Quote Originally Posted by Dutch_guy
Nice, which DJ's did you go see - or which parties did you visit ?
Nothing huge, late last year smaller parties around Leiden and the Hague as an alternative to drum 'n bass. Once I'm uittraining I'll have to look around Amsterdam, I hear it's the place to be for techno.
Quote Originally Posted by doc_bean
I find most recent bands pretty uninteresting for some reason, maybe because I'm getting old, but the last great 'new' band were imho the White Stripes, I haven't had a 'wow, great new band' moment since them. I still don't get what's supposed to be so great about the Artic Monkeys for instance. And I find Coldplay highly overrated, though their songs do have a nice sing along feel which is often their saving grace, the music itself is often too repetitive (just a chord scheme repeated over and over) for my taste.
Well, yes, if you limit yourself to the larger rock acts that end up on MTV then it's going to get real boring real quickly. If you like White Stripes I would recommend giving The Black Keys a go for a start, definitely if they're live and in the neighbourhood.