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This is R Stevie Moore, ‘the godfather of home-recording’, ‘veteran progressive popster’ or ‘Pope of lo-fi’, to name but a few of his many monikers. Buddy Ariel Pink simply calls him his ‘hero’. Whatever

you call him Mr R Stevie is probably the hardest working man in the business. Since the early ’70s he’s continuously produced and self-distributed more than 400 recordings, mostly through his Cassette Club. That’s how it’s done kids! According to R Stevie ‘play is hard

work.’ hence the body refreshment products(?). Mr Moore is coming to the Netherlands. He’ll play a show at WORM in Rotterdam on

14 June. It is free for Subbacultcha! members. Don’t miss. You can read the interview with R Stevie Moore at subbacultcha.nl

Content The All Work and No Play Issue

Sun Araw

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Moon Duo

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Peaking Lights

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Agenda

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TOP 5 10NEW MUSIC 13WE SAW YOU 16SUN ARAW 18MOON DUO 24PEAKING LIGHTS 29BLEACHED 34FEATURED ARTIST 38REVIEWS 42

FILM 47FOOD 48BOOKS 50HOROSCOPE 52AGENDA 55SUBBACULTCHA SHOWS 57OTHER SHOWS 67FREE STUFF 76AFTER MIDNIGHT 77

We couldn’t have chosen a more fitting theme for this issue; the whole in-ternational music scene is on tour at the moment, working hard (man is it difficult to make interview arrangements!). But bless them! They’re out there, doing what they believe in. Going for it. Giving everything up, soak-ing themselves in music, cause that’s how it’s done, you know, no mercy. All work AND all play. And what about ourselves? We hosted about 40 bands in May, made a Belgian and a Dutch magazine as well as photo publication, curated an exhibition at &foam, and then some. It’s been cra-zy but we wouldn’t have it any other way. Relax and enjoy.

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1 Concert: Fenster @ Goethe-Institut Now for something completely different. ’Cause that’s

what it’s all about, right? So we went and saw this great band play a wonderful set in the living room of a monumen-tal canal-side house on the Herengracht. As you do.

2 Guitar Wizard: Dustin Wong According to our review editor Carly Blair, Dustin Wong

has magic fingers. Well, we don’t know about that, but he sure does know how to play the guitar. His concert at De Nieuwe Anita was truly mesmerising.

3 Song: DIIV - Douse This is the perfect song to dance to in your living room

with your one-year-old son. Also perfect for driving too fast without purpose. Or working hard at the office. Anything that requires some sort of rush of adrenalin. Especially love the way the drums kick in after the groovy bass intro.

4 TV: Mad Men Season 5 Wait a minute, this isn’t out yet, right? Only on TV in the

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5 Magazine: The Plant Journal Plants are great and they know it. The Plant Journal from

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By Zofia Ciechowska This Months recommendations New Music

Ami Dangwww.amidang.com

Forget ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’, ‘Ami Dang’ is the perfect thing to say when you’re totally amazed. For instance, what do you say if a friend tells you stroopwafel pudding is on bonus this week? ‘Ami Dang!’ Or, what would you say if you saw a unicorn paddling down a canal? ‘AMI DANG, if that ain’t a unicorn in a canal!’ See? It totally works. Anyway, this project, started by cool chick Amrita Kaur Dang, who likes to sing and play sitar, became a bigger thing when Kate Lev-itt (Teeth Mountain/Dan Deacon Ensemble) and producer Schwarz joined in and made a new album called Hukam. Buckle up for an inter-galactic Bollywood trance.

Boneyardsboneyaards.bandcamp.com

The boisterous Boneyards come from that famed Brighton/London scene that spawned the likes of Male Bonding, Fair Ohs and Maz-es. These garage-punk rock ruffians strum their guitars till their fin-gers bleed as they thrash out a sweaty mess of riffs and beer-breath vocals. So yeah, they have a bandcamp, some demos and a cassette release under their belt, but nothing, NOTHING beats their video for their song ‘Passed Out’, which features a really crappy Batman danc-ing and surfing at the same time.

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Ghiblighibli.bandcamp.com

Thomas Michael lives in Edmonton and likes to call himself Ghibli, maybe because it references some Japanese animation studio or maybe because he likes giggling a lot; you choose. Ghibli’s newest re-lease Rare Pleasures is as slick as John Travolta’s Saturday Night Fever hair and I love it to death. It’s a bouncing concoction of quirky, dancey beats, stuttering soul samples and generally a lot of pep. Download it all for free from his bandcamp before this shit becomes the new indie dancefloor summer anthem.

Kohwikohwi.bandcamp.com

Cory Levinson is not into all that triangle-shaped, pixilated gif bullshit that tends to mask mediocrity. Sonic artist and young mathemati-cian, this dude has pretty much dabbled in all fields of artistic ex-pression. He’s even managed to build a ‘tangible electrophonic drum-stick’! What’s that, you ask? No clue, but it sounds like a crispy chicken leg that sure knows how to dance, har-har! His latest album, Hidden Trees, released on Black Tent Press, is a bewildering concoction of warbling vocals, distorted strums, slot-machine samples and chilling hums, to be listened to in one go as you cycle upwind with no partic-ular place to go.

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Le Pécheurlepecheur.bandcamp.com

Once a one-man project, Le Pécheur has unfurled its dragon wings to reveal that it has five heads and it’s breathing a gasoline-fuelled in-ferno of psychedelic garage-sounding squawks your way. Coursing somewhere between France, the UK and Hades, this bunch have re-leased Medieval Dreams in the meantime, which is bound to make you want to whip out that moth-eaten Dracula cape and fake teeth from under the bed and play vampires with your little sister. For op-timum fake blood results, we recommend ketchup and a bit of rasp-berry syrup.

Mythsrealmyths.bandcamp.com

Canadian super-sinister electro performance artists Myths are Quinn Rogers and Leif Hall. Covered in high-end Halloween costumes and crazy face paint, this feisty duo doesn’t skimp on synth or the odd dark, harsh lyric or two. The music pounds your ears to a pulp as the girls chant and rant and writhe and wriggle to create a pop-noir earth-quake. Their videos will make your browser crash and a listen to their eponymous debut might make you wanna call your mummy. Be brave and give these two a go.

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I read Sun Araw means ‘Sacred Rest’. How do you find rest being as busy as you are?

I’m not sure that I do, but it’s def-initely something I aspire to. We have a lot of levels we operate on, so there’s something about not letting the left hand know what the right hand is doing, you know? There are parts of yourself that need to be walled off from other parts of yourself. You gotta be undercover a little bit.And can you also relax on a couch while

being undercover?I’m having a hard time at that.

I’m a real active person. There’s a big part of me that wants to lie on the couch and listen to beautiful sounds, but halfway through I’m back up and trying to do something. I just want to put my pants on and let that be the last decision I make during the day. I’m not trying to move, I’m trying to be moved. Dalí had this working method where he tried to get into a state between wake-

Sun ArawThe universe of LA resident Cameron Stallones is a weird but wonderful one. The astral feedbacker and free-floater of Sun Araw, who recently got

back from a musical trip to Jamaica, has a pretty wild outlook on life. We spoke to him about

putting your pants on, enlightenment and licking the monolith.

