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Interview: Totally Wired

OUR PICK! The centerpiece of Niamh Guckian Ahern's music doc is one and only Schneider's Büro – a Berlin store for analogue synthesizers and wacky electronic doodads – and its maverick owner Andreas Schneider.

Sep 23, 2010 by in Film

A chat with... Chaz Bundick of Toro Y Moi

The wunderkind of "glo-fi" - who's playing at Comet Club on Thursday - talks about washed-out music, viral marketing, the Memory Man... and those big, big glasses.

Jul 15, 2010 by in Reviews & Interviews (1 Comments)

The Green City Tour

ON YOUR BIKE! This is one tour that will show you that you don't know Berlin as well as you think you do: from mobile farms to button-making, it reveals the ins and outs of local sustainable-living projects.

Jul 12, 2010 by in Lifestyle

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Your Weekend: Lit stimulation, roller-skating catfights & dancing chaos

I had an overdose of live performances at Berlin Festival last weekend, so I’m pretty glad that this week’s dominating events promise to be a bit tamer. Top of the list is, of course, the Litfest, but as usual on a Berlin weekend, there's something for all tastes...

Sep 17, 2010 by in The Berlin Blog

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Your Weekend: Indie books, nineties tunage & schickimicki wine

It's ridiculously easy to over-do the mid-week socialising, so let’s start with the less strenuous goings-on in Berlin... and by less strenuous I mean the kind of event that will have you home before your local Bäckerei reopens.

Sep 3, 2010 by in The Berlin Blog

Your Weekend: Trendy Wendys & Culture Vultures

From boutique threads at Summer.Pop.Shopping to 900 Seconds' BYOM (Bring-Your-Own-Music), there's no way to avoid the torrent of culture decending on Berlin this weekend. So put on that rain jacket and step out to say Auf Wiedersehen to summer...

Aug 27, 2010 by in The Berlin Blog

Your Weekend: Dreams, Vikings and giant canvases

Find out what's happening, from cars coming to a stop at Oberbaumbrücke to the big names are coming to town to DJ...

Jul 30, 2010 by in The Berlin Blog

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The Baseballs

WEEKEND PICK: The Baseballs aren’t as hard as their name suggests. But their popidyllic covers-on-speed are barrels of fun once you get past the shock of grown men singing that you can "stand under their umbrella".

May 28, 2010 by

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Musician, DJ and remix-König Boris Brejcha leads the field in high-tech minimalism. Now he’s finally playing in Berlin, on the tour for his third album My Name Is.

Sep 1, 2010 by (1 Comments)

Lots of people will have already gotten themselves a pirate copy of Arcade Fire’s latest album, The Suburbs, as is the condition of our buzz hungry generation. How and ever, why not celebrate its official Berlin premiere anyways with a record release party? Playing on the night are Michael Mac & Fake Lashes and some of Karrera Klub’s DJs. One for the hardcore fans...

Aug 3, 2010 by

It’s 2010 and this New York duo still insist on sporting very tight glam-rock outfits, so don't be too surprised if they’ve sewed up another deadly spandex creation for the occasion of this DJ set. Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner’s electroclash tracks came to a notable peak in the past few years with their releases under the French label Kitsuné, but they’ve been opting to tour with a DJ set instead of live material this year - you can be sure there’ll be plenty of Kraftwerk inspired tracks tonigh. Berlin’s Jack Tennis also plays ("N I C E", that spells nice).

Aug 2, 2010 by

Saturday night breathes techno into the lungs of party-goers in the form of a special audio/visual live performance by the legendary Cristian Vogel. It’s a first for the influential producer, which makes it all the more mouthwatering - just what is he going to come out with? Electro mastermind Radioactive Man also plays a live set indoors, while outside there will be an infusion of dubstep from various DJs and a special lights display by videographer Lasal.

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