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The special face of MicachuFrom the video Introducing Micachu.

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19 lines about one.Especially written by Steve Korver and Jaro Renout for this fresh and beefy one-liner issue. - So whatever happened to the good old-

fashioned two-liner?- MTV killed it. Squashed it as if they were

that ocean non-liner Titanic.- Nice two-liner, buddy!- So make me laugh so I don’t notice I’m

laughing until I am actually laughing.- Sorry. I’ll probably only be able to come up

with something tomorrow in the shower when it’s too late.

- That’s OK, just call me then.- How about if we try to mishear each other? - What you saying about your bitch mother?- Yeah like that. But funny.- So then let’s stick to the subject of your

mother.- At least my mother can fi t into a one-liner.- Not bad. You would have blinded me with

that one, but luckily my eyes were rolling.- Meanwhile how about if we do something

with vertrutting? - Zo direct is mijn moeder de eenige hoer in

Amsterdam en daar ben ik niet zo blij mee.- Yeah well, last week my cousin was arrested

for smoking eel. - Hmmm. Writing down one-liners is like buy-

ing them on Ebay: the delivery is too slow.- So shall we just return to the oral tradition?- Yes. That’s much sexier.- One thing is for sure: with a good one-liner

you don’t need the rest of the song.- And that’s exactly how the blues were born.- Da naa na na.

toP 5 / inBox . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6where it’s at? / win . . . . . . . 7namedropping . . . . . . . . . . . 8things that matter . . . . . 10micachu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12featured artist . . . . . . . . . 19elle bandita . . . . . . . . . . . . 24fashion statement . . . . . . 26pink mountaintops . . . . . 24film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33shooting stars . . . . . . . . . 36spekkie big . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38agenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39after midnight . . . . . . . . . 57

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Photographer Daniëlle van Ark takes photos of musicians right after they come off stage. Every

month we publish one of her photos.www.daniellevanark.com

6 Classic one-liners: Going bald is the most manly thing I’m ever gonna do (Jeffrey

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1 Party: Magazine Party ft Telepathe at OT301 Great band, great DJs, great new location and lots of all you cool cool hipsters.

2 Music: Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle Mister Bill Callahan is back in style, combining his dark humour with heartbreaking songs of love, death and devotion.

3 Book: The Moi Non Plus Remixed Bright and shiny new products at the Subbacultcha! office.

4 Music: Johnny Cash: The Last Great American (BBC 2) Some of us here at the office were not quite sure if Johnny Cash was dead. After seeing this documentary we are now quite sure that Johnny lives.

5 Gardening: Trumpet Vine Good guy Ernest Mistiaen brought us a trumpet vine to spice up our brand new garden. ...And you thought we were hipsters!

Re: Send us your favorite one-linerSubmitted by SteveHi!Though it’s not used in a song. It’s a live announcement of Steve Albini on the live-bootleg 7’’ Live in Leicester 1988 preceding the song ‘Steak and black on-ions’. Steve: “We don’t hate vegetarians but we think it’s a shame they can’t enjoy barbeques like regular people”

With that nasal cynical voice!

Subject: Revolutie?Submitted by AnteHey Subbacultcha!Net het artikel in Subbacultcha! mag over P. Watkins gelezen. Zonder te veel moeite de meest geslaagde tekst in dit is-sue. Alleen een opmerking. Ik dacht toch dat de Franse revolutie in 1789 was, bij-na een eeuw eerder dan de Parijse Com-mune van 1871, of zie ik het verkeerd? Volgens mij zit er dus een “timeline” foutje in dit stuk

7Lewis) // You ain’t a baby no more baby (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) // na na na na na na na

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8 na na na na (Kylie Minogue) // Lick my lips I’m on fire (PJ Harvey) // Hit me baby

new music: namedropping by bob van heur

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Hello everybody. First off, I want to mention that this will

be the last Namedropping piece I’m writing. After this, I will lay my ass down on a beautiful beach and drink Margaritas in the sun. Yes, You Can Have What You Want. I’m inspired by the new Papercuts al-bum at the moment, which is prob-ably one of the best and emotion-ally strongest albums released this year. Please check it out, as it will make you weep. More cry-baby-cry music: Serena Ryder’s cover of Band of Horses’ biggest hit ‘The Funeral’ is ten times better and more intense than the original. And once we’ve cried enough, it’s back to some good old guitar songs. First-ly, the EP by the Brooklyn-based lo fi-rocksters Sisters is out now. So is the amazing album by Mika Miko, called We Be XuXa. Poppier, but still a nicely weird bunch: Port-land’s Nurses, who are now signed to Dead Oceans. And Japanther’s Tut Tut Now Shake Ya Butt is al-ready out. The still amazing Wilco have finally got a new album again, which is simply called Wilco (The Album). Dinosaur Jr will release

Farm, Regina Spektor drops Far and, as probably mentioned be-fore, Sunset Rubdown release the amazing Dragonslayer this month. Tweak Bird will tour in July, and will finally put out a proper album after the summer. So Many Dyna-mos release The Loud Wars in early June – it’s nice American songwrit-ing with weird electronics. Subbac-ultcha! favourites Health are set to release their second album after the summer. The label is yet to be confirmed, but you can imagine it will be a big one. The legendary Oblivians and Gories will record a split at Jack White’s studio to co-incide with the upcoming tour. Yes, they’re playing Paradiso on 11 July, together with a lot of other nice rock bands, including !!!. The night is simply called RAWK so you can’t miss it. Cymbals Eat Guitars from New York will release their album on Utrecht label Beep Beep. Asthmatic Kitty have found a new very charming band called Helado Negro. And did I tell you about Ro-ken is Dodelijk? A charming indie pop group from Lille, France with a funny name. I guess they’ve crossed

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the Dutch border quite a few times. And lastly, there’s the new Bower-birds album Upper Air. It’s less lo-fi than the first album and the songs are way better. Yes, it’s cry music as

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Micachu is the pseudonym of Mica Levi (22), whose band is one of the most exciting acts of this moment. It is pop but it is not. It is unconventional but it is catchy.

