We're giving away free tickets to SOTU Festival through our mailinglist this week. Also on the list are Chelsea Wolfe, Indie Indie #2 and Royal Baths. What are you waiting for? Sign up HERE

The Based God Lil B is coming to Petrol, Antwerp on 3 May and we're giving away some free tickets via our mailinglist. Sign up here.

Ain't this the perfect triple bill? R. Stevie Moore, Moon Duo and Mikal Cronin are performing at Trix, Antwerp on 13 June and all Subbacultcha! members can enjoy the show for free.

Still some tickets left for the Shellac concert in OT301 on May 27. Not a lot though, over 75% has been sold, so don't wait too long. Trust us, you don't want to miss this. Tickets available here.

The new magazine is out now and it's all about guilty pleasures featuring US Girls, LA Vampires, Hunx and his Punx and lots more.

Read it online here

The great new Lower Dens album is on the Luisterpaal. You can stream it here. Jana Hunter and her men are playing on 10 May at La Chocolaterie in Brussels and on 12 May at DOKArena in Ghent. Both shows are free for members.

Great news: Black Dice will be performing at OT301 in Amsterdam on October 03 and the show is free for Subbacultcha! members. More info here.

Future Islands are coming to Belgium on 13 August and Subbacultcha! and Ladda are promoting an exclusive show for the Baltimore synth pop trio at DOK Arena in Ghent. We're very excited and hopefully all members are excited too because they can enter the event for free!

Get ready for a crazy Subbacultcha! line-up in May with 17 concerts and over 40 bands playing in 5 different cities in the Netherlands. All free for Subbacultcha! members.

Sign up here. Info about the full line-up here.

Turkish psych-rock improv trio Hayvanlar Alemi will join U.S Girls and Mike Koldin for the line-up in OCCII on May 13. Should be a great night, do not miss..

Our neighbours are throwing a Captain Beefheart vs The Fall night at Dijktheater (Da Costakade 160, Amsterdam) on April 28. Entrance is free, so if you want to hear some rad old tunes, drink cheap beers and hang out in a cool space you've never been to before, well, you know where it's at.. Cllick the thumbnail for more info.

Congratulations Sien Rutgers! You are the winner of our Porcelain Raft poster competition. Porcelain Raft is playing with TG Gondard at DOK, Ghent on May 16 and it's free for members.

Oneothrix Point never is playing Doornroosje in Nijmegen on April 26 and we're giving away some free tickets through our mailinglist. Sign up here.

We're happy to confirm Odonis Odonis for our upcoming night at Red Bull Space in Antwerp. This Toronto band unleash sounds like Big Black shagged The Jesus and Mary Chain in the alley behind a bar, and they’ve given birth to a baby with a hungover scowl and a cigarette dangling out of its mouth. More info here.

Our infamous magazine parties are back! The tried-and-approved recipe includes live music, DJs, cheap drinks and fresh new magazines along with free entrance for all mailinglist members who RSVP. Sign up for the mailinglist here (if you haven't already) and then simply wait for the invitation email. Enjoy and see you there!

We can't wait to see Megan Remy perform at DOK, Ghent on 30 April. To warm you guys up we're putting together a U.S. Girls week and we're giving away 5 copies of her latest album U.S. Girls on Kraak. So keep an eye on our Facebook!

We are very happy to announce that Doldrums will be playing on May 20 at Club Up in Amsterdam and the show is free for Subbacultcha! members. Definitely one of our favourite new artists, so do not miss this! More info here.

Ramona Gonzales is coming to Utrecht with her dark, R&B-tinged synth-pop project Nite Jewel. She'll be playing a Subbacultcha! show on July 19th in EKKO.

We're giving away 5x2 tickets for the Nedko Solakov exhibition at SMAK, Ghent.

Ex Mika Miko garage-pop sisters Jessica and Jennifer Clavin are playing at the OT301 with their new band Bleached on June 6th and the show is free for Subbacultcha! members. Also on the bill is Molly Nilsson.

Sign up for Subbacultcha now and you'll get a De Filmfreak film package consisting of 2 free tickets for Alps, and Dogtooth on DVD.