Interview by Brenda BosmaPhotos shot by Nicholas Haggard in Los Angeles, USA

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fulness and sleep by falling asleep on a chair while holding a spoon. The mo-ment the spoon fell to the ground he’d wake from the sound and have the im-ages he dreamt of right there in his mind. How do you allow yourself to be flooded by ideas and bask in the glow, so to speak? What moves you?

It’s funny, I used to have this job at a film archive where we had a nap room. I spent a lot of time in that weird space. I didn’t have a spoon, I’d just put a pillow over my head. I wasn’t trying to wake up for anything. I was happy though. About a method: I don’t have one. I just start jamming. It tends to be a bad idea to have too many ideas beforehand.You want it to be in the moment?

Yeah, I’m a completely pres-ent man. I’m without any thought of what I want it to sound like, without any attempt to direct it. Obviously I have those thoughts and feelings, but they’re coming out in a more direct way. They don’t need to pass through the brain-pan first, they can come out through the fingers.

So the gifts are in the present, not in the past or future?

Definitely, dude!But what about the future?

The point is to not even try to know and also to realise that you al-ready know. It’s just about remember-ing that you know.What are you gonna do next?

I have no idea. I love that. I’m happiest when I’m not in control. I think too much to be in control. Put-ting my pants on is the last decision I make. I’m wearing blue shorts, by the way. You’ve recently recorded with the Ja-maican band The Congos. I can imagine life there is pretty different than the one we’re familiar with. What lesson did you take with you from working with Rasta monks?

Everything was a lesson. The way people think and act is differ-ent. Their relationship with the Earth is different. You’re out of your water completely and are bound to do their thing. But I got it the second I got off the plane. I was like: ‘Take my thing

‘I just want to put my pants on and let that be the last decision I make during the day.’

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away from me, man! Zip the gar-bage bag and throw it away, please!’ It makes you step outside of the boxes that you’re familiar with. It was tru-ly wild. Did you find some sort of enlighten-ment?

Of course... not! It’s a process, a ladder. I think maybe I got like the tip of my fingers on the bottom rung. That’s the beginning of wisdom, you know, knowing you’re not getting it at all.What if after this you were confronted with a strange floating monolith, what

would you do? I would probably look at it, touch

it, I’d even rub up against it. Then I would lick it.What would it taste like?

It would taste bitter, ’cause things taste bitter when we haven’t formed

an opinion on them yet. In our minds it will taste great, because that’s just a decision. Sometimes it doesn’t feel like you have one, but deep down you do.Sun Araw plays on 27 June at WORM in Rotterdam. The show is free for Subbacult-cha! members.

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Last year you both quit your day jobs, to fully focus on Moon Duo. How does that feel?

At first there was a bit of anxi-ety but we’ve relaxed into it by now. Part of that was having to move out of San Francisco because we could no longer afford our apartment, so we’ve been a bit nomadic since. We’ve de-cided to move to Portland actually, so we’re looking forward to putting

down some roots. But it doesn’t affect the music at all. We travel so much that when we get home it’s fairly easy to settle into a work routine there.

Does music feel like work to you?For, me the writing and record-

ing doesn’t feel like work at all. Once an album is done and we have to tour to promote it, then that feels like the work part. Not that I don’t like tour-

Moon DuoBefore starting on their European tour,

psychedelic drone-rock duo Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada went down to Berlin to mix their

third album. Ripley took some time off from their busy schedule to talk to us about work time,

playtime, Annie Hall and crystal pyramids.

‘For me, writing and recording music doesn’t feel like work at all.’

Interview by Gerlin Heestermans Photos shot by Miranda Lehman in Portland, USA

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ing, but it feels more like a required part of the job.I understand. Sorry that I’m a required part of your job right now! I was won-dering… how do you put the play into your work? And how do you put the work into your play?

It’s a bit hard to separate the two because we now live this job al-most all the time. So in that sense, the things that I consider more like work (interviews, photo shoots etc) have more to do with selling a product, and

that’s not very interesting to me. So a lot of times I try to do different kinds of promo, like mix tapes or video mix-es. That’s fun for me. As far as the work in the play, as long as I’m play-ing around with music, or even visu-al art, it counts as work. Everything eventually finds its way into a song or album cover in some way. That’s the really great thing about this ‘job’.

I like that idea. I guess being a full-time musician you’ve got to be pretty (self-)

‘as long as I’m playing around with music, or even visual art, it counts as work.’

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disciplined. Do you have certain rules you work with?

When we started we wanted to be as self-contained, mobile and flexible as possible. We wanted to be able to play shows anywhere in the world, and not have money be the limiting factor. We can fit everything in two checked bags on a flight, and in our car with amps in the US. We plan to evolve the sound and setup over time but it will be natural, based on opportunities.

In combining your repetitive music with powerful visuals you’ve created quite a strong format for Moon Duo. Would I be going too far by calling you control freaks?

Ha! I’m a bit of a control freak when it comes to the music but Sanae is totally in charge of all of the visual stuff, so there’s a nice balance.

Talking about balance, I imagine being part of Moon Duo can be very absorb-ing – especially ’cause you two also share a personal relationship. How do you let off steam and relax?

We’re big film fans. We read a lot and listen to a lot of music – believe it or not. But to escape a bit I really like going to the cinema. That’s one of the first things I looked into when we got to Berlin the other day.

What film did you see most recently? Do you have a favourite you like to go back to? Whenever I wanna relax and get cheered up I always watch Ferris Buel-ler’s Day Off. Never fails me!

Ah, well most recently it was The Avengers, which is kind of embarrass-ing. I do really enjoy a good summer blockbuster. But my go-to favorite is Annie Hall. I think it’s a perfect film. I like a lot ’70s stuff, Elliott Gould movies, Altman, Monte Hellman, etc.

Live it’s just you two on stage. If you had all the money in the world for whatever stage props, what would you go for?

We’re so focused on being com-pact and thrifty (we have to carry everything with us on an airplane) that we’ve never even discussed any-thing like that! So I’m sure Sanae would have a completely different an-swer, but I’d say something with gi-ant prisms and crystal pyramids and also dancers.

That sounds rad!

Moon Duo play on 14 June at De Effenaar in Eindhoven and on 15 June at De Nieu-we Anita in Amsterdam. Both shows are free for Subbacultcha! members. Other live dates: 16 June at Merleyn, Nijmegen.


Peaking Lights

Husband and wife Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis, aka Peaking lights made a new album called

Lucifer. They also made a new baby called Mikko.

Photographer Ye Rin Mok visited the family at their home in Los Angeles and photographed

them in their domestic environment. Combining rock ’n’ roll with family life: all work and no play

or simply the American Dream?

Photos shot by Ye Rin Mok in Los Angeles, USA

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The new Peaking Lights album Lucifer will be released on 18 June by Weird World/Domi-no Recordings. Catch them live on 10 June at Paradiso in Amsterdam.

Read the accompanying interview by Brenda Bosma at www.subbacultcha.nl.


