What started as a happy little local event, the Berlin Music Video Awards have grown into a monolith of a global happening, attracting attention from every corner of the music video world. Taking...
In the digitally driven world of today, Instagram is an integral part of the music industry's toolkit for promoting your music and for reaching out to new audiences. As an independent musician, it's...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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,...
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...
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...
William Partlett, The University of Melbourne With an all-out war on Ukraine...
Did you know that there’s such a thing as “material footprint”? It’s a...
This is the first post from our brand new series: all about Germany,...
If you happen to find yourself in Potsdam, Berlin's little and rather refined...
Many trends fell out of style in 2021 and for some of them, we are thankful...
Well, Christmas is almost here and while some of you may have already bought...
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...
Following the critically acclaimed release of her stunning vocal single “The Head of Knights” back in October, Polish musician, performer, writer and model Vincent Littlehat now returns to the fore with the announcement of her eagerly anticipated follow up single “Who...
“This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often. If you don’t like your job, quit. If you don’t have enough time, stop watching TV. If you are looking for the love of your life, stop; they will be waiting for you when you start doing things you love. Stop over analyzing, life is simple. All emotions are beautiful. When you eat, appreciate every last bite. Open your mind, arms, and heart to new things and people, we are united in our differences. Ask the next person you see what their passion is, and share your inspiring dream with them. Travel often; getting lost will help you find yourself. Some opportunities only come once, seize them. Life is about the people you meet, and the things you create with them so go out and start creating. Life is short. Live your dream and share your passion.”
– The Holstee Manifesto.
Until we finish our own, this one works pretty well as a placeholder 🙂