It is dark but it is light. In a chat session with Subbacultcha! she talks about her super sounds while taking photos of the rubbish in her room.

by bas morsch

Bas Morsch: Hi! Micachu: HIgreat you can do this

no prob thanks for having me. I’m bad at typing tho

me too, but we’ll look good in print or illegibleeven better[Note: For your reading pleasure and for us to not look too illegible, we decided—after long delibera-tion—to take out most of the typos] Can I send an mp3?That is a good start. Micachu posted file 07 Spec-

tral Canon for Conlon Nancar-

row (1976 version; piano roll punched by Nancarrow).mp3

This is excellentCan’t wait. I listened to your mixtape earlier. I liked it. Oh thanks. There’s a new one

out like next weekNice.The interview already started okDoes it make a difference if it started or not? Don’t know... this is weirdIt’s the first time I’ve done an interview like this as well Ah ok cool. That’s good to

know

continue 13it turns out you were just a street light (Chad VanGaalen) // Are you punk or are

How are you today? I’m well. u?I’m great thanksWhat did you have for break-fast? It’s Josh’s (flatmate) stepdad’s

birthday, so I had sparkling wine and a huge fry up. The works. It was lovely

Sounds good It wasSparkling wine for breakfast... livin’ it large For sureI am listening to the mp3 now.[the mp3 can be downloaded at www.subbacultcha.nl] It’s by Nancarrow who wrote

for player pianos. He punched the holes in the piano etc. This is a piece performed maybe by James Tenny. It’s lovely

Did he make drawings with the holes? I mean, were the holes figurative? I don’t think so. But I’m sure it

was aesthetically pleasing!I can imagineThe sound is beautiful. In what way does this influence you as a musician? Or better, what is

it that you like about this? Dunno. I think it’s got a good

shape to it. It builds up nicely and it’s exciting because it acceler-ates. It’s just good music and in-teresting sounds, especially when you know it’s essentially a piano.

Isn’t it also because the compos-er is taking control of the instru-ment in a very personal way? Sure that’s another great as-

pect of it. He takes a different approach and in turn creates something impossible to achieve by playing it, errr, normally

It is also something that you do, right? Taking an instrument and using it in a different way? Not particularly, but listening to

music like this definitely encour-ages me to think about how to approach playing. Especially on established traditional instru-ments, but only if it is to benefit a good bit of music in the end.

But what about your prepared guitar and home-made instru-ments? Oh yeh, I guess so. A bit! Ex-

tended techniques, prepared guitar, that kind of thing.

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That’s what I was aiming at... Ah ok cool. So yeh, in the band

we try to limit the use of elec-tronic pre-recordings, so we try to imitate or recreate sounds on what we’ve got...

What have you got? We have acoustic guitar with

distortion, synth, snare cym-bals and kick one tom with raisa cow bells.

What’s more important to you, sound or composition? That’s a question, both go hand

in hand... use sound to make the composition I think.

What is the weirdest sound you ever produced? My friend coughing reversed.

Pretty weird. Lots of flem.Flem? Yeh, errrr, if u smoke too much.Ah. I have also seen you sing-ing through some sort of a large tube. It’s a hoover. The bain of my life!

It distorts your voiceIs it on when you sing through it? Yes. But I don’t do it much any-

more; we wanted to see if people

came to hear the songs despite the hoover.

And? You didn’t need the hoover I assume. Yeh, I guess so. I hope so!In what direction do your new songs go? Are they more ex-perimental... more hiphop? darker? Errr, more beatsy at the mo-

ment. A bit more out as well, more interesting harmony, more boring melodies.

What do you mean with out? more weird. I don’t really know

yet tho. Got lots of sketchesHow do you sketch? On logicon guitar, on paper…

whatever’s around... logic [sound recording software]

Do you use kitchen utensils? Yes I do, but it’s quite cliché I

reckon. There is some great me-tallic percussion in a kitchen set though, right?

Definitely, nothing to be ashamed of. I’m not ashamed dude! Just best

to try and make it not sound like you fell into yr washing up pile... or maybe that’s what to go for?

continue 15you (John Lennon) // I love you like a fat man loves his donuts (Ghetto Cross) //

That would save some washing up. Do you like to cook? I’m shit at cooking. No patienceReally? Somehow I figured you like to cook Oh no. I like to eat though.What do you like to eat? Free foodMay be I figured you like to cook because you seem to like creating stuff That’s thoughtful of you. Sorry

to disappoint!That’s ok... free = good? No, not all the timeIt helps ExactlyI am always curious what peo-ple like to eat, it’s a funny hab-it. Somehow it tells me some-thing. Ok well er er er er er, I like Ital-

ian food and seaweed and big on sweets. My favourite at the mo-ment is a haribo rainbow swirl

hmmmmm sounds delicious Yeh, it’s magicWhat’s a Haribo rainbow swirl? It’s like a chewy swirl thing multi

coloured... doesn’t really have a flavor!

What do you see when you look on your left? A wall... with a pic of my mumAnd right? So much crapI know the feeling. But crap can make noise Not this crap. It creates stressA hoover won’t help? Not now. I’m afraid it’s too late

for even those measuresYou make me curious. A real in-terviewer would ask about it Lucky for you this is an inter-

viewSo tell me... what’s with the crap on your right? And why does it stress you out? micachu posted file Dud003.

jpgwow Yeh, too much crapThat does not look so stressful that’s just one corner!What stresses you about it? Just no shelves to put stuff on.

