature powerpop played in pastel pants, and their infectious hooks remind us it’s not quite time to grow up and drink our Fanta straight out of the fridge.

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( the Night of the Unexpected ) Met o.a. Julianna Barwick, Bram Stadhouders en het Nederlands Kamerkoor, Elena Rykova.

DONDERDAG 5 SEPTEMBER

Tivoli, Utrecht 20:30 UUR €18,- / EARLY BIRD €14,-

VRIJDAG 6 SEPTEMBER

Paradiso, A’dam 20:30 UUR €18,- / EARLY BIRD €14,-

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OFWGKTA (Odd Future) play on 07 July at Paradiso in Amsterdam

Trash Talk 02 July - Paradiso, Amsterdam This Sacramento hardcore band bonded with Odd Future over skating and weed and a shared love of chaos to become the first non hip hop signing on Odd Future Records’ roster last year. The wall-scaling, wild-eyed, destructive energy they bring to their live shows makes this ninny nervous, and that can only be a good thing for their target audience.

Cat Power 02 July - Paradiso, Amsterdam Chan Marshall had a nervous breakdown after the release of her last album, 2006’s The Greatest, then broke up with her longtime boyfriend as she was finishing its longawaited follow-up, 2012’s Sun. In spite of all the heartbreak, Sun is devoid of the despair so often felt in her earlier work; in its place is a sense of acceptance and remarkable fearlessness.

Julidans 02-13 July - various locations, Amsterdam Performances at this international contem-

porary dance festival’s 23rd edition will feature 18 naked dudes, the novel Into the Wild as inspiration, a disabled dance troupe and much more. This year Julidans introduces Julidans Jong, giving anyone under 28 discounted entry.

SUUNS 03 July - Doornroosje, Nijmegen 03 August - Rotown, Rotterdam North America may not be ready to ingest the heady prog rock potion being brewed up by Montreal’s Suuns, but it’s no surprise that the Dutch are, given their long-running love affair with the genre. On their latest album, Images du Futur, they work a magic subtler than that of their debut, but no less likely to put you under its spell.

Pitch Festival 05-06 July - Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam This festival will once again grace the Westergasterrein with top names in progressive electronic music influenced by everything from dubstep to house, pop, disco and jazz.

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RVNG Intl. Label Night ft. Maxmillion Dunbar + Stellar OM Source 05 July - Mediamatic Fabriek, Amsterdam This label night for lauded deconstructionist dance label RVNG Intl. will transform the massive Mediamatic Fabriek into a cavern of grooves courtesy of Maxmillion Dunbar’s exotic and hypnotic halfway-house music, and Stellar OM Source’s trademark take on retro-futuristic house. Read more on page 52.

Subbacultcha! x Metropolis Pre-Party ft. Stellar OM Source, Eklin and WOLVON 06 July - BAR, Rotterdam Antwerp-based Christelle Gualdi, aka Stellar OM Source, and Subba buddies WOLVON and the ever-changing Eklin join Gualdi in showcasing some of the best music being made in the Netherlands right now.

Read more on page 53.

Anarcho Folk Fest 06 July - OCCII, Amsterdam I wouldn’t dare command you to attend this DIY festival for folk- and fun-loving anarchists, so I will instead attempt to subtly manipulate you into attending in a way that makes you believe it was your own decision by enumerating some of its highlights: political talks, vegan food, special beers, an anarcho-quiz and (of course) a folk-filled lineup of UK, US and Dutch acts.

I Like To Watch Too 06-07 July - Paradiso, Amsterdam Paradiso has programmed two days packed with dance and performance art at its most energetic and exciting. I Like to Watch Too is part of the Julidans Festival. Read more on page 53.

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Parquet Courts 07 July - Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam 07 July - Zuiderpark, Rotterdam (Metropolis Festival) On 2012’s Light Up Gold, these New York punks invited doppelgangers of the Modern Lovers, the Velvet Underground, Television and Pavement over for a party at their place, got everybody drunk and stoned, then let the spirits possess them for a jam sesh that ended up sounding sloppy, loose and fun, but above all smart in the way that only drug-addled genius can.

Metropolis Festival 2013 ft. Sic Alps, Parquet Courts, Mozes and the Firstborn and more 07 July - Zuiderpark, Rotterdam This free festival has long served as a spring board for upcoming bands that go on to make a big splash (Wu Tang Clan, for example, and The Strokes). This year’s lineup features a diverse mix of new and established Dutch and international acts, with a particular penchant for garage rock. Subbacultcha! is curating a pre-party featuring Stellar OM Source Eklin and WOLVON. Read more on page 63.

OFWGKTA (Odd Future) 07 July - Paradiso, Amsterdam This LA hip hop collective featuring Tyler the Creator and Frank Ocean has gotten as much attention for their antics as they have for their music. Basically, imagine what would happen if you took the hyperactive kid eating Elmer’s glue in your second-grade class, added 15 years and threw a shitload of money, attention and pussy at him, and multiply that by, like, 15.

