Berlin kids who might actually break out of the local scene, Mittekill are like a Notwist with all the pleasantness removed in exchange for a very real feeling of hopelessness. Headlining the Berghain Kantine supported by Elektro Willi launching his new EP, Sauna Suit

Four solid years of ElectroClashNoWavePostpunkDiscoTrash and nobody managed to hold them down long enough to medicate them, the wonderful kids of Desaster Disko demand your presence at their birthday party. Not that you’d need to be dragged at gunpoint anyway, even though that might be a bit fun in a kinky Saturday night kind of

The japanese rockabilly scene is famous for…just being amazing and Guitar Wolf is the crown prince of that scene. He should be crown prince of the world really, given how astonishing he his. His shredding cannot be controlled!

Components of three of Berlin’s most chic evenings, Gucci Goth + BL4CK M4G1CK + The Darkness, get together to assemble into something newer and greater than the sum of the parts: PURGE. Opening up on their first night at the lovely Chez Jacki will be the people of Bruises (previously). Featuring members of Reliq and featuring

Murky post rock from local act Musicas Interminveis Para Viagem, launching their second album, simply titled II, at King Kong Club supported by the ponderous and lovely indie pop stylings of fellow Berliners Sorry Gilberto

They’re not at all the same band as they were when they first started, which is probably a good thing for their longevity seeing as the ultra-theatrical teen angst schtick was only going to ever take them so far. To be fair though, when I saw them in the middle of that period I decided

Northern Irish prog-rock group And So I Watch You From Afar on the back of their latest album Gangs make it to Berlin for a show at Festsaal, letting us all know where the current state of instrumental rock is right now at and where it might be headed. With no vocal lines to emphasise

For the last few years the awesome kids of Dustown Sounds have been putting on increasingly bigger shows with increasingly bigger lineups of their signature desert/psych/garage sound. Ending this year with a band, or one last massive distorted chord out of an overdriven rickenbacker, depending on how you look at it, they’ve managed to get

Experimental berlin string ensemble Feedback Orchester soundtrack organic-decay and compose synthonies the colour of the sky tuned to a dead channel. A Knochenbox production, although hosted in the church upstairs, supported on the night by Kulku and Interflug Galaktika on visuals

Kind of always a bit under appreciated and never ever really breaking out of their niche (except with the MTV support of Negasonic Teenage Warhead and brief flash of broad appeal that followed), Monster Magnet (previously) have kept on keeping on since 89. As is the case with cult bands that keep pluggin away for