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Unruly Music Magazine. May 2014

The Japan Issue

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Subbacultcha! Magazine May 2014

That’s right, you’re still reading a Subbacultcha! magazine. That alien but graceful script on the cover is Japanese katakana. It reads

sa-ba-ca-ru-cha. With two Japanese acts on the May roster, we jumped at the opportunity to make the Japan Issue as we’ve had our eyes on

the place for a while. Enthralled by sights and sounds that are at once familiar and yet so delightfully foreign, we thought we’d scratch beneath the surface. We present to you a film programme tailored to the country,

a pair of featured artists whose works, like the one above, capture a certain Japanese elegance, Xiu Xiu’s take on Tokyo cuisine, and

Japanese aesthetics in the eyes of Amen Dunes.

The Japan Issue

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Cover image by Heleen Peeters

Recommendations 11 We Saw You 18The Morning After 36Featured Artists 38Books 44Fashion 46Food 48

Music Reviews 51New Films 54 Subbacultcha! shows 59Agenda 71Free Stuff 76After Midnight 77

ZZZ’sジージージーズゥ

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Amen Dunesアーメンデューンズ

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Nisennenmondai にせんねんもんだい

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May recommendations

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May recommendations

Music: Flau Records

Thrilling things are happening at the Tokyo headquarters of Japan’s coolest label out there right now, Flau Records. Started by Yasuhiko Fukuzono in 2006, the label has been applauded for taking an astonishing amount of talent under its wings from both Japan and abroad. Sweet dream pop will move to ambient electronic drone before you even know it; it’s clear that Flau are keen to exper-iment. Look up these artists and be de-lighted: Cuushe, Noah, IKEBANA, coki-yu and Dale Berning.

www.flau.jp

Music: Millie & Andrea

The friendship between UK techno pro-ducers Andy Stott and Miles Whittak-er (one half of Demdike Stare) has cul-minated with the release of their debut LP on Modern Love, Drop The Vowels. A rough, gritty quality runs throughout this collection of dancefloor destroyers which are beautifully messy, like that pretty boy’s scraggly hair you stroked at last night’s party. Perhaps a more vis-ceral version of these guys’ individu-al projects and a promising direction to be headed.

www.modern-love.co.uk

Each month our staff provides you with a selection of the finer things in life. Enjoy!

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May recommendations

Music: The Ukiah Drag

From the DIY swamps of Florida hails this sluggish, backwoods garage band that is so legit it hurts. They grew up on grilled gator and were born out of guitarist ZZ Ramirez’s previous high-ly regarded redneck freak band, Amer-ican Snakeskin. They just released a seven-inch on Wharf Cat Records and it’s scary good, or as they put it: ‘Writ-ing rock’n’roll songs for us is just cake. We’re fucking great at it. We’re probably one of the best rock bands going on. It’s that easy.’ You heard the man: go get it.

soundcloud.com/theukiahdrag

Art: OCCII Print Edition

On 2 May, Amsterdam venue OCCII will release its first collection of original prints in a limited edtion of 75. Contrib-utors are artists/musicians who have graced the venue with their presence over the past year. It includes outra-geous artworks by Brian Chippendale, US Girls’ Meghan Remy and Wolf Eyes’ Nate Young.

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Art: Eddie The Eagle Museum Time

Capsule Event Party Launch

This is it, the main event. On 2 May Ed-die the Eagle Museum are capturing the Zeitgeist in one night, and they’ve invited pretty much everyone to join them. And we mean everyone. There will be art, music, fashion, sports, na-ture, architecture, poetry, food, people, dogs, cats and you and us and every-one we know. The whole event will be captured on video and film but won’t be released to the public. Everything pro-duced and presented tonight at the Tol-huistuin will be buried in a container that won’t be opened again until 2029. Can’t wait!

02 May – Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam

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May recommendations

Misc.: SilenceYou can never have complete silence. Or at least that’s what John Cage re-alised when he went searching for it in an anechoic chamber, only to discover that his gushing blood is bloody loud. He wrote 4'33'', a three-movement com-position about you: breathing, cough-ing and fidgeting at a concert. Today, it mostly speaks about your phone, mon-strously vibrating on SILENT mode in your pocket. And yes, granted, you can’t always help it. But what you can do is shut the fuck up when you’re at a show.

Magazine: Ponytale

Ponytale is a colourful publication that explores femininity through art, mu-sic and fashion. It’s fresh and audacious and dedicated to girls who are on the quest of finding themselves, and also ponies. This magazine is sexier than your girlfriend, and that is okay.

www.ponytale-stories.com

Magazine: TOO MUCH Magazine

TOO MUCH is a magazine of romantic geography. It gathers thoughts about cities and the people who live in them. Inspired by biologist John Cairn’s dis-covery that the environment can alter the DNA of bacteria, the infamous Na-kagin Capsule tower and the last Olym-pics when stopwatches were controlled by hand (Tokyo 1964), the new issue is about the body in space and time. Ex-pect a detailed study of sitting and elec-tronic self-hacking of the body, and pre-pare yourself for cosmic space that can be worn like a cloak.

Issue #5 will be available soon at Athenaeum, Amsterdam

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March recommendationssurtitled on thursdays in amsterdam

15 – 31 may stadsschouwburg amsterdam

tour until 20 june | tga.nl

Food: NabeDo as the Japanese do and make nabe. Invite your friends to bring leftover veg-gies and have a healthy, hearty meal together. All you need is a broth, some cabbage and mushrooms. Eat some nabe; add onions, cilantro and sweet po-tato, and eat some more. If you still have a few bucks left, throw in some udon and tofu or meat. Itadakimasu.

www.thekitchn.com/cooking-japanese-nabemono-106649

Food: Cooking with dog

Because this dog makes better sushi than you do. He also has better hair days.

www.youtube.com/user/cookingwithdog

Food: Inside the bento box

As with everything in Japan, lunch is just as outstanding as Harajuku fash-ion and themed karaoke parties. No old brown paper bag with smudgy cheese sandwiches, but colourful boxes with an even more colourful meals inside – think anime figures, cute animals or even Ozzy Osbourne. Bento, the Japa-nese word for lunch packed in a box, turns food into art – with rice, seaweed, fruit & veg and proteins like egg as the main ingredients. Makes even picky eat-ers hungry for more.

Check out eatzybitzy.com for some intrigu-ing lunch creations by food blogger and bento artist Samantha Lee.

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May recommendationssurtitled on thursdays in amsterdam

15 – 31 may stadsschouwburg amsterdam

tour until 20 june | tga.nl

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Music: Sapphire SlowsRecommended by Big Love

Every month we ask someone who inspires us to share something they are passion-ate about. This month we give the floor to Big Love, a Tokyo-based independent record store, label and promoter. They’ve been stocking our mags for years, so we were pretty sure they would know exactly what we were looking for, like fellow Tokyo local Kinuko Hiramatsu, who moonlights as Casio nightingale Sapphire Slows.

After being confronted by the 311 Japan earthquake and tsunami in 2011, one girl quit her job search in the last year of university and instead decided to start making mu-sic. Three months later, Kinuko Hiramatsu sent her fresh Sapphire Slows demos to two labels – the first, Tokyo’s Big Love, and the second, Los Angeles imprint Not Not Fun. Both labels quickly snapped her up and offered her a home in each country. Sap-phire Slows’ debut full-length album, Allegoria, is an amalgam of sound, absorbing the varied influences of alternative, dance, acid and darkness, which float around a firm foundation of pop. It’s not just her records that have got us gushing: she’s an avid record collector herself and drops by every week to sample the latest arrivals. She doesn’t just spin the oldies, but has a keen eye for new records too. It’s a lot easier to talk about the classics, but this neo-Tokyo girl is only obsessed with the future. Well, almost: she’s more obsessed with records (and sometimes tapes) too.

www.bigloverecords.jp

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Have you ever been to Japan?No… But if I had the chance to go

I definitely would. I wrote my bachelor’s thesis on Kafka on the Shore by Japanese author Haruki Murakami and have been interested in Japanese culture ever since. What would you do, if you could go there tomorrow?

