Nightlife

Lee "Scratch" Perry: Super furry animal

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:00:00 GMT

FROM THE ARCHIVES. Master of the Black Ark, Perry may be moving from dub to dubstep but all the better to trample your soul underfoot this Thu, Feb 9 at C-Halle, along with digital disciple Mad Professor.

ICU at CTM 2012: Spectral

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:00:00 GMT

2012’s CTM rightly lives up to its ‘Spectral’ sobriquet with a gaggle of icy chillwave superstars and well-handled, grizzled tech-hands. D. Strauss' one-a-day picks are here: make sure to reserve an extra seat for your ectoplasm.

A chat with Mastodon

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT

The sludgecore veterans return with a new record, The Hunter, with drummer Brann Dailor taking on an increased role, even singing lead on a track on their latest offering. They’ll be slogging through C-Club on Tue, Jan 31.

Still on the hunt: Duran Duran's Roger Taylor

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT

With Mark Ronson producing All You Need Is Now and a video in which the band is played by top supermodels, the catsuits are back and begin their unzipping Tue, Jan 31 at C-Halle.

Top 10 records: 2011

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT

2011 was dominated by the ubiquity of Kanye and the persistency of “Friday”; it’s no wonder, then, that D. Strauss was generally drawn to records in which moody ambiguity cloaked personality.

Austra’s Katie Stelmanis in five dates

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT

1985 Born in Toronto, Canada.

Opera witch house

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:00:00 GMT

Austra’s Katie Stelmanis may have commenced closer to Wagner than witch house, but nowadays she heads a fully-regaled outfit that lands somewhere in the middle and outside of both.

Peaking at Midnight

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:00:00 GMT

What are we going to do on New Year's? Funny you should ask, tourist from Barcelona. For a city in which nothing ever really changes, Berlin remains the New Year’s capital of the world. Let’s dig in.

My Perfect Berlin Weekend: Thomas Götz von Aust

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:00:00 GMT

Thomas Götz von Aust, party host and nightlife manager extraordinaire, is currently working on the haute cuisine cookbook The Joy Of Waterboiling and the 8mm short film series 3-3-3 with Angela Popp.

Classical punk: Julia Marcell

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:00:00 GMT

INTERVIEW. The Berlin-based Polish Wunderkind is making a play for the Kate Bush crown: her new album, June, is incredibly ambitious and her stage presence is impressively theatrical, which you can see for yourself at Lido on Wed, Dec 14.

A few questions for...

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:00:00 GMT

Awesome Tapes from Africa, aka Brian Shimkovitz. Famed for filling a niche posting rare, modern African cassettes on his blog, he’ll be curating a night at this year’s Worldtronics on December 2.

Every day they’re Hustle-in’

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:00:00 GMT

Interview: The Dø. For them, it’s all about the two: a coupling of two genders, two nations and now, two full-length albums. They’ll be plugging their new album Both Ways Open Jaws at Postbahnhof on December 1.

Worldtronics 2011

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:00:00 GMT

While Berlin prides itself as the capital of techno and electro, it’s sometimes worth remembering that creativity remains elsewhere on this vast planet of ours. Hence: Worldtronics. Through Dec 4.

My perfect Berlin weekend: Sandra Sarala

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:00:00 GMT

Sandra Sarala is a singing New Zealander poet with a sideline in folk lullabies and eastern European song. Since 2002, she has been a staple of the Berlin literary scene.

My perfect Berlin weekend: Jason Forrest

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:00:00 GMT

Jason Forrest is one of the founders of Network Awesome curating the online annals of obscure.