This might seem like a ridiculous statement to some of you out there but Ben Cooper, aka, Radical Face, would definitely beat the crap out of Justin Vernon in a fight to see who takes the crown of best sensitive folky crooner. A fight no doubt refereed by Sufjan Stevens. Before there was Bon Iver

Wild Flag are some kind of present day Breeders, an awesome band comprised of awesome players from different awesome bands like Sleater Kinney and Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks.Oh dear, it’s late and here comes the laziness courtesy of Merge Records website: Wild Flag is a Portland, Oregon- and Washington, DC-based quartet consisting of Carrie

Jimi Kritzler and Tara Green are White Hex, they’re from Australia somewhere and play as a guitar and bass duo. Self-described as tropical-goth, let’s see if that one takes off shall we, goths being prone to lying around baking in the tropical sun as they are. Seriously though, it’s just the type of doom-laden, wavey,

Poster: Leo “Correo” Zylberberg Brought to you by Cranky Booking and www.blitzgigs.de, Jimmy Trash And The Gunpowder Temple Of Heaven headline tonight at Antje Oklesund’s regular Friday night, Hren & Gesehen werden. Jimmy and his band, hands down the best named band in town( Oska Wald, Johnny Friseur, Konrad Wilde, Omri Gondor and Mohair Sam)

Blouse make it to Berlin for their first show at Comet Club and hopefully their positive retro indie-pop will help signal the end of this interminable cold. They’re an addictive listen these kids, basslines and keyboards straight out of The Cure/New Order arsenal, synths washing the whole thing warm and even a gentle blast or

Aidan Baker is back from his tour of Japan with Nadja to begin another tour, this time with A-Sun Amissa, in support of his latest record The Spectrum Of Distraction, which is a good description of what it’s like to look at his discography. Listen to it here…did I mention that it has 97 tracks?

The War On Drugs played one of my Top Ten shows of last year in September at NBI(review here) and despite this show being switched from the much larger Lido down the street, I think Magnet will suit them better…and I never thought I’d say that about Magnet. Slave Ambient also made it into a

Hailing from the beautiful Blue Mountains near Sydney, Cloud Control released one of 2011′s best albums in Bliss Release. An instantly likeable record that made me wish it had been released when I was 16 and the summer days were stretched out before me. It’s simply packed with harmonic, 60s influenced, psych-pop and all-round indie

The best kept secret in Italy, even better kept than the fact that Silvio Berlusconi is actually a nice guy really, Father Murphy make it back to Berlin for a cosy Monday night at White Trash…and all for the princely sum of 3€. If this photo is anything to go by and treatment of musical

Lambchop made one of my favourite albums of all time, Nixon, back in 2000 and since then I’ve been waiting for them reproduce something even close to it’s brilliance. Sadly I’ve been disappointed with each ensuing Lamchop record and recent offering Mr. M is no different. This is not to say that recent albums have