In the morning I’d go shopping for a harajuki girl outfit (just to be able to blend in as a 5'8'' blond). I would have some sushi for breakfast and then go to a karaoke bar. After that I would go see a Japanese band, and in the evening, club-bing at the strangest venue I could find.What kind of music are you listening to at the moment?

I’m sitting at the office of Studio/K

and we’re playing ‘Stwo – Lovin u’, a song by a French DJ we’ve booked for an upcoming party.What’s the first record you bought?

Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not. Yes, I had a huge crush on Alex Turner.Your first ever music-related memory?

‘Smurfenhouse’ and going mental to it as a four-year-old. What’s your favourite pastime?

Dancing. I tried to become a pro-fessional dancer for a while, but it was too hard to keep it up next to academics. What does an ideal lazy Sunday look like for you?

I’m thinking of the Rhye video for ‘Open’.Any guilty pleasures?

I still really like stuffed animals and children’s movies. But I don’t really feel all that guilty about it actually.Have you experienced any regrets re-cently?

Today? Not waking up on time. What kind of music makes you cry?

Old romantic songs with poetic lyr-ics, but also more recent beauties like ‘Song for Zula’ by Phosphorescent. Which future Subbacultcha! show are you looking forward to?

Muziekgebouw at Trouw: Ben Frost + Nisennenmondai.

We Saw You: Spotted at Subbacultcha!Photo by Mariska Kerpel

Name: Lianda MeijerAge: 23Spotted at: Forest Swords and Lem-on Trip at OT301 on 03 AprilHome: AmsterdamKeywords: literature, PR/marketing Studio/K, United Kingdom lover, dancer, NME magazine, mint tea, salmon, Oscar Wilde, historical books on 19th and early 20th cen-tury, impressionismZodiac sign: Pisces

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ZZZ’s

Skype interview by Charlotte van Zanten

Photos shot by Simone Dedola and Steve Freeman in Osaka, Japan

We hear about bands from Tokyo all the time, but there’s rarely word from Osaka. What is the underground scene like there?

It’s very different from Tokyo. While Tokyo is comparable to met-ropolitan cities like New York, filled with international people, Osaka doesn’t have that atmosphere. Instead it has a very strong authentic identity, a city full of friendly but weird individuals. There is a big underground music scene in Osaka with lots of punk rock bands. How do you spend your time when you’re not playing?

I serve sake and shõchõ a few times a week. The other two work in a call centre and a pharmacy. This is how we save money to go on tour. It’s been hard for us to keep our jobs, because there’s always that moment in which we have to explain to our bosses that we’re leaving for a few weeks. It’s easier now that, we’ve all been working at the same place for a long time and our bosses have come to understand.

Plucked from obscurity following a chance encounter with Sonic Youth guitarist

Thurston Moore at a Miami noise show, Japanese trio ZZZ’s cut their razor-edged

post-punk on two long US tours well before they made a dent back home. We caught

up with bassist Yukari during a brief touring respite to figure out just how three childhood friends from a small town on the

outskirts of Osaka could end up making such a finely-tuned racket

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The Japan Issue. Interview

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Do you work late?Not too late. I take the last train home.

Supposedly the only reason the public transport in Japan quits around midnight is so that people can finally get away from the office. If not, bosses would keep their employees all night.

Sometimes we too work like the salaryman, but it’s because we have a dream. If we want to tour the world, we need money. The prob-lem in Japan is that everybody seems to be completely overworked. Japanese people take their jobs seriously and they feel obligated.How do your families respond to their daughters’ rock’n’roll lives?

Luckily our families understand our lifestyle. My father is also a musician, he encourages me to walk my own path. The same goes for the others; we’ve been playing for ten years and they’re all supportive.The love doesn’t really seem to come through in your lyrics. You sing about dystopia and suicide; why is that?

We have a first rule when we write lyrics: we only sing about reality and never about love or about personal discomforts. With our music, we try to touch on current social conditions. Everybody has his or her own reality, but we think it’s important to talk about the problems we see. We show people our reality. The songs are often about the dark side of people and they usually have a theme. ‘Dystopia’, for example, came from a movie. It was inspired by Blade Runner. Today the guitarist and me came up with a new song about ‘Karma’, inspired by the film Enter The Void.Is it about doing drugs?

No, it’s not about drugs, it’s about a near death experience. We loved that scene in the toilet.

ZZZ’s. Continued

ZZZ’s play on 16 May at De Nieuwe Anita in Amsterdam. The show is free for Sub-bacultcha! members.

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‘we only sing about reality and never about love or about personal discomforts’

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Love may be Damon McMahon’s fourth release as Amen Dunes, but it marks the

first time he’s turned the page on his improvisational, solo affairs. Steeped in

traditional song and recorded with

Colin Stetson and members of Godspeed! You Black Emperor, it’s an album crafted with precision and purpose. We talked to

Damon about the ultimate devotional love, punk mentality and Japanese aesthetics

Amen Dunes

Interview by Anna Berkhof

Photos shot by Cait Oppermann in New York, USA

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You put the lyrics of the first song of your new album on Facebook so that people can read along while listening. Why is that impor-tant to you?

Every little part of Amen Dunes to me is important. Even if the music sounds simple, the only reason it works is because I’m so care-ful with all the details. Lyrics for me tell you what the song means, and it’s a chance for people to get their own meaning out of it as well. So I wanted to make sure people read the lyrics.The word in the title of your new album is used in so many different ways, it’s both kitschy and very serious. Despite being so boundless, the word hasn’t lost its meaning. What do you mean by it here?

Well, I picked it for a real reason and then I picked it for a cheeky reason. The cheeky reason is that I’m on this label with all these kind of dark bands; everybody is trying to show that they’re more dark and more weird. I love the punk mentality, so I thought, What is the most punk thing I can do? The most punk thing I can do is to call it Love. It’s the least dark thing you can possibly say. So fuck all these people, I’m just gonna call it Love and see how it makes them uncomfortable. That’s why I chose it at first.And the real reason?

I think the real reason is the music – and like you said, it’s a very serious word. This is a very serious album for me. So for me love is not about having a crush on a blonde girl; for me it’s the kind of love that happens when you extinguish yourself. That’s what I’m interested in. I think there’s a certain kind of love that is ultimate. A love of self-lessness, devotion and self-sacrifice, like an empty cold force.What are some of the things you love most?

I love to eat. And I love going somewhere else. I love to travel. When I’m travelling a lot I feel like I’m free of a lot of my old ways of thinking. I’m free of my normal self.

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Speaking of travelling, have you ever been to Japan?

I’ve been several times. I used to live in China, and every time I went there I had to stop off in Japan, and I would take a few days to hang out there. I’m a big admirer of Japanese music and literature. Japanese people express that same idea of love I’m talking about. They have this devotional and selfless power in their art.

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‘I think there’s a certain kind of love that is ultimate. A love of selflessness,

devotion and self-sacrifice, like an empty cold force’

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Amen Dunes. Continued

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What kind of Japanese music and literature are you into?

In general I’m just really fond of the Japanese aesthetic sense. There’s this book that I love called In Praise of Shadows [by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki red]. You should check it out. It’s about the idea of nega-tion or limitation of beauty to reveal true depth. The golden Buddha is placed in the corner of the monastery, where there’s no sunlight. Things like that. I take that same approach in my music. Also there’s one Japanese band in particular that I really like: Les Rallizes Dénu-dés. They make the most incredibly free and vicious music – cold, devotional and spiritual. Also they’re really loud. Do you think living in Japan would change the kind of music you make? What would it sound like?

If I lived in Japan I would make really, really quiet music. Because everywhere around me there would be simplicity and elegance. In Japan there’s aesthetic elegance and there’s emotional elegance. There’s just grace to people. I think if I were in that environ-ment I would learn to compose myself.

Amen Dunes plays on 23 May at Dokzaal in Amsterdam. The show is free for Sub-bacultcha! members.

