Dear Departed is the second album from US singer Sam Burton, and it arose from a time of rebirth. In the last few years, the singer says that he just started over. For a while he abandoned the life he’d built in LA to return to Utah where he grew up, then holing up in...
The artist known only as Phileas – French-born, Berliner by choice – has been impressing people wide and far with his sonorous, rather sombre music over the last few years. His 2022 debut album was described by Rolling Stone as "almost flawless" and was "Album of the...
Indie rock band The Beths will take us on a narrative tour of their dying specialist field on June 04th at Berlin’s FRANNZ Club. The Beths are no strangers to Berlin. Heading the long way from Auckland, New Zealand, they’ve played Berlin annually – when Covid allowed...
Pokey LaFarge is possibly the most well-known proponent of the recent resurgence of American roots music, and easily the most lovable. Pokey LaFarge played in Lido, Berlin last Sunday and tore the place up. Watching him, it was obvious that he is a man who has found...
Lucy Kruger played in Lido on Friday 5th May. Lucy Kruger is a singer from South Africa, and until not too long ago was known more for acoustic guitars and more classic singer songwriter stuff. Recently though she seems to have gone through something of a sea change:...
I go to know the South-London singer Raye from her massive recent hit with 070 Shake, Escapism. Hardcore perfect hard-hitting pop - see below. Which led me to check out what she'd done in the past, and I was unfortunately a bit disappointed with what I came across...
Two-time Grammy nominated, Mercury Prize and BRIT Award winning artist Arlo Parks releases her new single "Blades" from her sophomore album My Soft Machine, due out May 26. A Paul Epworth produced track with nu-disco loops, synthesizers and soundscapes. The song was...
If you haven't heard of Maita, the Portland indie band based around its namesake singer/songwriter Maria Maita-Keppeler is back with new music, following up on their 2022 album 'I Just Want to Be Wild For You'. The new album, 'Loneliness' was released...
Being born and raised in London exposed Sofia Gillani to a variety of different genres, which has led to her being very experimental with her music. She's currently based in Surrey, and now, her future projects and the single out on March 3rd not only shows her...
Swilling around East Berlin in the 90s led me to come across Friedrichshain's resident ragamuffin rock band Impure Thoughts. They and their entourage were great guys (a mixture of crazy Scots and French people, with the odd American thrown in) and I spent many a...
Nebula, the new track by Italian guitarist/techno dude 7IAN7 starts by dropping you headfirst into a sullenly tenebrious atmosphere, an aural mood swing into a landscape of washing sounds, cut across with the sound of someone somewhere tapping against glass. At times...
The dry scraping of a bruised cello announces the track, and pulls you straight in from whatever happy place you were, to a sudden and all-pervading landscape of paranoia, darkness and dreadful premonitions. A moment later Niko Novak's voice (think Leonard Cohen at...
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