After having been a blog, an agency and an events company, indieRepublik is launching indieRepublik Records: a boutique record label set up to highlight the best of the bands we've come across after 15 years as a leading indie music blog. We are extremely proud to...
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It’s not about perfection – Indie artist Plagu in interview
PlaGu is a Berlin-based musician, songwriter, and music producer with a love for the streets Having grown up in a musical family, PlaGu passionately engages with the world through street music, valuing its reflection of experiences. He explores personal growth and the...
Introducing Montana Chanel: London indie pop artist confounds expectations
Montana Chanel is a female singer-songwriter from London. With a main influence stemming from the alternative sound of Lana Del Rey and the idea of melancholic lyrics with a catchy instrumental underlaid, along with the willpower to break the mould of โpopโ music...
Warsaw Electric in Interview: Stripped down and dirty
Warsaw Electric are a dynamite new(ish) unapologetic rock/hard rock band based out of Berlin โ with four members from four different countries (Italy, Australia, Denmark/Germany, UK), they represent the epitomy of the Berlin music scene, with its huge international...
Interview: Cisco Pema
indieRepublik: Tell us a little bit about your musical background Cisco Pema: I was Born in Argentina and then moved to Europe in my early 20โs. I see my background as a mix of south American volk and traditional music, with the things that my generation was hearing...
Interview: Oktober “When she sings, my heart tingles”
Oktober is a female singer and songwriter living in Berlin. Singing jazz and in choirs as a teenager, it took her until her 20s to release her quiet, quirkily melancholic songs. We chatted to her last month after she'd released her latest music. indieRepublik: Tell us...
Phileas in interview: “Almost Flawless”
The artist known only as Phileas โ French-born, Berliner by choice โ 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...
Mone in interview – see her live on 16.11
Mone is the artist name of a singer from the Netherlands who came to Berlin a couple of years ago. Her unique style and haunting, penetrating voice has marked her out as one of the major musical talents bubbling under in this city. Her Bandcamp tells it best: "A...
From the archives: Trevor Daniel on his breakout success – โShout out to TikTok!โ
From TikTok to top of the charts - itโs no mean feat breaking through in todayโs crowded music industry, but right now trevor daniel is doing just that. A year after its release, ...
Cat Powers New Album Covers convinces with powerful, sensual new interpretations
The US-American singer/songwriter, musician and producer Cat Powers aka Chan Marshall released her new album Covers on January 14th 2022. Covers is a bull's eye - no surprise for all those who know previous albums Powers Known for your exceptional sense of...
US band Jeweler on their debut album Tiny Circles: It’s not rocket science…
On their debut LP Tiny Circles, Minneapolis-based quintet Jeweler mine the iconic sonic palettes of lush U.K. shoegaze, melodic noise-pop, and expansive, psych-tinged art rock to build a melodic vocabulary both uniquely their own and eminently engaging. Chief...
Mykket Morton: Kassel is not Berlin (and doesn’t need to be)
Mykket Morton had their breakout hit EP Traveller back in 2019, getting a quarter million plays on Spotify and appearances at a range of festivals including Dockville. They could have taken the money they made from this and moved from their hometown Kassel to a...