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BINNENKORT O.A.

VR12JUL

ZA27JUL

KICKING THE HABIT <3

SUMMER DARKNESS:

DO18JUL

STRAND OF OAKS + WILLIAM TYLER

WARM SODA + THE WYTCHES + NOUVEAU VELO

O.A. MONO NO AWARE + DJ UDO WIESSMANN (WINTERKAELTE/HANDS) + WIELORYB + HYSTERESIS

DO29AUG

MAYBESHEWILL + LOW VERTICAL

VR19JUL

THE THERMALS

ZA31AUG DE TWEEDE SPEELDOOS

TORRE FLORIM & ROOS REBERGEN + DUENDE ARIZA LORA

ZO21JUL

WHITE FENCE

ELKE ZATERDAG

DIEP IN DE GROEF

VOLLEDIG PROGRAMMA & TIJDEN:

POPPODIUM EKKO | BEMUURDE WEERD WZ 3 | 3513 BH UTRECHT | WWW.EKKO.NL

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Warm Soda 07 July - Rotown, Rotterdam 10 July - Vera, Groningen 11 July - 013, Tilburg 12 July - EKKO, Utrecht 13 July - De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam 14 July - Valkhof Festival, Nijmegen Bare Wires frontman Matthew Melton’s new band combines fuzzy production with bubbly melodies and bittersweet lyricism, pouring out glammy power pop that’s far from flat. Read more on page 53.

Youth Lagoon 10 July - Paradiso, Amsterdam Youth Lagoon’s Trevor Powers sings sweet and sorrowful songs about small-town life and the uncertainties of coming of age. His new album, Wondrous Bughouse, broadens considerably the scope of his music without sacrificing the intimacy or naivety that made his early work so charming, and his openness and flair for odd melodies allow him to craft songs that often build into anthems and without fail pack an emotional wallop.

Devendra Banhart 11 July - Paradiso, Amsterdam This freak-folk icon has put out singularly strange music for over a decade, but seemed to be spiralling down into a bottomless rabbit hole of genre-hopping and overly precious weirdness of late. When I heard his new album, Mala, I immediately felt simultaneously guilty and relieved, as it’s refreshingly direct, yet laced with intimacy and subtle humor that cast his idiosyncrasies in an exciting new light.

Beyond the Realms of Doom III 13 July - OCCII, Amsterdam This annual micro-festival celebrates ominous aesthetics, so get your triangle chains

out, carve an inverted cross on your forehead and come to OCCII for a night of doomcore, witch house, experimental and hardcore music.

Camera 13 July - Vera, Groningen 14 July - Paradiso, Amsterdam 15 July - Valkhof Festival, Nijmegen Berlin-based Krautrock trio Camera played an impressive set last year at Le Guess Who?. Besides their regular live performances, these guys are also known for their ‘krautrock guerilla’, preferably performed on prohibited not-stage stages such as metro stations and even the restroom at a German awards show.

Valkhof Festival ft. Moon Duo, Austra, White Denim, Colin Stetson 13-19 July – Valkhofpark, Nijmegen Another promising free festival designed to lure culture vultures from Amsterdam and beyond to random parks in less-touted cities outside the capital. This bad boy features several terrific bands spanning pretty much every genre a modern-day self-respecting hipster is permitted to non-ironically enjoy.

Moon Duo 14 July - Paradiso, Amsterdam 15 July - Valkhof Festival, Nijmegen 04 August - Zomerparkfeest, Venlo Moon Duo’s twosome of Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada, who are partners on and off stage, got their start in the bustling psych scene of San Francisco. Started as a side project of Ripley’s main band, Wooden Shjips, the Duo has since earned its fair share of praise with songs built on a hypnotically repetitive foundation of organ, fuzzy guitar and simple percussion.

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White Fence

Akron/Family 14 July - Valkhof Festival, Nijmegen 16 July - Paradiso, Amsterdam Swans’ Michael Gira has described Akron/ Family’s sound as ‘Pop/rock music of the last 50 years put through a meat grinder and leavened with battery acid and honey.’

It sounds much, much more delicious than it would probably taste, and their spontaneous, exhilarating live shows come as close to a religious experience as this heathen’s going to get.

White Fence 18 July - Valkhof Festival, Nijmegen 21 July - EKKO, Utrecht In 2012 alone LA’s Tim Presley released two albums as White Fence, plus his remarkable collaboration with Ty Segall, Hair, and he’s already back with his new album, Cyclops Reap. While his records are weird and warped in a stoned and lonely sort of way, his live shows feature notched-up tempos and blistering guitar solos forming a sonic attack closer to his work with Segall.

