30 minutes: rock/pop… introducing Headphone

If you’ve ever been to Ghent, then you probably wouldn’t associate the city with rock music. With its canals, cafes and Flemish architecture, Ghent is a thriving student town, and home to the brilliant Headphone, whose latest single Yesmen kicks off our latest 30 Minutes.

Debut album Ghostwriter caught the imaginination locally, with Headphone topping the Studio Brussels charts for several weeks. A heady blend of pop, rock, electronica, Headphone’s music has been likened to Radiohead without the overdose.

Headphone are: Ian Marien (Lead Vocal / Guitar / Piano), Nico Steenkiste (Drums), Gerd Van Mulders (Keyboard / Guitar), Tom Barbier (Guitar / Keyboard) and Jan Goossens (Bass) and if they tickle your fancy, visit their official site and their myspace site.

Also in this 30 minutes, we’ve got the Balkan brilliance of the Penny Black Remedy, and a Paris-based singer-songwriter calling himself the Dada Weatherman whose latest album, The Green Waltz has been on our turntable all week. Links are available to all artists if you’re interested in finding out more about them or hearing more of their music. Ace or what?

• Headphone – Yesmen
• Show Without Punch – Wax and Coxcomb
• The Dada Weatherman – Song to Paris
• The Penny Black Remedy – 95 Charing Cross Road
• Moot – Dancing Nowhere
• Hedgehog Dilemma – Solitude
• Lea Velours – Want U
• A Jigsaw – Red Pony