Realation's latest single Isabella is a slow burn: the "concept grunge" band has been around long enough not to have to go straight for the jugular - their songwriting has matured enough to let...
Kristian Kostov is probably not the most typical artist that we would feature on indieRepublik: his new EP Mood has come out through Universal Music and he sounds pretty pop at first listen. But...
How many ways can you do the little black dress? Plenty, it turns out. We love this single-arm take on the classic number and the way Bleu Avenue Ofbleuavenue wears it!
ReaLation is a New York-based grunge concept band with a rapidly growing fanbase due to their tight songwriting and explosive live shows. We caught up with bassist, singer and main conceptualist...
F.A. Cult is the first full length album to be released by 10 year veteran indie rockers Hermetic Delight out of Strasbourg. You might think that they took their time to make it (and thank goodness...
We love the looks that one of our favourite fashionistas, @KID from Osaka, comes up with: here he's rocking something like a Japanese skate punk dude type thing...Click through for more of @KID's...
This Sunday 21st June is the Fete de la Musique - yes, it's that time again! - but of course this year it's going to be a little different. While there are a good few things happening offline - on...
The world's biggest one-day celebration of music is on this year again: with tons of live streams and a good dollop of love You can't keep a good global celebration of music down, as they say....
Austrian-born, Lisbon residing Verena Bachinger, who records as Cafe Ena, returns with her second EP “Locked Spaces” and its lead single “Make Room.” Western-tinged sepia groove...
Neoclassic Lovers the new single by Berlin based electronic pop duo Lebron Aggressive begins with the eerie warble of pre-dawn synthesized song birds in a virtual world. The late night bus rumbles...
Ms. Kanaho from Japan mixes bright color palette with vintage traits - Harlem...
We liked this slightly evil look from Beatriz Mariano, photographer from...
We first found Chocos Hugues in lookbook.nu last year, taken with his unusual...
One of indieBerlin's favourite fashion designers is Jade Helene - who with her...
It is no secret that Indieberlin is deeply in love with both Berlin and...
It's no secret that indieBerlin is deeply in love with both Berlin and...
Going a little off the beaten track from our usual indieBerlin fare, but we...
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– The Holstee Manifesto.
Until we finish our own, this one works pretty well as a placeholder 🙂
“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.
I love the independent music and culture scene in Berlin but I’m also excited by fashion, innovation, indie tech, alternative living models, indie travel and more.
At the same time I realised I wanted to look beyond Berlin; while indieRepbublik is meant to remove our geographical limitations, so that we can focus on the amazing things going on all across the globe, still of course we’re (presently) based in Germany; so we’d also like to shine a light on stuff happening in places like Leipzig, Hamburg, Munich and the Ruhrgebiet.
As we extend beyond indie music/film/fashion to look at sustainable living and life choices, roads less travelled, unusual people doing unusual things – while still celebrating the best independent culture from all over; and as we focus our events section across Germany (and hopefully soon even further afield), I dearly hope that you’ll stay with us as we embark on the next leg of our journey. And I’d like to thank our reader who have stayed with us this far – and of course all the amazing reviewers and other team members who have been with us over the years, and who have made indieBerlin/indieRepublik what it is today.
– Noel Maurice, founder and chief editor, indieBerlin/indieRepublik, March 2020
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