Hello Burners!
We recorded most of the bands again this year and will be putting the audio webcasts online for your listening pleasure from now on.



Please click HERE for the latest audio webcasts, including: Current 93, Trouble, Earthless, Church of Misery, Witchcraft, Litmus & Kruger. Keep checking in for more updates about the live recordings.

Monday, April 21st: Sunday night's fullmoon brought the Roadburn Festival 2008 to a close, a fitting omen for the weekend, given the amount of uncertainty swirling around the lineup until the last minute. Putting the lineup together was especially difficult this year, with several huge cancellations that had to be filled. We were all feeling some nervous energy on Thursday before the show got started, but when Capricorns went on and played a great set despite having two brand new band members, we all felt a big sigh of relief that it would turn out to be a great weekend -- and it was. We want to thank everyone involved -- fans, bands, 013 employees, [guest] dj's, and everyone involved.

It was incredible to see how the bands all responded to each other, one great performance spurred on another, with each successive band increasing the energy. The snowball effect kept going from early Thursday right through Saturday night, culminating in the incredible Acid Mother's Guru set.
Sunday was brand new ground for Roadburn, with David Tibet curating the main stage and bringing a lot of new sounds to the festival. Baby Dee held the main stage totally enraptured during her performance and Current 93 played a majestic, enthralling set. Meanwhile, next door the Roadburn Afterburner was buzzing away with the kind of energy that made it seem like Friday night all over again.

One of the special things about Roadburn that we really noticed this year was the amount of time the bands spent hanging out in the crowd and watching other bands. It really felt like a comfortable, familiar scene even though there were bands and fans from all over the world there. The warm atmosphere led to many great exchanges of energy and inspiration, including moments when members of the younger bands met their heroes and used that excitement [along with the great crowd energy] to play some of their best shows ever.

Again, as for the past 4 years, the 013 venue itself was one of the big stars. If you want to see [and hear!] great rock and roll, there aren't many better places to do it in the entire world. It's easy to enjoy a show when you have plenty of access to food, drink and facilities and the sound quality is excellent.

Keep checking in for more updates about the live recordings, and also for news about the 2009 Roadburn Festival set to be held April 23 to April 26 at the 013 in Tilburg, Holland.

Click here for an OVERVIEW of the latest updates, Studio Reports: LongDistanceCalling, Birds of Prey Baroness, The Notorious Hifi Killers Lunar Dunes, Year of No Light, Øresund Space Collective, Wooden Shjips, Retro Grave, Pelican, White Hills, Baby Woodrose. Lesbian, plus Shortcuts: Æthenor, Baby Dee, The Glasspack & more...

Much of what you read on Roadburn is written by bands. Studio Reports, album lists, retrospectives... Hear what they have to say. Read interviews and editorials from an international staff, find The Riff. Bask in the heaviness...



Main Feature: "Satellite Bay" is the incredible first full-length from Germany's Long Distance Calling. It has pushed the band into the vanguard of the European post-rock movement. With their music created in the same vein as Porcupine Tree, Isis, Tool and Godspeed You! Black Emperor, "Satellite Bay" takes the listener on a dark, cold, beautiful journey through a world in turmoil."

For the latest releases, please check Roadburn's PLAYLIST [March 2008], and read [micro] reviews of the best albums that grace the Roadburn desks right now. Much as you'd expect, our playlists feature heavy rock, psych, and space rock from the 60's to immediate present.

Check out the best stoner, doom and heavy 70's bands touring EUROPE and the US in Roadburn's tour section.

ROADBURN PRESENTS:

For those who didn't get to take part in the Roadburn festivals, and for those who did, but want to relive it -we have put up on-demand audio webcasts for your listening pleasure! Click HERE for the latest webcasts, including:The Melvins, Orange Sunshine, Sunn o))), Clutch, OM, Black Cobra, Acid King, Big Business, Circle, Orthodox, The Hidden Hand, Growing, Josiah, Porn, Volt & Amenra amongst others.



We managed to record all the performances from Roadburn 2007, and for those looking forward to hearing Neurosis, it will be a little while as we have to do an entire new mix of the recordings. We'll keep you posted.

Meanwhile, click here for MORE VPRO 3voor12 audio webcasts & several podcasts like Wake Up At The Other End of The Universe, 420 Train Wreck and Aural Innovations Spacerock Radio.

ROADBURN RECORDS is a label affiliated with the Roadburn Festival & website. Kruger - "Redemption Through Looseness" is the 5th release on our label.



This is the third release from the Swiss band Kruger. You may not be familiar with them or their music yet, but it won't be long before their talent is discovered by a wider audience.

"Redemption Through Looseness" is not easily categorized. Kruger has some similarities to Mastodon, and also cite groups like Entombed and Neurosis as influences. The songs are intricate and complex, full of twists and turns. Kruger creates a soundscape that's experimental at times, but also has enough metal riffs and structure that it is still very accessible.

This album has plenty of rawness and aggressiveness in both music and vocals, but also balances that with a dark, almost melancholy atmosphere and some melodic vocals. There are some LPs that you like immediately, while others take a few listens to fully sink in. You may enjoy Redemption Through Looseness on first listen, but you will appreciate it more and more with each successive spin --Chad Bowar [about.com / heavymetal]