Interview Feature Following their Berlin performance at FluxBau , previously documented in our live review , we spoke with Bombargo after the conclusion of their  Disco Surf Rodeo Eurotour  about touring realities, audience cultures and the enduring role of live music in a platform-driven era. What emerged from the conversation was not a recap of shows, but a reflection on how live performance functions as a social practice: a space where communities form, identities are neg

Green Day Tribute Compilation as Cultural Memory in Punk Communities Cultural Memory in Motion Tribute releases have long been part of punk’s cultural vocabulary, yet this  Green Day tribute compilation  reframes the format as collective cultural practice rather than nostalgia. More than 50 bands from across the punk and alternative spectrum reinterpret songs from Green Day’s catalog, treating them not as fixed classics but as shared material that continues to evolve through

Berlin has never been a polished city. It is layered, fractured, and permanently in transition. And that instability is precisely what fuels Berlin’s independent music scene. Beyond the commercial festival circuits and tourist nightlife lies a network of basements, collective-run venues, rehearsal rooms, and temporary cultural spaces. This is where Berlin’s underground music culture continues to evolve: raw, self-organised, and resistant to mainstream formulas. For artists an