This Thursday &Foam, the photo museum's location on Vijzelsgracht, will open their doors for the new Music & Foam exhibition. Subbacultcha! will be showing some of our own photography there at the end of May, but before that happens, there's still plenty of other good stuff to be seen; including photos by the likes of Anton Corbijn and Ron Galella, and a nice selection of LP covers. Anyone with an interest in music and/or photography would be wise to pay this exposition a visit.

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Klub 470 is a recurring concert night at the Goethe-Institut in Amsterdam. We're giving away free tickets to the edition on April 21 featuring PTTRNS through our mailinglist. More info about the concert here. Sign up for the mailinglist here.

Hip hop trash trio Death Grips will perform at Charlatan (Democrazy), Ghent on 5 June and all Subbacultcha! members can enter this sick show for free.

Next week we're giving away 2x2 tickets for the Light Asylum show in Brussels via the mailinglist. The dark electronic duo will perform at the Art Brussels Afterparty at Wiels on Saturday 21 April. Sign up here.

The guys from 310K will open the doors of their studio on the corner of the Ten Kate Markt in Amsterdam for three Saturdays in a row, to sell some great products brought to you by Amsterdam based artists, designers, musicians and brands. Cool stuff and all local produce. Go check it out! More info here

The godfather of DIY and lo-fi R. Stevie Moore is playing WORM on June 14th. This show is now free for Subbacultcha! members.

From 27 to 30 April Ladda is setting up a Topo Copy Room at Red Bull Space in Antwerp and Subbacultcha! will give you some free live performances.

London's industrial post-punk trio Factory Floor is playing the Effenaar on May 17th, alongside NON-records signees Marius and Palmbomen. This show is now free for Subbacultcha! members.

It's been a while, but we finally made a new Subbacultcha! playist for Viva Radio. Listen to new songs by Dirty Projectors, Doldrums, Sun Araw, Lotus Plaza, Chromatics, Purity Ring and many others. Click here.

The amazing new Black Dice album Mr. Impossible just came out on Ribbon Music/Domino Recordings and we're giving away free copies to the first 10 new Subbacultcha! members.

We're giving away free tickets to Motel Mozaïque through our mailinglist this week. Also some tickets for Child Abuse and Hype Williams. So what are you waiting for? Sign up HERE.

This Tuesday 10 April Child Abuse is playing at Magasin4 in Brussels and we're giving 2x2 tickets. Send 'Child Abuse changed my life' to magazine@subbacultcha.be and maybe you'll be a lucky bastard.

Next week we're giving away lots of free tickets for Child Abuse, Walls, Blanck Mass, John Talabot, Break The Krash Festival, all via the mailinglist. Sign up here.

Boston noise legends Neptune are playing at Scheld'Apen this Saturday 7 April and we're giving away 2x2 tickets. Send 'Jason Sanford' to magazine@subbacultcha.be and maybe you'll be the lucky one.

The amazing Future Islands are coming back to Amsterdam for a show at Melkweg on August 14 and once again the show is free for Subbacultcha! members! More info here.

Our Monthly Top 5 with Helly Hansen, 18+, Roberto Piqueras and much more!

Vivian Girls' bass player Katy 'Kickball' Goodman is coming to Amsterdam! You can see her live as La Sera in De Nieuwe Anita on June 30th, free for Subbacultcha! members.

The second edition of Helemaal Melkweg will once again be free for Subbacultcha! members.The line-up includes the amazing Staff Benda Bilili, as well as performances by Rats on Rafts and Victims Family. More info here.

Congratulations Delphine Courier! You are the winner of our U.S. Girls poster competition. Check out her website here. U.S. Girls is playing with Miaux at DOK, Ghent on April 30 and it's free for members.

The first 5 new Subbacultcha! members get a Lebowski/Ultra2012 package containing 3 great books, a magazine and 2 tickets to the Ultra concert in Melkweg on April 07.

Robin van Maaren's 'Outskirts' exposition. Uncomfortable art, in our very own Subbacultcha! office.

More info HERE

We're giving away free tickets to 65Daysofstatic in Tivoli on April 07 through our mailinglist. Sign up here.

The Haunted Inbox Festival takes place at Netwerk, Aalst on 7 April and we're giving away 2x2 tickets via the mailinglist.

