The Peruvian duo Rafael Pereira and Felipe Salmรณn are coming to Gretchen to teach us about Landรณ, Festejos and Marineras - Afroperuvian traditional rhythms that Dengue Dengue Dengue uses to narrate their actual story with a modern sound. Dengue Dengue Dengueย will be...
Music Reviews
Jump with Us – General Elektriks Live Review
โDonโt 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...
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 wasnโt particularly primed to really appreciate BINKBEATS' set. Standing in the middle of a mini music studio stocked with a range of percussive instruments, synthesizers,...
Pregnancy Suits You: the remarkable debut EP from Dialectic in review
Released through Melbourne-based Milk Thistle Records, electronic artist Dialectic presents us with his debut EP Pregnancy Suits You. An intriguing hybrid of a myriad of genres, this absorbing record pays something of a homage to jungle and acid techno, whilst tipping...
Kidaphex1975’s Hunger Streets – Indy with Grit and Depth
Allow me to introduce Kidaphex1975. No, itโs not an AOL IM account from the late 90โs but is in fact an exciting and new indie rock band from Berlin. The bandโs front man James Trottier lists the bandโs influences as being : The Smiths, 4AD, The Cure, Radiohead and...
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard at SO36 review
On tour promoting their eighth album Nonagon Infinity, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizardโs 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 2014โs excellent Iโm In...
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...
Ich Bin ein Berliner – Keine Angst review
For all of us non-Berliners and perhaps Berliners alike, what does that world-famous term โIch 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...
Slow Steve and Morgan Delt Kantine concert review
Set after Franco-German act Slow Steve's concert, Californian psych rocker Morgan Delt played the Kantine am Berghain yesterday. On a chilly and windy Monday evening, as tourists were still attempting to enter the former factory, we were presented with two quality...
Ty Segall & the Muggers live in Berlin – a masquerade
Zentralheizung Of Death Des Todes opened up for Ty Segall and his band, the Muggers. They have a ton of energy and catchy riffs. But while the singing is shared by all four members on stage and they go from traditional garage to pop in a few seconds, they all lack a...
Fรชte de la musique 2016: A tale of two concerts
indieberlin prsentedย last Tuesdayโs Fรชte de la Musique at Kesselhaus. The party was a success, with Camp Claude and Thylacine making sure the crowd enjoyed their evening. As was to be expected, most of the people were speaking French. Touted as the next big thing by...
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...