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Put Your Hands Up For Willem: Kingsday 2015

On Monday 27 April it’s that day again. Our Majesty King Willem-Alexander will celebrate his 48th birthday and the entire country will party with him. A day on which his nation has a collective hangover, but gets over it by partying even more. Whethe...

PHOS – Rockstone Interview

Eveline Vroonland is surprising the music scene under the name of PHOS ever since she released her EP last year. She got elected 3FM Serious Talent with her amazing one-woman show, in which she uses a sampler to loop vocals as well as percussive ...

Flashback Paaspop 2015

  Paaspop 2015 is a wrap! We filmed awesome sessions with Dotan, Emil Landman, John Coffey, The Black Marble Selection and Valour Up Twice. It's been a crazy, muddy, cold, rainy and sometimes sunny, ride! a full on festival experience you...

Don’t miss out on Motel Mozaique

  The line-up for Motel Mozaique is something to drool over. This makes it difficult to actually pick a reasonably few acts we'd like to stress on here at Rockstone. So we didn’t. Well, kind of. Here’s twelve artists you really, really ne...

John Coffey

John Coffey just released their new album The Great News and again these guys impress with the best Dutch rock 'n roll can give you. Their track 'Broke Neck' takes you on a musical trip in full speed, not letting go 'till the last beat. And although ...

Kern Koppen Delivers True Piece of Art with ‘Donderwolk’

The The Hague based trio Frank van der Steen (Ki), Guus van der Steen (Ahab) and Tom Giles (TommyTwee) have been working with the motto "All For Art" ever since they united themselves as Kern Koppen. This mindset, combined with their musical expe...

Azealia Banks Releases Broke With Expensive Taste

This March is without a doubt an important month for Azealia Banks. Memorable for her and fantastic for her fans. The 23-year-old rapper/singer-songwriter finally physically releases her album Broke With Expensive Taste. Besides that, she’s the f...

Find music instead of eggs this Easter weekend

Easter is around the corner and for most of us it's just an extra-long weekend in which you go on a scavenger hunt for Easter eggs. After you finished your bunny-shaped croissant with the family during brunch of course. Also you may take one or ...

Anne Rune – Rockstone Interview

The mature sound of Anna Rune makes it hard to believe that this Belgian singer songwriter actually just started her career in music. Don't let Nadja fool you in playing an amazing classical piece on the piano, it's Anna all the way. And the pian...

FKA Twigs in epic vogue dance battle – new song and video

As part of the Youtube Music Awards FKA Twigs released a new video she directed herself, for the new song 'Glass & Patron'. The song is co-written and co-produced by Boots. Again, Twigs not only produces a hell of a awesome song, she directed a v...

Spring 2015: Must-have Album Releases

Rockstone Sessions recently reminded you about the fact that the dark winter was on its end and we gave you five festival tips for the spring of 2015. At the moment we’re in the very first week of this lovely season and now we’ve looked into th...

Dazzling Drizzy Drake apps that enlighten your day

Rappers are known for dissing each other and spitting lyrics that sometimes cause minor riots in hip hop land. If there’s one rapper who knows how to push the buttons of not only his colleagues, but also haters and lovers out there, it’s Drake. B...
Memorable Album Covers

Ten Memorable Album Covers

Nowadays, in the age of online music, the cover of an album seems to be less important. We shouldn’t forget however, that numerous pieces of art have been created in order to give our favourite records an extra dimension. Whether it’s vinyl or CD, a ...

Top Five: Where the Wild Things Are

  Where the Wild Things Are; a festival with three days of complete mayhem in a Bungelowpark in the province of Holland. From friday march six until sunday march eigt, this is a place where music and madness find each other in sweet harmony. ...

‘Dream & Bass’ – PHOS

Holland is a breeding place for musical talent and Eveline Vroonland is proving that once more. Under the name of PHOS she recently released her debut album Never Obsolete. Her first single 'Fall Out' best describes itself as a dreamy track, dito...

Spring 2015: Top 5 European Festivals

In just about a month the northern part of our planet will be in bloom again. We are about to leave the dark winter behind and we’re slowly getting ready to welcome the good times. That’s right, spring is coming! And doesn’t everybody agree about...

Top five: Valentine’s Day tunes

    If you’re lucky enough to take your date home after a romantic date, it's time to provide some ‘aftercare’. Rockstone selected five songs that we consider the most suitable to set the perfect romantic tone. We tried to avoid making ...

Valentine’s Day 2015: Impress Your Date

This Saturday it’s that day again; Valentine’s Day. Have you got yourself a date already? If not, go for it! Because Rockstone gives you some pointers and ideas on how to give your Valentine a perfect musical night out. Pick one of our five suggestio...

Show Report: Grant Lee Buffalo and Howe Gelb

  It’s Thursday night and the audience that fills the small room at Paard van Troje in Den Haag, was fortunate to host not just one, but two American singer song-writers of the highest calibre. The gifted Grant Lee Phillips (of Grant Lee ...

10 acts to take home from Eurosonic Noorderslag 2015

And it's gone. Five days of utter music madness in the north of The Netherlands. Every year Groningen is the place to be for music junkies, journalists and everybody who has anything to do in the music industry. This means Rockstone could not lag beh...