If you know us then you know well that we love openings and would be at one even if it were only for an envelope.That being said, we’d be at this one anyway since there’s a couple of ace bands playing along with a bunch of DJs and someone even got interested in it enough

One of Berlin’s strongest music festivals, also one of Berlin’s berlin’iest music festivals since they do so well at supporting local talent, Down By The River is back for it’s third year of just generally being awesome. Not only is this year’s festival stretching it’s boundaries musically this year, including slightly louder acts such as

There must be a factory somewhere in Iceland where performers like Lara Runars are assembled, there’s got to be some explanation for why so many brightly coloured women with high pitched voices and a love of bouncy indie all come out of one small country. Maybe it’s government experimentation, maybe aliens have started colonising there

To be honest, this one’s a gig strictly for the fans of House Of Pain, which I’m not really, and depending on how old you are, you probably aren’t either. But any excuse to check out Jump Around is a good excuse, one of the greatest party tracks ever recorded… &nbsp

The wonderful Enrico Boccioletti in the guise of electro-shoegaze act Death In Plains headlines King Kong Klub as part of the launch for another compilation for Discipline Records, illustrious Italian/international label and style council to all things good. About Death In Plains: “a summer echo, the sound of serotonin rising; of legions of soaked T-shirted

It must be the season for classic experimental indie rock, what with Primus just having left the stadium and now with Dead Kennedys’ front man Jello Biafra making it to Berlin for a gig at Astra Kulturhaus. This is a man with enough of a lust for political dstabilisation that he may as well make

Scottish two piece Capitals headline this month’s Club NME at Magnet Club supported by German act Johann Van der Smut and DJs Tim, Christian & Spencer of Karrera Klub fame & Michael Mac of Club NME/UK. Here’s a number from Capitals, heralded by Vic Galloway (BBC Radio 1 Scotland) as having produced ” A future

Celebating 2 whole years since the birth of Berlin music & party gang Humming Records, Magnet hosts a big night of gigs and DJ stuff headlined by Flashguns out of the UK, presented by fellow Berlin kids Bound Together. Supporting on the night you’ll find local act In Golden Tears along with about 4 million

Berlin’s very fine friend Brett Winterford of Sydney band Peregrine ties up his massive 17 date European tour with a semi-secret show here in Berlin. Which is lucky for you, anything otherwise would just be dissapointing. Joining Brett onstage at Taqueria Florian on Oranienstr in Kreuzberg will be Once Upon A Rooftop out of Magdeburg

There’s too much rain this summer here in Berlin, too many rain-umbrellas and galloshes and not enough tanned skin and t-shirts and people looking stylish walking down the street with what passes for that just-come-back-from-the-beach look here in Berlin, given that people here only have the mucky Spree to swim in and the just-come-back-from-swimming-in-the-Spree look