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Bleached

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Who do you admire who works hard and plays harder?

Jennifer: I watched a documen-tary on the making of Rumors, the Fleetwood Mac album, and it’s cra-zy how they wrote such an amazing record but partied so hard and did so much coke. How in the world did they do it? I get tired just going on tour.

Jessica: Sometimes I feel like I have to keep partying so I can keep up. Like, if I take a break, I’ll want to just sleep for days.So you guys are influenced by Fleetwood Mac? Didn’t see that coming. What else inspires you?

Jessica: Well, initially we were influenced by punk bands like Ra-mones, Germs and The Misfits. Af-ter that we started opening up to stuff

like Fleetwood Mac.Jennifer: We got into ’60s girl

groups, too. And Jess and I were really into Velvet Underground, their whole look and the music they would write. Also, the other day I was watching these two old Brigitte Bardot movies, and they were just super dark. I’m in-spired by dark things. As musicians, what’s work and what’s play?

Jessica: It’s fun when you first start writing a song, because you get to sit down and have a glass of wine. It becomes work when you have to go to the studio to record it. Especially if the producer is like, ‘Nobody can come in hung-over.’

Jennifer: When we’re playing a show or I’m writing a song that’s ac-

LA-based sisters Jessica and Jennifer Clavin, aka Bleached and formerly of Mika Miko, bring their unique brand of dark, girly ’60s pop to Europe this

month. We caught up with them to chat about their influences, the darker side of things and how

partying hard helps them work even harder.

Interview by Johanna ValdésPhotos shot by Ye Rin Mok in Los Angeles, USA

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tually going well, I feel like I’m hav-ing fun. But when I’m trying to force something out or feel like I don’t know what I’m doing, it’ll feel like work.

Jessica: It’s work to unload my equipment for a show or go practice but once we actually start playing, it’s complete fun.How does being in Bleached compare to when you were starting out with Mika Miko?

Jessica: When we first started playing in Mika Miko, we were in a garage – we didn’t even know how to play our instruments.

Jennifer: It was definitely just play. We went to shows every week-end and we wanted to see if we could start a band like the ones we loved.

But then it got more popular than any of us ever thought it would. I think that was a major part of coming into Bleached – wanting to start a band that we are serious about. Speaking of taking Bleached seriously, how was playing SXSW?

Jennifer: We played 14 shows in four days. Like, that was work.

Jessica: But we all had a lot of fun too.

Jennifer: During the last three shows I was like, ‘Oh my God, I’m dying.’ But I had to act like I wasn’t.

Bleached play on 06 June at OT301 in Am-sterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.

Strawdogs Strawdogs is the print and graphic design studio of Groningen natives Robert Min-naard and Paul van de Werf. They cut and paste images into abstract-realistic gems of shape and colour. A big part of their pro-duction is the limited-edition silkscreened prints they create for the infamous Vera Club in Groningen. The posters betray a great sense for aesthetics and are true works of art. Strawdogs also publishes silkscreen printed books and prints and they exhibit their work in the Netherlands as well as abroad.

The work of Strawdogs will be on display at the Subbacultcha! HQ from 11 June until 29 June. Da Costakade 150, Amsterdam. Open Mondays to Fridays, 11.00-17.00. Feel free to drop by.

Opening Friday 08 June at 17.30. RSVP only. If you want to come please send an email to [email protected]. You will be notified.

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Music Reviews New releases worth your while By Carly Blair

Peaking LightsLucifer

(Mexican Summer / Weird World)

This husband-and-wife duo caused quite a stir with the ex-citing mix of dreamy pop and bass-heavy dub grooves on their breakout second album, 936. Following the tumult of a new baby, a new label and moving cross-country, they recorded (and self-produced) their new album, Lucifer. While ‘Lucifer’ most immediately evokes Sa-tan, I feel certain the only fire and brimstone that went into the making of this record did so in the form of matches, since its hazy soundscapes and mel-low vibes lend themselves quite nicely to stoned head bobbing. While their elevated profile has allowed for cleaner production this time around, fans of their old work shouldn’t be disap-pointed: Lucifer follows a car-bon fibre-brushed version of the 936 groove to heavenly effect.

LiarsWIXIW

(Mute)

This LA-based trio is character-ised by dramatic stylistic shifts between albums and relocating for inspiration. On their latest album, they’ve changed things up once again, this time taking a more collaborative approach than in the past, and an almost entirely computer-based one at that. While the process of mak-ing the album was apparent-ly one of the greatest challenges the band has faced, this strug-gle doesn’t manifest itself in the music in the way you might ex-pect: rather than confrontation-ally aggressive or experimental as with much of their previous work, here Liars sound full of uncertainty, almost vulnerable. It’s a change that suits them. WIXIW is remarkably subtle, a dark mystery that reveals it-self to be ever vaster and more labyrinthine with each succes-sive listen.

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MV & EESpace Homestead

(Woodsist)

Musical partners and multi-instrumentalists Matt Valen-tine and Erika Elder have ap-parently cranked out no less than 33 albums over the past decade, some as a duo, some with larger ensembles. Seeing as they hail from Vermont and trade in a noodly, psychedelic sort of folk, I envision them as a pair with a penchant for pot and back-porch jam sessions. The unassuming, meandering folk on offer here isn’t for ev-eryone. Whether or not this al-bum will appeal to you seems to me to be a question of wheth-er or not you subscribe to the attitude that ‘life is a journey, not a destination’ in sonic form: Space Homestead is pretty un-concerned with where it ends up, but the journey towards that ‘wherever’ is certainly free of unpleasantness, and at times quite beautiful.

CFCFExercises EP(Paper Bag / Dummy)

CFCF is the alias of Montreal-based electronic musician/pro-ducer Michael Silver. His latest EP represents a departure from his more dance-oriented earlier work. Inspired by Japanese com-poser Ryuichi Sakamoto and neoclassical classic Philip Glass, Exercises is a series of synth- and piano-based meditations. All of the tracks are instrumental, save for ‘Exercise 5 (September)’, a reinterpretation of a David Syl-vian song (arranged by Sakamo-to), which in a way reminds me of James Blake’s recent forays into minimalist pop. Although this EP is as subdued and un-assuming as the modest title might suggest, it’s never boring and pretty uniformly beautiful.

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Laurel HaloQuarantine

(Hyperdub)

Brooklyn-based Ina Cube was trained in classical piano, worked as a freeform college-radio DJ, tellingly dated Dan-iel Lopatin and has released ex-perimental electronic music as Laurel Halo for the past cou-ple of years. On her full-length debut, she sets aside the dark dance beats of her 2011 Hour Logic EP in favour of more ab-stract, ambient exploration. Her mostly spoken, affected vocals are brought to the foreground for the first time, and to be hon-est I think they can be grating at times. Fortunately, the space around them is filled with oth-erworldly atmosphere and fleet-ing hints at melody that make me think of listening to the ra-dio with the dial just slight-ly off the correct frequency, in a good way.