If I want something the pile col-lapses

Do you feel you need to give it all a place? Yes

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We’re not those kids, sitting on the couch (Moldy Peaches) // Some girls are bigger

Maybe this is the place YesBut I see your point though.I like it that you took a photo I’m glad, I thought it was more

articulate than any description of mine.

Do you know Paul Wall?No sorry. Who is Paul Wall? He did this ace tune called Sit-

tin’ Sidewayz a while back

Did the pile make you think of the tune? No, just in my head. Great bass

lineI’ll go find it CoolWhat is the weirdest thing you have laying in that pile? Well, there’s a chainsaw in there

at the moment, but it’s plastic. I think the stuff is normal. It is

There’s a chainsaw in there at the moment, but it’s plastic. I think the stuff is normal. It is just

accumulated and untidy and homeless!

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just accumulated and untidy and homeless!

Will you do something about it any time soon? I just tidied it yesterday... that’s

the thing. It was spread out all over the floor and into the cor-ridor I couldn’t walk

So you are sort of halfway ....I think I’m done actually. Un-

less I throw it out the window this is the smallest it goes.

This chat sorta looks like that pile now. I think so tooBut I will give it all a place...I was thinking about photos with the article. Could you make some more? Yeh ok. Will do some of my

room micachu posted files Dud020.jpg,

Dud021.jpg, Dud001.jpg I hope that’s okIt is great. I like the one with the M and the one with the sleeve It’s from Japan. Matthew Her-

bert gave it to me!Hey.... thanks so much for this. It’s been a pleasure Likewise!Have lots of fun in Rome. Good food there! Thank you. Have a nice dayYou too! Thanks and byeBye!

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doorway is that it’s you and that you’re standing in the doorway (John Darnielle)

De wereld is slecht en de mensen over het al-gemeen ook. Maar soms is er iets moois en goeds, en dat moet dan geschilderd worden.

Leuk is anders maar iemand moet het doen.Jeroen exposeert samen met Marc van der Holst

(ja, van Spekkie Big) in de Chiellerie in Amsterdam, van 12 t/m 14 juni.

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// I saw your girlfriend and she’s eating her fingers like they’re just another meal

Kantoor

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featured artist: Jeroen Blankert

Kanoman

continue 21stop your heartbeat, for only one heartbeat (Bill Callahan) // There’s gonna be a

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lot of slow singing and flower bringing if my burglar alarm starts ringing (Biggie

Blauwe vrachtwagen

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intervieW With self

SATAN (Butthole Surfers) // She’s a real left winger cause she been down south

I never actually got to do an inter-view with myself. Maybe that’s why I still don’t really know who

I am. Problem is, what do I want to know about myself? What are the right questions to ask? I guess I’ll just ask about things that never come up in regular interviews. For instance:

Why do you still live in Hol-land?That’s a good question. Now here’s the answer: Throughout the world

lay a lot of bricks. With these bricks I want to build a castle, which will take years to complete. So I travel the world and the seven seas to gather all these bricks and bring them back to my construction place. In a few years my castle will then be completed, and I will sit on the high seat and watch over my lands and people.

Ok, That was some symbolic bullshit coming from you there.

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end 25and held peasants in her arms (Black Francis) // All I know is you got no money

Do you consider yourself spe-cial then?Yes I do. The day I was born, my placental afterbirth was transplant-ed into the brains of a small group of Caucasian men. In their brains, it divided itself into a small army of me’s. This army fought their way to the very cortex of these brains, and destroyed every last bit of rational-ity, sympathy, sense and sensibil-ity. As years passed by, these men took part in my master plan of de-stroying the modern world. On my sixteenth birthday I was having a drink with some friends, when sud-denly I started feeling really sick. I went to the toilet and threw up. When I looked at my vomit, I saw a warm, comforting light glowing from it. The light transformed into an image. The two towers fell. It was done.

Have you been watching too many Sci-fi and fantasy movies lately?No, I never watch TV. Television is the opium of the masses. That’s why I invented it. I wanted to cre-ate the image of a perfect human

being for the herd to strive for. It’s like a Rubik’s cube: they spend all their lives figuring it out, but they never solve it. Except for boy won-der Will Smith maybe.

Ok, seriously, what’s up with Elle?Me and my band will be playing a lot of festivals this summer. And we just made a new video for the song ’Barbies & Zombies’. Google that bitch! It’s on YouTube too! Further-more we’ll be playing an acoustic set for the very first time evah!!

OMG OMG OMG!!! Gonna POWN that shite! And I hope to get something done about my crack ad-diction this year. I got hooked while touring with Voicst last year. These guys are real bad asses. I hate them now.

THANKS HA! This was a great idea. I hope to do this more often. My soul feels more at peace right now. Thanks for letting me do this Sub-baBubbassss…

Elle Bandita plays at Metropolis festival in Rotterdam on 5 June.

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“Outside Love is ten songs about love and hate that read like a Danielle Steel romance novel”, aldus het

persbericht bij het derde album van de Pink Mountaintops dat zojuist verschenen is. Ik vraag me af wat hier bedoeld wordt. Na wat gegoogle blijkt Steel een wereldberoemde Amerikaanse romanschrijfster te zijn, die vooral door

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fact check: pink mountaintops - outside love door oscar smit

SPECTOR BLAAST ER LEVEN IN

(EN BALLEN)

but that’s got nothing to do with a good time (Thurston Moore) // The idiot wind,

vrouwen gelezen wordt. Zou deze CD het muzikale equivalent van een keukenmeidenroman zijn? Geen goeie aanbeveling, lijkt me.

