Awesome Berlin neokraut/post-rock two-piece Wonga finally launch their new LP, Milan, with a show and party at Knochenbox, supported by low-fi indie group Sophie Spandau with the Ping Pong DJ-team. Being the lovely people that they are, you can actually download the album for free, or buy the physical package for 10€, from this address:

Australian act Cloud Control make it to Berlin for a show at Lido, giving the kids here a first taste of the new album live.

Swedish girl pop group Those Dancing Days are bubblegum. But they’re smart bubblegum, so they’re okay by us. That’s to say, I’d feel strange about anyone over the age of 19 saying that they were starting a Those Dancing Days fanclub, but if you were looking for a fun Wednesday night where you could have

Taking up the stage for a night at Supamolly, No perform for us songs about life in Berlin and the general ups and downs of it all

Amazing bands seem to love to hide in Berlin, I don’t know where these guys came from but they’re really awesome and I only heard them for the first time today: Weird Fishes. Local kids Weird Fishes do a nineties sounding big indie-rock sound but put it through the 2011 wash cycle to get it

Meine Damen und Herren, we give you Deutsch-Amerikanishe Freundschaft, live in Berlin

Local outsider-music & folk singer Mary Ocher has, much like a batch of very flavoursome although disconcertingly coloured muffins, cooked up a debut album, War Songs, out on Berlin label Haute Areal. The launch party is at HBC and, like all good parties, kicks off at 11:00pm. Here’s a clip taken from the album, the

British guitar-wave band Sad Lovers and Giants, after thirty years of gigging, have finally scheduled a show here in Berlin. It’s absolutely their first time here which is a pretty remarkable feat in and of itself. Sure, after only getting here now they lose a million points in timeliness, but they’re winning it all back

If you’ve ever heard yourself exclaim that you’d love to see Leonard Cohen 20 years ago when the crowds weren’t so big and before he was so disproportionately popular, then Canadian artist Chinawoman is for you. Her songs channel the spirit of the aforementioned Leonard, but in place of the utter desolation of Cohen’s back

Another one of the bands making up part of the amazing wave scene that Berlin’s got going at the moment, Velvet Condom, originally formed in France, finally have an LP ready for us. The title is Stadtgeil and if you’re not convinced yet that you need to own this artefact, you will be when you