B-Side Wins Again: City Jungle

Here's a creepy cool Belgian psych curio with an odd flute break... check out "She Makes Me Cry" by Marc Hermant's City Jungle. 

Hear Deja Voodoo's final European show in Belgium back in 1989

Have a listen to a fan's tape of Deja Voodoo's rippin' second set at The Pits club in Kortrijk, Belgium on November 5, 1989.

 

Writes Gerard: 

"Here's something fun: audio from our last European show ever, in a small pub in a small town in Belgium in late 1989. We did 7 gigs in 4 countries in 6 days, sleeping on the train some nights. The songs got faster and faster..."

Check out Gerard Van Herk and Tony Dewald tearing it up at The Pits in Kortrijk on Nov 5, 1989 below. 

Catl embarks on blues rockin' European takeover this June!

Look out Germany and Belgium, Toronto juke joint blues duo deluxe Catl are coming to tear shit up near you! 

** CATL'S EUROPEAN TOUR 2025 **

6.5 - FRANKFURT, DE - Dreikönigskeller FFM

6.6 - MONCHENGLADBACH, DE - *private party*

6.7 - KNESSELARE, BE - ROOTS IN THE JAR FARM FEST

6.12 - KUSEL, DE - Kulturzentrum Kinett

6.14 - BERLIN, DE - BERLIN STRING BASH

One For The Weekend: The Snap Shots

Getting your weekend started right with The Snap Shots' fuzz-enhanced Belgian freakbeat gem "Hip Hip Hurray." Dig it!

Happy Birthday Philip Catherine!

Raising a glass to Belgian guitar great Philip Catherine with a few performances alongside Chet Baker, Larry Coryell & NHØP. 

Toronto's dynamic duo Catl rock Summer Live 4 in Lixing-lès-Rouhling, Saturday

If you happen to be in northeastern France this weekend, don't miss Catl with The Courettes & Bob Log III on Saturday! 

Oh yes Belgium, Catl are headed your way for three fab Flemish frolics in Sint-Truiden, Tongeren and Oostkamp! 

Happy Birthday Booker Ervin!

Remembering Booker Ervin with a 1966 performance alongside Nathan Davis, Ted Curson, Pony Poindexter and Kenny Drew.

Finders Keepers compiles best of Belgian prog-jazz crew COS

The 14-track COSMIX collection is wisely weighted towards the Brussels anti-pop ensemble's first two mid-70s albums.  

ZIP! POW! POP! CAN? ZAO? NEU? EGG? PIL? AND NOW COS. 

COS might not be the first genre-defying progressive music group you’ve heard of who share both wordless onomatopoeic vocals and a snappy three-letter name (complete with philosophical leanings and alchemic penchants) but on listening to this first-ever custom COS compendium you might have just discovered a potential favourite! Perhaps it’s no coincidence that COS share close spiritual, stylistic and social connections with the aforementioned bands, as one of the few long withstanding single-sylable ensembles to remain utterly idiosyncratic and incomparable in their hyper-focused and impenetrable creative bubble. As a group that effortlessly MIX head-nod prog, synth driven jazz, dislocated disco, archestral operatics and high-brow conceptual anti-pop grooves, it’s easier to just remember the name COS than to thumb the vast amount of genre dividers in your local record shop in which COS could occupy. With the crème de la crème of Belgian jazz, prog, psych and funk within their ranks (Daniel Schell/Placebo/Marc Hollander/Alain Pierre/Brussels Art Quintet), their combined idea-to-ability ratio litters the COSography with concepts that aficionados, future fans, collaborators and critics still haven’t begun to unravel...

Get a copy of COSMIX via Bandcamp right here. Check out a few tracks below. 

COS – COSMIX

1. Oostend, Oostend

2. Postaeolian Train Robbery 

3. Flamboya

4. Nog Verder

5. Mein Maschine Ist Schön

6. Boehme 03:20

7. Halucal

8. Good Wind

9. L'Idiot Léon

10. Babel

11. Einstein, j't'aime

12. Achtung TV-Watchers

13. Amafam

14. Perhaps Next Record

Happy Birthday Philip Catherine!

Celebrating Philip Catherine's birthday with "Grelots" from 1967 and sessions with Eero Koivistoinen and Marc Moulin.

Watch Placebo live in Temse, Belgium 1972

Here's a rare performance clip of Marc Moulin's jazz-rock crew from the Tienerklanken television program.