Tot zover de literaire bronnen van Outside Love, maar hoe klinkt de plaat? Direct bij de begintonen van het eerste nummer slaat de opwinding toe. Dit doet denken aan het intro van ‘Be My Baby’ van The Ronettes! De hitsingle uit 1963 kwam uit de koker van de revolutionaire producer Phil Spector. In de jaren zestig verzamelde Spector een kring van muzikanten om zich heen die onder namen als The Ronettes, The Crystals of Darlene Love vele hitsingles met hem maakten.

Phil Spector (1940) was een van de eerste producers in de popmuziek met een eigen, kenmerkende sound. Zijn handelsmerk was de zogenaamde wall of sound: een georkestreerde muur van geluid die voornamelijk bestond uit (veel) elektrische en akoestische gitaren met daartussen wat tamboerijn of percussiegeluidjes. De producer creëerde op deze manier korte popsymfonieën, die perfect klonken op de middengolf(transistor)radio’s en jukeboxen uit die tijd. Spector hield niet van albums, desondanks heeft één van de weinige langspelers die hij maakte, A Christmas Gift For You uit 1963, inmiddels een klassieke status verworven.

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doesn’t mean you have to do it (Blues Brother Castro) // Last night I dreamt I

Er waren ook vele gerenommeerde artiesten die Spector in de arm namen. Zo produceerde hij in 1966 de single ‘River Deep, Mountain High’ van Ike & Tina Turner en werkte hij met John Lennon en Leonard Cohen. Ook produceerde hij de Beatles-LP Let It Be (1970). (Paul McCartney was overigens zo ontevreden over het resultaat, dat hij het album in 2003 opnieuw uitbracht, zonder de productionele toevoegingen van Phil Spector). En in 1980 was Spector verantwoordelijk voor de enige hit van de Ramones in ons land: ‘Rock ’n’ Roll Highschool’.

Meer recentelijk werkte hij even met Starsailor, maar door zijn grillige karakter zijn uiteindelijk slechts twee songs van het album Silence Is Easy uit 2003 door hem geproduceerd. Spectors moeilijke persoonlijkheid speelde hem al eerder parten. Zo zou hij eens een kogel boven het hoofd van John Lennon hebben afgevuurd en ook Leonard Cohen, Stevie Wonder en The Ramones met een wapen

hebben bedreigd. Op 3 februari 2003 werd het ontzielde lichaam van actrice Lana Clarkson in zijn huis aangetroffen. Ze bleek te zijn doodgeschoten. Spector werd aangeklaagd voor moord en na in eerste instantie te zijn vrijgesproken, werd hij in april dit jaar toch schuldig bevonden aan doodslag.

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debuutalbum Psychocandy uit 1985. Stephen McBean, alias Pink Mountaintops, heeft blijkbaar goed naar de Britten geluisterd, want tussen de Amerikaanse klinkende blues- en countrysongs zitten ook nummers als ‘The Gayest Of Sunbeams’, die refereren aan de ruige distortion van Psychocandy. Drijvende krachten achter de Mary Chain waren de broers Jim en William Reid. Een ander bandlid uit de begindagen dat ook al niet bekend stond om zijn aangepaste gedrag was drummer Bobby Gillespie, nu zanger van Primal Scream. De post-punkgroep was in de jaren tachtig berucht om haar ultrakorte optredens (meestal nog geen twintig minuten). De band gedroeg zich nogal provocerend en moest daarom vaak onder een regen van flesjes en glazen voortijdig het podium verlaten. Ook werden de Britten nogal eens gearresteerd wegens drugsbezit. En in 1985 veroorzaakten ze een reli-schandaaltje: fabrieksarbeiders weigerden hun tweede single te persen, omdat op de achterkant een nummer stond met de titel ‘Jesus Fuck’.

In ons land genoot The Jesus and Mary Chain enige bekendheid dankzij de VPRO-radio. De toenmalige DJ’s Fons Dellen en Jan Donkers hebben zelfs een fanclub opgericht. De band bracht zes albums uit en stopte in 1998. In 2008 werd een nieuw album aangekondigd, maar dat is tot op heden niet verschenen.

Toch hebben Spector en de Mary Chain—gelukkig—hun stempel weten te drukken op Outside Love. De invloeden van Spector en de Britse noise-pioniers geven het album net de ballen die het nodig heeft.

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Cat Power is meer kattig dan kittig. Slechts één keer was haar optreden een feestelijke aangelegenheid,

toen de singer-songwriter haar verjaardag vierde op een zondagmiddag in Paradiso. Meestal stond echter een beschroomd meisje met gitaar op het podium, haar gezicht van het publiek afgewend en de ogen verborgen achter lang donker haar, net als het spook in The Ring. Ze tokkelde verstrooid over akoestische snaren, mummelde onaffe tekstregels en staakte veel liedjes halverwege. De zangeres deed het voorkomen alsof ze geen idee had waar ze was of ze nam geen enkele moeite haar desinteresse te verbloemen. De laatste keer

