Dance gig of the year, Paul Van Dyk, Underworld and Armin Van Buuren together at O2 Arena here in Berlin, one night of pure techno rave madness. It goes without saying that Paul Van Dyk is one of the world’s greatest and most enduring DJ superstars. 5 studio albums and uncounted remixes and compilation inclusions,

Calgary band Women are not a happy band. They are not a band for happy moments. They are not songs for singing about happy things. They sound as though they might like to be one day, happy that is, but the fact that they’ve taken the sounds of so many childhood summers, AM radios with

Canadian troupe Wintersleep are a difficult beast to pin down. Living somewhere in the void between band and art collective, producing material swinging from anthemic shoegaze to bouncy indie rock, always with terrific synth lines and rock drum flourishes. The new album from them, New Inheritors, came out earlier this year to a very warm

Two of the touring artists attached to The Pains Of Being Pure Of Heart make it here to Berlin sporting their own project, The Depreciation Guild, giving a run to the material from their latest album, Spirit Youth, out June this year. Contributing to their early 90′s indie electronica sound (thinking Single Gun Theory right

Italian group Soviet Soviet make it to Berlin for a show at King Kong Klub, supported by Frank (Just Frank). Here’s a track: Soviet Soviet – Marksman

You being the type to like your fun lowbrow, you’ll agree that squat parties are one of the best things about Berlin, right next to world class beers at budget prices and riding bicycles home from the pub on a Saturday night half pissed and tumbling off every ten meters. Right next to those couple

Brooklyn four piece Forest Fire tour their new album Survival, bringing the new show to Berlin for a night at Comet Club. From the myspazz on the new album: “For me, this thing is a document of stylistic integrity that felt very important to all of us at the time,” says Thresher. But Survival also

Signed to the slightly infamous Warp label, Sydney kids PVT (formerly Pivot) make it to Berlin for a night of glitch electronica post-pop antics. The brand new album from them, Church With No Magic, was released early August this year in Australia with an international release expected soon, if not already by the time you

A Finnish prog-metal four piece? In my Bang Bang? It’s more common than you think! An ever changing lineup through a massive catalogue of releases since their formation in 1991, Circle make it to Berlin for a show in Bang Bang Club supported by [Project] Transmit, for one big night of live loop experimentalism. If

London experimental pop outfit the Chap make it to Berlin for a spot of gigging at Festsaal. Famous not only for a stage show that often features exploding violins and cellos, and how we’ve all so very often wanted to blow up a cello, but also a very decent back catalogue of five albums going