With a splendid poster from the Amazingly talented Damien Tran, UK Math experimentalists One Man Team Dance make it to Berlin for a gig in the Knochenbox. Beatwise they kind of sound like the Rapture, but completely stripped of the pop thing that makes their latter stuff so saccharine and ending up leaning more toward

With a lonely gypsy heart and a penchant for late-night music, Berlin band The Cold Hand are releasing their debut album, Paperships, due out end of May. Coming from the same corner as Leonard Cohen but with a 90′s 4AD thing about them as well, they bill themselves as playing Funeral Folk, an easy label to

Astonishingly interesting and talented, Willis Earl Beal is one of those rare multi-talents who’s actually good at all the things he does, rather than being just adequate all round. A poet, musician and artist, the 27 year old Chicago kid has proved himself a worthwhile addition to a great many cultural scenes and movements, but

The Dustown Festival is back for another toke on the doobie with three solid nights of ace stoner/doom/desert metal and rock, enough to keep even the most acid burnt of music fans happy and occupied. A massive lineup, here’s what’s up for this season… 23.05. @ Dazzle TSCHAIKA / YPH / DJs 24.05. @ White

The San Diego kids of Crocodiles are just on the cusp of releasing their brand new and extremely hotly anticipated new album Endless Flowers. Being no strangers to Berlin after the Ficken 2000 residency story, one that will echo down the ages as being a Berlin music classic, where the album was recorded in the

It’s only fair that after the original break up of Death From Above 1979 that some other band would kind of take up that energy and make something of it. Make something powerful. Sure, Death From Above are back, but they’re only going to be playing massive rooms now and that’s just not what the

Berlin band Alphacloud (previously) have been going for a year now and celebrating that fact, they’re releasing an album with a party at .HBC in Mitte, Past Forward is the title and you can check it out here: http://alphacloud.fm/#be4/soundcloud Supporting on the night are Berlin frenchy electro-pop-trio Trikot along with Jules Etienne e le Volpi playing a solo

Canadian bumpkin punks HELLSHOVEL (aka Hell Shovel) play the Trickster keller for a special show that we should probably be keeping a bit secret, but how could we ever keep a secret from you. Trust-Trust relationship like what we’ve got. Led by Demon’s Claws frontman Jeff Clarke and featuring Dox Grillo sharing the strings /

They’ve been a bit quiet for a while working on new material but Berlin psych act They Shoot Horses (of Almighty Wire collective) are finally back, a good thing since we were starting to miss them. Simmering somewhere in Velvet Underground territory, but driven by beats that end up more mechanical aesthetically, They Shoot Horses aren’t a

Berlin native synth-wave kids Kool Thing make it back from a massive tour of Australia to headline a massive line-up of massive massiveness at Festsaal with another ace installment of Saalfest, presented by Expatriarch and Festsaal. Supported on the night by sci-fi camp-caberet act Godmother playing live, also on the lineup are DJs Alan Wilson of !!!