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hoorde ik haar met een suffe coverband zonder ironie Proud Mary vertolken. Cat Power doet het beter op het witte doek. Ze was de reddende engel in de mislukte eerste Engelstalige productie van regisseur Wong Kar-wai. Haar rol in My Blueberry Nights (2007) beslaat slechts één dialoog met Jude Law, maar daarin straalt ze meer charisma uit dan hoofdrolspeelster Norah Jones in een hele carrière. Enkele liedjes van Cat Power, waaronder ‘The Greatest’, maakten de film genietbaar zonder er daadwerkelijk naar te hoeven kijken. Maar ‘The Greatest’ ligt sindsdien in de uitverkoop: begin mei draaiden in Nederland maar liefst drie films waarin dit liedje voorbijkomt op de soundtrack, in twee gevallen als een kers op een drol. In het drama Mammoth (Lukas Moodysson, 2009) staat ‘The Greatest’ op de compilatie die chirurg Allison (Michelle Williams) voor haar echtgenoot Tom (Gael García Bernal) heeft samengesteld. Het echtpaar is voor 98 procent van de film van elkaar gescheiden, omdat hij vanwege zijn succesvolle gamesite in het buitenland zaken doet. Tom luistert minstens twee keer naar Cat Power om de afstand tussen hem en zijn vrouw gevoelsmatig te verkleinen. Allison en Tom zijn door hun eigen schuld 125 minuten filmtijd lang diep ongelukkig, terwijl de oplossing voor het paar en hun dochtertje zo simpel is: stop onmiddellijk met werken en ga lekker rentenieren. Helaas werd mijn wijze raad niet opgevolgd. De relatie tussen de ongelukkige veertiger

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Mike (Matthew Perry) en zijn vrouw Scarlett (Leslie Mann) komt in de grappig bedoelde puberfantasie 17 Again (Burr Steers, 2009) via een kronkelige omweg wel helemaal goed. Mike verandert namelijk tijdelijk in het zeventienjarige basketbalwonder (gespeeld door Zac Efron) dat hij ooit is geweest. Hij kan door een mirakel de droom verwezenlijken die hij als tiener heeft laten liggen en tegelijkertijd dichter bij zijn vervreemde dochter en zoon komen. Na de allerbelangrijkste confrontatie tussen de jonge Mike en de volwassen Scarlett krijgen de waterlanders dankzij ‘The Greatest’ alle ruimte. De doorleefd acterende Efron was echter al voldoende om de weekdieren onder de toeschouwers aan het schouderschokken te krijgen. ‘The Greatest’ is ideaal als liefdesverklaring, zoveel is duidelijk. Zo ook in de aandoenlijke luchtbel Ricky (François Ozon, 2009). Het is niet alleen de film die door de muziek vleugels krijgt, want het zoontje van Katie (Alexandra Lamy) is een bijzondere baby. Dankzij de zacht zingende Cat Power kost het de moeder minder moeite haar kind vroegtijdig los te laten. Het liedje maakt het afscheid dragelijk. Helaas dreigt ‘The Greatest’ door veelvuldig gebruik in films een emotionele stoplap te worden, oftewel: the greatest cliché.

Tom luistert minstens twee keer naar Cat Power om de afstand tussen hem en zijn

vrouw gevoelsmatig te verkleinen.

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Lieve Tweelingen, deze maand ben je enorm in contact met je innerlijke wederhelft. Alle zeven chakra’s zijn eindelijk

lekker ingedaald. ‘t Leven lacht je hard in je gezicht toe. Je voelt je zelfverzekerd en flirt er flink op los, jij troetelbeertje. De zon straalt, de afritsbroek gaat tot boven de knietjes. Je bent een inspiratie. Een wit T-shirt van Crowded House voor net dat extra beetje brutale flair? Don’t mind if you do! Die broertjes Finn zongen zo fraai over het weer, en nu zingt zoonlief Liam over onweer. Wedden dat jij minstens tien weer-gerelateerde liedjes kunt opnoemen? Je bent een huppelende Wikipedia-database. ‘O Katrina’ van de Black Lips natuurlijk. Die zullen ze vast spelen in de Melkweg. Deerhunter, in Paradiso, heeft net een EP uit over regenwater. Jij hebt ‘t echter wel even gehad met die tsunami van hip zogenaamd onaangepast indiegejank. Dat is ook gewoon een suf format. Is Maria Mena niet in ‘t land? Gavin DeGraw wel. Die zong zo leuk over dat hij iets niet wilde. Waarschijnlijk het syndroom van Marfan. Even geen dramatische capriolen voor jou. Jij laat je godver niet Suzuki Swiften, zoals Kim van duo Matt & Kim in hun blote-billen-clip. Ja, hoeveel boy-girl duo’s kun je eigenlijk opnoemen? Nu goed. Die nieuwe cut-my-wrists-plaat van Eels is niet aan jou besteed. Geen dip voor jou, tenzij je een discodip bedoelt. Jij smelt lekker weg bij al je oppervlakkige bezigheden. Zo heeft de vrouwelijke Tweelingen al een H&M-poster van Vincent Gallo uit een bushokje gejat. Je gaapt echter bij zijn pretentieuze bandje RRIICCEE. Hee, een deluxe re-issue van Grace van Jeff Buckley! Hopelijk heeft moeder Mary ditmaal zwembandjes bijgevoegd. Want je weet: als het golft, dan golft het goed. Optimist als je bent, dein jij gezellig met Billy Ocean mee: “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”

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Titus AndronicusMonday 1 June, ekko, utrechtLeave your Shakespeare notes at home as we’d hate them to get ruined by all the beer and sweat flying around the room tonight. Yeah, this New Jersey bunch sure are slippery when wet but thankfully have the energy levels to throw a bounding rock show. There’s elements of a bar band taking on both Springsteen and The Hold Steady here, but the quintet play it louder, harder and faster. In fact, it’s lo-fi punk rock that’s so so full-on and just plain fun that you’ll walk outside ready to form a new band with your friends.+Suicidal Birds Notorious Garage punk from Friesland.+Pony Pack Indie & noise & punk

