Possibly one of the most in-your-face-named bands around, Use Your Fucking Headphones play the second night of the British Shorts Film Festival at the Sputnik Kino tonight. Film screenings start at 6pm already and run until just before the band comes on at 10:30pm. Use Your Fucking Headphones have everything: the youthful fun factor, the

dDamage play a late show at Marie-Antoinette tonight, unleashing their self-styled hip-hop noise/ cock-rock disco on the unsuspecting among you out there. For more than a decade, the unruly Hanak brothers, better known as dDamage, have been navigating and dragging a stormy reputation on the French electronic scene. Always thirsty, they offer us the 6th

Never a house to lay disused for very long, or for that matter to ever be filled considering the blooday size of it, Gericht Str 23 has been an integral part of underground culture for many years in Berlin. One of it’s newest tenants, Panke, host a variety of events covering music, art and cinema

It is inviting isn’t it? Well, on Wednesdays for longer than I care to remember Ae has been hosting free (but give the performers something at the end you cheapos or at least buy some music from them, alright?) nights promoting local bands, solo performers and even some touring folk aswell. It’s usually a full

Those rock n’ roll kids, Chuckamuck, are sure to light up this party with their onstage antics, making sure something as awesome as Network Awesome gets the party it deserves to celebrate its first birthday. There’ll be videos playing all night long, beamers all over the place, it’s a lovely venue and it’s Friday night…and

Mute Swimmer is yet again my tip of the weekend for those of you looking for something smaller, off the beaten track as it were. The lovely Heroes cafe is the setting for Guy Dale’s compelling live performance this week: Mute Swimmer is a moniker of British songwriter and artist Guy Dale. His work is

Sky Histoire follow up their excellent 7″ single release show at Madame Claude last month with another intimate show at Tiefgrund. Here’s said single, Sunlight, such a nice video: Sunlight – Sky Histoire from Declan Hurley on Vimeo

Andrea Belfi might be better known to some of you through his recent work with David Grubbs (Gastr del Sol, Bastro, Red Krayola) and Stefano Pilia and their excellent Onrushing Cloud LP released in 2010, and yet some of you might have witnessed Belfi here at the very same place, NK, last time he was

When not playing organ with King Khan And The Shrines, Fredovitch can be seen behind the drums, on the guitar and playing organ, all at the same time under the fantastic name Fredovitch And His One Man Band. Must be tough carrying all that equipment by yourself though. Confused? Don’t stress, he’s playing Cortina Bob

Sissters play support to Rocket Freudental at Kater Holzig tonight, their debut album There’s A Party In My Mouth But You’re Not Invited easily one of the best albums by a Berlin based band in recent times: Broken down noise post punk. More scissors than Big Black, more whatthefuckareyoulookingatthan Gang of Four Here they are