The middle of January, the worst part of the year in Berlin. That strange netherworld-time between darkness and more darkness, when people start nervously looking around themselves and their slowly collapsing appartments, the gathering pile of beer bottles in the kitchen, the unwashed housepet which you’re not sure is even yours, the cold and rain

The Unkindness Of Ravens join They Shoot Horses tonight at Antje Oklesund, everyone’s favourite indie venue. Doors open up at 10pm as usual and there’s djs afterwards. Nina Wagner and Ben Raine are London/ Berlin based electro-rock duo The Unkindness Of Ravens. Hailed by Artrocker magazine as “Genuine contenders for being one of the best

Three of Berlin’s busiest musicians team up to show off their B/B/S doom-drone expertise, the limits of their creativity seemingly boundless. Baker, Belfi and Skovdin apparently sleep like us normal humans but have also recorded more music than the rest of Berlin’s musicians put together over the past who knows how many years that you

Cranky Booking is back after a brief period of hibernation and recovery from last months christmas show and kicks off 2013 with local indie kids The History Of Colour TV who release their debut album, Emerald Cures Chic Ills, worldwide on January 29th through Saint Marie Records. On first hearing the record I was overwhelmed

The next Cranky Night comes fast on the heels of the completely packed and sold out album release show for The History Of Colour TV recently and welcomes back art-rockers Ruins Of Krger and indie kids I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream. Ruins Of Krger are no strangers to the Cranky Night, having

Blitzgigs.de proudly presents the latest edition of Nordllicht Klub which has now taken up residency at Berlin’s Privat Club which re-opened its doors a couple of weeks ago after moving to Skalitzer Str and creating its new home in an even better location, it’s just like the old Privat Club except bigger and the sound is even better.

Ned Collette‘s coming out of his wintersleep armed with a new band in the shape of Fredrik Kinbom from Sweden on bass and Stuart Braun from Melbourne on drums. He assures me it’s going to raw, rough and very rock n’ roll given it’s his first time appearing onstage with an electric guitar in a while

Cranky Booking presents the latest in its streak of shows at Antje Oklesund where it’s all about good bands, good people and a great atmosphere. Tonight, however, Cranky Booking is throwing its birthday bash which can only mean one thing…not one but two bottles of whiskey on the door to greet and warm your probably

Copenhagen’s Betting On The Mouse is a four-piece indie band from Copenhagen who release their debut album today at Privat Club with a live performance and some djs afterwards. Band leader Martha Marie Skou is based in Berlin and is the machine behind this excellent live band who played as part of the Nordlicht Club tour last

Photo: Angel Ceballos Puschen presents what should be a ripper of a show tonight at Festsaal Kreuzberg with The Men landing from Brooklyn armed with their latest album New Moon and supported by Berlin’s very own Delta Love: The Men yes, “The,” are a four-piece post punk outfit from Brooklyn, NY. Their catalog, which began