We spent New Year's eve in Brussels with friends. It was an excellent diner with lots of cocktails, great friends and good food. We started dancing in the living room. This was the dancefloor hit that got played all over again:

Great times. Afterwards we went to Belgrade where I got dressed in the local outfit to attack any enemies of peace, or of the nation:

We visited an exhibition in the Tito Museum called The Last Yugoslav Youth giving an overview of how new wave and punk music was the last generation of music that had the ambition to change the world.

Afterwards we concluded that pop music in the mean time has become completely uninterested in politics and only cares about the money anymore. It's true, isn't it?

When we came back I left immediately for Eursosonic/Noorderslag, a festival in Groningen, Holland. I went there for daMusic and got a confirmation that contemporary pop music is all about the money. The cynicism of the industry is even more appalling than I had imagined, and that is saying a lot. Reviews are here, here, here and here if you understand Dutch. A playlist of my discoveries is on Spotify.

This is a photo of Dope D.O.D., posing the angry Hip Hop for the camera and illustrating that also Hip Hop is becoming a farce:

Luckily we also heard some great music. Let me share one piece of Lianne La Havas with you. It is a clip taken in Paris by La Blogothèque, and it is just marvellous:

You can see more photos in a small Flickr set I made.