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‘If I lived in Japan I would make really, really quiet music. Because

everywhere around me there would be simplicity and elegance’

The Japan Issue. Photo Essay

Like the Y2K bug that inspired their name, Tokyo-based, all-female instrumental trio Nisennenmondai are the stuff of legends. Upon seeing them perform, Battles once remarked, ‘they made us look like idiots’. Which is to say, these girls know how to make some noise. Drummer Hime (ひめ)

sets the tone with a pulsating beat, while Masako’s (まさこ) angular guitars swirl

Nisennenmondaiby Shoko Matsuki

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The Japan Issue. Photo Essay

around and bass player Zai (ざい) locks everything into a tight groove. The three met at university some 15 years ago and haven’t stopped making music since. We asked their friend Shoko Matsuki to follow the girls on a routine day in their hometown of Tokyo, passing by their favourite shrine, dropping in on their favourite bar and catching a few

snapshots amidst the cherry blossoms

Nisennenmondaiby Shoko Matsuki

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Nisennenmondai play alongside Ben Frost on 20 May at Trouw in Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.

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The Morning After: Bird on the WirePhotos shot by Annegien van Doorn on Thursday, 03 April at 11.11 am

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The Morning After is a monthly photo series depicting the scene of a band’s post-slumber lodgings the day after their Subbacultcha! show. Here’s how

Bird on the Wire left their home in the wake of Bright Lights Big City.

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Featured Artist

Heleen Peeters &Masayo MatsudaHeleen Peeters (Belgium, 1988) and

Masayo Matsuda (Japan, 1980) present their collaborative series The Atlas of Peter

Schlemihl. It’s based on an 1814 story about a man who strikes a deal with the devil, selling his shadow for a bottomless wallet. Guided by memory, the series travels from real to imaginary spaces, an intricate narrative in which fact and fiction overlap effortlessly. In this, photography is not just a technical apparatus that produces fixed images, but a method to imprint light onto an unstable support, giving way to a brief manifestation

of ephemeral phenomena

www.heleenpeeters.comwww.masayomatsuda.com

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Who are you?This is possibly the most difficult

question one could ask. We thought about it for a long time yet still don’t know the answer. Perhaps that’s why we decided to make a series about Peter Schlemihl, a man who was undergoing an identity crisis...What’s your story?

We met in 2006 while studying photography at the University of the Arts in London. From the start, both of us were intrigued by ques-tions such as: What is photography? What makes a photograph a photo-graph? It was a little bit later, during the Shadow Catchers exhibition at the V&A museum in London, that we became inspired to make a project together. Seeing how some of these artists challenged the no-tion of photography triggered us to create something of our own.What about the story of Peter Schlemihl attracted you?

Albert von Chamisso wrote the story of Peter Schlemihl based on his own biography. Chamisso was a traveller, he had no fixed home as he was forced to continuously move during the French Revolution. When we were foreign students in London we learned a lot about our

own origins and culture. Being far away from home for such a long time made us question where we belonged. Was home the place we grew up or the place we live now? We thought the story of Peter Schlemihl would therefore be a good starting point for a collabora-tive piece.What is your interest in photogra-phy?

We are interested in photography that addresses global topics and simultaneously questions the func-tion of the image and the construc-tion of subjectivity in contemporary culture. The camera is a tool that stands in relationship to the eye. The eye stands in connection with the viewer’s intellectual experience. The result is that every perceived optical phenomenon by means of intellectual association transforms into a personal conceptual image. Essentially this describes ‘vision’ in the broadest sense of the word. We like the kind of photography that takes this stand into consideration when making a body of work. That is why in our own practice we address photography from a more abstract angle; we hope to expand the medium’s dynamic.

Featured Artist: Peeters & MatsudaInterview by Floor Kortman

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Earlier this year we saw the release of a new collection of short stories by Lorrie Moore, called Bark. It had been a while: more than 15 years since the best-selling Birds of America – and 30 years since she finished most of the stories that would make up her début, the per-fect and, for this column, perfectly titled, Self-Help.

Self-Help is full of helpful stuff. ‘How to Be an Other Woman’, for example: ‘What are you going to do?’ / ‘I don't know.’ Or ‘How to Talk to Your Mother (Notes)’, which starts at the end, in 1982 – ‘Without her, for years now, murmur […], “What?” “Huh?” “Shush now”’ – and goes back, via 1972 – ‘No Mom, it’s me, Virginia’ – to the beginning 1939: ‘[…] she knows it when you try to talk to her’. There’s ‘The Kid’s Guide to Divorce’, ‘A

Guide to the Tenor of Love’ and the broader strokes of help in ‘What Is Seized’, ‘How’, and ‘Go Like This’.

To quote a quote, ‘Everybody has a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay,’ with which Moore seems to agree in the opening line of the penultimate story, ‘How To Be a Writer’: ‘First, try to be something, anything else.’ First, be a reader and help yourself to a copy of Self-Help.

Books: Self-Help Shelf No 2By Marc van der Holst. Image by Lonneke van der Palen

Self-Helpby Lorrie Moore

Every month we offer a literary helping hand with the bigger questions in life

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Self-Help Shelf: No1: I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon, by Philip K. Dick | No2: Self-Help, by Lorrie Moore

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FashionBy Mandy Sharabani. Photos shot by Isolde Woudstra

Hailing from the Pacific Northwest, Soft Metals make danceable syn-thetic pop that draws from fellow Portlandians Glass Candy and flirts with the darker edges of the club. The Captured Tracks duo formed this month's fashion inspiration for Heta Salkolahti, violinist in Utrecht-based indie-folk act Town of Saints

How did Soft Metals inspire your elegant outfit?At first when I thought about their analogue sound, ’80s old-school came to my mind. However, what inspired me more was granny fashion.Granny fashion? You’ve got me curious.The 1920s dress that I’m wearing belongs to my dear friend’s very stylish grandmother from Finland, which has emotional value for me. I

combined it with a black lace body, which I thought had an ’80s feel.Layers of time, I see. And what about the eccentric jacket?I found a simple brown jacket at MamaMini in Groningen, but I felt it needed some decoration. I had this woollen sweater which shrank in the wash but I loved the embroi-dered shoulder patches and so I took them off and applied them to the jacket. I’m a fan of ‘knutseling’!What would the granddad version of your analogue outfit be?I imagine a springy, happy, pastel ’80s glitter suit with house slippers as a finishing touch.

Wanna go shopping for a €15 outfit? Email us at [email protected].

Soft Metals play on 22 May at OT301, Amsterdam. The show is free for Subba-cultcha! members.

€15 OutfitEvery month we give €15 to someone to

compose a complete outfit for a good night out. Yes, quite the challenge

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Heta's total budget spent: €10.50Dress: €0 - belongs to my friend’s grandmother / lace body: €0 - from a friend /

customised jacket: €4 - MamaMini, Groningen / shoes: €4.50 - MamaMini, Groningen / tights (not used): €2 - Flying tiger, Rotterdam / nail polish: €0 - Own

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Food: Cooking With...By Zofia Ciechowska. Image by Carlijn Potma

Xiu Xiu’s Shayna Dunkelman was raised in Tokyo on her Jewish American dad’s chopped liver and her Chinese Indonesian mother’s nasi goreng. Glancing forlornly at her classmates’ beautiful bento boxes, Shayna took matters into her own hands, bought some Japanese cookbooks and showed everyone how it’s done.

‘Hiyashi Chuka is something quick I like to make for lunch, it translates as “chilled Chinese”. It’s a super easy cold ramen noodle dish, and you can decorate it with whatever you have in your fridge. The sauce is the only thing that is pretty consistent. Restaurants around Tokyo always have signs advertising it for lunch in the spring. Whenever I make it I pick some fresh tomatoes off my sunny fire escape in New York and I add them in.’

How to make Shayna’s Hiyashi Chuka

• Mixwater,vinegarandsugarinabowl,heatitupinthemicrowavesothesugardissolves.Next,addthesoysauce,lemon,sesameoilandabitofblackpepperandstirwell.Setaside.

• Getyoursharpestknifeandsliceupyourcucumber,tomato,crabsticks,chicken,omelette,avocado,seaweedandlettuceintofinestrips.

