Faces On TV is Jasper Maekelberg's musical project. Based in the Belgian city of Ghent, Faces On TV brings something rattling-tight, tender-punchy, Beatles-Beck, noisy-pop…-ish. They've just recorded an EP which will soon be sent into the world. Influences? Wilco, Beck, the Beatles, Radiohead and all the other good stuff. The Belgian radio channel Radio 1 called Faces On TV "maybe the best of this season." Also the music magazine Rif Raf discovered Faces On TV: "New sweet stuff of the finest class .
Genre: belgian
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Balthazar
With hints of neo-psychedelia, electro-pop, and garage punk in their catchy, snarling alternative rock, Belgian group Balthazar formed in Kortrijk in 2004. Their second album, Rats, went all the way to number one in Belgium in 2012. After starting Balthazar as teenagers, the lineup of Maarten Devoldere (lead vocals/guitar/keyboards), Jinte Deprez (guitar/vocals), and Patricia Vanneste (violin/keyboards/vocals) won a national youth talent competition in 2005 with the song "Lost and Found.