Led Er EstThe Diver

(Sacred Bones)

Every time we listen to this al-bum here at the office, someone asks, ‘What band is this?’ – ini-tially as an honest inquiry; later as a running gag. But these guys ain’t no joke. The bottom line is, The Diver really stands out from the plethora of new mu-sic that’s been blasting through our speakers lately. With pulsat-ing rhythms, noisy guitar riffs and wavy synths, this Brook-lyn-based trio might not start a sonic revolution, but their songs and sounds are all thorough-ly entertaining. It’s the kind of stuff you want to hear live in a crammed underground venue, swaying your hips while drops of sweat drip from your fore-head on to the broken-glass-covered floor.

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Somewhere Tonight Michael Di Jiacomo, 2011

First off, I have a confession to make. The fact of the mat-ter is, I have quite the crush on John Turturro. Since it’s not that common a crush, I was sur-prised – but delighted – to see this middle-aged everyman play the part of love interest in Somewhere Tonight. In this cute little movie Turturro plays Le-roy, a lonely and socially awk-ward bachelor with anger issues. Leroy meets Patti, the wom-an at the other end of a phone-sex line. This culture-loving lady may be the complete opposite of Leroy, but she’s just as lost as he is. Somewhere Tonight was loose-ly based on Theo van Gogh’s Dutch cult classic 06. Though not too subtle, its American counterpart is perfectly pitched and very romantic. Especially for those who have the hots for John Turturro. Or just old Ital-ian-Americans in general. (BB)In theatres 21 June

Black PondTom Kingsley & Will Sharpe, 2011

The Thomsons have dumped the body of a man called Blake (Colin Hurley) in a dark pond in the forest. Black Pond is a re-construction of the events lead-ing up to that deed. At first the appearance of the mysteri-ous stranger has a positive ef-fect on the chilly marriage of Tom (Chris Langham) and So-phie (Amanda Hadingue). After the accidental death of their dog and the arrival of the Thom-son daughters, Blake’s ramblings and behaviour become dis-turbingly incoherent. This may sound like a horror movie, but Black Pond is a light-hearted, in-dependent black comedy. The actors deliver their improvised dialogue with dry wit, except for Simon Amstell who’s too broad as the psychiatrist. The dream sequence would have made Luis Buñuel proud. (GV) Out now on DVD

By Gert Verbeek and Basje Boer New Films and DVDs Film

Food Cooking with... By Zofia Ciechowska

Las Kellies

Hey Las Kellies! Did I wake you from your post-lunch siesta?

In Buenos Aires no one has siestas! We run a lot around the city and try to eat light. Today we ate lentil burgers with salad and vegetable croquetas. Every-one eats a lot of meat in Argen-tina, but we’re vegetarian.Would you wear a bikini made out of veggies to your concert?

Veggie bikinis! We would make them out of potatoes, to-matoes, rocket, broccoli and avo-cado! Two avocado halves would make a good bikini bra, their pits are so huge, ha ha! So, you sing in Spanish, English, German, Japanese, Portuguese,

Catalan and French. Is the food you make just as multicultural?

We try. We love falafel and cous cous. We even have a song called Couscous. We should write a song about falafel and rap it in Arabic. We’ll put the lyrics through Google Translate and make the computer sing it for us. ‘I love falafel, me encanta el falafel, لفالفلا بحا انا!’ The music video would feature us and our gang getting really drunk, going to a falafel place and rap-ping with our Arabic bros.So if you could have a food fight with anyone who would you tar-get and with what foodstuff ?

We’re very peaceful; we

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Pastelitos de dulce de membrillo

wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. We’d throw something soft like banana pudding. Some teenagers threw an egg at Ceci, so for re-venge she would throw a six pack of bananas. Bananas are soft but they also look like guns, scary!Have you ever jumped out of a birthday cake?

No! But we love sweets! Have you tried dulce de leche?

It’s fucking amazing! An Argen-tinian eats dulce de leche about twice a day, which is still not enough if you ask us. We will teach you how to make pasteli-tos, little pastries with quince.Read the full interview online.

Las Kellies play at Roodkaptje in Rot-terdam on 28 June. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members

• Make a mound of flour with apinchofsaltandput150gofbut-ter in thecentre.Mixwell.Addacupofwaterlittlebylittleuntilthedough is smooth. Leave for 20minutes.

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By Marc van der Holst How to read... Books

Mark Z Danielewski’s House of Leaves is a postmodern mas-terpiece of metafiction for the masses. It’s one of the finest piec-es of bullshit ever written. Sure, it’s perfectly hateable – for all its clever-clever stuff, its motion-sickness inducing lay-out exper-iments (some of them for good, functional reason, we concede), its appendices, the cute little fact that every time the word ‘house’ appears it’s printed in blue – but I loved, loved, loved it. House of Leaves is a horror story – or, according to some (includ-ing the author) a love story – a book about a book about a film, a labyrinth inside a labyrinth... There’s this guy, Johnny Truant, who finds this manuscript by this other guy, Zampano, about a documentary about a house by yet another guy, Will Navidson. The book consists of Zampano’s manuscript, Johnny’s au-tobiographical inter-jections, a transcript of the film by Navidson’s brother, tran-scipts of interviews about the

film by Navidson’s wife, occa-sional notes by unidentified au-thors and lots and lots of foot-notes. Oh, and then there’s the companion piece: letters written to Johnny by his mother while she was in a madhouse. Still with me? I hope you are, because this is by no means a difficult book. It’s like getting lost in the fun-house. Once Navidson finds out his house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside (some-times inches, sometimes miles), you’ll be hooked. I mean, how cool and creepy is that? Then there’s the exploration of mys-terious hallways appearing and disappearing and changing posi-tion and dimension, all the fun meta stuff, plus a damn good story underneath it all. It’ll scare the shit out of you, though. It might be a love story, but a gen-uinely disturbing one at that. Be sure to bring a rope and a flash-light.

House of Leaves

Horoscope By Brenda Bosma

CANCER22 June–22 JulyYou look at her from

the doorstep while she is fast asleep. You gaze your gaze with a detached sweetness. There are silences espe-cially made for us. Your phone rings. Oh why did you choose that ‘La Cu-caracha’ ringtone?

LEO23 July–22 AugPacing up and down

your bedroom you find that the best thing about living alone is that the house seems bigger. Sure, but that armchair means nothing if there’s nobody to sit down in it with her pretty lips pursed.

VIRGO23 Aug–22 SeptIn the yard you are sur-

rounded by plants, colourful flower beds and climbing vines that tick-le your nose. Inside there are over-due bills, TV static, and what’s that weird smell? You wish there could be rhododendrons with housekeep-ing qualities.

LIBRA23 Sept–22 OctIn a clothing store you

take a pair of shoes and look at them with delight. Your boyfriend calm-ly says: ‘Question: when are you go-ing to wear them?’ A bystander with

a broken heart, probably a Pisces, sobs in a corner next to the discount long-sleeve sweaters.

SCORPIO23 Oct–21 NovWhen she says: ‘I’m

tired, there’s an avocado wrap in the fridge’, you register her words, but can’t help but feel rejected, even though you know that an avoca-do wrap is really a miracle within a miracle.

