Katzenjammer

"Rock Werchter is a Belgian annual music festival held in the village of Werchter, near Leuven, since 1973. It is one of the five biggest annual rock music festivals in Europe (the other four being Exit, Sziget Festival, the Glastonbury Festival and Roskilde Festival)...

We try to keep tabs on various festivals around the world here on BrooklynVegan, many of which you'll eventually see pictures from. Today we focus on Belgium...

Just wanted to take a second to also say that our thoughts and condolences are with the people of Norway today. The above is a selection of tweets from Norwegian musicians that have graced the pages (and stages) of BrooklynVegan in the past...

SoSB @ MHOW - CMJ 2009 (more by Vincent Cornelli) The CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival "has announced its first round of performing artists...

I caught the Norweigian, David Byrne-approved, all-girl group Katzenjammer while I was in Norway for the by:Larm Festival earlier this year...

Two final NYC Voxtrot shows are now on sale. Forgetters are playing The Bell House on May 27th with Holopaw and Callers. Tickets are on sale...

DOWNLOAD: Oh No Ono - Internet Warrior (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Oh No Ono - Helplessly Young (MP3) Denmark's Oh No Ono played two nights in NYC earlier this year in January...

Eclectic Norwegian quartet Katzenjammer have a new video our for their song "Tea with Cinnamon," the new single (out March 2nd) for their forthcoming album, Le Pop, which is due June 1st on Nettwerk...

"They came on like a Norwegian version of the B-52's, pounding a beat and chirping random phrases in unison, but that didn't last. Soon they were bouncing to a polka (complete with trumpet), or singing in pure close harmony that suggested Scandinavian traditional music, or delivering a cherry-pie recipe over a ukulele-strumming tune suggesting 1920's jazz (with close-harmony "diddley-diddley-diddleys), or going near-Goth with a raspy song about "walking in the big black woods," or sharing an a cappella dirge (with a drumbeat) about a dust storm...

DOWNLOAD: Katzenjammer - A Bar in Amsterdam (MP3) SXSW 2009 surprise discovery - KatzenJammer girls (Travellers Diary)David Byrne has invited the women who are Katzenjammer to play at the 2009 Bonnaroo...