Antwerp-based synth player Mia Prce made a selection of her 5 most uncomfortable movie moments. Hope you're laughing out loud when you're watching these videos.

photo by Mark Rietveld

Gritty and haunted pop girl Megan Remy talks about radios in bathtubs and guilty pleasures (covering Brandy & Monica’s ‘The Boy Is Mine’ is not one of them).

Gritty and haunted pop girl Megan Remy talks about radios in bathtubs and guilty pleasures (covering Brandy & Monica’s ‘The Boy Is Mine’ is not one of them).

Laugh-master, meditator and cosmic zitherist Laraaji Venus Nadabrahmananda talks about chakras, happiness and his collaboration with Blues Control for RVNG Intl.

Jamie Stewart took some very uncomfortable self-portraits, we talked to him about it, turns out he's quite comfortable feeling uncomfortable.

We talked to doom-folk diva Chelsea Wolfe about safe havens, comfort zones and stage fright.

Odonis Odonis mastermind Dean Tzenos talks about Adonis belts, comforting Hollandaise sauce and letting go of all personal belongings.

Danny Gonzalez is actually playing bass in Jacuzzi Boys, but he's also one hell of a photographer with an amazing eye for the wonderful details of everyday life.

We talked to 'postmodern collage wave' producer Jamison about discomfort and his upcoming album.

BEAR BONES, LAY LOW - PERSONA

Here's a jangling dubby tune of the psychedelic one-man-band Bear Bones, Lay Low. He's releasing his new album El Telonero soon via the Kraak label.

U.S. GIRLS - DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT MAN

Here's a noisy but sweet ballad of Megan Remy aka U.S. Girls. She's playing a Subbacultcha! show at DOK, Ghent on 30 April and all members can enter the event for free.

2:54 - YOU'RE EARLY (WILD BEASTS REMIX)

The fantastic pop ensemble Wild Beasts made a fuzzy remix for 2:54's single You're Early. Sisters Hannah and Colette Thurlow are playing a show at Cactus in Bruges on 29 April and it's free for members.

New Subbacultcha! show on Viva Radio. This one was put together by our new intern Eden and features tracks by Chromatics, Nite Jewel, Dive, Tanlines, Hype Williams and lots more. Listen by clicking the link below.

SUBBACULTCHA! - VIVA RADIO MIX

PSYCHOBUILDINGS - BABY COPS

This fresh Psychobuildings tune is a bit cheesy, but we like it a lot. It will appear on the group's upcoming Hearts EP, out this June on Wonder Sound Records.

MAAN - UNTITLED

Maan is an interesting new band from Ghent. They released a cassette Khomeini 99 via the Smeltkop label. Here's an untitled cold noise jam from that tape.

100% Silk Label mastermind and LA Vampires frontwoman Amanda Brown is doing a collaborative 12" with fellow Silker Octo Octa, coming out next month. LA Vampires will be playing the luxurious 100% Silk label night at OT301 on May 31st, free for Subbacultcha! members.

Todays mp3 is U.S. Girls cover of Brandy's "The Boy Is Mine". Also the answer from our first question yesterday. congratulations Jasper Nijsmans you got it right!

Check out this groovy new track from electronic dance-pop duo Purity Ring. Their new album is coming out on 4AD in July.

PURITY RING - OBEDEAR

Enjoy Brooklyn based D.V Caputo aka D-Video latest song Emotion Engine. This sounds like a techno rave in the local supermarket!

German Folk Popsters Fenster released a wonderful album on Morr Music early March. For those of you who missed it, check out the album opener below. Catch them live at one of their two Subbacultcha! appearances in May. More info about the shows here.

FENSTER - OH CANYON

We're very much looking forward to the new Peaking lights album that's coming out on 18 June on Weird World. Check out a groovy preview below.

Ready for something new? Discover Rare Species! A solo Project of Austin based Angie Kang. One month ago she posted "Get Away" a slow dance track with some trippy atmosphere.

Psychedelic drone/noise duo Blues Control teamed up with electronic zitherist Laraaji to record an amazing album for the RVNG FRKWYS series last year. Listen to the haunting album opener Awakaning Day below. They will be performing together at WORM this Sunday as part of the Motel Mozaique festival and the show is free for Subbacultcha! members. More info here.

We've already been raving about Doldrums' Empire Sound EP and the good news is, he's just been signed to Souterrain Transmissions, and will be releasing a new 12" in June. Check out one of the excellent new songs below. 