SAGITTARIUS22 Nov–21 DecYou are so drunk you

start to see double. This person standing in your hallway looks a lot like the twins from The Shining. You perceive a third person. Wait, is that an axe? You fall to the floor. A part of your brain dies.

CAPRICORN22 Dec–20 JanUnhealthy relation-

ships tend to test the depths of your strength and make you stronger. So in that sense, be glad you’re in one! The summer will burn a hole in your sorrow.

AQUARIUS21 Jan-19 FebYou wish you could for-

get last night when you danced to Sisqo wearing nothing but a tanktop

Illustrations by Kathrin Klingner Horoscope

made into a thong. You even end-ed up with the DJ who kept whis-tling the tune of ‘La Cucaracha’ while groping your buns. Luckily the peep in your ear drowns out that infectious melody.

PISCES20 Feb–20 MarchYou crave tea and or-

anges but it’s just not the season nor the time. Wait some more and you will touch a perfect body with your mind real soon.

ARIES21 March –20 AprilCould this month be

trashed like an email that went to your spam folder? Well, if you com-pare it with a shriveled penis in dire need of some enlarging, by all means delete that nuisance. Then again: why not try pumping up that pickle?

TAURUS21 April–21 MayLook at this picture

taken of you both on an all-inclusive holiday somewhere in the Mediter-ranean. There’s a scrap of sea, a dog running out of the frame and your names written in the sand. Pretty soon the waves will come.

Snooping around in your room-mate’s closet you find a beanie. You stand in front of the mirror holding it in your hands, look-ing at it, soaking up its essence. You put it on. ‘Hi, I’m Fred, I’m a whole new person with a whole new life ahead of me, will you join me? We could be happy to-gether.’ You immediately pull it off, it frightens you, you want to be free and unattached, or at least you like to play hard to get. Then you catch a glimpse of a black bandana with luscious-looking strawberries on it. Oh, how you would like to be smothered by that thing. ‘Hi, I’m Samantha.’

GEMINI22 May–21 June

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June 2 – September 30, 2012The European Biennial of Contemporary Art · De Europese Biënnale voor Hedendaagse KunstLa Biennale Européenne d’Art Contemporain · Die Europäische Biennale für Zeitgenössische Kunst

www.manifesta9.org Maarten Vanden Eynde, Plastic Reef (detail), 2008–2012, copyright en foto: Maarten Vanden Eynde, supported by Mondriaan Fonds, Manifesta9, Vlaamse Gemeenschap

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Bleached + Molly Nilsson06 June - OT301, Amsterdam

20.30 | €8 | Free for Subbacultcha! members

Bleached’s Jennifer and Jessica Clavin cut their teeth in LA’s Mika Miko, a fixture of the scene revolving around legendary venue The Smell (along with No Age, Abe Vigoda and many others), and with Bleached they make messy and melodic punk à la the Ramones and Blondie. Meanwhile, Swe-den’s Molly Nilsson famously penned the excellent ‘Hey Moon!’, which John Maus awkwardly (charmingly?) sang over last year, but that’s only skim-ming the surface of what her bittersweet, hypnotic and deceptively simple pop has to offer.

Com Truise + Molly Nilsson07 June - EKKO, Utrecht

20.00 | €9 | Free for Subbacultcha! membersWith a spoonerism of Tom Cruise for a stage name, track titles like ‘VHS Sex’ and ‘Futureworld’ plus ’80s-inspired album art, it should come as no surprise that New Jersey’s Seth Haley is a chillwaver by trade. Though his music is as nostalgia-inducing and waterlogged as one might expect, his self-dubbed ‘mid-fi synth-wave, slow-motion funk’ is varied, well-executed and demented enough to stand out from the hypnagogic hordes. Sweden’s Molly Nilsson, a fellow synth obsessive, should offer a delicate counterpoint to Haley with her bittersweet, hypnotic and deceptively simple pop.

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Liars + Mikal Cronin08 June - Tivoli de Helling, Utrecht


This LA trio is characterised by dramatic stylistic shifts between albums, relocating for inspiration, and stubbornly refusing to give demanding fans what they want. They use vicious guitars, ambient and experimental sound-scapes, and alternately snarling and ominous vocals to create an unsettling, oppressive sense of doom. Their upcoming album WIXIW is their subtlest yet, more cohesive than 2010’s Sisterworld and more delicately creepy than 2006’s Drum’s Not Dead.

R Stevie Moore14 June - WORM, Rotterdam

19.30 | €8 | Free for Subbacultcha! membersNashville’s Robert Steven Moore is a lo-fi legend, having self-released lit-erally thousands of home-recorded songs through The R Stevie Moore Cassette Club, an ongoing mail-order operation that has hundreds of indi-vidually dubbed cassettes and CD-Rs in its catalogue. Moore’s fiercely in-dependent DIY approach and one-of-a-kind mix of classic pop influences, arty experimentalism, idiosyncratic lyrics, wild stylistic left turns and home-made rough edges have influenced generations of DIY artists, ranging from Guided by Voices to Ariel Pink and John Maus.


Moon Duo14 June - Effenaar, Eindhoven

20.30 | €10 | Free for Subbacultcha! members 15 June - De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam


Minimal psych twosome Moon Duo’s Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada are partners on and off stage who’ve recently relocated from the bustling psych scene of San Francisco to Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. Original-ly started as a side project of Ripley’s main band, Wooden Shjips, the duo earned its fair share of praise with songs built on a hypnotically repetitive foundation of organ, fuzzy guitar and simple percussion. 2011 debut full-length Mazes featured subtle variations that were definitely worth navigat-ing, and they recently released a collection of Mazes remixes.

Light Asylum20 June - OT301, Amsterdam


Brooklyn duo Shannon Funchess and Bruno Coviello worked separately for years on other projects (Funchess has contributed vocals to acts including Telepathe, TV on the Radio and !!!) before bonding over a shared love of the obscure dark-wave band Clan of Xymox. Funchess is without question the focal point here, an androgynous and imposing contralto who sounds like Sisters of Mercy’s Andrew Eldritch inhabiting the body of a punk rock Grace Jones. Their new debut full-length is heavy on the dark ’80s influences, and Funchess’s undeniably powerful delivery should be captivating live.

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Movienight at 16CC: Caché + The American25 June - 16CC, Amsterdam

16.30 / 19.00 / 21.30 | €7.50 per film | Free for Subbacultcha! members

Tonight the entire night at 16CC is yours. The sympathetic café/cinema screens Caché (16:30 and 21:30) and The American (19.00). Up for a mar-athon? Caché by Michael Haneke is an amazing multi-layered, thriller in which a bourgeois European family spirals downward into paranoia and re-gret when a series of menacing video tapes reveal that someone is watch-ing them. The American is Anton Corbijn’s subdued masterpeice set in a beautiful - but in the context quite claustophobic - small town in Italy where an assasin (George Clooney) faces his own demons on his last assignment.

