Lionel Marchetti is an electroacoustic improviser and musique concrte composer. Initially self-taught, Marchetti studied with Xavier Garcia in Grenoble. A scholar, he later worked at the CFMI (Lyon) and INA-GRM studios (Paris), and published a book on composer Michel Chion. In the mid-1990s Marchetti was one of a handful of artists who took electroacoustic

This 7-piece horn-driven ska-punk outfit come all the way from Minsk, Belarus and bring with them a spirited mix of biting satire and powerful chords. Lyapis Trubetskoy were once at the top of the charts in their country, as well as in the ex-Soviet Republics. Mid-way through their career, not content to merely churn out,

This should be an interesting night, have a look the video below to see why. Yutaka Makino was born in 1976 in Japan and lives in Berlin. Active primarily in the field of computer music, Makino also uses installations and performances to explore the various dimensions of human perception. On the basis of his investigations

Image: Barry Cliffe Kristian Matsson, aka The Tallest Man On Earth, a ridiculously tall name for such an average sized performer but the proof is in the performing as they say (who exactly they are I hope I find out some day because I keep quoting them) and this kid has had it going on from

Patti Smith is the woman many of you wish was their cool aunt or mother even or maybe just even your cool, older sister. Me? I just wish I’d started listening to her when I was sixteen, would have saved a lot of time catching up. Having to pay a lot of money to see

Delta Love play their first headlining show in Berlin at the Kugelbahn in Wedding tonight. Carl (guitar/vocals/foot-organ) and Tilman (drums/vocals) have been winning over Berlin audiences with their unique combination of reverb-laden guitar, drums, vocals and foot-organ, a dizzyingly brilliant mix of 60s garage-psych and modern day psych bands like Sic Alps and Ty Segall.

A lovely small festival taking place today in Moabit in the very charming Schulgarten Moabit, acts from Berlin, Iceland and headlining are the wonderful Temple from Denmark who kicked off their mini Berlin tour on Thursday in Kugelbahn Wedding with an excellent set. Good or bad weather this is going to be another lovely day

Joan As Policewoman drops round on her yearly visit to Berlin to promote her latest album of adult rock. A voice that reminds you instantly of Feist is no bad thing but that’s where the interest for me ends…it reminds me of Feist, it isn’t Feist. And anyway, have you…ah forget it…you’ve either bought Joan’s

A dose of goth/industrial noise at K17 yet again with Alien Sex Fiend so if you’re missing being teenage and listening to this awful shit then K17 is the place for you…oops I do believe I just insulted the (remaining) goth population of Berlin. It’s always hard to tell if there are any real goths

This year’s Puschenfest provides the two best line-ups of the summer, the first bringing Kurt Vile & The Violators back to us almost exactly one year after his last show in Berlin, supported by sometimes Berliners The Chap and Berlin’s very own Fenster who’ve been touring like a touring machine over the past year and released