With a brand new album, Tough Love, out end of January, it’s the perfect time for Leeds act Pulled Apart By Horses to touch down here in Berlin. Although, when you’re the best named band in the world, it’s always time for a night at Magnet. Seriously, that is one fucking cool name. They’ve been

Artistically organic Aime Argote, aka Des Ark does basically whatever she wants. So it would seem in any case. Sometimes playing with a band, sometimes with just herself, sometimes no music at all, like when she brushes her teeth we can assume. Hard to hold a guitar when you’re brushing your teeth. But all of the

CANCELLED. A little while ago someone was trying to spruik a band to me some band calling them “brit-pop revival” and after hearing them say this I was started wondering whether a brit-pop revival really was coming or whether that person just had a Libertines CD on repeat while they came up with their new

There was this one time that I was in my galactic cruiser, surfing along the inside edge of the spiralling Milky Way, just because that’s how I like to spend my Sundays. I was really up for some good music as I watched the stars fling themselves past my window, something really excellent, but I really

One of the jewels in the crown of Berlin’s live music scene, Fenster (Berlin Soundcheck) are finally able to officially release their debut LP, Bones, out on Morr Music. Celebrating the launch, as well as their impending trip to the U.S. for SXSW, the kids from Fenster along with some of their Berlin music friends will

Local shoegaze / post-punk act I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream headline the Knochenbox for a night of dark and lush indie-rock. Supported on the night by Paro, a new act to have spun out from local legends Gestammel Orchester (previously). Kind of on line with Warsaw or the Birthday Party, a good band

Somewhere after it’s peak, Prog became a dirty word and even the mention of Yes, Jethro Tull or early Genesis got you laughed off the pub table. So we all started calling everything either post-something or math-something. But those of us who actually quite like the three bands named earlier knew the bitter truth that

A weapon for modern times, Lazer Crystal (Thrill Jockey) are the perfect fusion of man and machine. Three parts organic matter to many, many more parts machine, in a world that seems to the careening headlong into some future crash, is there really any other answer than Lazer Crystal. Supported by CA

Image: Leo “Correo” Zylberberg Ceremony (previously) hail from Virginia, US and are the other half of a band that became A Place To Bury Strangers (previously) and yes, Ceremony of course. That band were legendary shoegazers Skywave, they made one great album, split up and made two great bands out of it, in a nutshell of course. Ceremony

It would be almost impossible for Matt Elliot to become any more funereal, his music is just that black. It’s not just that it all sounds so final and departed, you can really hear the honesty in what he’s singing and you cant help but be touched at least a little by that. For you