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Belgium building

Discussing iconic Belgian architecture with urban planners, architects, writers and curators.

Do the right thing

Weekly listings of exhibitions, concerts, openings, parties and events to do over the weekend.

Area codes

Local heroes reveal their favourite neighbourhood hotspots and hangouts – from bars and bookshops to restaurants and galleries.

This is Belgium

The best Belgian-only art, food, photography, music, travel, architecture and neighbourhood tips from the magazine’s team of editors.

hub heroes

We team up with hub.brussels, Brussels’ Business Support Agency, and shine a light on 50 of the Region’s start-up success stories driving the capital city’s economic landscape forward. From the eco-conscious manufacturer to the technology-enabled post-production imprint, our 50-strong selection of portraits and interviews plays testament to the Region’s dense and dynamic culture of entrepreneurship.

The Brussels Bike Hundred

We’re teaming up with Bike for Brussels to put together a 100-strong selection of local heroes shaping the city each in their own way. From designers and DJs to performers and publishers, these are the creatives riding Brussels forward.

The Mechelen Hundred

Nestled between Brussels and Antwerp, Mechelen has often been overshadowed by its larger neighbours. Yet teaming up with the City of Mechelen, our line-up of 100 of the city’s most prominent people, places and projects proves the extent of its potential. From artists and creatives to critical thinkers and fighters, these are the powerhouses driving Mechelen forward one step at a time.

The House Hundred

We’re teaming up with Bulldog to select 100 essential people, places and projects in Belgian house music. From producers and DJs to record labels and festivals, these are the forces driving the homegrown house scene forward, one BPM at a time.

The Leuven Hundreds

We’ve joined forces with Leuven to highlight 100 local people, places and projects that contribute towards making the city what it is today. From artists and architects to producers and professors, these are the driving forces powering Leuven forward one ingenious initiative at a time.

The Antwerp Hundreds

We've teamed up with This is Antwerp to bring you The Antwerp Hundreds, a 100-strong selection of local movers and shakers setting the tone for the neighbourhood of tomorrow.

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On-design

An in-depth look at the work of Belgian design studios, published monthly.

Favourite Belgian movies

Selections of essential Belgian movies handpicked by artistic directors, curators and all-round cinema connoisseurs.

Curator talks

Intimate conversations with curators dissecting the ambitions, intentions and narratives of their recently opened exhibitions.

Exhibition reviews

Visual documentaries of recently opened contemporary art exhibitions in Belgium.

Portfolio reports

Reviewing the practice of Belgium-based artists through in-depth looks at their recent works.

Studio visits

Exploring the environments and artistic spaces of some of the country’s foremost contemporary artists.

The art throwaway project

Insights into the lives of local contemporary art movers and shakers through our office Quicksnaps.

Music

Exclusive mixes

Hour-long mixes recorded by the crème de la crème of Belgian DJs and producers exclusively for us.

Favourite Belgian releases

Selections of essential Belgian tracks handpicked by local tastemakers, from DJs and producers to record label heads and record store clerks.

The music throwaway project

Backstage antics, tour tales and onstage adventures with some of the country’s most exciting musical talents captured with our office Quicksnaps.

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Moodprint Invites family, friends and lovers

Moodprint Invites family, friends and lovers

Taking a break from working on his much-awaited album release, Moodprint teamed up with Hassel Dehaes to bring about the annual exhibition extravaganza Moodprint Invites last October.

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Milan, Moscow, Belgium and Barcelona: Cleveland’s odyssey

Milan, Moscow, Belgium and Barcelona: Cleveland’s odyssey

Starting in Milano, going through Moscow and Belgium and ending in Barcelona, Cleveland's pictures capture the backstage in a way only a DJ could.

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Summer’s last hurrah: Oval Angle’s throwaway pictures

Summer’s last hurrah: Oval Angle’s throwaway pictures

Geran Knol is an artist, illustrator and musician better known as Oval Angle, from the small village Makkinga in the Netherlands. We gave him a throwaway camera to capture his creative processes and everyday life in Antwerp, and he brought back snaps of countrysides and objects, artworks and interactions with loved ones.