DOLDRUMS - EGYPT

Spaced-out kraut-gaze group The Oscillation are playing dB's in Utrecht on Friday, free for Subbacultcha! members. Try this track to get a taste of their wares, and if you like what you hear, the rest of the album is on their Bandcamp.

Musical couple Peaking Lights is releasing a new album called "Lucifer" coming out in June. LO HI the first single is an atmospheric seven minute track. At May 31 Peaking Lights is Playing a Democrazy show at DOKarena, Ghent.

Portland's avant-pop duo AU are playing a Subbacultcha show with Blues Control & Laraaji in WORM on Sunday, as part of the Motel Mozaïque festival. Check out 'Solid Gold', a track that starts off slow, but then gets pretty wild.

"Walls" Is the second track on Win Win's "Ones & Zeros " Single. This hypnotizing song is covering a prolific British punk band. Let's do some head banging dance moves!

WIN WIN - WALLS

Powerful synth pop duo Light Asylum are releasing their eagerly awaited debut album on Mexican Summer on 01 May. Listen to A Certain Person, the last track on the album. You might have heard it before, as it was also the opening track of their marvelous In Tension EP.  Catch them live at the Motel Mozaique Festival.

LIGHT ASYLUM - A CERTAIN PERSON

Former Lovvers lo-fi punk Shaun Hencher has released a new song with his fresh band Virals. It's less crass, more pop, and listening to 'Coming Up With The Sun' really makes you hope that the sun is gonna show it's face a lot more this spring.

Listen to the entire new Death Grips Album The Money Store (out 24.04 on Epic) by clicking the link below. 

DEATH GRIPS - THE MONEY STORE

JCCG - LET'S JUST

Portuguese noise maker João Carlos Costa Gonçalves makes music under the moniker JCCG. Let's Just is one of the most exciting new tracks we discovered in a long time.

Listen to the entire new Death Grips Album The Money Store (out 24.04 on Epic) by clicking the link below. 

DEATH GRIPS - THE MONEY STORE

PORCELAIN RAFT - IS IT TOO DEEP FOR YOU?

Here's another great pop tune of romantic composer Mauro Remiddi aka Porcelain Raft. You can stream his album Strange Weekend here. Remiddi is playing a show at DOK, Ghent of 16 May and it's free for members.

Über-cool Brooklyn crew Friends have released a new single. The funky dance track 'Mind Control' will appear on their debut album 'Manifest!', out June 5th on Fat Possum Records. You can catch these guys and girls live during the Motel Mozaïque festival. They are playing a late night show on 21 April at Rotown.

FRIENDS - MIND CONTROL

Friends will perform at Les Nuits Botanique, Brussels on 15 May. Yesterday the Brooklyn indie quintet teased us once more with a fresh new song Mind Control.

This Friday, Teen Daze will be playing at De Nieuwe Anita, free for Subbacultcha! members. Check out this new track from his upcoming album: 'The Future' is a fine example of his recent shift towards more dance-able tunes, that nonetheless still let you blissfully drift away.

POMRAD - DANS

Belgian future funk brother Pomrad is releasing his debut EP 'Vlotjes' via the OohWee label and we're loving this synth-driven tune Dans. On 11 May he's playing at Trix Antwerp and the show is free for members.

Nouveau Vélo from Helmond are supporting Odonis Odonis at OT301 this Thursday. They describe themselves as 'healing pop'. Not sure what that entails exactly, but after listening to their sunny lo-fi pop tunes you're bound to feel better.

MIAUX - ETUDE DES TÊTUS

When it comes to melodic synth wave Miaux is one of our favourite artists of the moment. She released a cassette via Taped Sounds and here you have the title track Etude Des Têtus. On 30 April Miaux is opening for U.S. Girls at DOK, Ghent and it's free for members.

Photo by Mark Rietveld

Another groovy track taken from the upcoming new Teen Daze record. Catch him live with Brothertiger at De Nieuwe Anita on April 13. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members.

TEEN DAZE - ERBSTUCK

"You hold the gun to your head, but the gun has no trigger". Great lyrics, great song. Their new album Swing Lo Magellan is coming out on July 09 via Domino Recordings.