Dour Festival ft. Bonobo, Dan Deacon, Flying Lotus, Thee Oh Sees, DIIV, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and more 18-21 July - Dour, Belgium Dour has cemented its status not only as one of the biggest European festivals, but also one of the best-run and most affordable for its size. For its 25th edition, seven stages will attract an incredibly diverse lineup of 200 rock, pop, indie, hardcore, metal, reggae, dub, techno, electro, house, disco, dance, hip hop and rap acts from around the world.

Petite Noir 21 July - OT301, Amsterdam 16/17 August - A Camping Flight to Lowlands Paradise, Biddinghuizen Cape Town crooner and multi-instrumentalist Yannick Lluga has developed a signature sound he describes as ‘noir wave’, a sort of African take on new wave that alternately evokes WU LYF, Daughn Gibson and Blood Orange. Read more on page 54.

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Thee Oh Sees

Mikal Cronin

22 July - Bitterzoet, Amsterdam

03 August - Zomerparkfeest, Venlo 13 August - Doornroosje, Nijmegen 14 August - Vera, Groningen 16 August - A Camping Flight to Lowlands Paradise, Biddinghuizen

San Francisco’s Thee Oh Sees have released dozens of albums, EPs and 7-inches over their seven-year existence spanning garage rock, psychedelia, krautrock, drone, pop and folk. Their latest, Floating Coffin, is so good and goes by so damned fast, I feel like I just spun 360 degrees after being punched in the face.

Movement ft. The Soft Moon, Light Asylum, Lebanon Hangover 28 July - Tivoli, Utrecht For those goths who struggle to maintain their carefully crafted pale during the summer months, the ‘dark underground lifestyle’ festival Summer Darkness casts a welcome shadow over Utrecht’s appropriately gothic city centre. Named after New Order’s 1981 debut album, Movement marks the festival’s final evening, featuring a line-up of bands all exploring the sound of the early ’80s.

Monopoly Child Star Searchers + Dolphins into the Future 28 July - Roodkapje, Rotterdam MCSS is an erstwhile Olde English Spelling Bee hypnagogic pop supergroup based around mastermind Spencer Clark (one half of The Skaters along with James Ferraro).

Read more on page 54.

Zomerparkfeest ft. METZ, Mikal Cronin, Moon Duo + more 01 August - Julianapark, Venlo Zomerparkfeest aims to put Venlo on the map and inspire the local community with this family-friendly free festival whose programme features music, theatre, dance, film and art for kids, seniors, townies and even those hip youngsters with big-city dreams.

If you were to hear San Francisco’s Mikal Cronin for the first time, you’d probably think to yourself, ‘Gosh, this guy’s so young and precocious and psychedelic, I bet he’s totally BFFs with Ty Segall!’ And you know what? You’d be right. Except that Cronin’s take on neo-psych is a bit more wistful and poppy, the sweet jam to Segall’s crunchy and perpetually top-billed peanut butter.

Appelsap ft. Waka Flocka Flame, The Opposites, Flatbush Zombies + more 10 August - Oosterpark, Amsterdam This annual festival squeezes sick performances out of the freshest new hip hop and progressive electronic acts. Previous editions featured Kendrick Lamar, Theophilus London, Disclosure and ScHoolboy Q, and this year’s line-up looks equally exciting.

Jackson Scott 11 August - MC Theater, Amsterdam This 20-year-old North Carolina resident’s druggy, Syd Barrett-inspired lo-fi pop is garnering comparisons to Southern indie icons like the Elephant 6 collective and Bradford Cox. Read more on page 54.

Merchandise 14 August - Melkweg, Amsterdam Members of this Florida noise-pop trio got their start in hardcore bands before forming Merchandise and revealing their secret love affair with new wave. Read more on page 55.

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Godspeed You Black Emperor

Magneet Festival

14 August - Paradiso, Amsterdam

23 August-15 September - Oostpunt, Amsterdam

Godspeed tends to elicit a near-religious devotion from their fans. Though the influential and uncompromising Canadian postrock band scarcely needs an introduction, for those who’ve strayed from the righteous path: last year they returned from a tenyear hiatus with yet another immersive masterwork, Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!. And for the total neophytes: bring ear plugs.

The crowdsourced Magneet Festival’s unique festival terrain will once again be peppered with stages, sculptures, ramshackle little buildings and activities thought up by festival-goers and co-created by the festival. Their motto is ‘No spectators, only participators’, and that kind of freedom and openness lends itself to a whole lot of fun.

Noorderzon Festival

Cosmonauts

15-25 August - Noorderplantsoen, Groningen Groningen’s very own international performing arts festival Noorderzon is back with its 23rd edition. Once again the festival offers up a cutting-edge mix of contemporary art, theatre, modern dance and live music. Highlights of the musical programme include Daughter, Heartless Bastards and Lord Huron.

