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YO!SISSY

Thursday, November 26, 2015

Last summer, YO!Sissy Queer Music Festival of Berlin hosted luscious personas such as Cakes da Killa, Crystal Waters, Peaches and more. Nowadays, organizers are running a Kickstarter campaign to bring bootyliciousness on stage again in 2016. Wouldn’t it be nice to sweat with Le1f or Dai Burger at SO36? Six more days to support…

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HOME AS A GIANT NOTEBOOK

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Did you know that Florence Welch is influenced a lot by legendary painter Frida Kahlo and even has a section dedicated to the artist?

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MONDAY MUSIC: MISSY ELLIOTT

Monday, November 16, 2015

Paris is burning, but Missy is back.

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MONDAY MUSIC: GRIZZLY BEAR

Monday, November 9, 2015

Feeling in a Grizzly Bearish mood today. Where is that new album?

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Throwback Sunday: Baby Kraftwerk 1970

Sunday, October 25, 2015

Today, Kraftwerk’s stage performance may bring to mind retro-SciFi shows and commercial pop perfection, however this debut on German TV captures the experimental starting point of Germany’s most established synth pioneers. With sounds somewhere between the omnipresent E57-Sirens and Steve Reich the audience clearly struggles in confrontation with the new. Apparently, so does the DOP, [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: JOANNA NEWSOM

Monday, October 19, 2015

Just in time for autumn arrives Joanna Newsom’s new album Divers, and that only happens every five years or so. Even better, the video for her second single is currently screening in – nice touch – cinemas in the US, directed, as the first one above, by none other than P.T. Anderson.

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MONDAY MUSIC: DARKSTAR

Monday, October 5, 2015

Unusually funky: Darkstar’s Stoke the Fire from their new album Foam Island.

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NET-ROMANTICS

Friday, September 25, 2015

Keep a Secret by George Clanton (formerly Mirror Kisses) never stops to just please but pleasures. Lush vaporwave-ish synths and whistles frame Clanton’s decidedly sad-boy wails, and it works without sounding too retro. Here’s to velvety electropop you can dream to.

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IF IN LONDON…

Thursday, September 24, 2015

This week’s recommendations are two events taking place in South London, both highlighting the work and music of producer Terre Thaemlitz aka DJ Sprinkles. Café OTO presents an evening of talk, video and audio with Thaemlitz, starting with a multi-media reading of “Naisho Wave Manifesto” (“Secrecy Wave Manifesto”), which Thaemlitz produced for the first issue [...]

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ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: STYLE & THE FAMILY TUNES (POSTSCRIPT)

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

The first magazine to commission me in Germany was fashion and music magazine Style & the Family Tunes, at the time Berlin’s answer to i-D or Dazed & Confused. Launched in the mid-1990s, it survived a whopping 17 years in which the media landscape irrefutably began to transform, leaving Style amidst its wreckage. Few genres [...]

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