DIRTY PROJECTORS - GUN HAS NO TRIGGER

DIVE - HOW LONG HAVE YOU KNOWN

One of Brooklyn's finest guitars bands, Dive is ready to release their debut album later this year. Here's a new track of the four-piece 'How Long Have You Known'.

Another stunning releasing coming out in RVNG's FRKWYS series. This time LA based experimentalist Sun Araw went down to Jamaica to record with dub legends The Congos. And the result it's pretty amazing. Check out the groovy opening track below.

JOHN TALABOT - SO WILL BE NOW

Next Friday 13 April John Talabot is playing a DJ set at Club Opus, Brussels and we're giving away some free tickets via our mailinglist. Sing up here.

60s garage posters Those Darlins are playing OCCII in Amsterdam this friday and the show is free for Subbacultcha! members.

THOSE DARLINS - MYSTIC MINDS

Awesome Tapes From Africa are re-releasing an album called volume 7 by Ghanese kologo player Bola. We've only heard the extremely groovy track below and can't wait to hear the rest of it.

Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland, members of Hype Williams have teamed up for a new album called Black Is Beautiful, out April 16 on Hyperdub. They are playing with BRNS at De Kreun, Kortrijk on April 9 and it's free for members.

A new Liars' record is coming out in June on mute. Such news always brings excitment here at the office. Check out the first preview below. It's a subdued track with electronic beats and synths. Pretty different from what we've come to expect from them.But then again, that's what makes the band so unique. They always turn a corner, when you don't expect them to.  

LIARS - NO. 1 AGAINST THE RUSH

Deerhunter guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Lockett Pundt just put out a soothing pop album under his solo monniker Lotus Plaza. The sound is very similar to Deerhunter and Atlas sound, but enjoyable nontheless. Listen to one the albums tracks below.

LOTUS PLAZA - STRANGERS

DENT MAY - BEST FRIEND

Disco nerd Dent May is ready to release a new album this summer. Do Things comes out via Paw Tracks and here you have the first single Best Friend.

Subbacultcha's fave artist, Cupp Cave, dropped a new record Retina Waves via the UK label Ramp Recordings. His blend of noise, ambient and slow house vibes makes him one of the most unique producers of the moment.

Yacht recorded a cover of Le Goudron, a song that was the result of a collaboration back in 1969 between Brigitte Fontaine and The Art Ensemble of Chicago. Safe to say the Yacht version sounds completely different. Click play and get ready to boogie.

Molly Nilsson just sent us her latest video for Never O'Clock ft. the highlights of the World Cup 1990. Loving the video, loving the song, we're big fans!

Odonis Odonis are playing a free show at the Topo Copy Room in Antwerp on 27 April. You can find more info about the event here.

Fuzzy 90's-revivalists Fanzine have released a new clip for their song L.A.. In this vintage vid we see a young girl exploring said city. The 7" containtaining the song will drop on blog turned label Line of Best Fit Records on April 30th.

Watch the official video for the new Thieves Like Us single 'Bleed Bleed bleed Pt.1'! Latest album 'Bleed Bleed Bleed' was released march 20th on Captured Tracks.

We've been listening to the new Chromatics album a lot recently, so on the back of it we are re-discovering all the related videos that have been popping up on the world wide web over the past couple of months. Not brand new, but good nontheless.

Snow Wite, the solo project of Andreas Cary posted a Trippy video for Psychedelic Days. Co-directed with Sean bowie of Teams.

Disturbing video for No. 1 Against the Rush off the forthcoming new Liars album WIXIW. (out on 04.06 on Mute)

Groovy video for QueenS, one of the stand-out tracks on the new THEESatisfaction album that came out on 27 March on Subpop.

Check out this stunning collection of single-frame shots, accomanied by the song I've Seen Footage off the new Death Grips album The Money Store. You can keep ons pressing the pause button to discover new images. If there are other people in the room with you, you might want to turn off the volume before you start doing that, or else things might get ugly.

The new Zambri video is all about love and sexual desire. Jessica and Cristi Jo Zambri two Brooklyn-based sisters just released there full-length debut on Kanine called "House of Baasa".

Groovy psychedelic Kraut-rockers The Oscillation are playing dB's tonight and the show is free for Subbacultcha! members. More info here. 

