Sawing and demolishing laptops and making music on a sculpted oversized powerbook installation, YobKiss born in Ashburton, New Zealand was conceived in 2006 as a performance piece for the Rotterdam based art collective Antistrot. Working in his studio in The Hague, Paul B
The Suburbs, from Minneapolis, formed and began playing orginal material in the fall of 1977. Their sound is influenced musically by everyone from the Rolling Stones to Karlheinz Stockhausen - which is to say they're well educated but not needlessly eclectric or unfocused. Their lyrics are full of humor and empathy and their style is immediately rhythmic and balanced, yet subtle and challenging.
There are a few groups that go by the name of "No Comment":
1) No Comment were an American powerviolence band from North Hollywood, California, active from 1987 to 1993. Along with other powerviolence bands such as Crossed Out and Man Is The Bastard, No Comment were influential in what was known to become the "West Coast powerviolence" scene for their aggressive musical and conceptual take on the hardcore punk genre.
Orange Sunshine are catching the very soul of the motor-blues garage-punk and acid proto-hardrock era of the late '60's and the early 70's. With band members derived from several Dutch '80's and '90's garage-, doom-, acid-, surf-, noise-, punk- and hard-rock bands (such as Top Gear, Panty Boy, Twin Earth, the White Trash Minstrels and Sunwheel from the metro area of The Hague/Den Haag and Cromlech from Arnhem, check out www.motorwolf.com or www.godspill.
There are at least two bands named Reverted. 1) An all female Dutch rockband that was formed is September 2004. They're well known for their refreshing, colour-sounded pop rock songs. 'Eat you alive' was a small hit on the local radio stations in The Hague. The members of Reverted are: singer songwriter Miranda Berendsen on guitar (20), Irina Schouten (19, guitar), Jade Yorks (20, bass) and Yanaika Peters (19, drums and backing vocals).
Noblesse is a three-piece alternative rock band based in The Hague.
The band recently completed their sophomore album We Are Not Humanity, produced by the American producer Gordon Raphael who has previously produced the first two albums of The Strokes, as well as albums for Regina Spektor, Skin and Beatsteaks. The album was released on the 12th of March, 2010, with a special release performance in the Melkweg (The Max) in Amsterdam.