• Cookyournoodlesaccordingtotheinstructionsonthepack;freshonesarebest,butdryonesarealsofine.Oncedrained,rinseincoldwater.

• Arrangethenoodlesinaservingbowlandneatlyarrangeyoursaladingredientsinasunnyringontop.Addyoursauceanddecoratewithpickledginger.

Xiu Xiu play on 18 May at WORM in Rot-terdam. The show is free for Subbacult-cha! members.

Xiu XiuEvery month we ask an artist to share a

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For the salad: egg noodles

cucumbertomato

crabsticksshredded omelette

pickled gingerchickenhamavocadoseaweed (wakame)lettuce

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New Releases

• Nikki • Nack •

the new albumout 5th may

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Protomartyr Under Color of Official Right

Hardly Art

The cover of this Detroit post-punk four-piece’s temperamental and rough hewn first album featured a pensive-looking old man and the ti-tle No Passion All Technique. A snarl-ing German Shepherd adorns the cover of their new album. Given their penchant for irony, it is unsurprising-ly more dispassionate-sounding and dexterous than their debut. It’s also unique and pretty fucking terrific.

Amen Dunes Love

Sacred Bones

Damon McMahon has made some stunning music as Amen Dunes, but his early work could be overshad-owed by its lo-fi production and a bit unfocused. Maybe he was just being shy, maybe he just wasn’t that into it. On his new album Love, he sounds like someone who finally feels con-fident and moved enough to shout from the rooftops, and it’s certainly got me swooning.

Chad Vangaalen Shrink Dust

Sub Pop

Given his fascination with dreams and his reclusive existence, it makes sense that Chad VanGaalen doesn’t really make giant sonic leaps be-tween albums, but rather floats fasci-natedly along as he explores his own inner world. Shrink Dust represents another noteworthy episode in Van-Gaalen’s musical dream diary: occa-sionally puzzling, occasionally pro-found, but always rife with mystery and awful beauty.

Pure X AngelFat Possum

While Pure X vented a lot of pent-up frustration on 2013’s Crawling Up the Stairs, their latest is an amorous affair best heard in flagrante delicto. Though Angel is heavenly indeed, I find myself missing the misery. Sounds like a per-sonal problem, you might be thinking to yourself, and you’re probably right, but we can all take comfort in the fact that Pure X make great albums whether they’re happy or miserable.

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Music Reviews

WoodsWith Light and

With LoveWoodsist

Psych-pop mainstays Woods’ new al-bum is their most thought-out and first recorded in a proper studio. As such, it lacks a bit of the sponta-neous, ecstatic je ne sais quoi that made 2012’s Bend Beyond so ex-traordinary. Nonetheless, they fill these songs with enough delightful-ly intricate guitar solos and uplifting vocals to make With Light and With Love plenty luminous and loveable.

TEEN The Way and Color

Carpark

Much like their eponym, TEEN seem determined to experiment and rein-vent themselves in their ongoing quest to become a grown-up band. On their new album, they have a sort of invert-ed ugly duckling makeover moment, in that they shed all traces of obvious ac-cessibility and derivativeness in favour of an inspired eclecticism that will to-tally win over the nerdy guy they should have liked all along.

Young Magic Breathing Statues

Carpark

On their new album, this Brooklyn duo reigns in the psych rock tendencies of their earlier work. While there’s no shortage of acts pairing sultry female vocals with dystopian beats these days, Young Magic avoid many of what some would consider the pitfalls of their synth pop peers, and at its best, Breathing Statues succeeds at breathing life into what can often be a cold and somewhat lifeless genre.

tUnE-yArDsNikki Nack

4AD

The success of Merrill Garbus’ first two albums as tUnE-yArDs was built upon unbridled exuberance, unrelent-ing creativity and unrefined natural talent. Stymied by success-induced self-doubt, for her new album Garbus decided to go back to square one, taking singing, drum and dance les-sons. She even read a book entitled How to Write a Hit Song. All that hard work pays off, for Nikki Nack repre-sents another huge leap forward.

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The Wind RisesHayao Miyazaki

It was a sad day for anime in particular and film culture in general when Hayao Miyazaki announced his retirement. As the face of Studio Ghibli and the brain behind such animation classics as Oscar winner Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke, Miyazaki has become the poster boy for anime – hell, he’s become the poster boy for Japanese cinema. His swan song, The Wind Rises, is appropriately melancholic; a melodrama about war, true love, life, death – not to mention, aviation. It’s a pity that the film lacks some of the more fantastical elements of Miyazaki’s previous works, but true fans will enjoy the ride nonetheless. Bring your tissues to the theatre!Release date 01 May.

When you’ve finished this one, start watching...

• Hungryforsomemoreunconventionalanimation?It’snotjustJapanthatdeliversthosecrazy ’toons. The first Betty Boop shorts prove that pre-Hays Code Hollywood knew its way around weirdness as well. Well worth exploring on online video channels.

• Japanesecinemahasonehellofarep,buthowmanyJapanesemovieshaveyouactuallyseen?OfcourseAkiraKurosawaisashoe-inwhenitcomestocheckingoff must-see directors, but do dig into Seijun Suzuki’s films as well. The likes of Branded to Kill and Pistol Opera combine gangster cool, a stunning aesthetic and psychedelic surrealism.

New FilmsBy Basje Boer

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EnemyDenis Villeneuve - 2013

Denis Villeneuve (Incendie, Prison-ers) breathes new life into the dop-pelgänger motif with this genuinely puzzling turn. Jake Gyllenhaal ex-cels as both a teacher who seems saddened by life itself and a B-mov-ie actor who’s pretty full of it. When they meet they’re equally weirded out and intrigued by their identical appearance – but then things get really strange. This is one you’re go-ing to want to discuss afterwards.Release date 29 May

Blue RuinJeremy Saulnier - 2014

Jeremy Saulnier may be an indie film-maker but he's Steven Spielberg at heart. His Blue Ruin, which was se-lected for Cannes’ Director's Fort-night, gives a unique twist to the re-

venge flick in a way that reminds us of Spielberg’s bold Duel and the Coen brothers' Blood Simple. Pro-tagonist Dwight tries his hand at re-venge, but lacking the cool of your usual movie hero, his saga is mostly messy. Highly suspenseful, at times funny and most of all very original.Release date 22 May

And for couch potatoes...by Gert Verbeek

Blind Woman’sCurse

Teruo Ishii - 1970

This recently re-released Japa-nese cult classic is a saga about a feisty girl with a dragon tattoo who is caught in the middle of feud-ing yakuza clans. Expect ballets of bloody sword fights interlaced with silly interludes and sideshow horror.

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New Music: Solar Year

soundcloud.com/solaryear

SolarYear(BenBordenandDavidEr-tel)havebecomepartoftheepony-mouslycoolMontrealmusicfamilywithabunchofnew-ageelectro-poptracksundertheirbelt,nottomentionsomeguestvocalsfromtheGrimesgoddessherself.Theduohavebeenheardtocalltheirmusic‘psalmgaze’,somethingprobablysaidtongue-in-cheekbutim-mediatelypouncedonbyrabidmusicjournalistslikemyself–allbecauseofaGregorianchantsample,ha!CheckouttheirBrotherhoodEP,availableforfreedownloadontheArbutusRecordsweb-siteandbeonthelookoutfortheirfull-length,Waverly,whichisduetoappearattheendofJuneonSplendour.

Film: Lydia Ainsworth

www.lydiaainsworth.com

BrooklynmusicladyLydiaAinsworthissimplythrilling.Lydia,ifyou’reread-ingthis,comeandhavepizzawithme!Comeandhavepizzawiththeworld!ThisformerstudentofJoanLaBarba-rahascomposedforfilmmakers,visualartists,poetsandcontemporarydancegroups,puttingherattheepicentreofartisticexpression,makingherthecoolestladyeverrr.Lydia’sotherworld-lyvocalsareaccompaniedbyastringquartet,drummers,keyboardsandthisbrilliantself-devouringfast-foodcollageanimation.Listenandbehappy.