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On tour with Le 77

On tour with Le 77

With their new album Bawlerz out since Friday, we run a series of photographs Le 77 took exclusively for us.

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Throw-away project: Jan Schulte

Throw-away project: Jan Schulte

We asked Jan Schulte aka Wolf Müller to capture his recent adventures to Jakarta and Kalimenta in Indonesia, and he sure delivered.

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Rapper LeDé Markson’s Charleroi antics

Rapper LeDé Markson’s Charleroi antics

The most entertaining disposable account we've had in a while.

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A disposable account of Heartbroken’s last edition

A disposable account of Heartbroken’s last edition

Joyful madness at Brussels' Universal Club.

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Roméo Poirier’s mesmerising account of Brussels’ Neptunium swimming pool

Roméo Poirier’s mesmerising account of Brussels’ Neptunium swimming pool

A visual souvenir of the time the Brussels-based musician spent as a lifeguard, the result being nothing less than breathtaking.

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Post-socialist antics with Pizza Noise Mafia

Post-socialist antics with Pizza Noise Mafia

Ljubljana, Skopje, turbofolk, Romanian post-punk trance, iconic Yugo cars and brutalist socialist structures.

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On tour with Brussels-based producer Le Motel

On tour with Brussels-based producer Le Motel

An intimate backstage account of the Brussels-based prodigy producer's few months on the road.

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Around Eupen with Mea Kusma’s Michael Kreitz

Around Eupen with Mea Kusma’s Michael Kreitz

In anticipation of the three full days of experimental electronica that is Meakusma festival, its founder Michaël Kreitz shows us around his hometown Eupen and its rural surroundings.

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From Bristol to Brighton with Belgian jazz-funk outfit Stuff.

From Bristol to Brighton with Belgian jazz-funk outfit Stuff.

On tour with the Belgian jazz-funk sensations.

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All-nighters with Amelie Lens

All-nighters with Amelie Lens

Dancing the night away with the Antwerp-based DJ and producer.

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Synths and headphone-wearing rabbits with hip hop parody act KZK

Synths and headphone-wearing rabbits with hip hop parody act KZK

Set to play at our release party at Bozar next Thursday, KZK gets in the mood in this mad disposable session.

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Post-grunge three-piece Sale Gosse’s teenage antics

Post-grunge three-piece Sale Gosse’s teenage antics

The behind-the-scenes antics of Brussels-based Sale Gosse is everything you'd expect from a bunch of punks.

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It It Anita in New York

It It Anita in New York

They take us along NYC metro rides, funky bars and just plain derision.

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Wulfy Benzo’s Berlin

Wulfy Benzo’s Berlin

Wulfy Benzo Berlin's "carnet de voyage".

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Mont Doré

Mont Doré

Mont Doré, Brussels-based hardcore five-piece, recently took up a residency at Charleroi's Le Vecteur.

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Rape Blossoms

Rape Blossoms

We go on tour with Belgian post-punk outfit Rape Blossoms by way of our throwaway camera.

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Earth

Earth

Earth take our throwaway project on tour with them. Just when we thought we couldn't love them any more than we already did.

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Chrome Brulée

Chrome Brulée

iPod-dolls, tape-robots, albino crocodiles and synthporn: Chrome Brulée takes one of our throwaway cameras for a ride.

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GOAT

GOAT

Masks, headgear, Tintin and more masks. What happened when we handed Swedish outfit GOAT one of our throwaway cameras.

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Cocaine Piss

Cocaine Piss

Here's Liège queer-punk outfit Cocaine Piss acting all silly with one of our office throwaway cameras.

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Umungus

Umungus

One of our office throwaway cameras goes from stage to living room with Umungus, Liège's latest psychedelic rock export.

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M.E.A.N.

M.E.A.N.

More backstage snap-happiness, this time courtesy of Antwerpers Middle Earth All Nighters

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Sic Alps

Sic Alps

A selection of photographs from the San Francisco-based four-tet's final tour.

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Backstage at Dour with Recorders

Backstage at Dour with Recorders

Inside Dour festival's artist village (sort of) with Recorders

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Great Mountain Fire

Great Mountain Fire

The Belgian electro-pop-rock stars go forth and do their thang, equipped with one of our famed little throwaway cameras...

