Imagine Dragons

They were bombarded to ‘Winner of the week’ in Rolling Stone when their debut ‘Night Visions’ stormed into the American iTunes album charts in pole position, headstrong as support to both Garbage, Hot Chip, Weezer, Interpol and The Killers in the US, and only just beaten by Coldplay in the ‘Best Rock Video’ category at the MTV Music Awards ’12. Imagine Dragons, the four from Las Vegas met each other at the prestigious Berklee School of Music, scores on the new continent.

After a number of successful EPs on Interscope Records (Universal Music Group), they canned their debut - with the übercatchy single ‘It’s Time’ as eye- and earcatcher - together with top producer and songsmith Alex Da Kid (Eminem, Dr. Dre, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj).

That their jumble of pop, indie rock, dubstep, folk and plain old pop is also popular in Belgium was proven on 7 November ’12 in the Botanique, where, due to demand, their concert was moved from the Witloofbar to the more spacious Rotonde. “Imagine Dragons frappe fort sur la Rotonde du Bota, les Américains devraient revenir en Belgique” wrote Focus Vif, the French-language version of Focus Knack. Now see, soon to be in the AB Box!

Oh, and Imagine Dragons is an anagram for a word or sentence that is only known to the band members. Fans got their teeth into it and came up with ‘Aged Men’s Radio’, ‘Romans Dig Angie’ and ‘God is in a Manger’. A tip for those who like brain teasers: on the internet there's a rumour that the theme is supposedly drugs related. Success!

Protection Patrol Pinkerton

Skip winter and head straight into summer with the cheery tunes of Protection Patrol Pinkerton! This West-Flemish force highlighted the playlists of Flemish radio stations for months with their ‘Future=Our Home’ and on 15 April they released their debut of the same name upon you, full of fresh ‘feel good’–pop via label Waste My Records (Bed Rugs, Creature With The Atom Brain). “The time has come for the rest of the world to let PPP's warm glow flow through their heart and hips” is what we read in the bio. Just the job for PPP!