Music Favourite Belgian releases Listen festival founder Dirk De Ruyck’s 11 Belgian tracks The founder of Brussels' newest festival select his favourite Belgian cuts for us.
Music Exclusive mixes STUFF. Ghent-locals STUFF. dish up a "creamy mix of sweet beats and tasty vibes" for our 18th exclusive mix. Yum.
Music Music: Interview with Dour programmer Alex Stevens He reveals the secrets of festival programming and tells us why he needs to clean his brain with the Pixies...
Music Best of les Belges: festival season’s homegrown must-sees Here’s our hand-picked selection of native musos to check out during this summer's festival season.
Music The Sound of Bristol vs Belgium Bristol Archive Records chronicle Bristol's sound from its post-punk roots to today. Perhaps it's Belgium's turn to do the same.
Music The best of Antwerp’s future sound Bart Sibiel chronicles a stream of solid Belgian beats, attracting attention one new sound at a time.
Music KHUSHI gets playful and Clarence Clarity makes a mess Our resident pop guru Disco Naiveté scans the 2013 horizon for early signs of life.
Music 25 tracks for 2012 by Disco Naïveté + Exclusive mix Our very own pop pundit Disco Naïveté counts down his 25 favourite tracks of 2012.
Music Exclusive mixes Jazz Neversleeps Kicking off a month of selections, Belgian DJ and producer Jazz Neversleeps selects then mixes 25 of the year's hottest tracks.
Music Girls mastermind Christopher Owens’ romantic solo debut Disco Naïveté's trawled the airwaves for worthy new choons for your listening pleasure and come up with contemporary electronica from Halls, the romantic-guitarred Christopher Owens and the impeccable voice of Lulu James.
Music Exclusive mixes The 15 best party tracks by Fuse founder Peter Decuypere’s We asked the founding father of legendary Brussels club Fuse and the creative mind behind I Love Techno to select a couple of party tracks for us.
Music Queer rap, filling in for Burial and the next big voice to hit the charts Another day, another gay NYC rapper: Mikki Blanco welcomes us to hell in his breakthrough "Wavvy", plus bedroom producing Brolin and Laura Mvula on the radar.
Music Exclusive mixes Brussels Pony Club Belgian electronic duo Brussels Pony Club deliver a dark, broody and sexy playlist for our exclusive mix series.
Music Le1f, Saint Saviour and Foreign Fields This week on The Word's radio waves: New York's rapper Le1f, English singer-songwriter Saint Saviour and folksters Foreign Fields from Nashville.
Neighbourhood life Podcasts Damien Aresta talks podcasts, belatedly inspired by a bunch of captivating audio files. Read all about it.
Music Exclusive mixes Disco Naïveté In part three of our exclusive mix series, we asked Belgian buzzblog Disco Naïveté to create a compilation of songs topping his current playlist.
Music Elliphant, Haim and Faws Today we welcome relentless blogger Disco Naïveté to our pages for a new, twice-monthly column entitled 'New kids on the block' which will focus on the cream of the crop of independent talent emerging from the global music scene.
Music Exclusive mixes The Lizzies The second instalment in our series of Word-exclusive mixes comes from female DJ duo The Lizzies.
Music Exclusive mixes Dalai Lama Renaissance Tune in for this Word-exclusive mix by Brussels-based band Dalai Lama Renaissance, homegrown pop-electronica trio on the rise.
Music Little Trouble Kids With their debut album Adventureland, Boston Tea Party have reinvented themselves as Little Trouble Kids. They've been busy living up to their shiny new name.
Music Exclusive mixes Dandy Teru With 'Oh! Oui!", music producer and radio host Dandy Teru delivers part four of our series of Valentine's Day-inspired mix tapes. This one is all suggestive moves down memory lane.
Music Exclusive mixes Jealov Part three of our Valentines mix has Brussels-based Jealov turning knobs and turning heads. "A slippery slow mix to keep the pace", as they succinctly put it.
Music Exclusive mixes Miss Hot Tracks’ We continue our series of Valentine's Day-inspired mixes with Brussels-based DJ Miss Hot Tracks mix entitled 'Desires'.
Music Exclusive mixes Uphigh Collective Leuven-based all-rounders Uphigh Collective kick off our series of Valentine's Day-inspired exclusive mixes.
Neighbourhood life The review: Black Box Revelation’s My Perception With their new release “My Perception” Belgian garage rockers Black Box Revelation deliver their third album in only three years and this time they are determined to make it big across the Atlantic. Whilst sticking to their raw and heady sound, the two-piece outfit from Dilbeek aims to conquer the US.
