Stone Rock Festival - 2015

Stone Rock Festival 

There’s a new festival in town. Or well, one that has been around for five years. But not that well known yet. Stone Rock Festival in Dalfsen, Netherlands. A festival that focuses on alternative rock, stonerrock, stonerpop, garage and psychedelic rock and all or mostly from that lovely Lowlands country with their wooden shoes, windmills and marijuana. This year featuring amazing bands such as An Evening With Knives, De Staat and General Midnight. But also other damn fine outfits like Navarone, Poor John, The Indien and few new kids on the block. And those new bands show definite promise. What to think of Mandrake’s Monster? Or Magnetic Spacemen? Or The Apologist and The Muncks? Hey, and then there’s also old dogs Raggende Manne! So get your ass over to Dalfsen for Stone Rock festival on Saturday June 6th! And if you don't feel like getting down, dirty and boogying your behind off you can always get frustrated and angry watching Het Universumpje; or maybe have you mind blown by them instead…

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Het Universumpje – De Grenzen Van Het Toelaatbare

Het Universumpje – De Grenzen Van Het Toelaatbare

PIAS – 2015

Rock, Stoner, Dutch

Rated: **

The four Dutch freaks that make up Het Universumpje, are one of those one-off creatures. Like the Platypus. It’s most of everything, somewhere in between and absolutely nothing at all. The music on their debut album De Grenzen Van Het Toelaatbare comes across as highly electrified stoner pop in the vein of Queens Of The Stone Age or De Staat. Which is something we could dig, were it not, that almost every song soon feels like you heard it before and that this is the less interesting version of it. Musically there is nothing that sets them apart unfortunately. But there are ofcourse the lyrics. In Dutch. Pretty poetic, with overtones of the absurd, humor, philosophical irony and social criticism. Albeit a bit farfetched from time to time, it is highly interesting to hear the Dutch language being used in this kind of rock music. Which sometimes works and sometimes comes across as certain artists from the Netherlands nobody wants to be compared to. The weirdest part though is the vague but acute sense of aggression they tend to invoke. You really want to hurt someone. Preferably the band members. Strange… Cause I am not a violent man… But they are testing the limits of what’s permissible…

(Written by JK)

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