new indie dutch mag???!! http://www.incendiarymag.com/

En als Incendiary zo veel om de muziek zegt te geven, werkt hun nogal beperkte blikveld bevreemdend...
Hoezo dat dan?

Ik zie niet waarom dat niet integer zou zijn. Ik ben Think Small ook ooit begonnen omdat ik een indie-site wilde maken. Ik vind mezelf nog steeds hartstikke integer.
Overigens kan er over het begrip indie oneindig lang gediscussieerd worden. Ik zou de meeste op Incendiarymag genoemde bands niet echt indie noemen (waarmee ik niet wil zeggen dat ik het bij het rechte eind heb).

i was surprised to find a discussion about the magazine online after less than a week but fair play to you all. i just wanted to answer a few points raised here. well excuse me first for doing it in english. i may be able to read some dutch but i`d look a bit stupid trying to write it in dutch. anyway...

the "we care about music" thing. okay, to be honest that bit grates on me a little. what i think Jon meant when he wrote it is that a lot of mainstream journalists get jaded by music cos they`ve been in the industry so long. i think they all start off for the right reasons but the music industry can taint anyone eventually.

so i personally would like that bit on the opening page changed but it isn`t my place to edit the statement from the editor. he`s been out the country since it was written but i`ll at least tell him what i think.

point 2 - dance music.

well we certainly aren`t anti-dance. i listen to allsorts of music including dance and hip hop or whatever. the thing is, i`m not an expert on those fields. With guitar music i have a lot of history as a fan or at writing my own music. As much as i like to dabble in different styles though, i don`t feel i`m qualified to write about them. it would probably make me look stupider than usual and i`m sure that would annoy the dance fans more than not covering it at all.

maybe it will grow to include other styles later, but at the moment we`re only a small group of people. if someone joins us that can write about these things accurately then that`s fine.

point 3 - i`m glad you think our english is okay. i haven`t met most of the writers yet so i don`t know if they can speak dutch. we`re all people who`ve ended up in the netherlands for whatever reason and we feel there is a market for a music site here in english. I`m learning dutch but loads of people don`t bother. Overall, we`ll cater to english speakers in holland, dutch people (who all seem to speak english anyway), and english speakers anywhere else.

I know kindamuzik used to be english. i`m not sure why that changed, but it left a hole. I clearly can`t claim to be a professional journalist. If anything, i`ve spent the past 8 years trying to destroy every rule i learned about the english language, so it`s hard work to suddenly attempt to work with them again. All I can hope is that write well enough to convey something good about the music. Ideally I just want to make people want to check out the things I find cool.

Actually, the original plan was for incendiary to be a free printed paper distributed throughout the country. hopefully that will still happen eventually but for now we`re gonna try build it up online and maybe even pick up some writing skills along the way.

point 4 - are we only indie rock?

i don`t know. the original spec set by the editor was to cover small indie bands away from the major labels. we`ve already bypassed that cos as a group of people we have our own tastes and we`ll each write about what we like. I think over time it`ll grow and expand. Even I can`t judge it after only a week.

Overall I`m glad that you`ve all shown some interest. I`ll do my best to make the site as good as i can. There isn`t any money for doing it. I think most of us are unemployed and just doing it cos we want to be involved in music again. If people have suggestions then they`re welcome. Please feel free to email them and maybe we can do something about it. It`s very early days but I hope the site keeps getting better and finds its market cos i`m enjoying working on it.

groetjes
steven

hope you like how the site is progressing. remember to email comments to us too if you have ideas for improvements.

thanks
steven