An Isreali delta-blues band is an unusual mix, but not one that should surprise a world as complex and sometimes curious as this one is. Six piece The Greenbaums headline a night at the Knochenbox supported by The Gondors, also from the sunny land of Israel. No news of any CDs or tours coming up, just

The thinking mans indie-art, Brooklyn improv collective Excepter aren’t space cowboys so much as cosmic beach-combers. Finding inspiration here and there over the course of constructing their massive back-catalogue, their sound is intensely layered and simultaneously deceptively soothing, just what you’d imagine if washed up on shore of a deserted planet, intergalactic luminessence streaking overhead.

Another year of Down By The River Festival with another ace lineup and a changed approach this year where all the good stuff will be out in the yard facing the shimmering waters of the river Spree. Here’s the complete timetable, it’s subject to change, but what is there in life that’s not? Main stage

We haven’t covered much from these guys in the last while, but event collective Brave Exhibitions has been quietly ticking along regardless. They’ve basically moved out of their old stomping ground at King Kong Club and are roving over the city, cheerfully putting on completely un-cheerful nights in whatever venue suits them best. Kudos. The

UK anarcho peace act Subhumans are the real deal. They’ve been kicking around since forming in 1980, forming and reforming whenever the call to action presents itself, luckily for you and your saturday night, Berlin presents just such a call with them playing a gig here in the big room at Kpi. Supported on the

Sub-Saharan afro-beat isn’t the usual thing to be washing up on the shores of Berlin, but then again, the psych scene here is growing and the kids are getting ever more discerning. It you’re looking for a new world-psych kick, Dakhla based act Group Doueh and their unique style of Sahrawi/Hassania music might be the

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Soundtracking your perfect Berlin summer in the style that only true kids of the San Francsisco psych scene can, Ty Segall is exactly what Berlin needs right now. Seriously, for some reason the hotter the streets get here, the stressier everyone gets, tourists just get drunker & messier, increasingly full of self importance and the

Note: Moved from HBC to Lido. Almost regular in Berlin enough that he’s going to have to start buying the locals beer in the pub, Damien Jurado (previously, review) has built up quite the little fanbase here over the past few years of visits. Fair enough too, his alt-folk story-telling is far more sensible than some

Seemingly always the ones to be wrapping it up, “just this last one more tour”, much like a last drink at the pub, the reformed Pogues really don’t know when to quit, but that would be a difficult line to draw in the sand for the best of us in their shoes, since they’re selling