6th Rockit Festival
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6th Rockit Festival

The sixth edition of this year’s Rockit Festival, located at Groningen’s SPOT, ended on Saturday night with a rousing, highly entertaining, and crazy set by MonoNeon. The bassist, whose real name is Dywane Thomas Jr. and who is known for his hilariously extravagant costumes, also released a pretty spacy Moog EP earlier this year called…

New Releases Galore!

New Releases Galore!

It’s a busy release week this time around. We’re currently enjoying the new and first album by Brazilian lo-fi artist batata boy who has worked with Bruno Berle in the past. Bruno can be heard as guest vocalist on “Tudo Pra Agora”. The 12 songs on the album “Magicleomixtape (Quando Vê, Já Foi”) fill up…

North Sea Jazz Day 3 – Church Service with Samara, Oded, and Esperanza
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North Sea Jazz Day 3 – Church Service with Samara, Oded, and Esperanza

It was during Samora Pinderhughes‘ set when the thunderstorm hit. You could hear the thunder inside the hall while he was just announcing his next song. Samora played tunes from his formidable album “Grief” and he had the pleasure of working with the North Sea String Quartet which happened to be special guest for several…