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New Build

New Build

Hot Chip- side project New Build has taken one of our disposable cameras on tour with them and produced this no-holds-barred gallery of everything from delighted fans to dinner tables.

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Casiokids

Casiokids

The Word's throwaway project whisks you backstage for a peek at Norway's Casiokids doing their thang on their latest tour.

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M O N E Y

M O N E Y

After their gig in Paris' Point Ephémère last month, M O N E Y, Mancunian band on their way up, strip down naked for our throwaway project. Literally.

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Is Tropical

Is Tropical

London three-piece Is Tropical takes you backstage with our disposable camera project.

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Suuns

Suuns

Our throwaway project gets given the Suun's treatment.

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Connan Mockasin

Connan Mockasin

Boat rides, backstage antics and portraits of adoring fans: we step into the world of psychedelic popster Connan Mockasin through our disposable camera project.

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Civil Civic

Civil Civic

The backstage antics of Australian two-piece Civil Civic. Having headlined this year's Microfestival in Liege / Luik, the band undoubtedly had lots of fun playing around with one of our disposable cameras.

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Ping Pong Tactics

Ping Pong Tactics

The rural East Flanders region known as Meetjesland isn’t exactly famous for its musical exports (except the cringing Eurovision contestant Tom Dice). It is however home to Ping Pong Tactics, the country’s most exciting and noisy bright young things. Dries Dauwe (drums) and Bert Huyghe (vocals, bass) formed the band in 2008, recruiting the latter’s […]

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Adam Goldberg

Adam Goldberg

Despite having Tweet-mentioned us saying he preferred “Los Feliz chanteuse and ayurvedic healer” as a description, Hollywood actor Adam Goldberg (@TheAdamGoldberg) really is best known for his neurotic and incredibly hilarious performances as Chandler’s roomie on Friends and, more recently, as psychotic producer Nick Rubenstein in Entourage. Fresh from a showcase of his new outfit The […]

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Vermin Twins

Vermin Twins

Photography and captions Vermin Twins   With thanks to Ulrike Biets

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Bo Ningen

Bo Ningen

Photography Bo Ningen                                  

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Alexis Taylor

Alexis Taylor

Special thanks to Wilfried for making sure the camera safely got back to us.

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Jimmy Edgar

Jimmy Edgar

Photography and captions Jimmy Edgar

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The Black Box Revelation

The Black Box Revelation

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The (bloody) backstage at Lokerse Feesten

The (bloody) backstage at Lokerse Feesten

Photography Ulrike Biets Here’s some of the material we were able to get despite our limited access. It would be a shame not to share something that (questionably) deserved shedding blood for. After a hilarious two-hour show where he was beheaded, hung, stabbed by a sword, skewered in a nail-filled coffin, impaled by a giant […]

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Backstage at Dour festival

Backstage at Dour festival

The disarming femme enfant Uffie admitted to us she enjoys pretending to not understand a word of French, that way she can secretly eavesdrop all ongoing conversations in the press area. Lola Olafisoye, singer of Chrome Hoof, certainly has what it takes to be Grace Jones’ little sis – crazy as hell, but full of […]

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Pete Doherty

Pete Doherty

Here’s our man capturing the audience as he steps onstage. Fast forward to 1.00 for a load of the action.

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Backstage at Les Ardentes

Backstage at Les Ardentes

Pictures by Ulrike Biets The one and only Pharrell, listening to his iPod as he exits his ride to get into the dressing rooms. The iPod actually contained all of N*E*R*D‘s brand new top-secret material. No one was allowed anywhere near it, save for two very lucky journalists. Pete Doherty posing minutes before Babyshambles‘ concert. We […]

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HEALTH

HEALTH

Here’s what the boys took with our disposable camera right after the gig:

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Jamie Lidell

Jamie Lidell

Below are your usual festival pictures taken from the front stage area: And here’s your exclusive peak at what was happening backstage:

The Word Magazine is Belgium’s leading English-speaking free media platform, documenting and championing the best in neighbourhood living, music and art. Published every two months, the magazine is distributed in over 500 distribution points across the country.

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