Maike Rosa Vogel (Photo: Joe Dilworth)

Maike Rosa Vogel

Over the last decade, Maike Rosa Vogel has grown into an important German-speaking indie pop singer-songwriter. She’s one to listen …

Prada Meinhoff

Prada Meinhoff

Influenced by German oldschool hip hop as well as influences spanning from Peaches to Die Goldenen Zitronen, Hole, Kurt Weill, …

Jungstötter (Foto: Herr Urst)

Jungstötter

Jungstötter is the moniker of Berlin-based singer Fabian Altstötter. The frontman of the band Sizarr, which split up in 2016, …

K.ZIA

Brussels-Born and Berlin-based, K.ZIA is an up-and-coming singer-songwriter fusing future R&B and soul by virtue of her Afro-European cultural and …

Soft as Snow

There’s a raw urgency to Soft as Snow’s debut album ›Deep Wave‹, which was released on UK label Houndstooth in …

oOoOO (Photo: Drab City)

oOoOO

Born and raised in the rough industrial wastelands of North Jersey, oOoOO began playing in punk and hardcore bands in …

Gurr (Foto: Rowan Allen)

Gurr

When two best friends found a band, the result is a world full of insider jokes. Gurr’s debut album ›In …

gölgede-güneşte (Foto: Sevda Hamzacebi)

gölgede-güneşte

gölgede-güneşte (Eng.: in sun and shadow), borrowing its name from Eduardo Galeano’s famous book, is a collective musical project of …

Shapednoise (Photo: Rebecca Cleal)

Shapednoise

Berlin-based Italian producer Shapednoise has been working as an independent musician for the past four years. He focuses his research …

Hans Unstern wird im Gesicht mit einem Puderpinsel geschminkt

Hans Unstern

Hans Unstern is a multitude who writes songs, builds musical instruments, releases albums and radio plays, and gives dazzling performances. …

Pop-Kultur 2017

Announcement: Pop-Kultur 2017

Pop-Kultur is back, and this time with specially commissioned works. For the 2017 edition of this international festival, which will take place between August 23rd and…

TELE (Photo: Frank Eidel)

Tele

Tele was founded in Freiburg end of the 1990s playing typical indie-guitar-rock. ›Tausend und ein Verdacht‹, the band’s self-distributed debut …

OKO (Foto: Lilly Depenbrock)

OKO

OKO is a polyphonic pop band made up of Petra Nachtmanova, Moss Beynon-Juckes, and Emma Greenfield. The trio brings together …

Phia (Photo: Marcelle Bradbeer)

Phia

»Phia seems to possess the past of [an] Australian with the inspiration and musical edge of a true Berliner« (Berlin …

Lotic (Photo: Philip Primus)

Lotic

Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Lotic has dominated Berlin’s electronic music scene for almost a decade now. She released …

AUF (Photo: private)

AUF

AUF is the band of singer and guitarist Anne Rolfs and drummer Mathias Brendel, based in Berlin. Anne Rolfs first …

BSÍ (Photo: Ugla Hauksdóttir)

BSÍ

Silla Thorarensen and Julius Rothlaender are pretty best friends: they shamble through life together, don’t take themselves too seriously, and …

Nashi44

Nashi44 stands for ›ASIAN BERLIN PUSSY POWER‹. This is what the talented MC from Neukölln calls her attitude, which not …

The Flavians (Photo: Tobias Humble)

The Flavians

After sharing a bunk in one of Berlin’s numerous hostels for several weeks, Joakim Jägerhult and Liam Blomqvist from Sweden …