Karl BlauWednesday 12 June, De Nieuwe anita, amsterdam

From Anacortes, Washington comes multi-instrumentalist Karl Blau. The Pa-cific Northwest has produced a guy who is married, an advocate for all-age ven-ues (he’s a father you see), and upon his entry into the music business, Blau gave the industry the middle finger by releas-ing his music via snail mail to subscrib-ers through his website KLAPS (Kelp Lunacy Advanced Plagiarism Society). With the essence of Bill Callahan in his

voice embellished by the fragility and urgency of Bon Iver in his songs, Blau is a perfectionist in sounding beautifully flawed. (Sinéad Burke)

BasketballWednesday 17 June, Studio 80, amsterdam

Subbacultcha! has started booking bands for the Katapult night at studio 80. Tonight Basketball. Basketball serve up an alternative tribal offering that we’ve never heard the likes of before. Double dribbling Croatian/English vocals over Persian pipes and hammered home with big beats, and it gets better as it gets louder. This tribal trio have roots in Vancouver, Croatia and Barcelona and music doesn’t get any more exotic than this, sounding like a street carnival in Eastern Europe with electronic fu-sion. Our scoreboard reads slam dunk. (Sinéad Burke)

The Wooden Con-structionsWednesday 20 June, De Nieuwe anita, amsterdamThe Wooden Constructions are here to save your life. This Amsterdam based post-punk quartet produce two-minute-something songs. Think early Gang of Four combined with vocal elements

can’t bring me home (Tom Waits) // My brother had confessed, that he was gay it

that remind of a young Mark E. Smith. Another raging young band with no offi cial release just yet, but hear-hear when they do. For now, they kick ass and should be seen. In their own words: ‘If you don’t dance, we’ll beat you up’. Better bring a helmet.+Eva Braun Punk hysteria from Amster-dam. Word is out that they aim for their new songs to be even more unsettling.

Finally Punkthursday 25 June, Db’s, utrecht

What’s sexier than punks? Punkettes.

Finally Punk are four femme fatales who hail from Austin, Texas. Their vocals range from droll to frantic yelps, creating sounds of light drum tapping and heavy pounding bangs that are at times embellished by itchy, even scratchy guitar. Influences from girl punk band The Slits and X-Ray Spex permeate their sound, and while no other grrrl band has managed to live up to the modern-day legacy, ele-ments of early Sleater-Kinney are in here too. Already selling out pressed LPs and EPs, these punkettes sure mean business. (Sinéad Burke)

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the paiNS of beiNG pure at heartmonday 8 june. paradiso, kleine zaal, 20.00, €10 + membershipAh, the simple joys of noise pop. This indie pop quartet from New York have proved a bit of a hype sensation this year, but deservedly so. Their self-titled debut emerged on Slumberland, drum-ming up memories of My Bloody Valen-tine and the classic shoegaze movement. But their sound is joyous, pure and sim-ply delicious indie pop that’s perfect for

summer lovin’. Just don’t be surprised if it sells out in advance.

DaN DeacoNmonday 8 june. paradiso, kleine zaal, 21.00, €10 + membershipFor the past fi ve or six years this Ameri-can electronic composer has been daz-zling fans with numerous EPs and albums, veering from wonderful electro pop to quirky noise experiments. He regards new album Bromst as one of his most playful and ‘live’ efforts, but even that won’t have

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these times, but ooooh, none of them are mine (Lou Reed) // I’ve got 99 problems

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FRI 5 A.U.C. – WARSHIP (usa, ex-from Autumn to Ashes), OUTCRY COLLECTIVE (uk) & THE SECRET HANDSHAKE CLUBSAT 6 HOMEGROWN EVENTS THE BATS (nz) & CHARLIE ASH (nz) SUN 7 LIVING IN OBLIVION BLITZKID (usa) Djs: LITTLE MISS FURTUNE & KONDRATIEFFWED 10 WINSTON ROCKS! THE KENDOLLS (swe) & more tbaFRI 12 WINSTON THE UPSESSIONS (ep release party) & SUNFIRESOULSTUE 16 AMSTERDAM UNDERGROUND COLLECTIVE COALESCE (usa), MISANTROPICANA & OTISWED 17 WINSTON ROB KLERKX (Moke) & T.I.F.T.FRI 26 AMSTERDAM BEATCLUB HULLABALOO (uk, ex-The Keytones) & more tba

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you prepared for his live shows, which typically have him performing from with-in the audience, interacting with fans and executing as many jokes as songs.

breNt arNolD, DJ rupture & aNDy Moortuesday 9 june. occii, 21.00, €5An intriguing double bill on two levels. Solo singer-songwriter Arnold is of the looping persuasion, recording his cello and creating loops to overlay with elec-tronics. He sings on top too. Then there’s the release party for the avant-garde electronica of DJ Rupture and Andy Moor of The Ex. Grime-y rhythms and fun fretboard antics collide in a project that really does sound original.

chaD VaNGaaleNwednesday 10 june. paradiso, kleine zaal, 19.30, €10 + membershipAnother indie great who’s kept us en-thralled in recent years, this Canadian singer-songwriter is full of charm and lo-fi creativity. Whether he’s strumming away solo on his acoustic or kicking up indie rock grooves with full band, he won’t let you down.

cheSter freNchwednesday 17 june. paradiso, kleine zaal, 20.00, €10 + membershipSee Rotterdam listings.

WaVVeSfriday 19 june. paradiso, kleine zaal, 20.00, €8 + membershipThis sunshiny California duo already blew away Subbacultcha! followers ear-lier this year, and now they’re back to celebrate Dutch summertime with us. Since that last visit they’ve been blogged to death, got the Pitchfork seal of ap-proval and re-released their self-titled album on Fat Cat. The distortion pedals are overworked, the vocals distorted beyond comfort, but at the heart of the project are buoyant pop melodies and boundless energy, so we dare you not to fall in love with them.

