Brat Farrar is the latest three-piece led by Sam Agostino from Melbourne and they’ll be dropping by Cortina Bob on their lengthy European tour for Sunday evening beers and possibly one of the best shows you’ll see so far this year. After leading some of the finest garage-punk bands of the past few years in

The Chups are Oleg Gitaracula on guitar, horror laugh and video, Zombierella on bass, vocals and screams and Boris Israel on drums. If you have a penchant for sci-fi soundtracks, B-movies, horror films, theremins, surf and rockabilly then Messer chups are the band you’ve been waiting for all your life. This one is called Miss

Poster: Leo Zylberberg Love Lanes headline the next installment of Cranky Booking‘s monthly Saturday night gig at Antje Oklesund with Crying Room and Susanna Berivan getting the night underway. There’s not much to say about Love Lanes that their garage-rock stylings doesn’t tell you straight away itself but as 2, Blitzgigs.de head-honcho put it: The

Sir Richard Bishop returns to Berlin for a solo show at NK tonight a year after he played here at Monarch as The Brothers Connected with his Sun City Girls brother, Alan, one of the most memorable shows I’ve seen in recent years in Berlin. If that was anything to go by then tonight is sure

Chixdiggit from Canada and Love Lanes from Berlin line-up at Cortina Bob tonight and there could be a surprise in store for you here…Love Lanes is what I mean. Last Saturday at Antje Oklesund Love Lanes played a storming set for over an hour in steaming heat and they never let up. Robust and technically brilliant

Me And My Drummer celebrate the release of their debut album, The Hawk, The Beak, The Prey tonight at Lido with support from And The Golden Choir. Charlotte Brandi and Matze Prllochs have been making waves over the past six months with their minimal sound and big ideas, touring with Einar Stray and generally wowing

Another Regular Monday night at Valentin Stberl although this time without the usual Ned Collette performance. Sean Nicholas McMahon from Melbourne is passing through town and taking time to share some of his excellent songs with you. Having recorded two albums with acclaimed alt-country band Downhills Home, McMahon has recently began releasing under his own

Holly Mae And The Painted Room did something extremely brave at their last show at the very end of March; they stepped up to their respective mics and delivered a completely re-constructed set of their songs taking those among the audience familiar with their material totally by surprise. Losing the folk stylings for a more

The Transcendentalists Tour, named after the eponymous EP, featuring modern classical composers and players Dustin O’Halloran, Jhann Jhannsson and Hauschka, takes in only eight cities across Europe and promises to be one of the summers highlight shows so far in Berlin. Heimathafen in Neuklln provides a fairly decent setting for the night I’m sure you’ll

Ned Collette welcomes Gareth Dickson to Valentin Stberl in a reflection of his recent Regular Monday nights series except on a Friday which means it’ll be packed to the gills and even better than usual. Add to this Gareth Dickson, most famous for playing in folk songstress extraordinaire Vashti Bunyan’s band, who is passing through