Sun Araw Band + Mike Koldin27 June - WORM, Rotterdam

20.30 | €8 | Free for Subbacultcha! membersSoCal seeker Cameron Stallones is a founder of the experimental psych-edelic rock collective Magic Lantern, but his work as Sun Araw goes be-yond the galaxy of psychedelia to a cosmos whose planets drip with a pri-mordial ooze of dub, desert rock, raga, Afrobeat and free jazz. He most recently headed down to Jamaica to record a sort of psychedelic gospel album with roots reggae legends The Congos, but his solo work, perhaps buoyed by a puff of doobage, should elevate you to that ‘higher ground’ you’ve heard so much about.


Shows in September Agenda


Las Kellies + Wooden Constructions28 June - Roodkapje, Rotterdam


Las Kellies started in 2005 when three girls met at a gig in Buenos Aires, decided to form a band together, borrowed their friend’s amps and instru-ments and started cooking up a tasty racket. Perhaps as an homage to their cosmopolitan, European ancestry-packed home country of Argentina, the Kellies sing in Spanish, English, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Catalan and French. Their dub- and post-punk-inflected garage rock songs are as tightly packed with eclectic fillings as an empanada, as salty sweet as dulce de leche and as hot and spicy as mate, so bring your appetite! Support by Dutch post punkers Wooden Constructions, who’ve just released their de-but album on Subroutine records.

Art In Prison #530 June - Gijs Deddens Book Launch, Extrapool, Nijmegen

20.30 | €3 | Free for Subbacultcha! membersIn 2011 Knust/Nijmeegse Universele, Extrapool’s stencil print workshop, started ART IN PRISON, a series of work holidays for creative types, where the artists are ‘imprisoned’ in the workshop for 10-14 days, during which time they produce a publication. The fifth edition features work by Gijs Ded-dens, a previous Subbacultcha! artist of the month. The launch of the publi-cation will feature live performances by Vakantie and Earth Control.

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La Sera30 June - De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam


‘Kickball’ Katy Goodman, bassist and harmonist of retro pop supergroup Vivian Girls, just put out her second solo full-length, the radiantly rad Sees the Light, as La Sera. Her lo-fi punk pop is perfectly pleasant and totally tuneful, comforting in its familiarity and utterly catchy.

Subbacultcha! at &foamOpen daily 10.00-18.00, Thur & Fri until 21.00 | Free for all

&Foam is the new gallery store of Foam Photography Museum. Currently the amazing space is themed ‘music&foam’ and Subbacultcha! was invit-ed. On display is our exhibition with a selection of all the photography pub-lished in Subbacultcha! magazine over the past year. Come check it out.

All month: Foam Photography MuseumOpen daily 10.00-18.00, Thur & Fri until 21.00

€8 | Free for Subbacultcha! membersSubbacultcha! members get free entry to Foam Photography Museum. Sweet! Opening in June are exhibitions of Onorato & Krebs, Erik Kessels and Petra Noordkamp. Check the foam website for more info and keep an eye on our mailing list.

The Music of Jonny Greenwood & Bryce Dessner, 16 June, Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, world premiereRadiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood goes beyond song structures into more cinematic territories as a composer. Like Bryce Dess-ner of The National, he represents what newspapers refer to as ‘indie classical’: or-chestral music unafraid of noise textures, electronic effects and the holy trinity of gui-tar, bass and drums. Their compositions will be performed by Amsterdam Sinfonietta plus Aaron and Bryce Dessner on guitar.

My Brightest Diamond & Ensemble – All Things Will Unwind, 17 June, BimhuisAntony might have sold out his Holland Festival solo show at Carré, but those into wavery, opera-trained vocals and flamboy-ant stage presence should definitely check out Shara Worden, aka My Brightest Dia-mond. After cutting her teeth singing and playing electric guitar in the Brooklyn scene she moved to Detroit, from where she trav-els the world with a suitcase full of small in-struments and big costumes. She’ll perform her latest album with strings.

Marina Abramovic - The Artist is Present, 19 June, EYE Film InstituteComplementing the above-mentioned (and sold-out) theatrical autobiography The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic, the EYE Film Institute hosts the premiere of the film documentary about the legendary artist who has exceeded the limits of her physi-cal endurance in many of her iconic per-formances. Extra shortcuts to Holland Festival 2012:Song Books, 9 June, Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, world premiereAlarm Will Sound, the ensemble that brought you orchestral versions of Aphex Twin’s electronica, celebrates composer John Cage (1912-1992).Sekten - Table Music, 15 June, BimhuisErratic Swedish indie band featuring Qarin Wikström of Efterklang on vocals.Accordion Wrestling, 18 & 19 June, Bim-huis, Dutch premiereDo Finnish people really think wrestling and accordion music belong together? If accor-dion spacehead Kimmo Pohjonen says so, we’re willing to believe.

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Holland Festival 2012Autobiographyisthemainthemeofthisyear’sHollandFestival,

whichmeanstheannualfeastofcutting-edgemusic,theatre,danceandartwillbechockablockwithpowerfulpersonaehungryforatten-tion.Bigegosdrawbigcrowds,soifyou’vemanagedtograbticketsforthehighlyanticipatedThe Life and Death of Marina Abramovic,featuringperformance-artlegendAbramovicplusvocaldivaAnto-

nyandactingheroWillemDafoe:goodforyou,butthere’ssomuchmoreself-absorptiontosubmergein…

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Shows in June Agenda

Tu Fawning01June-Paradiso,Amsterdam

Portland’s Tu Fawning, a four-piece fea-turing Joe Haege (31Knots, now also of Menomena) and Corrina Repp, makes a sort of tribal freak folk that’s totally distinct from their main projects and will likely ap-peal to fans of Yeasayer’s early work.

Klub 470 ft. The OhOhOhs

01June-Goethe-Institut,AmsterdamSo besides wanting to make you feel like you’ve been transformed, Cinderella-style, into a German aristocrat for an evening, Klub 470’s other objective is to provide a podium for exciting upcoming German bands. This time around, Frankfurt elec-tro duo The OhOhOhs will play a danceable acoustic set featuring the Klub’s own Stein-way piano.

Indie Indie #3 ft. Holograms02June-MeneerMalasch,Amsterdam

It’s time for another night of cheap beer and cheap music. Hailing from the frozen

industrial wastes of Sweden, Holograms play driving, shout-along post-punk. They’ve been described as “Iceage with synths” and their debut is coming out for the acclaimed Captured Tracks label. Relevant local sup-port and DJ’s will be included in the price.

AraabMUZIK02June-DeNieuweOogst,Rotterdam

02June-Paradiso,AmsterdamProducer Abraham Orellana started out as a lowly beatmaker before YouTube vid-eos of his mad drum-machine skills and the resulting live gigs sent him solo. Dude specialises in hip hop-inflected club mu-sic that’s perfect for listening to while doing drugs, having sex or preferably both. Seri-ously ecstatic shit.

Purity Ring05June-Vondelkerk,Amsterdam

This Canadian duo makes the kind of dreamy, seductive dance tracks lonely mu-sic nerds probably only imagine having sex to. Their long-awaited debut, Shrines, should conjure up plenty of unholy feelings when it drops this July.

