Annalena Bludau and Guy Dale aka Mute Swimmer (previously) along with The funk play tonights Fourtrack Onstage at Madame Claude. Anna Lena Bludau is a singer/songwriter in the classical sense. With her beautiful songs of sublime simplicity, sparse instrumentation and poetic melancholy Annalena Bludau has gathered a steadily growing fanbase. Mute Swimmer is a moniker

The Human Elephant has been knocking about for a while now playing some bigger shows too and gaining quite a bit of attention so it’s time for a cosy Friday night at Madame Claude with some top quality lo-fi tunes like this one, You Deserve To Die from his latest record White Thunder: This is

Om are the doom metal band of current times and bring their show to the one and only Berghain here in Berlin for what will surely an aurally pleasing experience on that immense sound system. Consisting only of drums and bass, this duo of Al Cisneros (bass), formerly of Sleep, and Emil Amos on drums,

Crystal Shipsss will play mostly from his debut album Yay which will receive a proper physical release through San Francisco’s Three Ring Records in July aswell as on Raw Onion Records in Denmark in June. It will be available on 10″ mint green vinyl, so for all you vinyl junkies out there it will definitely

Michael Hurley makes a once in a blue moon visit to Berlin as part of the Counterflow Festival taking place at Ausland in Prenzlauer Berg. Yes, just when you thought poor P’Berg had been stripped of all it’s decent venues since NBI was forced to call it a day, Ausland pops up its head and

Laika down in Neuklln’s Emser Str has become a bastion of folkiness in Berlin’s musical life and also happens to be one of the nicest settings in town for a Sunday afternoon of acoustic tunes, remember this show starts at 4pm. Mute Swimmer (Guy Dale, previously) and Own Road (Simon Skjodt) provide the entertainment. Guy

TV Buddhas release their brand new EP Band In The Modern World this evening at Monarch at Kottbusser Tor, presented to you by www.blitzgigs.de. The EP, recorded inside one hour in Graz and mixed by Beat Happening/Nirvana collaborator Steve Fisk really is something special and reflects TV Buddhas seemingly neverending tour and ability to create

Shearwater seem to have played at Comet steadily once a year for the past one, two, three, ach, I lost count at this stage so it’s a welcome return for a favourite of mine with their new record in tow, Animal Joy, which is getting a regular spin down Blitzgigs Boulevard. Here’s one to convince

Noiseklln presents it’s usual mix of the eclectic and the ear shreddingly brilliant at West Germany tonight and also celebrates the release of it’s first tape, nkt-001…surely a collector’s item in the near future. Headlining on the night is Justice Yeldham of whom Wire magazine had this to say: the most exciting performer I have

Ned Collette and Susanna Berivan seem to be inseparable at the moment, playing on the same bills all over town so why should Madame Claude on a Friday be denied the same pleasure. Ned Collette is no stranger to a lot of people, Berlin resident a couple of years now, his regular Monday night shows