It’s not often that we recommend you a techno party, but when we do it’s going to be completely amazing. Luke Vibert (Ninja Tunes) plays live at Gretchen with a set of acid drenched electronica that’s as party or as intelligent as you want it to be. “It was under the alias of Wagon Christ

It’s kind of difficult to explain, so we’ll start at the beginning. These people in New York put on this event or festival thing called The Maze, being the literalists that they obviously are, they actually constructed a maze out of whatever they could find and invited people to come and look at it. That

As is the way with these guys, the brand new album WIXIW (pronounced Wish You) is almost a total abandonment of their previous sounds, normally a mistake but somehow LIARS always seem to make it work. And when we say work, we mean amazing. Gone headlong into dark-dream electronica, the anger from previous albums is

It’s not a terribly closely guarded secret that Anton has been living here in Berlin for the last while, he’s not been playing gigs at all (or at least that us plebeians are allowed to know about) except for doing the occasional DJ slot at 8MM bar (which he may or may not actually do, depending

At first listen they’re like a straight up indie-rock band that you might have heard a million times before, but gosh they’re a smart band and this is what you realise after just a little while of listening. The tracks are often soaring, but never cheesy, the hooks are memorable, but not something you’ll forget

Los Angeles duo Peaking Lights have their new album out middle of this month, following on from their highly regarded debut 936, Lucifer (Domino) is another example of their, extremely particular and utterly original, dub soaked indie-electro-pop sound. Obviously here to show off the new material as much as soak up the Berlin sun and

Knowing two things about Amanda Palmer‘s (Dresden Dolls) recent announcments is important at this point. First she announced that there was a new album swiftly on the way from her and the Grand Theft Orchestra, second that she stated that she’s got about 20 songs that could potentially fill such an aforementioned album and none

London HC punk outfit STAB make it here to Berlin for a gig with any-hotter-they’d-be-the-sun Londoners NO. Supports from German old-school HC punks Mlltte and a new post punk power-trio out of Berlin called Dit, a band causing a small stir with their Pick A LineEUR

Neo-folk, post-punk, Melbourne dirge industrialists Lakes fit into a great many boxes, but none really do them proper justice. The material is possibly the most depressing you’ll have heard since Mutiny In Heaven, and it shares an element of the same wilful rambunctiousness, but even that is simplifying things a little. In any case, what you’re ending

If you’ve always been of the position that Ska is completely not your thing, then fair enough, but maybe the problem is you’ve been listening to the wrong ska. It’s an easy trap to fall into seeing as most new ska is just pop-punk shit with horns thrown over the top and an album cover