Those Foreign Kids: 01 SeptemberThose Foreign Kids: 01 September

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New Music: Solar Year

soundcloud.com/solaryear

SolarYear(BenBordenandDavidEr-tel)havebecomepartoftheepony-mouslycoolMontrealmusicfamilywithabunchofnew-ageelectro-poptracksundertheirbelt,nottomentionsomeguestvocalsfromtheGrimesgoddessherself.Theduohavebeenheardtocalltheirmusic‘psalmgaze’,somethingprobablysaidtongue-in-cheekbutim-mediatelypouncedonbyrabidmusicjournalistslikemyself–allbecauseofaGregorianchantsample,ha!CheckouttheirBrotherhoodEP,availableforfreedownloadontheArbutusRecordsweb-siteandbeonthelookoutfortheirfull-length,Waverly,whichisduetoappearattheendofJuneonSplendour.

Film: Lydia Ainsworthwww.lydiaainsworth.com

BrooklynmusicladyLydiaAinsworthissimplythrilling.Lydia,ifyou’reread-ingthis,comeandhavepizzawithme!Comeandhavepizzawiththeworld!ThisformerstudentofJoanLaBarba-rahascomposedforfilmmakers,visualartists,poetsandcontemporarydancegroups,puttingherattheepicentreofartisticexpression,makingherthecoolestladyeverrr.Lydia’sotherworld-lyvocalsareaccompaniedbyastringquartet,drummers,keyboardsandthisbrilliantself-devouringfast-foodcollageanimation.Listenandbehappy.self-de-vouringfast-foodcollageanimation.

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Things to dothis month

Music, art and film in May 2014

Including all Subbacultcha! events

Jerry Paper: 09 May - Poortgebouw, Rotterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members

tickets: melkweg.nl

king kHAn AnD tHe sHRines

FligHt FAcilities

tHomAs AzieR

mAc DemARco

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LIVERPOOL INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF PSYCHEDELIA & EFFENAAR PRESENT -----------

6 + 7 JUNE 2014

WOODEN SHJIPS -------- SUUNS -------- SPECTRUM --------HOOKWORMS -------- DISAPPEARS -------- THE GROWLERSPINK MOUNTAINTOPS -------- FÖLLAKZOID -------- TERAKAFT -------- NIGHT BEATS -------- ELEPHANT STONE -------- THE OSCILLATION -------- MUGSTAR -------- NISENNENMONDAI -------- COSMONAUTS -------- GREAT YTENE -------- CROWS -------- PETER J TAYLOR BIG BAND -------- WEIRD OWL -------- DANS DANS -------- THE COUNTERBLAST EXPERIMENT PRESENTED BY ROCKET RECORDINGS:TEETH OF THE SEA -------- GNOD -------- ANTHROPROPHH -------- TERMINAL CHEESECAKE-------- LAY LLAMAS -------- FUZZ CLUB PRESENTS:SONIC JESUS -------- COSMIC DEAD -------- WALL OF DEATH -------- RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON -------- THE UNDERGROUND YOUTH -------- THE WANDS -------- THE WOKEN TREES -------- FITZ -------- AL LOVER -------- B.O.B -------- LIVERPOOL PZYK PZOUNDSYSTEM-------- BERNIE CONNOR'S SOUND OF MUSIC -------- POMPONETTE -------- CHRIS ROCKET -------- WALTER ROADBURN -------- WIEKES --------

-------- A THROBBING LABORATORY OF BANDS, DJS, VISUAL HAPPENINGS AND KALEIDOSCOPIC EXPERIMENTS --------

2 days / 30+ bands / 2 indoor stages and a garden /location: Effenaar, Eindhoven Facebook.com/EindhovenPsychLab / Twitter.com/EhovenPsychLabTickets, Hotel Packages + more info: eindhovenpsychlab.com

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Woolen Men01 May - dB’s, Utrecht

20.30 | €7 | Free for membersTheWoolenMenareDIYtoatee–self-releasingaslewofEPsinbetweenwhatseemslikeincessanttouringandga-ragejams.Theresult–recordedontape,ofcourse–isinsomewayspredictablylo-fi.ButitisundeniablehowoftenthePortlandtriohitsthemarkwiththeirfinelyhonedpopnuggets.Wecanonlyimaginehowtheholytrinitythatcom-binestocreatethesegloriouslymessytunesmustworktheirmagiclive.

Vertical Scratchers + Bed Rugs

02 May - Tivoli Spiegelbar, Utrecht20.30 | €8 | Free for members

BoastinganEnonfounder,atouringmemberofCaribouandaMikeWattcol-laborator,VerticalScratchers’backcat-

alogueisnotshortonalt-popoddities.Theirdebutalbum,Daughter of Every-thing,hasearnedhighpraisefromtheblogosphereandlookstopropelbothon-wardtogreaterthings.Baby-voicedAnt-werpfour-pieceBedRugsshareapalat-ableindie-popaesthetic,togetherwithapenchantformicro-songs.

Ensemble Economique + Jerry Paper

+ Tonstartssbandht 09 May - Poortgebouw, Rotterdam

20.30 | €5 | Free for members

BrianPyleisfromCalifornia,butinthekindofwayBrianWilsonwasfromCali-fornia–ableak,outsiderexistenceatoddswithallthesunbakedrevelry.Un-likeTheBeachBoysthough,hisEnsem-bleofyearningiswellandtrulysurface

On the following pages you’ll find all of this month’s Subbacultcha! events. You

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LIVERPOOL INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF PSYCHEDELIA & EFFENAAR PRESENT -----------

6 + 7 JUNE 2014

WOODEN SHJIPS -------- SUUNS -------- SPECTRUM --------HOOKWORMS -------- DISAPPEARS -------- THE GROWLERSPINK MOUNTAINTOPS -------- FÖLLAKZOID -------- TERAKAFT -------- NIGHT BEATS -------- ELEPHANT STONE -------- THE OSCILLATION -------- MUGSTAR -------- NISENNENMONDAI -------- COSMONAUTS -------- GREAT YTENE -------- CROWS -------- PETER J TAYLOR BIG BAND -------- WEIRD OWL -------- DANS DANS -------- THE COUNTERBLAST EXPERIMENT PRESENTED BY ROCKET RECORDINGS:TEETH OF THE SEA -------- GNOD -------- ANTHROPROPHH -------- TERMINAL CHEESECAKE-------- LAY LLAMAS -------- FUZZ CLUB PRESENTS:SONIC JESUS -------- COSMIC DEAD -------- WALL OF DEATH -------- RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON -------- THE UNDERGROUND YOUTH -------- THE WANDS -------- THE WOKEN TREES -------- FITZ -------- AL LOVER -------- B.O.B -------- LIVERPOOL PZYK PZOUNDSYSTEM-------- BERNIE CONNOR'S SOUND OF MUSIC -------- POMPONETTE -------- CHRIS ROCKET -------- WALTER ROADBURN -------- WIEKES --------

-------- A THROBBING LABORATORY OF BANDS, DJS, VISUAL HAPPENINGS AND KALEIDOSCOPIC EXPERIMENTS --------

2 days / 30+ bands / 2 indoor stages and a garden /location: Effenaar, Eindhoven Facebook.com/EindhovenPsychLab / Twitter.com/EhovenPsychLabTickets, Hotel Packages + more info: eindhovenpsychlab.com

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level:horrorsoundtrackambience,ago-raphobicsoundscapesandeeriedigitaldeterioration.JerryPaper,ontheotherhand,billshimselfasamariner,multi-millionrecordlabelsigningandspiritu-albeing.Onlyonethingisforsure,hemakesoddballlo-fipopsongsthatevery-onecanenjoy.Lastup,brotherlyduoTon-startssbandhtmakemusicthat’sslightlymorecomprehensiblethantheirname–similarlystumbledtogetherwithoverlap-pingdelaysandshambolicpercussion.

