I feel uncomfortable writing about sex. I feel uncomfortable talking about sex. So why, I wondered, did they ask me to contribute an article about sex? For exactly that reason, they said. And that's...
Sometimes there’s no real reason to reinvent the wheel. Who among us isn’t secretly a heavy rock fan of old, shutting the curtains every now and then when everyone’s out, getting some hard liquor...
Brightdesire.com is a porn site. But it's a different kind of porn site. If a digitised street containing your run of the mill porn sites might be a seedy alley down which you furtively huddle, hand...
After years taking a backseat to traditional Fado and big festivals, Lisbon’s once-thriving local indie-alternative music scene has seen a resurgence driven by a new generation of homegrown and...
indieRepublik is proud to be presenting the brand new Artist to Artist podcast by Stefanie Martens of Wolf & Moon. Each week Stefanie will be talking to a different indie artist about music, the...
indieRepublik: So you’ve produced a series of podcasts of artists talking to artists, with the first Artist to Artist podcast out today! - and we’re very happy to be included as media partner. Could...
Now 23, Moyka returns with a follow-up EP to 2019’s Colder, entitled Spaces. Apparently having spent the last year dealing with the death of a long-term relationship, this fact seems to have had...
indieRepublik is proud to present the world premiere of the brand new single Staring at the Sky from Strange Pilgrim, about summer evenings and psychedelics: just sitting back and marveling at the...
Christopher Chaplin is not someone whose music you might put happily on the car stereo to hum along to on your morning commute. An avant-garde musician and composer with a long track record,...
Ode to Youth is the first single from the debut EP of the same name (Ode to Youth) by electronic music producer and multi-instrumentalist Liam Mour, coming out this July on his own label. All of the...
Miamiyu K brings us this amazing look. Her cardigan resembles Chanel's 1925...
A sleek and simple look by Kevin Elezaj. In these cold winter days,...
indieBerlin sat with Ruth and Caroline, the creators of a revolutionary brand...
Jon Aaron from Moscow is glowing greater than the gods with his stylish peach...
Here's a buttoned-up look from Masaki in Japan. Keeping a lookout...
This rainy-day look is from Andréa Frisk,26 year old Singer/songwriter, makeup...
We discovered Beatriz Mariano online and loved her photos so much that we...
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“Together with my partner Mia Morris I started indieBerlin in 2008 as a blog covering independent culture in and of Berlin. By 2019 we’d become a blog network, booking & events company and PR agency – focused mainly on music.
Towards the end of 2019 my partner left to focus on new adventures. Fast forward to 2020 and I realised I wanted to change some things.
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