22tracks & Friends

Two weeks ago 22tracks HQ was in shock. Our office got robbed and the burglars stole all our computers, screens, beamer, turntables and more. Damage: €20.000+. The most painful part: it appeared that we weren’t insured for theft. Oops.

Gladly our music and website are hosted outside of the office, so the 22tracks service itself is perfectly safe. Afterwards, we’ve received hundreds (if not thousands) of support tweets, comments, emails, phone calls and visits. Artists, record labels, friends and of course our backbone: the listeners!

We decided to turn this all into something positive: a unique 22tracks & Friends night at the Bitterzoet (Amsterdam) on Thursday, May 9th. To celebrate the fact that we’re still here (stronger than ever) to provide you new music, the easy way! The entrance that night is €5,- (or more, up to you). We will also sell tshirts with the entrance fee included.

If you’re living too far away or won’t be able to make it: we’re building a small donation platform where your possible support can help us back on our feet even faster.

Thank you all so much!
The 22tracks Crew

Lineup: To be announced
Door: €5,- (or more, up to you)

Video of the Day #578

21st century rebels Janelle Monáe and Erykah Badu (AKA Badoula Oblongata) serve up some fierce feminist funk in “Q.U.E.E.N.”, their striking new video. The booty don’t lie.

Video of the Day #577

Just put the new video from American musician Wild Nothing on full screen and lose yourself for a few minutes in the mind-altering animations of “A Dancing Shell”.

Video of the Day #576

We live in an age of many stimulations, including “Shut Up”, an excellent new video and song from the British band Savages (currently on tour in Europe). So go ahead and silence youself, after it’s finished.

Video of the Day #573, #574 & #575

“Duurt te Lang” (‘takes too long’) is Dutch rapper Fit’s heartbreaking story of a relationship that doesn’t work, despite a couple’s good intentions. Animators Job, Joris & Marieke situate two helpless creatures in a snowy forest.

UK animation studio Plastic Horse did an excellent job visualising Detroit rapper Danny Brown’s lyrics in “Street Lights”, the new video from English producer Paul White.

Four (very attractive) people get turned on by “Turn Me Out”, the new song from UK producer Russ Chimes. Invariably, they proceed to indeed turn themselves out in this very stylish new video.

Video of the Day #572

A young couple make a European road trip in “You & Me”, washing cars along the way and somehow managing to get ticket for the sold-out Disclosure show in Trouw Amsterdam.

Video of the Day #571

Here’s what you don’t want when you’re lifting a body in the back of your car: eye-witnesses. It means you’re not done murdering yet, as you can see in “Toe Cutter – Thumb Buster”, the new video from California band Thee Oh Sees.

Video of the Day #570

Insanely pointy cowboy boots are just about the most fashion-forward thing in Mexico, and they’re also highly prized in this insanely entertaining new video from David Guetta featuring Ne-Yo and Akon.

Video of the Day #569

Former America’s Got Talent competitor Tim Fort AKA The Kinetic King has built a crazy Domino Day type installation for “Tuna Melt”, the new video from Canadian DJ/producer A-Trak and his Australian collegue Tommy Trash.

Video of the Day #567 & #568

Some rich lady has hired a teenage boy to vacuum the indoor swimming pool. She leaves him alone at the house for the afternoon in “Dancing Anymore”, the new video from English band Is TropicalIs .

Miguel’s new video is an excellent ad for his pretty spectacular live show. For “How Many Drinks?” he even throws in a guest performance by Kendrick Lamar. Whether you go home alone afterwards is another matter.