Boston avant-garde rockers Neptune might actually come from another planet for how they sound. Although they look like you or I, they really don’t sound like what Earth musicians normally do and their self built instruments look suspiciously like something an alien would build after their ship crashed here and forced them to improvise. Since

London riot rockers Cold In Berlin (an impressively cool name basically everywhere in the world except here in Berlin, somewhat ironically) play White Trash supported by Swiss psych-rock act Velvet Two Stripes. Both bands are pretty awesome and 6€ is heaps cheap for two interstate bands

Experimental psych-noise monsters Drum Eyes take over the NK cave, basically vomiting a mass of musical colour all over us, all over the floor and probably onto the ceiling too. In charge of the proceedings is DJ Scotch Egg, famous gabba producer and leader of Drum Eyes, who’s working with an all-star cast hailing from

We don’t usually go on about dance music too much, what with us being Blitzgigs and all, but when it’s one of the greatest drum & bass producers in the history of the genre playing live here in Berlin, it’s worth a shout-out. Photek was instrumental in the development of intelligent d&b and has been

EUROPEAN TOUR CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS Sub Pop signees Handsome Furs, when not busy on the road, spend most of their time and devote all of the their talent (of which there is a considerable amount) to making electro-pop that has a realness to it that’s normally only found in guitar bands. It’s easy to

Not so much a band as a procession of amazing talents lead by monsieur Jamie Stewart, Xiu Xiu are into their tenth year as a musical entity and with that milestone brings their eleventh album, primly titled Always. Already gaining very decent reviews (AV Club) for it’s curious call to join with Stewart in his

An amazing and really quite different lineup at the Knochenbox with three acts coming together with three different styles, but the whole thing somehow gelling really nicely. Headlining is Banque Allemande, Berlin post-punks doing an ace thing where it’s technical but completely gutteral at the same time. Think Big Black but with more of a

With the new album, In Time To Voices, making it out of the gates in March, the kids of Blood Red Shoes are going to be on fire when they finally hit berlin for their gig at Postbahnhof. But they always are, it’s what they do. The new one is a more refined sound than

The Spanish Rock Invasion festival takes over Berlin’s Bassy Club for yet another year. Stretching across 3 nights in the Bassy Club (11., 13., 14.) with an opening night party in Wowsville (6.), it’s a massive block of some of the best indie/garage/rock to come out of the warm climes of Spain this year. Headlining

For you if you’re a fan of Nouvelle Vague, or even if you’re not, frontwoman Nadah Miranda is very kindly playing a solo show here in Berlin, taking up the stage at the small but sweet Kaffee Burger. The debut album from her, Venus Gets Even, made it out end of last year. A departure from