Richard Dawson11 May - WORM, Rotterdam


AlreadyalocallegendinhishometownofNewcastle,ahandfulofwell-receivedfestivalappearanceshavehelpedshinetheinternationalspotlightonRichardDawson.ThoughhisisanunmistakablyBritishbrandoffolk,heventuresbeyond

theboundariesofthepurelytradition-al,incorporatingavant-gardeandpopel-ementsintohisuniquestyleofguitarplaying,andhedelivershishistory-mind-edlyricswitharuggednessandintensi-tythathaveearnedhimcomparisonstoNeutralMilkHotel’sJeffMangum.

HF Young Academy ft. Gardland

15 May - Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

tba | €tba | Free for membersThesecondofHollandFestivalYoungAcademy’slectureseriesatLooiersgracht60rearsitshead.Likethefirst,it’sde-signedtogiveyouarudimentaryartisticandcriticalskillset,theideabeing,whenyouturnuptoHF'sshowslateron–oranyothershowsforthatmatter–youcanbragaboutyourlearnèdinterpreta-tionstoallofyourless-educatedpeers.


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Followingthelecture,Aussienewcom-ersGardlandgiveusyetanothertasteofRVNG’sfree-flowingstreamofimpro-vised,hardwareelectronics.Knownforlockingthemselvesupfortendaysatatime,theirsoundisanorganic,heavilytexturedtakeondubby,dystopiantechno.

ZZZ’s + Fenster16 May - De Nieuwe Anita,

Amsterdam20.00 | €8 | Free for members

ZZZ’sarethreejagged,hissingconso-nantsfromJapan.Theirsoundisacon-centratedracketofrazor-edgedpost-punkfedthroughanoisefilterthatsomehowfailstodulltheirsharpness.ZZZ'spaletteisrich;theirhardknocksoftenstretchoutintomenacinggroovesthatsuckyouinandsliceyouupatthesametime.SupportingactFensterareanNY-BerlinfusionduowhosedreampopmeldsbleakAmericanawithnoisyjams.

Xiu Xiu18 May - WORM, Rotterdam


XiuXiuhavemanagedtomaintainaleg-endarystandardofavant-gardebrutal-ityandadevotedfollowingthoughouttheir12-yearcareer.Withapenchantfor

theabject,therapid,paralysingsynthpunchesandStewart’sanguishedvocalsoftenborderonbandslikeWolfParadeandShearwater.It’satestamenttoboththecontinuingindiesensibilityandun-flinchinggruesomenessofStewartthatnewrecordAngel Guts: Red Classroom issimultaneouslyrazorsharpandmore-ishasever.

Muziekgebouw at Trouw: Ben Frost + Nisennenmondai

20 May - TrouwAmsterdam19.30 | €19 | Free for members

Reykjavík-baseddirector-composerBenFrosthasallthehighbrowstripestobetakenseriouslyintheworldofclassical,experimentalelectronicmusic.Sincehismovetothe‘icey’rock,he’sbeenasconsistentlyacclaimedasheisprolific.2014seesthereleaseofhislatestfull-lengthA U R O R A,whichpromisestobeastenseandevocativeashisprevi-ouswork.IfBenFrostiselectronicmu-sicfuture,JapanesetrioNisennenmon-dairepresentitsdistantpast.Shadesofkrautrock,post-punkandindustri-alweavethroughadensemaelstromofguitarandpercussionresultinginasim-meringmassofnoise.

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Soft Metals + Sally Dige

22 May - OT301, Amsterdam20.30 | €8 | Free for members

LA-basedduoSoftMetalshavebeenmakingmusictogethersince2009.Muchliketheirtitularmaterials,theirmusicismoreductilethanitsseeming-lysteelyexteriorimplies.Anamalgamofinfluences,SoftMetals’songsareforgedintodarkandretro-soundingelectronicpopreminiscentofamoresinisterGlassCandy.Danish-CanadianSallyDigemightjuststealtheshowwithherownsassy,seductivetakeondarksynthpop.

Scott & Charlene’s Wedding

22 May - Rotown, Rotterdam21.00 | €9 | Free for members

CraigDermody,anunshakablyAustra-lianNewYorker,wasteslittlebreathonanythingotherthanhiscontinualstrug-glewithemigréstatus.ThoughhisNYturnbringsoodlesofLouReeddrawl,it’s theMelbourneliltthatshinesthroughmoststrongly.Thiscombinationmayseemuncannytoyanks,butit'sahome-comingforalongtraditionofjanglingOceanicindierock,andonethatDermo-dynailswithanendearingmixofcon-fessionaldetailandself-deprecation.

Amen Dunes23 May - Dokzaal, Amsterdam20.00 | €8 | Free for members

SincehisreturnfromBeijing,DamonMcMahon’sreleasedaseriesofjaw-drop-pingrecords.2011’sThrough Donkey Jaw foundtheskeletonsofearlyideasflesh-ingoutintobeautiful,benumbinglo-fipop,whileitschallengingfollow-upSpoil-erwasaseriesofcompiledexperiments.WithalittlehelpfromColinStetsonandmembersofGodspeedYou!BlackEmper-or,2014LPLove looks to be his most am-bitiousandentrancingworkyet.

Odonis Odonis28 May - OT301, Amsterdam20.30 | €8 | Free for members

TorontopunkoutfitOdonisOdonisarenotlackinginreferencepoints,theirknowing,hyphenatedrockspanningin-dustrial,surfandnoisewithoutbreak-ingasweat.Theirsophomorefull-lengthgraduallyebbsfromsharppunkshockstoashoegazeyflipside.Thoughmetallicwallsofnoiseandfranticenergyarenotcommonbedfellowswithrollickingdrummachinesanddreamyguitarstrums,it’s thishybridity–self-dubbed(tonguefirm-lyincheek)‘industrialpostgaze’–thatmakesforaschizophrenicliveexperi-encelikenoneother.

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Group Rhoda + Moon & Sun

30 May - Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Amsterdam


SanFrancisco’sMaraBarenbaum,akaGroupRhoda,makesrecordsthatsoundlikelullabiestoalonelyselfstuckinsideamachine.Anythingbutrobotic,hervoicesoundsmorehumanforitsfeebleechoingagainstamotorik,metallicex-terior.Thismechanicalshellspansmin-imalarrangementsofclockworkbeats,retro-futuristsynthsandunwindingar-peggios.MonicaTormellandherbandMoon&Sundisplaytheirnewaudio-visualprojectFromPalmTreesToPineTrees,whileahostofotherlooselytropi-calacts,Moemlien,SwedishartistNa-dineByrneandDJcollectivesVintageVoudouandFutureVintage,completethenight.

4DSOUND: Murcof31 May - Cruquiusweg 146,

Amsterdam20.30 | €20 | Free for members

Forthefifthandfinalofthisseriesofresidencies,Barcelona’sminimalelec-troniccomposerFernandoCoronawillbethemetaphoricalman-behind-the-curtainasthe4DSOUNDstudioun-leashesitsfuture-techcomplexityinanexperiencethatwillbepartDJset,partsoundinstallationandpartperformanceart.Asyoumovearoundthe4DSOUNDstudio,Murcof’sintricatelyunfoldingmusicwillmoveandhoveramongtheever-shiftingsoundstructureemittedby16pillars,allowingyoutoexperienceafullimmersion.

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The Wind Rises06 May - LantarenVenster, R'dam

tba | €9 | Free for members

Jirodreamsofbecomingapilot,butsincehe’snear-sighted,hesettlesforbecomingaflightengineer.WhileonthefasttracktobecomingJapan’smostinnovativedesigner,Jirowitnessessomeofthenation’smostimportantevents–beittheGreatKantoEarth-quakeof1923,WorldWarIIoratuber-culosisepidemic.Butthiswouldn’tbeatruehistoricdramaifJirodidn’tfalldeeplyinlove.Thisbeautifulandmelan-cholicanimeistheswansongofretiredanimelegendHayaoMiyazaki.Themas-terwillbemissed.

