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Lowlands 2015 – It’s a dance off!

Rockstone Sessions will be at Lowlands Festival this year (August 21, 22, 23) and when checking out the line-up little cheers were filling the room: “Oooh! Kendrick Lamar!” “Omg, Years & Years!”, “We should definitely check out Sango and Mura Mas...

Freshhhh! Festival- Dockville, Hamburg

We at Rockstone love to discover new or unknown festivals. That’s why we don't want to keep Dockville at Hamburg, Germany, from you. This three day festival is affordable and has a crazy, bad ass line-up. You won't find guys like Robbie Williams or M...

Tired of being a rock star? ‘Try’ switching careers!

Last week former Back Street Boy Nick Carter announced that he’s about to make a movie. Funnily enough, he’ll be doing this together with Joey Fatone from ‘NSync. But compared with the regular working class heroes, musicians actually don’t make caree...

Bear’s Den – familiar but fresh banjo sounds

It has only been three years since Andrew Davie, Kevin Jones and Joey Haynes, released their first album; Islands (2012). Now, two albums and three EP’s later it’s no wonder why Bear’s Den is one of the most wanted bands to play at summer festivals. ...

The Kyteman Orchestra Releases Improvised Album

“This record has no songs. It has no logical structure. It is not radio friendly. Nothing was written down. Nothing was predetermined. Nothing was scripted. Nothing was composed. This record was not produced. It just happened.” This is what Colin Ben...

Five Affordable Festivals In The Next Five Weeks

Two weeks ago Rockstone Sessions suggested some affordable shows for people that aren’t escaping the Netherlands this summer. We understand that when you’ll spend the upcoming months at the office, you’ll also need an escape to a festival every now a...

Third time’s a charm: Ezra Furman

Twenty-eight years old Ezra Furman yesterday released his third solo album called Perpetual Motion People. The singer-songwriter from Chicago definitely managed to meet the high expectations he raised with his first two works. At the moment Ezra Furm...

Awesome and Affordable Summer Gigs in Amsterdam

Tomorrow is one those magical dates: the beginning of July. The start of a month you’ve been looking forward to during all those cold, rainy and stressful days. In July the clouds disappear as the sun breaks through, while schools and offices make sp...

Amsterdam Roots Festival: Four Days of International Music

In exactly one week it is time for already the eighteenth edition of the Amsterdam Roots Festival. Several stages in our multicultural capital are booked with artists from all over the world. Whether they’re from Belgium or Mali and whether they’ll b...

Drones: Seventh Studio Album of Muse

It’s been 21 (!) years since Muse front man Matthew Bellamy met his fellow band members Chris Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard at their school in Teignmouth. Currently, those high school kids are in their thirties and the musical project they started ...

Pinkpop acts you’re going to want to see

We all know that the big festivals in The Netherlands present you bands to match the grandeur of it all. Upcoming is Pinkpop and it hosts names like the Foo Fighters, Muse, Robbie Williams, Avicii and Pharrel Williams. But for those few visitors who ...

Jake Isaac – Rockstone Interview

A few weeks ago we introduced you to the talented singer songwriter Jake Isaac. In an acoustic session with Rockstone you could dream away with his amazing track 'I'm a Man'. The London based musician has an incredible voice and his latest EP Where W...

Celebrity Serenades

Us plain mortals have always been obsessed with mere (semi)gods, nowadays known as ‘celebrities’. While we regular humans age, have 9 to 5 jobs and definitely never ‘wake up like that’ (#flawless), our fascination with the people we will most likely ...

Major Lazer Releases Third Studio Album

True Major Lazer fans have been waiting for the start of June 2015 ever since the Grammy Award ceremony of last February. That is because during this event Major Lazer’s founding father Diplo announced that on Monday the first his electronic music gr...

Must-Sees @ Sniester 2015

Catch up on some sleep, because it’s time for an entire weekend without any. Yes, we’re already heading towards the end of May and that means it’s Sniester time! This free festival managed to become legendary right after its first edition last year a...

Out Now: Second Studio Album of Django Django

It’s already three years ago that Django Django, originally from Scotland but based in London, released its fantastic debut album. Ever since, reviewers had difficulties in defining the band’s genre. In a way it can be classified as Indie Rock, but t...

YouTube made me famous

It all started ten years ago: three employees of the online payment system Paypal created a website on which everybody could upload random videos. Like all promising internet startups, the founders were working on their concept in some garage in Sili...

Isabelle

In a world full of singer-songwriters, you need to have this 'special something' to stand out. Amsterdam based musician Isabelle is definitely one of those artists who explores the boundaries of the genre she is in. Each song is a short story, she ca...

Rockstone interviews: Shannon Saunders

For those out there who haven’t noticed: electronic popmusic is hot. It’s difficult not to name artists like Låpsly, Shura, CHVRCHES, Jessie Ware and all the like in one breath. At the moment, the scene is dominated by talented young women and everyd...