The Kooks have always been somewhat of a controversial band, to me at least. The Kooks were probably the first indie band that was never independent. By the time they dotted the line with Virgin Records, the majors had learned how to exploit this new wave of guitar driven music that swept across the globe.…

Whether you ever ascribed to the whole “new rave” thing or not, you cant deny that Klaxons have had some great numbers and you cant really blame them too much in any case for getting involved in whatever nonsense NME might have cooked up. After all, NME is always cooking up some similar nonsense and not only…

She Makes War is the gloom-pop solo project of Bristol based multi-instrumentalist, filmmaker and digital polymath Laura Kidd. A pacifist force of nature with a punk spirit and a serious work ethic, Kidd’s mission is a peaceful but provocative one – to create breathtakingly honest music and share her art with the world, levelling with…

Ahead of their upcoming dates with Augustines, New Desert Blues took some time to answer a few questions about their Devil’s Rope EP, their tour with Cloud Control and many more. Blitzgigs: How did you come up with the name “New Desert Blues” and what does it mean? When we first started recording demos we…

Friends of Friends presents: Teengirl Fantasy, Dance On The Tightrope, and Sway Clarke II. While students at Oberlin College, Nick Weiss and Logan Takahashi connected over a shared love of classic house and techno records that prompted them to make, “some kind of dance music that wasn’t just emulating what we were hearing.” The duo…

Despite their neat name, I AM IN LOVE are anything but another comfort zone electro pop act. While their music essentially is a solid mix of eletronica, industrial and shoegaze elements (not unlike Breton), it is exceptionally dark and melancholic in places. Speaking about Proposal the band says that it “drags you to a lyrically lonely…

Every now and then, you Berliners by choice should consider a trip to Potsdam, every tuesday, to be exact. Because tuesday is Ruby’s Tuesday at Waschhaus Potsdam where you’ll get a live band free of charge. Berliners Empire Escape are back on tour after playing support shows for established acts such as Shout Out Louds,…

Augustines was born upon the ashes of the Brooklyn rock band, Pela. That combo called an end to its collective trip in 2009, but founders McCarthy and Sanderson reunited to record a series of deeply personal songs chronicling despair, depression, and the untimely death of McCarthy’s brother. Last year, (We Are) Augustines toured Germany twice.…

Iza Lach has long been destined for success on an international stage. She won her first talent show at the age of five, started writing her own music at fifteen, signed her first record deal at seventeen, and, by the age of twenty, had been nominated for two Polish Grammies, including “Album of the Year.”…

I Heart Sharks almost never play in Berlin although they live here – or maybe because they do? The first time I saw them was in a place called Waldsee in the lovely city of Freiburg im Breisgau. That night, the black forest was literally on fire. Three young men armed to the teeth with…