/Kult Film: 24 Hour Party People

21 May - Studio /K, Amsterdam21.30 | €9 | Free for members

CentredonManchester’sFactoryRe-cordsfrom1976-1992,24 Hour Par-ty PeoplefollowslabelbossTonyWil-son(playedtocomicperfectionbySteveCoogan)fromtherootsofpunkthroughIanCurtis'suicide,theriseandfallofNewOrder,andthebabylo-nianexcessesofacidhouse,theHa-ciendaandtheHappyMondays.It'saripehistoryforlegendsbothrealandurban,sodirectorMichaelWinterbot-tommakesnobonesaboutmixingfactandfiction.

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Cinema Concert: Phantom of the

Opera+ Cinema Remake Exhibition

25 May - EYE, Amsterdam16.00 | €tba | Free for members

RupertJulian’s Phantom of the Opera (1925)isatouchstoneofsilenthor-ror,madeparticularlyfamousbyLonChaney'sdepictionofthedeformedphantom.Youcancatchthisexten-sivelyre-madeclassicwithliveaccom-panimentaspartofEYE'sextendedprogrammefortheircurrentCinema Re-make Exhibition.Don’tforgettocheckouttheexhibitionitself,it’sfreeformembersontheday.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind27 May - Melkweg, Amsterdam19.00 | €9 | Free for members

OneofthegreatanimatedadventuresofJapanesecinema,Nausicaä of the Valley of the Windwillgodowninhis-toryasthestartingpointofHayaoMi-yazaki’slegendarycareer.Releasedin1984,thisfilmsoldenoughticketsforMiyazakitofoundhisownanima-tionstudio:theacclaimedStudioGhib-li.Partfairy-taleandpartsci-fi,thefilmtellsthestoryofNausicaä,princessofthepeopleoftheValleyoftheWind,whoroamtheuniversecenturiesaftertheEarthwasdestroyed.

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FoamKeizersgracht, Amsterdam

Open daily 10.00-18.00, Thur and Fri until 21.00

€9.50 | Free for members

Fourdiverseexhibitionsareonview,in-cludingRichardMosse’sacclaimedvideoinstallation The Enclaveaboutthecon-flictsituationinCongo.AlsoonviewareexhibitionsbyIranianphotographerKa-vehGolestan,OlaLankoandconceptualillusionistsTaiyoOnorato&NicoKrebs.

TENTWitte de Withstraat, Rotterdam

Open Tue-Sun 11.00-18.00€5 | Free for members

On17-18MayTENThostsRadio Calling,anexplorationof‘liveness’asthesimul-taneouspresenceofbothartistandau-dience,irrespectiveofplace.Artistsandexpertswilldiscusstherelevanceandinfluenceoftheinternetinliveperfor-manceandbroadcast,andthevalueofthedigitalexperienceofart.

Nederlands Fotomuseum

Wilhelminakade, Rotterdam Open Tue-Sun 10.00-17.00,

Sat and Sun from 11.00€9 | Free for members

TheFotomuseumofferstwoverydiffer-entexhibitionsinMay,VivianeSassen’sUMBRA,whichdisplaysheridiosyncrat-icuseofcolourandshadows,andacol-lectionofCarletonEWatkins’rarevin-tageprintsofso-calledMammothphotosfrom19th-centuryCalifornia.

LightnessMediamatic, Amsterdam

Open Wed-Sun 13.00-18.0019.00 | €8 | Free for members

Thisexhibitionisheretocounteroursea-sonaldepressionwithabitoffun.Elev-enweeks,11exhibitions,sixdanceper-formancesandplentyofpartying.SoforthoserainydaystheDutchspringbrings,gogetsomelightnessatMediamatic.


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What else is on this month

Art: Crisis of History Openingon02May,until15June-Tolhuistuin,AmsterdamFramer Framed gets first dibs at an ex-hibition space in the newly-renovated Tolhuistuin. Join for the opening of Cri-sis of History part 1, and examine the broken promise of modernity.

Art: Jisan Ahn - White NightUntil10May-GalerieBart,AmsterdamKorean artist Jisan Ahn recently grad-uated from the Rijksakademie and is now showing his paintings at Galerie Bart. His works start from a fascination with the human desire for violence; the result is effectively haunting paintings.

Art: Eddie The Eagle Museum Time Capsule Event Party Launch

02May-Tolhuistuin,AmsterdamThis is it, the main event. Eddie the Ea-gle Museum is capturing the zeitgeist in a container and will bury it for 15 years at the Tolhuistuin, and they’ve invited pretty much everyone to join them. So should you.

Art: An Elaborate Set of Keys03May-12June-JeanineHoflandGallery,AmsterdamFeiko Beckers invites Julien Beney-ton & Steven Jouwersma for an exhibi-tion that reflects on the former Dutch

colony of Suriname. It includes Jouw-ersma’s video Mono Kodo, which shows what happens when a Dutch artist stays in a small mining town for three months wearing sunglasses and a fringed leath-er jacket.

Music: King Khan & The Shrines03 May - The Oosterpoort, Groningen04May-Melkweg,AmsterdamWhether he’s playing with Black Lips side project the Almighty Defend-ers, BBQ (aka Mark Sultan) or with the Shrines, garage rock guru King Khan sure as hell knows how to put on a re-freshingly anarchic show.

Music: London Calling in the Tolhuistuin07-08May-Tolhuistuin,AmsterdamBefore this year’s spring London Call-ing Festival, you can warm up with two extra nights of poppy indie bands, most-ly from England, in the brand spanking new Tolhuistuinzaal.

Music: Big Ups09 May - 013, Tilburg10 May - Merleyn, Nijmegen11 May - Vera, Groningen24May-LeGuessWho?MayDay,UtrechtBig Ups frontman Joe Galarraga alter-nates between furious howl and disaf-fected, Ian Mackaye-esque monotone

On the following pages you’ll find a fine selection of concerts, festivals and

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as the band bashes out post-punk cor-roded by the bile of classic punk and post-hardcore bands like the Descen-dents, Minor Threat and Fugazi.

Music: Here’s Your Future #309 May - 013, TilburgAfter previous editions with the likes of Ty Segall, Cloud Nothings and Widow-speak, Tilburg's rock’n’roll oracles gaze into their crystal ball and pick out Big Ups, Zhod and more for 2014.

Music: London Calling09-10May-Paradiso,AmsterdamParadiso’s semi-annual pop showcase consistently boasts a line-up of up-and-coming indie artists solid enough to make it worth getting shoved by hordes of drunk teenagers as you dig a tunnel to the front row.

Music: Subroutine Label Night09 May - Effenaar, EindhovenSubroutine ride their recent wave of success all the way down to Eind-hoven for a showcase night featuring three roster MVPs and special guests Madensuyu.

Art: Group Show10May-07June-GalleryMartinvanZomeren,AmsterdamInternational group show including some almost-famous artists, but also some new kids on the block, such as crazy cat Juliaan Andeweg.

Music: Dum Dum Girls + Crocodiles13May-Bitterzoet,AmsterdamOn their latest album, Dum Dum Girls raise their shoegazes heavenwards to

the kingdom of ’80s goth demigods like Siouxsie & the Banshees and the Cure, making their most concerted at-tempt at crossover success in the pro-cess. Equally ’80s-obsessed duo Croc-odiles open.

Music: Mac DeMarco + Tonsstarts-bandht

15May-Melkweg,AmsterdamMac DeMarco has carved out an extra-ordinarily weird niche for himself as a pretty talented guy who writes catchy but humble rock’n’roll songs that people love a thousand times more because they’re delivered by a gap-toothed goof-ball who does not give a fuck.

Art: SPRING Performance Art Festival15-25 May - UtrechtSpring is in the air! Utrecht becomes the heart of dance and theatre dur-ing the SPRING Performance Art Fes-tival. The most innovative and daring contemporary art performances will be showcased throughout the lovely histor-ic city centre.

Music: White Denim16May-Melkweg,AmsterdamThis freewheeling Austin quartet’s fu-sion of garage rock, psychedelia and jazz is often soulful and emotionally moving and always refreshingly unpre-dictable, and their live shows are deli-ciously noodly.

Music: Xiu Xiu16May-EKKO,Utrecht18 May - WORM, Rotterdam23 May - Lepel, GroningenRead more on Page 62.

