Music Reviews

Imagine dragons ft J Balvin ‘Eyes Closed’ review- a toe tapping, pseudo dance pop track

Despite their polarising reputation, thereโ€™s no downplaying electronic-rock figurehead Imagine Dragonsโ€™ immediate rise in popularity, tracing back to 2012โ€™s Night Visions with...

“My House Is Not A Home”-d4vd

"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road.โ€ โ€” Stendhal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Before I...

Is it still folk? Lotta St. Joan releases new album

Lotta St. Joan, the Berlin-based folk singer/songwriter who's been garnering positive reviews and slow nods of the head from bearded people who smoke pipes (I made that last bit...
Jump with Us – General Elektriks Live Review

Jump with Us – General Elektriks Live Review

โ€œDonโ€™t let it get you down, no!โ€ the singer sings while jumping around and spanking the funk out of his Clavinet. I will start with him keeping that energy going through out the whole gig. It was physically impressive and emotionally satisfying to see a band having...

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BINKBEATS bounces to Berlin: In review

BINKBEATS bounces to Berlin: In review

After a perplexing opening act and a 40 minute wait for the crew to properly reset the stage, I wasnโ€™t particularly primed to really appreciate BINKBEATS' set. Standing in the middle of a mini music studio stocked with a range of percussive instruments, synthesizers,...

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King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard at SO36 review

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard at SO36 review

On tour promoting their eighth album Nonagon Infinity, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizardโ€™s seven members played one of the most misleading sets a garage act could come up with. It consists primarily of songs taken from Nonagon Infinity and 2014โ€™s excellent Iโ€™m In...

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Thee Oh Sees live review

Thee Oh Sees live review

Anyone ready to go to see Thee Oh Sees in concert knows what to expect, John Dwyer has been releasing some of the heaviest psychedelic music of the past decade. And where you see musicians sometimes take advantage of being on stage to let go a bit more, it just...

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Ich Bin ein Berliner – Keine Angst review

Ich Bin ein Berliner – Keine Angst review

For all of us non-Berliners and perhaps Berliners alike, what does that world-famous term โ€˜Ich Bin Ein Berlinerโ€™ really mean?ย Berlin is like an orphan village and being a Berliner possibly means as much as being absolutely nothing and everything all at once and...

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Indieberlin music review policy

Hello and thanks for your interest in indieBerlin album reviews. We receive ever more requests to review albums, singles and EPs. Up until now we haven't been able to do that for the simple reason that we need to pay our reviewers to write a music review. Of course we...

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