Movits! / Danube's Banks / Jan Pyroman
The electro-swingin' Swedes join the wave of not-quite-ironic swing revival and bring their light-hearted, crowd-pleasing sound to Berlin on their world tour. Joining them are Hamburg-based Danube's...
View ArticleMy Perfect Berlin Weekend: Maxime Ballesteros
Lyon-born photographer Maxime Ballesteros certainly knows Berlin, having captured the city's every corner and facet through his lens. Here he describes just how he would spend his ideal weekend.
View ArticleArtconnect Berlin 1st Anniversary
Berlin's freshest creative networking platform is hosting four days of live music and exhibitions in three locations, including Loophole and idrawalot. Berlin-based art collective CHÍA exhibits at the...
View ArticleIch Bin Ein Berliner Festival
Berlin’s electro queer circus is back! Pulsing soundscapes from up-and-coming duo Kool Thing and percussion legend N.U. UNRUH join synth-heavy glam/punk/trash pop from local DJs till late. A playground...
View ArticleNuclear Family LP Release Party
Nuclear Family are back with a third plate of revolutionary, homo-erotic synth pop. They celebrate with special guests Godmother who serve sci-fi transgenre contemporary oldies, and lesbian dark-wavers...
View ArticleThe cultural spendthrift
You thrive in the echoing halls of museums and feel at home in the plush seats of concert halls. You love architecture, from Schinkel to Le Corbusier. Here’s where to find real culture that will enrich...
View ArticleThe hard-up hipster
You can’t help it if you’re so ahead of the curve that you’re off the road entirely. You love Berlin’s dirt-cheap places not because they save you money (though that’s nice too) but because they’re the...
View ArticleDykeFight - Faster Pussycat Kill Kill
Calling all Riot Grrls. Punk goddess Hanin Elias (ex-Atari Teenage Riot) flaunts her latest reincarnation in an ever unpredictable live show whilst resident DJanes play out an eclectic mix of...
View ArticleTHIS IS: CODA – S&yM Bday Fest
All year this humble space has been dedicated to hosting cutting edge music and style so expect no less at their first birthday celebration. Twin Gemz, Yola Fatoush and Rodeo play live, not to mention...
View ArticleTutti Frutti
Stylistberlin presents Gomma superstars Hugo Capablanca and T. Keeler, plus SVT upstart Louis McGuire showcases his eclectic understanding of house music and his trip-hop'esque new band Ornis. Get...
View ArticleTasteful tea-time eats itself
Queer performance-art collective NowMomentNow have organised a classic high tea with a twist for your delectation. Forget your manners and indulge in a satisfying mix of Foodgasm, photography and live...
View ArticleSave Berlin: CBGB Syndrome
The Berlin club scene is suffering a virulent beating from the dastardly dull. Much like CBGB's in New York, clubs made the town and now some of its residents are shocked by the noise. Dan Borden...
View ArticleLong Night of Museums
This October Berlin is turning 775 years old and celebrations begin with this popular night out. 110+ participating galleries and museums focus on the beginnings of Berlin, from medieval times through...
View Article(The Real) Tranny Olympics 2012
Slide into your glass slippers and show the other trannies what you're made of in the Lipsync For Your Life, Wet T-shirt and Pole Dance Off contests, with prizes from Other Nature Sex Shop. Special...
View ArticleKAUM III
Enriching the ever-evolving Boddinstrasse art scene, independent gallery Kaleidoskop celebrate their third year on the circuit with a huge group exhibition. Every artist who ever shared work in the...
View ArticlePeekABoo
PeekABoo DJ talent runs the techno gamut stylistically, Tonkind will represent with Turmspringer, Wakko and Ferreira (in cohorts with Oudman). Channel X, Anna Leevia and David Goldberg will melt away...
View ArticleTorstraßen Festival
The 2012 edition of the anti-gentrifying Torstraßen Festival looks to attract the Neukölln art grads toward that mystical land they have only read about in ancient guidebooks – Mitte! Catch Miss...
View ArticleEnglish Comedy Night
Comedy night is back with bang! International guests Sanjay Shihora, David Bakker join Berlin-based performers "Mr. Nightwash", Knacki Deuser and madcap musicians The Beez for a night that'll have you...
View ArticleBassnectar
Let it not be said that Exberliner has no populist streak, and so we welcome a Night of the Living Bassheads with Bay Area dubstep supra-star Bassnectar. Also billed, Tsunami Audio’s stiff-armed...
View ArticleMax Richter at Yellow Lounge
Classical music doesn’t need to be contained in typical venues, and there’s no reason why a DJ shouldn’t spin Beethoven. The September edition features the newly released Vivaldi: Recomposed from...
View Article8mm Night: Dum Dum Girls
The hazy guitar riffs and angelic vocals remain, but singer Dee Dee’s family tragedy adds weight to the band’s dreamy fuzz-pop on End of Daze.
View Article8mm Night: The Telescopes
The reformed iteration of the briefly influential shoegazing troupe lauded for a handful of incandescent singles were oh-so-briefly considered a mere farthing beneath My Bloody Valentine, but then look...
View ArticlePolymorphism 3: Hype Williams/King Midas Sound
Comically evil atmospherics from the blunted duo who return to their once-and-never-again homeland. Still, self-hating Germans need that sort of immolation as proof of brilliance, plus labelmates King...
View ArticleFelix & Al
No chip too hot 2 bear for these fellows – rather, Felix & Al (drummer and guitarist, respectively, of Hot Chip) Will they be going neo-disco like the DJ-set of band-member Joe Goddard, or embrace...
View ArticleBlockhead/DJ Cam
A digger’s delight as Def Jux’s secret production weapon battles Mo’ Wax turntable titan DJ Cam. Both find their roots in hip hop sampledelia, but downtempo was their gateway to a much broader palette,...
View ArticleRubbish Fairy 13th Birthday Party
The deviant pan-sexual dress-up troupe gather the finest industrial drill ‘n’ bass faces including one attached to a mechanical penis – Anklepants, that is. Breakcore Brahmin DJ Donna Summer will make...
View ArticleJens Lekman
With his heart-on-his-sleeve baritone and ironically confessional lyrics (or is that the other way around?) either way he's established himself as the sort of sensitive manqué that causes the...
View ArticleThe Dan Deacon Ensemble
One wouldn’t call the new album by Baltimore’s reigning mad scientist prog per se, even if it shares a title with Keith Emerson and the Nice’s biggest hit and the current band features two drummers....
View ArticleLarsen / Khan / CirclePURGE
Veteran experimentalists Larsen try out the soulful vocals of Little Annie Bandez adding a touch of lounge jazz to their post-punk menace. DJ-Sets come from the pugilist of electro mono-culture Khan...
View ArticleStereo Total
The playful Franco-German synth-pop darlings ditched mod cons for their latest album; now, they take their new analog approach on tour. After 11 records, they’ve earned it.
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