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On This Track #7: The All-American Rejects – ”Sandbox”
Adulthood as Reconciliation, Nostalgia as Reconstruction With The All-American Rejects "Sandbox", the band’s first full-length release in fourteen years, the group return not through reinvention, but through recontextualization. The album revisits the emotional immediacy and melodic scale that defined the band’s earlier work while reframing it through adulthood, distance and accumulated experience. Photo by The All-American Rejects Built around anthemic hooks, sharp melodic p
Raven
14 hours ago2 min read
Three Track Week: Signals #6
From imagined intimacy and inherited punk lineage to nostalgia reframed through the dancefloor Not every act of connection begins in the same place. This week’s Three Track Week: Signals #6 selection brings together Los Angeles pop artist Cooper Phillip, punk supergroup UltraBomb and the collaborative electronic project 808 BEACH with Belle Humble: three artists engaging with different relationships between memory, identity and emotional projection. Rather than converging aro
Raven
1 day ago4 min read
Tyler Shaw live at LARK Berlin: When Pop Music Feels Personal Again
From acoustic vulnerability to festival-sized pop moments, Tyler Shaw’s Berlin debut balanced precision with intimacy. An Evening Built on Intimacy Some concerts are designed for scale. Others gain their strength from proximity. At LARK, intimacy shapes the evening long before the headliner enters the stage. Situated near the Spree and framed by warm light reflecting through the venue, LARK transforms live music into something deeply personal. It never feels distant. It feels
Anne
4 days ago4 min read
Three Track Week #17 – Places You Can't Go Back To
On places, selves and the things we can no longer return to This week's Three Track Week #17 - Places You Can't Go Back To selections share an orientation toward loss that refuses sentimentality. Across power pop, psych grunge and indie-pop, three artists examine what remains when something essential slips away – a hometown, a sense of self, a relationship. The emotional register differs: The Summerlands reach for defiance, Veradas for friction, teo tala for quiet honesty. Wh
Anne
5 days ago4 min read
On This Track #6: Kendall Lujan - "I Don’t Wanna Lie"
Honesty as Friction, Overwhelm as Condition With “I Don’t Wanna Lie”, released on May 8, Kendall Lujan approaches songwriting as a form of direct emotional acknowledgment. The track does not attempt to resolve tension, but instead frames it as a persistent state - one shaped by external pressure and internal response. Single Cover by Kendall Lujan Built on mid-90s indie rock structures, the song draws on a sonic language associated with artists like Sheryl Crow and Alanis Mor
Raven
May 82 min read
On This Track #5: Aly Navarro - "Embarrassing"
Intimacy as Exposure, Minimalism as Weight With “Embarrassing”, released on May 8, Aly Navarro approaches songwriting through reduction rather than expansion. Built around a sparse acoustic guitar and an unembellished vocal line, the track removes nearly all structural support systems typically associated with contemporary indie pop. There is no percussive grounding, no layered arrangement to diffuse attention. Instead, the composition centers on absence - a deliberate narrow
Raven
May 82 min read
The artist behind the music.
Tyler Shaw live at LARK Berlin: When Pop Music Feels Personal Again
From acoustic vulnerability to festival-sized pop moments, Tyler Shaw’s Berlin debut balanced precision with intimacy. An Evening Built on Intimacy Some concerts are designed for scale. Others gain their strength from proximity. At LARK, intimacy shapes the evening long before the headliner enters the stage. Situated near the Spree and framed by warm light reflecting through the venue, LARK transforms live music into something deeply personal. It never feels distant. It feels
Anne
4 days ago4 min read
Ryan Cassata Live at SO36:
A Space That Doesn’t Need to Explain Itself SO36 is not full on this night. But it doesn’t need to be. What matters is not density, but alignment. As part of his first European headliner tour, Ryan Cassata arrives in Berlin with a body of work shaped as much by activism as by music. For over a decade, his career has moved between performance and public visibility, grounded in queer and trans representation that extends beyond the stage. In a space like SO36 - defined by its h
Anne
May 64 min read
Bird’s View Interview: Noise, Touring Realities and Independent Rock in 2026
Interview Feature With "Above Chaos" set for release on May 8, 2026 and the start of their first extended headliner tour, Bird's View enter a phase that moves beyond early momentum into structural reality. What might appear as a milestone moment; a new album, a tour across Germany and Austria; also reflects broader tensions within independent music: between expression and economics, visibility and substance, energy and sustainability. Photo by Bird's View Rather than treating
Anne
May 47 min read
New music, heard first.
On This Track #7: The All-American Rejects – ”Sandbox”
Adulthood as Reconciliation, Nostalgia as Reconstruction With The All-American Rejects "Sandbox", the band’s first full-length release in fourteen years, the group return not through reinvention, but through recontextualization. The album revisits the emotional immediacy and melodic scale that defined the band’s earlier work while reframing it through adulthood, distance and accumulated experience. Photo by The All-American Rejects Built around anthemic hooks, sharp melodic p
Raven
14 hours ago2 min read
One artist. One week. Full attention.
Artist of the Week: The Haunted Youth
This week’s Artist of the Week is The Haunted Youth. Led by Joachim Liebens, the project has developed from a breakout dream pop act into a sustained presence within the European indie landscape; not through sudden visibility, but through continuity: releases that build on each other and a touring cycle that reinforces connection across scenes. With “Wake Up”, released ahead of their upcoming album "Boys Cry Too" (out May 8), The Haunted Youth refine a sound that is less abou
Raven
May 42 min read
Three tracks. One week. No skips.
Three Track Week: Signals #6
From imagined intimacy and inherited punk lineage to nostalgia reframed through the dancefloor Not every act of connection begins in the same place. This week’s Three Track Week: Signals #6 selection brings together Los Angeles pop artist Cooper Phillip, punk supergroup UltraBomb and the collaborative electronic project 808 BEACH with Belle Humble: three artists engaging with different relationships between memory, identity and emotional projection. Rather than converging aro
Raven
1 day ago4 min read
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POLYTON and the Conditions of Access in Contemporary Music Culture
How visibility and participation are negotiated beyond the stage Photo by Polyton Between black evening wear and a stage structured like a live concert setting, the Polyton Award unfolds as a space where visibility is not only presented, but actively staged. The audience gathers in a circular formation around the stage, dissolving the traditional front-facing hierarchy of award shows. Instead of distance, the setup suggests proximity. Instead of separation, participation. W
Editorial Staff
Mar 295 min read
How the music industry really works.
Human Imperfection as Protest: The Lovekiller Release “Stop Prompt Music”
A dark rock duo from Düsseldorf releases “Stop Prompt Music” as a statement on AI, creativity, and the value of human imperfection. Photo by Patrick Jelen Düsseldorf-based alternative dark rock duo The Lovekiller have released “Stop Prompt Music,” a track positioned less as a conventional single and more as a direct statement about the growing role of artificial intelligence in music creation. According to the band, the release responds to what they see as an industry incre
Editorial Staff
Mar 62 min read
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