London boy girl duo Summer Camp, high on secrecy and low on a lot of radars, are like members of royalty from some far off country that you’ve never heard of. You might be standing in line at the shops next to the King of some small island in the South Pacific, but you’d never

The weather is cooling down and as is always the case, the mood of Berlin is really taking a tumble. People on the street are grumbling at each other, there’s not a human face to be seen on the subway of a morning and shopkeepers are increasingly behaving like you walking in can somehow be

We’re not too often into hiphop, but when we are it’s always awesome stuff. Berlin art & music collective PlayBerlin put together a night of independent hiphop headlined by Sha3 Palaces, the latest act assembled by Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler, the former member of the 90s Jazz-Hip-Hop combo Digable Planets and african percussionist Tendai Maraire. Coming

It’s kind of always pissed me off that punk so often fuses itself to reggae breeding ska. I can’t stand reggae and think that the majority of ska is pretty aweful also, so if I needed to explain myself, that’s why I’m annoyed. But jumping into bed with folk music I can deal with, the

Canadian Warp signee Babe Rainbow is a strange man. We’re not sure how strange, since we’ve never had the opportunity or inclination to peer too closely but we’re sure his normal day is punctuated by the strange things he does. We’re sure he does them. We’re sure. We’re sure that he stands at the front

Almost the best rock band in the world, probably even the best since if you put whoever you thought was the best in the same room as these guys then those other guys would probably retire in shame, Hot Snakes do the previously unthinkable and reform and come to Berlin for a show at Festsaal.

The first time I saw Battles was at a music festival in Sydney where it was 42degrees and the beer was warm and you had to wait for 20 mins to go to the toilet and some guy wearing an Australian flag around his neck, like some kind of drunken redneck superman cape, had punched

Brand new stuff out of the Gestammel Orchester camp, this time in the form of a side project led by front-man Tom O’Doherty called Sky Histoire. …taking the melodic pulse of The New Year and later Velvet Underground, they add layered drones and kinetic repetition reminiscent of Polmo Polpo and Neu! and the frenetic squalls

Heavier on the techno than what we’d normally send you to, but we’re we’re good with it still since it’s pretty much entirely awesome: the evil aliens of Purge comes at us again with their second installment of their new party series, once again at Chez Jacki, once again dripping with cosmic horror. Headlined this

Israeli noise-rockers TV Buddhas make it back to berlin for a show, not just any show but the last show on their European tour, at West Germany. An occasion for a beer or two and a dance? We say the answer is yes! Supported on the night by The Gndrs, also out of Israel and