The Motel Mozaique festival is about to kick off in Rotterdam. Tonight there is a free opening ceremony at De Hofbogen (starts 20.00) and then from tomorrow you can induldge in three days' worth of great music and art. The line-up includes shows by Light Asylum, Cold Specks, 2:54, Of Montreal, AU and many others. To get in the mood check out this video by Turkish Psychedelic Prog-Rockers Hayvanlar Alemi, who are playing on Friday.

A year after releasing their debut album "What Would You Say?" Part Time shared a brand new video. We are so in love with this band!

Weird-fi experimentalist Luke Donovan used to play in the now-defunct glam-pop group Montage Populaire. Luckily he's not been sitting still, and under his Spectral Park solo-moniker, he makes more psychedelic pop gems.

Extra life just released their third full-length album "Dream Seeds" on Northern Spy Records. "First Song" is a creepy slow motion video directed by Sue-Ling Braun. On Thursday 31 May Extra Life is playing at Les Atelier Claus, Brussels.

Kentucky based crooner Idiot Glee made a video for the beautiful That's All For Everyone. Check it out here.

Os Ovni are a time-traveling synth duo from Austin that deal in up-tempo yet spaced-out sounds. They're realeasing a new 12" on Robot Elephant Records on May 28th. This new video for the song 'Holographic Dreams' takes you on a wild visual trip trough all the 4 dimensions.

Check out Django Django's quirky stop motion video made with painted photographs. This percussive art-rock four-piece is playing Motel Mozaïque at midnight on Saturday April 21.

Incubate added some new names to their line-up. We're very excited to see Mi Ami play at the festival. Check out the odd but cool video for Time Of Love, taken from their new album Decade.

The new Chromatics album Kill For Love opens with a beatifully subdued version of the New Young song Hey Hey My My (Into the Black). Check the accompanying video made by Alberto Rossini.

British tribal freak brothers Flamingods made a crazy video for Kinich Ahau. They're preparing a first official release but you already can check some more etnic pop hits on their Bandcamp.

Hailing from Vancouver, White Poppy (Crytstal Dorval's one-woman tape-loop solo-project) makes beautiful meandering lo-fi pop. Her debut cassette, which bears the same name as this song, is out now on not not awesome label Not Not Fun.

The four ladies that make up PINS are some of the hottest stuff to come out of the UK right now. They're not just attractive, the blend of noise pop and post-punk they deliver is also quite something to behold.

Doom folk diva Chelsea Wolfe is playing the Cheap Satanism Records evening at Magasin4, Brussels on Friday the 13th (coincidence?) and it's free for members. Check the video for Sunstorm above.

British noisy tribal-pop group Flamingods have released a video for their song 'Kinich Ahau'. The clip is just as weird and catchy as the track itself.

Local lo-fi garage-pop kids Apneu are supporting Those Darlins tonight at the OCCII, free for Subbacultcha members. So show up early, get drunk, and start a friendly fight in the inevitable moshpit.

PINS is a reverb-friendly girl group from Manchester. They debuted with a very cool golden cassette tape and made this video for 'Eleventh Hour. Watch it here.

House, disco, funk, you name it. Auckland-based producer Mark Wundercastle created an amazing mix of all different kinds of dance music. We're loving the video for 'Bring Me Joy'. Hope you like it too?

Porcelain Raft just made a video for 'Drifting In and Out', easily one of the best tracks on his debut abum 'Strange Weekend'. The video is drifting and hazy, and fits the mood of the song quite well.

Virginia multi-instrumentalist Tommy Davidson aka Dream Cop posted his new nasdaq video. Directed by Lucas Borras.

Mauro Remiddi, a.k.a. Porcelain Raft created this smoking video for Drifting In And Out. On 16 May he's playing a Subbacultcha! show at DOK, Ghent and it's free for members.

This is the very, very, very Not Safe For Work video that the "Jacuzzi Gals" made for the Jacuzzi Boys. Needless to say, the boys where so impressed, they went ahead and made it the official video. Must be some band, if their fans go to these lengths to impress them. Subbacultcha! members can see them for free on Wednesday in Rotown and on Friday in Area 51.

Check out the new video Lovers by Brothertiger. On 12 April synthpop brain John Jagos will play at JC Den Eglantier together with Teen Daze and the show is free for members.