This one's especially for the artists, designers, musicians and culturally active among us... You don't need me to list here how the current virus lockdown is wrecking the artist/performing economy...since most musicians, artists, fashion designers and the like work...
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Presenting: Looks of Berlin
Looks of Berlin is a new 35mm analogue photo series where indieBerlin travels from neighborhood to neighborhood showcasing the city's diverse inhabitants and their unique style. Here's our first (pre pandemic) lookbook covering Mitte, Neukölln, Prenzlauer Berg &...
PLANNING ON STAYING IN? NO REASON TO GET BORED
If you are like me, then you will already have got to the point where you think you'll scream if one more article, video, news report, anything, has the word coronavirus in it. I mean I know it's a virus and it's, like, everywhere, but really? And this first paragraph...
Berlin-based Israeli artist Ran Nir brand new video single ‘Summer Rain’ out today
Ran Nir is an Israeli singer and musician who has co-founded, co-written and toured with two successful indie bands (Asaf Avidan & The Mojos – who had a big hit last summer with a remix of the Reckoning Song – and LFNT),...
GRETA – Dreamy austronautic synthpop for your spacetravel
80s-turning, astronautic synthpop on its way to space. You only know her by her first name - and let’s write it in CAPS. GRETA - It sounds like something taken directly from a fairytale, and the music is filled with mysteries and magic. GRETA is a german musician...
Review: Fabian Holland – Another Monday – live this Saturday in Moabit
Fabian Holland’s latest track, “Another Monday” is a beautifully crafted folk song and a touching meditation on the experience of early parenthood. It has been almost five years since the artist released his last solo album - the critically acclaimed ‘A Day Like...
Mielou – rising star in Denmark
24 year old Mie Louise has been singing and performing for as long as I have known her. We went to highschool together in Copenhagen back in 2010. We were only 15 years old back then. We played in the schools rockband together and wrote songs with some of the younger...
Under The Oak Tree – A band that will sweep you off your feet
Photography by: Kristina Pedersen The hardest thing in life is to let go and start over. A system had to be broken down to resurrect, and this time the stories needed to be told without a filter. That's how Under The Oak Tree originated. Under The Oak Tree is a...
Review: Sarathy Korwar + Dis Fig at HKW
On Thursday, globally-oriented digital arts organization Norient launched its newest iteration, Norient Space, at Haus der Kulturen der Welt’s Weltwirtschaft venue. Readers interested in global and digital arts of all kinds should follow them to their new site at...
Princess Nokia – The True Embodiment of Effortless Cool
Make no mistake, Princess Nokia is our new pop culture queen. In a set made up of back to back bangers, interspersed with short narrative interludes - the Harlem native’s performance had the young, diverse Berlin crowd enthralled. Arriving on stage after a fiery...
Folk legend-in-the-making Fabian Holland live in Berlin 14th March
Fabian Holland is a UK singer-songwriter who sits happily in the folk/roots category. With a voice that aches with the telling, a guitar style that speaks of early influences including Sonny Boy Williamson and Son House while taking the conversation a step further,...
Review: Pop. 1280 + SKY at Schokoladen
Brooklyn, New York’s Pop. 1280 brought their soul-rending talent to Schokoladen on Monday for a powerful performance in Berlin. Fans of dark industrial and synthwave rejoiced as the act groaned and grumbled its way into their hearts with a memorable and hard-hitting...