24 August - Vera, Groningen 25 August - dB’s, Utrecht Normally, if we recommend one of a thousand bands from the same place playing the same type of music, you’d cringe – and rightfully so. But then again, you can never have too many psychedelic garage bands from California that know how to rock the fuck out. Read more on page 56..

Cloud Boat + Beacon 17 August - De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam With their electronic elements bordering more ornamental than fundamental, Cloud Boat offers up an even more singer-songwriter-y take on the post-dupstep of fellow Londoners James Blake and Vondelpark, while Brooklyn duo Beacon get the crowd in the mood with their sensual, bass-heavy electronica. Read more on page 56.

SOLITON (Chris Corsano + Jenny Graf) 22 August - WORM, Rotterdam Tonight incredibly free jazz drummer Chris Corsano and improvisational artist Jenny Graf will bounce ideas off each other like two players engaged in an eternal game of Pong. Read more on page 56.

David Byrne & St Vincent 25 August - Tivoli, Utrecht After working together a few times and apparently hitting it off in the process, these two oddballs collaboratively wrote a set of songs around horns, released last year as Love this Giant. Their live shows incorporate eight brass players, choreography and the inimitable charm of one of the most charismatic frontmen of all time.

Ducktails 28 August - Rotown, Rotterdam 29 August - Vera, Groningen Real Estate guitarist Matthew Mondanile’s solo project Ducktails started out sounding pretty chillwavey, but has gradually become more refined, with cleaner production and a generally poppier feel. Read more on page 57.

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Shows Free tickets in Julyand andgoodies August

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3x2 tickets Artificial Amsterdam

3x2 tickets Fellini The Exhibition

2x2 TICKETS Usually Beauty Fails (JuliDans Festival)

29 June-13 October De Appel, Amsterdam

30 June-22 September EYE, Amsterdam

13 July Rabozaal, Amsterdam

2x2 Tickets Movement Ft. Soft Moon + more

2x2 Tickets SUUNS

2x2 Tickets MIKAL Cronin

28 July Tivoli, Utrecht

03 August Rotown, Rotterdam

13 August Doornroosje Nijmegen

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also giving away free tickets to SUUNS (at Doornroosje, Nijmegen), Anarcho Folk Fest, Beyond the Realms of Doom III, Warm Soda, White Fence, Beach House and David Byrne & St. Vincent.

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AFTER MIDNIGHT

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Overview of all Subbacultcha! shows in July and August

05 July

RVNG Intl.

Label Night

Mediamatic Fabriek, Amsterdam 21.00 | €7 | Free for members

06 July

Metropolis Pre-Party

28 July

Roodkapje, Rotterdam 20.30 | €5 | Free for members

30 July

Film: Shokuzai

BAR, Rotterdam 20.00 | Free for all

LantarenVenster, Rotterdam tba | tba | Free for members

06 and 07 July

11 August

I Like To Watch Too

Paradiso, Amsterdam 06 July - 14.30 | 07 July - 20.30 Both nights cost €15 | Free for members

9 July

Film: Hello I Must be Going

16CC, Amsterdam 21.30 | €8 | Free for members

10 July

Film: I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore

Melkweg Cinema, Amsterdam 20.30 | €9 | Free for members

13 July

Warm Soda + Nouveau Vélo

De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam 20.00 | €8 | Free for members

21 July

Petite Noir

OT301, Amsterdam 20.30 | €8 | Free for members

27 August

Monopoly Child Star Film: The Look of Love Searchers + Dolphins LantarenVenster, Rotterdam tba | €tba | Free for members into the Future

Jackson Scott

MC Theater, Amsterdam 20.30 | €10 | Free for members

14 August

Merchandise

Melkweg, Amsterdam 19.30 | €11 | Free for members

17 August

Cloud Boat + Beacon

De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam 20.00 | €8 | Free for members

22 August

SOLITON

WORM, Rotterdam tba | €tba | Free for members

28 August

Ducktails

Rotown, Rotterdam 21.00 | €8 | Free for members

All Month Artificial Amsterdam

De Appel, Amsterdam Open Tue-Sat 12.00-20.00, Sun 12.00-18.00 €7 | 06-13 July free for members exhibition runs until 13 October

Mediamatic Fabriek, Amsterdam Open daily 12.00-18.00 Free for members

Foam, Amsterdam

Open daily 10.00-18.00, Thur and Fri until 21.00 €8.50 | Free for members

TENT, Rotterdam

Open Tue-Sun 11.00-18.00 €4 | Free for members

17 August Nederlands FotoA day at Hembrug with museum, Rotterdam Grachtenfestival Open Tue-Sun 10.00-17.00, Sat Hembrugterrein, Amsterdam 15.00 | €25 | Free for members

25 August

Cosmonauts

dB’s, Utrecht 20.30 | tba | Free for members

and Sun from 11.00 €9 | Free for members

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