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BARRAGÁN

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

I’m so overly excited about Blonde Redhead’s forthcoming album Barragán. Their latest single The One I Love is just fantastic (so was the first track to be released No More Honey) and it takes me straight back to obsession of this fantastic band. The album was recorded with a lot of old analogue synthesizers and [...]

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Cuts In The Middle

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Now that the Internets have survived this and Sir William Benjamin Bensussen aka The Gaslamp Killer has recovered just fine from his insane scooter accident – it’s been a year, and see above -, he’s going to go crazy (as usual) at Berlin’s Gretchen tomorrow night. Wicked!

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JAPAN SYNDROME

Monday, May 19, 2014

Three years after the tsunami in northeastern Japan and the damage to the nuclear reactor in Fukushima, many people, including a growing number of artists, have got beyond the agony and speechlessness that set in after the disaster. They are starting to recognize that the catastrophe uncovered many hitherto undisclosed rifts within Japanese society, and [...]

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A NO IS A NO

Saturday, February 15, 2014

Tomorrows absolute highlight: The concert of the singer-songwriter Alin Coen and her band at Huxleys in Berlin! With her catching songs about love and failure, she plays straight into your heart. Some of my favorite songs are A No Is a No and Kein Weg zurück. The Berlin concert is already sold out, but there [...]

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CLUB DECONSTRUCTIONS

Sunday, January 26, 2014

The perfect night out in London! Harmonic Series presents a special PAN showcase at the Southbank Centre. It’s a celebration of PAN’s new audiovisual direction, and five years creating adventurous electronic music. The line-up includes: A new collaborative piece by Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey and legendary sound artist Florian Hecker, the club deconstructions of [...]

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Monday Music: RIP Efterklang

Monday, January 20, 2014

Sadly, the incredible Efterklang are about to call it quits: “February 26th 2014 we will play one last concert in Sønderborg, Denmark, where we grew up,” they announced on their website last week. “It will be the last concert with Efterklang as you and we know it. We are not sure what happens after this [...]

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Live At The House

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Amazingness: Brooklyn’s Grizzly Bear wrapped up their 115 show world tour at the Sydney Opera House three days ago — and we’ve been watching the full 2-hour set (available only for a couple of weeks apparently) about sixteen times since it went live.

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THE SOUND OF KICKING LEAVES

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Another beautiful poster for a another great opportunity to see The Pastels live, after their latest LP ‘Slow Summits’ was in heavy rotation this summer. This time as support of the German electro-pop quartet Lali Puna.
In order to get attuned, with the perfect autumn soundtrack…

Lali Puna & The Pastels live
22. November 2013 / 8.30 pm
GRETCHEN
Obentrautstr. [...]

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BEETHOVISION

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

While the craft of classical music courts notoriety for its mathematical complexity, its interpreters often express themselves in literary rambunctiousness and visual cues, relishing in matching timbres with colors, flourishing upon movements hippos and dancing flora a la Fantasia.  Floating above the soup of sentiments, Jorinde Voigt charts soundscapes according to an invented emotional notation, you [...]

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BERLIN MEETS GLASGOW

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

THE GLASGOW WEEKEND is a 3-day festival of innovative, diverse and highly acclaimed visual art, film, performance, music and design from Glasgow, presented at the Volksbühne Theatre and BQ, during Berlin Art Week 2013. THE GLASGOW WEEKEND is co-curated by Berlin-based gallery BQ and SARAH LOWNDES (author of “Social Sculpture: The Rise of the Glasgow [...]

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