GoNe balDfriday 19 june. occii, 20.30, €7They’re the epitome of independent mu-sic in Amsterdam, and now celebrating their 15th anniversary, seem fairly un-stoppable. In fact, these experimental noise rockers fronted by Razorblade Jr pretty much have a fresh line-up every two or three years, but the juggernaut still keeps rolling. What’s more, their anniversary parties are a thing of legend in the noise rock scene, with masses of special guests and great surprises.

fiNally puNkwednesday 24 june. occii, 21.00, €6See Subbacultcha! listings.

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eiNe kirche Der aNGSt Vor DeM freMDeN iN Mir5-8 june. westergasfabriek zuiveringshal west, 20.00, €30A very personal piece in which direc-tor Christoph Schlingensief (1960) uses a crucial event in his life (he was diag-nosed with lung cancer in 2008) for a ritual that brings together extreme con-tradictions. A church will be constructed in the Westergasfabriek’s Zuiveringhal, whereby the performance will take on the character of a Requiem mass. Schlin-gensief’s body and his ‘life’s art’ needs to be comforted, his demons confronted with rituals taken from the Catholic church and performances by the Fluxus movement.

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louiS aNDrieSSeN 70 yearS olDsaturday 6 june. muziekgebouw, 20.30, €17.50/€27.50He may well be the oldest person ever to be written about in Subbacultcha!, but this Dutch master is still as innovative in the modern music scene as our fave young punks with guitars and electro-heads with samplers. A key experimental composer since the late-’50s, he’s recognised interna-tionally for his musical contributions, he co-founded STEIM in the ’60s, and is still producing monumental and challenging compositions. Tonight his ‘La Passione’ is central, but there’s also earlier perfor-mances in Concertgebouw that celebrate his oldest and newest works.

VarèSe SyMpoSiuMfriday 12 june. artis planetarium, 20.00, €10In 1957 and 1958, the French com-poser Edgard Varèse worked on the ‘Poème Électronique’ – a composition

From June 4 until June 28 the Holland Festival hits Amsterdam with loads of cutting edge music, theater and art. Subbacultcha! picked some highlights.

eine kirche der angst vor dem fremden in mir varèse baby dee

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for audio tape – using thousands of sound recordings. This piece involved pioneering work in the areas of elec-tronic music and audio recording technology. In 1958, it was combined with a light and slide show to be per-formed at the Brussels World Fair in the Philips Pavilion – a cathedral of modernity designed by French ar-chitect Le Corbusier – in which the visitors underwent an immersive ex-perience merging sound, images and space. Restored and heard with 360° projections in the planetarium, lead-ing international experts on Varèse will discuss the multimedia aspect of his work and the significance of the composer in the 21st century.

kriStalsaturday 13/sunday 14 june. wester-gasfabriek, various timesKristal—created and staged by the mu-sic theatre ensemble De Veenfabriek—is a homage to Edgard Varèse. Defying strong opposition and condemnation, Varèse spent his whole life trying to liber-ate sounds from their historical confines, adding new musical instruments, includ-ing the siren, to the existing orchestral instrumentation, thereby modernising music. The piece is narrated, sung and instrumentally performed by actress Yonina Spijker and De Veenfabriek’s ten-member siren orchestra.

teeNaGe loNtaNosunday 14 june. westergasfabriek, 16.45/19.00, €15Forty youngsters stand side by side in a long line listening to their iPods, alone or in pairs. A rotating speaker installation above their heads radiates unearthly electro-acoustic sounds by the New York composer and turntab-list Marina Rosenfeld. As the teenag-ers begin to sing along with the sounds feeding into their ears, Rosenfeld’s cover version of György Ligeti’s 1967 orchestral masterpiece ‘Lontano’—known from the soundtrack of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining—emerges from the combined voices of the young per-formers.

baby Deesaturday 20 june. bimhuis, 20.30, €20The American singer-songwriter Baby Dee won the admiration of Dutch au-diences while singing her own work as a solo performer and also when sharing the stage with her buddy Marc Almond. For a long time, the two formed part of the same New York scene that also produced Ant-ony. With her unique singing voice this transgender artist is attracting a growing group of fans. Her recent CD Safe Inside the Day, produced by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, has received rave reviews across the globe.

barbed wire, I use a cobra-snake for a necktie, who do you love? (Bo Diddley)

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03-06 The Maccabees-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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10-06 The Gaslight Anthem ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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more events, info & tickets: www.doornroosje.nl

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tituS aNDroNicuSwednesday 3 june. rotown, 21.00, €8It’s a good thing that Titus Andronicus are suburban New Jersey kids who prac-tice in their friend’s basement, because that’s exactly how they sound. Equal parts Springsteen, Clash and Andrew WK, these boys shred good time anthems of shaking, luke-warm beer-soaked noisi-ness guaranteed to make you smile like a fi fteen-year old at his fi rst punk show. Check out their amazing tour video on-line for further evidence.

for a MiNor reflectioNthursday 4 june. rotown, 21.00, €7.50Why is this band so special? Firstly, just being from Iceland is a great start, unless you’re someone looking after our money. But more crucially, they make ethereal, soothing and at times explosive instrumental post rock mu-sic. Not enough? Well, they’re cur-rently on their second European jaunt, having toured with Sigur Rós in 2008, and those guys described them as ‘a band with the potential to out Mog-wai’. Even if that doesn’t mean Mog-wai are secretly gay, expect an excit-ing and spellbinding live show.

the peroNiStS, SoNiDo Del priNcipethursday 4 june. worm, 21.00, €tbcFantastic Argentinian electronic cumbia madness from The Peronists. Grab their free EP Nacionalismo Electronico from net label Mamushka Dogs and prepare to dance your South American socks off. Dutch counterparts Sonido del Principe spice it up with dubstep and Afro-beat infl uences.

