Those Goddamn Hippies is the honest and truthful band we were waiting for. With deep and personal lyrics, mixed with rock and electronic sounds, they sure know how to set us in a beautiful melancholic mood for the winter. A few days ago, they released a new song...
When Jake Bugg, a middle-class boy and musical prodigy from Nottingham, came out with his self-titled debut album in 2012, when he was only just 18, he seemed to fill a gap. A gifted modern singer-songwriter, he blended elements of folk, country and rock music to a...
Construction & Destruction are live with The Burning Hell in Marie Antoinette on 2nd November - behold! The indieBerlin interview! indieberlin: How did you come up with the name Construction & Destruction? Construction & Destruction: We had just bought an...
Haley Reinhart is a child of music...from being dragged around the jazz clubs that her parents played as a little girl, to finding her own voice, and then doing American Idol (yeah yeah we don't like it either but still) - wowing audiences with swing versions of Seven...
Got a call out of the blue, it was a lovely person called Janine from an agency called bluesparrow. Turns out they do promo for Friedrichstadt-Palast, the big place where they do all the revue shows. When I first lived in Berlin many years ago I lived just around the...
We caught up with honey-voiced Julia Jacklin, the Australian alt-country phenomenon, while she was in Berlin recently and had a lovely chat. While you're here, you might also want to check out our review of Julia Jacklin's brilliant gig that night... Noel Maurice:...
We had the opportunity to speak with Maarten Devoldere, aka Warhaus, the frontman of Belgian band Balthazar. His first album We Fucked A Flame Into Being is out on September 2. Written and sung solely in English, it took the multi-instrumentalist six years to add the...
Angel Olsen's new album, My Woman, will be released on September 2 on Jagjaguwar and she's playing Columbia Theater on 26.10. indieBerlin caught up with her to ask her about what she's up to these days. While she grew up in St Louis, Missouri, she moved to Chicago...
She goes by the name of Kristin Welches or Kristin Kontrol but has long been known in the music world as Dee Dee – the frontwoman of Dum Dum Girls. However after feeling for a while that she was slowly delving into a new direction with her music she is now called...
Sevdaliza is originally from Iran but grew up in Rotterdam, playing basketball for the Dutch national team before deciding the sporting life wasn't for her. She collaborates on her songs with producer Mucky and is set to test boundaries and push limits whereever she...
Cigarettes After Sex is an ambient pop collective led by songwriter Greg Gonzalez & is currently based out of Brooklyn, NY. They specialise in taking eighties power ballads and the like and turning them into smouldering, midnight-black atmospheric pieces. Always...
Alice Phoebe Lou, a small blonde South African girl from Capetown, landed with her guitar in Berlin some time ago. She's a phenomenon: She is truly that rare thing, someone who has found and grown her audience in a completely organic way - by playing on the street and...
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