Strauss, D.

Wednesdays at Burger

Mon, 14 May 2012 15:00:00 GMT

May's Wednesday at Kaffee Burger lineup on May 23 features a couple of down-home space colonisers: electropop New Yorker Maxx Klaxon and Brazilian-Berliner Pharoah Chromium. Don't miss it. Doors at 21:00!

Raw food for thought: Andre Williams

Fri, 11 May 2012 10:00:00 GMT

INTERVIEW. Starting with his run as a singer in mid-1950s Detroit, the history of Williams might well be considered the story of rhythm and blues.

Codeine

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:00:00 GMT

Slowcore's godfathers, briefly reunited after an almost two-decade disappearance, set the standard for lyrical depression that others, such as Elliot Smith, had to kill themselves to keep up with.

Cursive

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:00:00 GMT

11/7 time signatures are so difficult to play that it's impossible to simultaneously off yourself, which explains why post-Cobain Saddle Creek mainstays Cursive have managed to stick around, the last ambassadors of the Midwestern mid-1990s.

Lynne Arriale Trio featuring Benny Golson

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:00:00 GMT

Ariale is a pleasant enough singer, but this is a rare (final?) chance to see the 83-year-old tenor saxophonist and Coltrane contemporary Golson, who is not only a bop legend but also a lounge music mainstay.

Chiddy Bang

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:00:00 GMT

It seems as if eons of musical trends have passed since we first heard of the indie-loving Philly hip hop act, yet their first album is just being released. One wonders if their ship has already sailed.

Andre Williams

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:00:00 GMT

Starting with his run as a singer in mid-1950s Detroit, Williams' story might well be considered that of rhythm and blues. The 75-year-old Chicagoan's delivered plenty of risque roadwork and an album almost every year since the 1990s.

Shade on Wednesday: Tanlines

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:00:00 GMT

With their pop tropicalism currently the toast of Williamsburg, Tanlines allow a rare club gig at the longstanding gay club night.

Renates Wildes Ferienlager

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:00:00 GMT

Yet another lost weekend on the outskirts of Berlin, highlighted by the increasingly electronic Danish dancerockers Whomadewho, a live set from longtimers Crazy P, and the Pampa-ed DJ Koze.

Zeitgeist Sessions

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:00:00 GMT

Kode9 deserves credit for experimenting without jettisoning the tenets of the dubstep genre. Hemlock's Radnomer tends toward a more in-the-pocket approach, while the sobriquet of Ghostnotez sounds as if it were designed by committee.

Charlambides

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:00:00 GMT

The Texan married duo used the lo-fi limitations of cheap recording as a sound tool, representing the punks finding their inner hippies.

X-Berg Monarchie

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:00:00 GMT

Eighties revivalists meet 1990s fetishists during a night featuring a DJ set by nu-electro "Remedy" demon Little Boots and a live set by post-alt-rock/anti-hope hip hop nihilists Schwarz Don't Crack, among others.

The Lemonheads

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:00:00 GMT

Evan Dando managed to survive his excesses long enough to ride the live album wave, as his band has reunited to perform It's a Shame About Ray in its entirety.

Willis Earl Beale

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:00:00 GMT

Outsider artist du jour now signed to the same label as Adele, the 27-year-old former postman/soldier is set for the sort of Susan Boyle Indie Overdrive that, if he's lucky, will merely push him into insanity. Either way, the man can sing.