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Music: tUnE-yArDs 18May-Bitterzoet,AmsterdamMerrill Garbus’ early work as lo-fi folk phenom tUnE-yArDs was striking de-spite its rough production by virtue of her big voice and bigger person-ality, but the addition of bassist Nate Brenner and improved production have given Garbus the room and con-fidence she needed to develop into a fully-fledged siren.

Music: Cloud Nothings19May-Melkweg,Amsterdam29 May - Vera, GroningenIn the five years since Dylan Baldi started Cloud Nothings, the Cleveland band has evolved from a promising but rough-hewn solo project into an indie-rock tour de force finally poised to en-joy the sweet taste of victory.

Art: DEAF 2014 BIENNALE21-24May(exhibitionuntil09June)-various locations, RotterdamFor its tenth edition, the Dutch Elec-tronic Arts Festival (DEAF) calls into question the very notion of progress. Through a series of exhibitions, lec-tures, performances and seminars, The Progress Trap explores the seductive gains of technological innovation.

Music: Duchess Says + White Lung21 May - dB’s, UtrechtA doubleheader of loud-mouthed, fe-male-fronted Canadian punk on a Wednesday night. Montreal synth-punks Duchess Says and Vancou-ver post-punks White Lung unite the Canadian expanse on the outskirts of Utrecht.

Music: Hamilton Leithauser + The Amazing Snakeheads + Francois & the Atlas Mountains

21May-Tolhuistuinzaal,AmsterdamParadiso and labels Domino and Rib-bon Music kick off what is certain to be a fruitful collaboration with The Walkmen frontman Hamilton Leithaus-er, Glasgow rock’n’roll trio the Amaz-ing Snakeheads and oh-so-charming French indie-poppers Francois & the Atlas Mountains.

Art: Kunstvlaai22-24May-Amstelpark,AmsterdamEvery two years, Kunstvlaai provides art initiatives with a platform to meet, dis-cuss and exchange ideas. Around 50 local and foreign art initiatives present themselves by means of a spatial inter-vention in the Amstelpark with site-spe-cific art works.

Music: Scott & Charlene’s Wedding22 May - Rotown, Rotterdam23 May - Merleyn, Nijmegen24May-LeGuessWho?MayDay,UtrechtRead more on Page 63.

Music: Black Lips24May-LeGuessWho?MayDay,Utrecht25May-Bitterzoet,AmsterdamThis Atlanta ‘flower punk’ four-piece made a name for themselves with their wild shows and outrageous on-stage antics, though lately they’ve notched up their professionalism enough to enter-tain the damned fools who stay at home listening to their records when they should definitely be seeing them live.

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Music: Le Guess Who? May DayFt. The War on Drugs + Future Islands +SunAraw+more24 May - UtrechtIf you’ve ever been to Le Guess Who?, surely you agree that taking in so much good music in such a special place once a year just ain’t enough; May Day is here to satisfy your mid-year Le Guess Who? cravings with a more com-pact but equally compelling line-up of today’s finest indie artists.

Music: Pharmakon24May-LeGuessWho?MayDay,Utrecht25 May - Vera, GroningenDiminutive and deceptively wild New Yorker Margaret Chardiet thrashes your ears with her ridiculously heavy, ridicu-lously raw power electronics/death in-dustrial music, and her live performanc-es are confrontational and cathartic.

Music: together Pangea24May-LeGuessWho?MayDay,Utrecht25May-Bitterzoet,Amsterdam26 May - Merleyn, Nijmegen27 May - Rotown, Rotterdam28 May - Vera, GroningenLA rock’n’roll band together PANGEA’s killer guitar solos, colossal drums and occasionally wildly catchy vocal hooks should draw together fans of Ty Segall, Black Lips and FIDLAR into a unified mass of a mosh pit.

Music: Son Lux25May-Tolhuistuin,AmsterdamA classically trained composer and electronic musician from Denver, Son

Lux’s Ryan Lott layers electronic ele-ments with orchestral flourishes, result-ing in songs that are sometimes stark-ly minimal and meditative; sometimes lushly orchestrated and rousing but al-ways very beautiful.

Music: The Notwist28May-Melkweg,AmsterdamIndietronica veterans The Notwist have been going strong for 25 years, but they like to take their sweet time in be-tween albums. Earlier this year they re-warded fans’ patience with their first al-bum in five years, Close to the Glass.

Art: ZomerExpo29May-31August-Gemeentemuseum, Den HaagAnother edition of the biggest open-call exhibition in a museum. This year’s theme is Light, that fundamental fas-cination within art and the source of many an artwork.

Music: Het Lente Kabinet Festivalft.Actress+HuercoS.+AnthonyNaples + Malawi + more31 May - Paviljoen ’t Twiske, AmsterdamDekmantel’s Lente Kabinet festival takes place in Het Twiske nature re-serve once again, featuring a film and art pavillion curated by Foam and EYE Film Institute, a literature programme curated by Das Magazin and, of course, plenty of cutting-edge electronic mu-sic. Actress, Huerco S., Anthony Naples, Malawi and more take to the stage.

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5x2 TICKETS + 5 DVDSThe Wind Rises /

Like Father Like Son

release date: 01 MayVarious theatres

2x2 TICKETSWhite Denim

16 May Melkweg, Amsterdam

3x2 TICKETSSpring Utrecht

15-24 MayUtrecht

2x2 TICKETSMac DeMarco

15 MayMelkweg,Amsterdam

2x2 TICKETSCloud Nothings


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exhibition

21 May - 09 JuneHet Nieuwe Instituut, R'dam

5 x DVDSNymphomaniac

Out: 15 May Wildbunch

3x2 TICKETSVolt by Orange

Tea Theatre


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01MayWoolen MendB’s,Utrecht20.30|€7|Freeformembers

02MayVertical Scratchers + Bed RugsTivoliSpiegelbar,Utrecht20.30|€8|Freeformembers

06MayFilm: The Wind RisesLantarenVenster,Rotterdamtba|€9|Freeformembers

09MayJerry Paper + Tonstartssbandht + Ensemble EconomiquePoortgebouw,Rotterdam20.30|€5|Freeformembers

11MayRichard DawsonWORM,Rotterdam20.30|€6|Freeformembers

16MayZZZ’s + FensterDeNieuweAnita,Amsterdam20.00|€8|Freeformembers

15MayGardlandLooiersgracht60,Amsterdamtba|€tba|Freeformembers

18MayXiu XiuWORM,Rotterdam20.00|€7|Freeformembers

20MayBen Frost + NisennenmondaiTrouw,Amsterdam19.30|€19|Freeformembers

21May/Kult Film: 24 Hour Party PeopleStudio/K,Amsterdam21.30|€9|Freeformembers

22MaySoft Metals + Sally DigeOT301,Amsterdam20.30|€8|Freeformembers

22MayScott & Charlene’s WeddingRotown,Rotterdam21.00|€9|Freeformembers

23MayAmen DunesDokzaal,Amsterdam20.00|€8|Freeformembers

25MayCinema Concert: Phantom of the Opera+CinemaRemakeExhibitionEYE,Amsterdam16.00|€tba|Freeformembers

27MayFilm: Nausicaä of the Valley of the WindMelkweg,Amsterdam19.00|€9|Freeformembers

28MayOdonis OdonisOT301,Amsterdam20.30|€8|Freeformembers

30MayGroup Rhoda + Moon & SunMuziekgebouwaan’tIJ,Am-sterdam19.30|€10|Freeformembers

31May4DSOUND: MurcofCruquiusweg146,Amsterdam20.30|€20|Freeformembers

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Foam Photography MuseumOpendaily10.00-18.00, ThurandFriuntil21.00€9.50|Freeformembers

TENTOpenTue-Sun11.00-18.00€5|Freeformembers

Nederlands Fotomuseum RotterdamOpenTue-Sun10.00-17.00,SatandSunfrom11.00€9|Freeformembers

LightnessMediamatic,AmsterdamOpenWed-Sun13.00-18.0019.00|€8|Freeformembers

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