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Atlas Sound05June-Melkweg,Amsterdam

Atlas Sound, the sort-of-solo project of the ridiculously prolific bedroom-pop maestro Bradford Cox (also of Deerhunter), is an outlet for Cox’s self-expression and a prov-ing ground for his many sonic experiments. The sense of loneliness and determina-tion that pervades his music hints that Cox feels fundamentally disconnected from oth-er people, but also proves his ability to con-nect with the awkward, lonely nerd in ev-ery listener.

Gonjasufi05June-EKKO,Utrecht

San Diego’s Sumach Ecks, aka Gonjasufi, is a former drug addict-cum-yoga teacher and a staple of the San Diego hip hop scene since the early ’90s. The patchwork of genres he pieces together – ranging from hip hop to funk, folk and vintage psychedelia – make a dazzling backdrop for Ecks’ croaky-voiced and compelling protagonist.

Bleached + Molly Nilsson06June-OT301,Amsterdam

Californian girls Jennifer and Jessica Clavin make messy and melodic punk à la the Ra-mones and Blondie. Read more on page 57.

Mikal Cronin06June-Vera,Groningen

07June-Paradiso,Amsterdam08June-TivolideHelling,Utrecht12June-CaféAltstadt,Eindhoven

If you were to hear San Francisco’s Mi-kal 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.

Com Truise + Molly Nilsson07June-EKKO,Utrecht

With track titles like ‘VHS Sex’ and ‘Future-world’ plus ’80s-inspired album art, it should come as no surprise that New Jersey’s Seth Haley is a chillwaver by trade. Read more on page 57.

Harvey Milk07June-Paradox,Tilburg(Incubated18)

08June-WORM,RotterdamNamed after the famously gay, assassinat-ed politician, this experimental noise rock band from Athens, Georgia is known for slow, heavy Melvins-esque riffs as well as for riffs of the humorous sort: they once played the REM album Reckoning in its en-tirety while fellow Athens resident Michael Stipe was in attendance.

Robodock07-09June-ADM,Amsterdam

During this year’s ‘000 from Dusk till Dawn’ edition of the legendary Robodock festival, visitors will be guided through a contem-porary version of the afterlife where robots and orchestras perform alongside glowing scenes, atmospheres, installations, projec-tions and kinetic sculptures. Probably the closest you’ll get to your childhood Trans-formers/Terminator 2 fantasies (night-mares?) coming true... until they actually do.

Liars08June-TivolideHelling,Utrecht

This LA trio is characterised by dramatic stylistic shifts between albums, relocating for inspiration, and stubbornly refusing to give demanding fans what they want. Read more on page 58.


07 JUN OFF! + TRASH TALK12 JUN MIKAL CRONIN + MOZES AND THE FIRSTBORN14 JUN MOON DUO30 JUN CEREBRAL BALLZY08 JUL DISAPPEARSkijk voor ons volledige programma op www.effenaar.nl


THEESatisfaction09June-Bird,Rotterdam

10June-SugarFactory,Amsterdam

Groovy neo-soul/avant-rap duo THEESatis-faction are touring in support of their won-derful debut album awE naturalE that came out on Subpop recently. Their show in Sug-ar Factory is free for Subbacultcha! mem-bers, do not miss.

Peaking Lights10June-Paradiso,Amsterdam

Husband-and-wife dub-noise psych pop duo Peaking Lights caused quite a stir with the exciting mix of dreamy pop music and bass-heavy dub grooves featured on their album 936. Following the tumult of a new baby, a new label and moving, they record-ed their new album, Lucifer, which follows a carbon fibre-brushed version of the 936 groove to heavenly effect.

Wooden Constructions12June-Melkweg,Amsterdam

These four young-yet-clean Amsterdam gentlemen dropped off the face of the Earth for a couple of years to record their debut full-length, People Now People. Now that it’s out they’ve re-emerged, all grown up and more terrifying than ever, ready to make your girlfriends dance with their mani-acal jungle disco beats.

The Brian Jonestown Massacre12June-Vera,Groningen

28June-Bitterzoet,Amsterdam29June-Doornroosje,Nijmegen

Many know The Brian Jonestown Massa-cre from the documentary Dig!, which pro-filed the friendship and eventual rivalry be-tween TBJM mastermind Anton Newcombe and the Dandy Warhols’ Courtney Taylor-Taylor. The film accurately depicted both the

band’s revolving-door personnel changes and their eclectic and occasionally master-ful take on eclectic rock ’n’ roll.

Guitar Wolf12June-Paradiso,Amsterdam

14June-dB’s,Utrecht15June-Sleazefest,WijkaanZee

Founded in Nagasaki back in 1987, the Wolves tip Joan Jett as well as the Ra-mones with their extremely loud, energetic and heavily distorted garage punk.

Sun O)))14June-Melkweg,Amsterdam

I used to have a boyfriend who was into this here American doom metal/drone/noise band, and this experience taught me two things: 1) this is metal for stoners, not ag-gro douchebags, 2) there are actually some pretty hot metal heads out there. Need I list other reasons to attend?

Stedelijk @ Trouw14June-Trouw,Amsterdam

This art-, multimedia-, lecture- and music-filled event is the first of four nights aimed at bringing contemporary art from museum pedestals back to the underground culture it’s so often inspired by. DJs such as Joost van Bellen, Tom Trago and Strange Bou-tique will provide a soundtrack you can feel equally comfortable pontificating or par-tying to.

Moon Duo14June-Effenaar,Eindhoven

15June-DeNieuweAnita,Amsterdam16June-Merleyn,Nijmegen

Minimal psych twosome Moon Duo’s Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada are partners on and off stage. They have earned their fair share of praise with songs built on a

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Epische psychedelische dub / pop. Bracht onlangs een schijf met de legendarische Jamaicaanse roots reggae vocalisten The Congos uit. Dikke aanrader!

Mix van aanstekelijke Latin ritmes, surf en pop geïnspireerd door - en geëvolueerd vanuit - de Peruaanse Chicha Cumbia.

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Zoon van de bassist van Elvis en schepper van 2000 liedjes van ongekende diversiteit. De paus van de Do-It-Yourself pop!

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hypnotically repetitive foundation of organ, fuzzy guitar and simple percussion. Read more on page 59.

R Stevie Moore14June-WORM,Rotterdam

16June-Bitterzoet,AmsterdamNashville’s Robert Steven Moore is a lo-fi legend who has influenced generations of DIY artists, ranging from Guided by Voic-es to Ariel Pink and John Maus. Read more on page 58.

Sleazefest ft. Guitar Wolf, Traumahelikopter + Adolf Butler

15June-Timboektoe,WijkaanZeeOrganised by Amsterdam organ punk duo zZz, Sleazefest offers up a once-a-year chance to spend 24 hours fully immersed in sex, drugs, rock ’n’ roll (and punk, ga-rage and surf), and maybe even a little bit more sex if you’re lucky. The remote loca-tion should allow for plenty of mayhem, so be sure to pack your wet wipes – it’s gonna get sleazy up in there.