MorriSSeysaturday 6 june. watt, 20.00, sold outAmong Morrissey’s nicknames are The Moz, Mozza, Mozfather and Pope of

This is a selection of shows in Rotterdam that we think are worth a visit. So get out there and indulge.

things to do in rotterDaM

titus andronicus

// Are you pretending to love, well I hear it pays well (Tom Waits) // You have to

PATRONAAT | HAARLEM | WWW.PATRONAAT.NL

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Mope. If you don’t know who he is then chances are you shouldn’t be reading this magazine right now. Tickets are sold out, but true Moz devotees know that where there’s a will, there’s a way.

ariel piNk, cryptacizemonday 8 june. worm, 21.00, €tbcThe inimitable Ariel Pink is known for his homebrew recordings of lonely LA nights and wily misadven-tures of the endless hangover known as California sunshine, but for some reason people tend to hate him live. Sure, his performances can be avant-garde and just plain weird, but won-derful isn’t out the question either. Cryptacize are a California-based trio who exhibit far fewer screeches and

body paint and far more cute. Nedelle Torrisi’s sweetly quivering voice and the hint of ‘doo wop’ in their playful sing-songy tunes are heart-warmingly familiar.

cheSter freNch (uS)thursday 18 june. rotown, 21.00, €10Nevermind the heavy burden of hype fl oating around this Harvard grad duo, signed by Pharrell Williams to his Star Trak/Interscope Records. Just put your trust in an exquisite manifesta-tion of innovative and refreshing pop music, that will have you raise your eyebrows, close your eyes, smile with relief, and indeed, as the title of their debut album suggests, Love the Fu-ture.

ariel pink chester french

learn how to die (Jeff Tweedy) // Just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean

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Melkweg | Paradiso Nederlands Instituut voor MediakunstPasse-partout 65 euro(ex. lidm. & servicekosten)info www.5daysoff.nl

15 -19 Juli 2009Passe-partout 65 euro (ex. lidm. & servicekosten) ticket info www.5daysoff.nl

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MetropoliS feStiVal5 july. rotterdamwww.metropolisfestival.nl‘New Music First’ is the new motto, although it doesn’t differ dramatically

from their old motto. Running for more than 20 years now, organisers are always proud to boast of sets from The Prodigy, Smashing Pumpkins, The Strokes etc, all before they hit the big

Festivals are hitting the fi elds. Or rather... Too many festivals are hitting the fi elds. And to make things a bit easier on your already fl ustered brain we made a sweet selection. Tents out, head numb, ears open, eyes closed and go!

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time. Compared to a few years back, when venues and programmers from all over Holland would work to bring the best new acts to this country for the first time, this gathering has cer-tainly downsized due to funding prob-lems. But there’s still a good bunch of people working here and attempting to give a shot to lesser-known bands on the way up.Tips: The Budos Band | Fucked Up | Rolo Tomassi

5 DayS off15-19 july. amsterdamwww.5daysoff.nlSamplers, laptops, drum machines and even guitars get utilised at this five-day gathering—so long as the end result is you and me dancing.Tips: Jamie Lidell | Crystal Castles | Diplo | Santigold

Dour feStiVal16-19 july. dour (belgium)www.dourfestival.beA fair price, cracking bands and an at-mosphere that’s worth leaving Holland for. It’s early days yet, but the line-up already announced is enough to make even the most hardened anti-festival person think long and hard about living in a field for five days.Tips: Fuck Buttons | Animal Col-lective | Boss Hog

De affaire18-24 july. nijmegenwww.de-affaire.nlEvery summer Nijmegen becomes famous for folks walking, walking and walking a bit more. But alongside the walkers are some pretty cool parties and festival sets. Just be sure to forget the jazz and skip the pop, ’cause De Affaire caters perfectly to the indie hipster crowd. Tips: Deerhoof | The Dodos | Cari-bou | St Vincent

halDerN pop13-15 august. haldern (germany)www.haldern-pop.deA true sweetie of the festival calendar that’s worth venturing over the German border for. It’s not as small as it used to be, but organisers are still refusing to cash in on its growing popularity, so hur-rah. There’s always some cracking bands too, but Paolo Nutini? Well, you’ve gotta crap sometime.Tips: Grizzly Bear | The Thermals | Loney, Dear

loWlaNDS21-23 august. biddinghuizenwww.lowlands.nlSold out! Tough shit! Wait, Faith No More have been confirmed and there’s no tickets. Bollocks!Tips: Resist the temptation of touts and do something more fun.

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thursday JuNe 25Db’Sstarts 21.00 | entrance free

tituS aNDroNicuS (xl recordingS, uSA) + suicidal birds + pony pack

MaGaziNe party!!ft. karl blau (k-rec, usa)

baSketball (can/spa) i.s.m. katapult

eVa brauN + the WooDeN coNStructioNS + dj’s 100% party girls

fiNally puNk (usa)

agenda

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overview subbacultcha! shows june 2009

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holland festival4 – 28 juni 2009

selectie van hoogtepunten:

Eine Kirche der Angst vor dem Fremden in mirTheatermaker Schlingensief bevecht zijn demonen met dodenmis.

westergasfabriek zuiveringshal, vr 5 – ma 8 juni

Golgotha Steven Cohen mixt beeldende kunst met dans en travestie.

theater bellevue, za 6 – ma 8 juni

Teenage Lontano Installatie van New Yorkse turntablist Marina Rosenfeld

voor veertig jongeren en hun iPod.westergasfabriek zuiveringshal, zo 14 juni

Baby Dee Singer-songwriter die niet in een hokje te plaatsen is.

bimhuis, za 20 juni

www.holland festival.nl

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