A$AP Rocky + Star Slinger15June-Paradiso,Amsterdam

A$AP Rocky, born Rakim Mayers, is living a specific version of the American dream: his rough childhood in Harlem, NYC inspired him to become a rapper at age eight, and now at just 23 this underground hip hop darling’s swag stylings and sick produc-tion team have him on the verge of hitting the big time. The complementary aesthetic of UK hip hop producer Star Slinger should get the party started right.

Naked Song Festival ft. Tindersticks + Howe Gelb +

The Hackensaw Boys16June-Muziekgebouw,Eindhoven

Hold your horses, randy listener: rather than an XXX showcase of premier singer-song-writers, the Naked Song Festival offers up a programme of Americana, blues and folk music so raw and stripped-down, you’ll feel liberated in a different way. Just stay away from any hot chicks that offer you an apple.

Beyond the Realms of Doom 2 ft. ▲ngst + Fifth Era

16June-OCCII,AmsterdamThis release party for ▲ngst & Fifth Era’s new Beyond the Realms of Doom 2 split CD-R provides the perfect excuse for a showcase of doomcore, industrial, witch, noise and hardcore in the best venue for dipping your toes into the pool of doom without falling over the edge.

Amsterdam Sinfonietta ft. Bryce and Aaron Dessner

16June-Muziekgebouwaan’tIJ(HollandFestival)

17June-MuziekgebouwEindhovenThe compositions of Bryce Dessner (The National) and Jonny Greenwood (Radio-head) will be performed by Amsterdam Sin-fonietta together with Aaron and Bryce Dessner on guitar. Read more on page 64.

Thee Oh Sees18June-Merleyn,Nijmegen

19June-Paradiso,Amsterdam01July-MetropolisFestival,Rotterdam

This extremely prolific name- and line-up-changing San Franciscan garage/psych/punk band never stays put for long. Come check out mastermind John Dwyer & co trot out their latest batch of entertaining shape-shifting and swampy jams before they go changing things up once again. NB: the al-most telepathic onstage chemistry between the five of them makes for some purported-ly wild (and sweaty) live moments.


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Light Asylum20June-OT301,Amsterdam

This New York-based duo is coming over to our capital city to smash the dance floor to pieces with their elegant-but-rough mix of Italo disco and synth pop. Read more on page 59.

M8321June-Paradiso,Amsterdam

Surely you’ve heard this band’s exhilarating 2011 instant classic single ‘Midnight City’, but did you know that M83 is named after a spiral galaxy, Messier 83? No? Glad to be of help. Anthony Gonzalez’s shoegaze-in-spired electronica act has morphed consid-erably over its ten-year existence, but his sharpening songwriting abilities and soar-ing ambition are propelling his output closer and closer to the heights of his astronomi-cal namesake.

Knekelhuisdisco ft. Innergaze

22June-CANVAS,AmsterdamIf the whole world was going to end, you could sit there and cry about it or you could say, ‘Fuck it!’ and just dance. If you hap-pened to face Armageddon while at a nightclub, you could do worse than this night’s roster in terms of post-apocalyptic synth-wave jams perfectly suited for danc-ing like tomorrow is irrelevant.

Art Rocks: Final23June-MuseumBoijmansvan

Beuningen,RotterdamArt Rocks is a competition conceived by the Boijmans van Beuningen wherein art-ists of all genres make music inspired by a work of art from their collection. During this final showdown, ten competitors will vie for the crowd’s and jury’s favour and a prize of

€1,000. The museum’s fabulous collection should provide plenty of worthy inspiration.

Las Kellies24June-OCCII,Amsterdam

28June-Roodkapje,RotterdamPerhaps as an homage to their cosmopoli-tan, European ancestry-packed home coun-try of Argentina, the girls from Las Kellies sing in Spanish, English, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Catalan and French. Read more on page 61.

Sun Araw Band27June-WORMRotterdam

SoCal seeker Cameron Stallones’ work as Sun Araw goes beyond the galaxy of psy-chedelia to a cosmos whose planets drip with a primordial ooze of dub, desert rock, raga, Afrobeat and free jazz. Read more on page 60.

Kurt Vile & The Violators29June-Vera,Groningen

Philadelphia’s resident childish prodigy and his band of constant hitmakers churn out guitar-focused, um, ‘new’ classic rock. On his new material, Vile has stripped away most of the effects and production grime that muddied his earlier work, revealing songs that are more spacious and cogent than ever, yet still capable of transport-ing you back to listening to music with your dad as a kid.

La Sera30June-DeNieuweAnita,Amsterdam

‘Kickball’ Katy Goodman, bassist and har-monist of retro pop supergroup Vivian Girls, just put out her second solo full-length, the radiantly rad Sees the Light, as La Sera. Her lo-fi punk pop is perfectly pleasant and to-tally tuneful. Read more on page 62.

Free Stuff Free tickets and goodies

3X2 TICKETS ATLAS SOUND

05JuneMelkweg,Amsterdam

5X2 TICKETS GONJASUFI

05JuneEKKO,Utrecht

2X2 TICKETS SONG BOOKS

(HOLLAND FESTIVAL)

09JuneMuziekgebouwaan’tIJ,

Amsterdam

3X2 TICKETS SUNN O)))

14JuneMelkweg,Amsterdam

3X2 TICKETS NAKED SONG FESTIVAL

16JuneMuziekgebouwEIndhoven,

Eindhoven

3X2 TICKETS THEE OH SEES

18JuneMerleyn,Nijmegen

We’re also giving away free tickets to Klub 470, Art Rocks, Robodock, Sleazefest, Innergaze, Nuit Blanche and Mikal Cronin

To win, sign up to our mailing list on www.subbacultcha.nl.

Submitted photos

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Overview of all Subbacultcha! shows in June

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06 June Bleached + Molly

NilssonOT301, Amsterdam

20.30 | €8 | Free for members

07 June Com Truise + Molly Nilsson

EKKO, Utrecht 20.00 | €9 | Free for members

08 June Liars + Mikal Cronin

Tivoli de Helling, Utrecht 19.30 | €14 | Free for members

10 JuneTHEESatisfaction

Sugar Factory, Amsterdam 20.00 | €15 | Free for members

14 June R Stevie Moore

WORM, Rotterdam19.30 | €8 | Free for members

14 + 15 June Moon Duo

14 June - Effenaar, Eindhoven20.00 | €10 | Free for members

15 June - De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam20.00 | €8 | Free for members

20 June Light Asylum

OT301, Amsterdam20.30 | €8 | Free for members

25 JuneFilm: Caché + The American

16CC, Amsterdam16.30/19.00/21.30 | €7,50 | Free for members

27 June Sun Araw Band

WORM, Rotterdam20.30 | €8 | Free for members

28 June Las Kellies

Roodkapje, Rotterdam22.00 | €7 | Free for members

30 JuneArt In Prison #5Gijs Deddens Book Launch

Extrapool, Nijmegen20.30 | €3 | Free for members

30 JuneLa Sera + DJ Dance, Floor

De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam20.00 | €7 | Free for members

All MonthSubbacultcha at &foam

Open Wed-Sun 10.00-18.00, Thur until 21.00 | Free for all

FoamOpen daily 10.00-18.00, Thur and Fri

until 21.00 | €8 | Free for members

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