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Pop-Kultur Festival Berlin - August 28: Power, Pride and a Festival in Motion
Our third day at Pop-Kultur Festival Berlin takes us through African pride, intimate electronic performances, darkwave and explosive indie rock at the Kulturbrauerei. Visual by Pop-Kultur Berlin By Friday evening, the Kulturbrauerei feels less like a collection of separate venues and more like one large moving crowd. People of all ages drift between the spaces, meet friends, discover new artists and stop for conversations before moving on to the next performance. Music spills
Anne
6 hours ago6 min read
The artist behind the music.
Sesame Girl: Finding Something Real in the Softness
Dreamy guitars, honest feelings and the memories behind Sesame Girl’s new EP Interview Feature There’s something very personal about the way Sesame Girl write. Their new EP, "Butterfly Wing in a Silver Locket", holds onto memories, friendship, insecurity and love without trying to make any of them bigger than they are. Instead, the Australian band lets those feelings sit alongside dreamy guitars, fuzz and softer moments, giving the songs enough room to breathe. Photo credit:
Anne
Aug 229 min read
Artist of the Week: Dummy
Album Art by Dummy This week’s Artist of the Week is Dummy. The Los Angeles band are entering a new chapter with "do you love the color of the sky?" (out 16th of October), their first album for Polyvinyl Record Co. and their follow-up to 2024’s "Free Energy". Where that record drew from the optimism of Madchester and rave culture, the new album moves into a more uncertain space, bringing together post-rock, drone and bright pop influences without losing the restless character
Anne
Aug 142 min read
Dummy - "Full Spectrum Dominance" Is a Lot More Human Than It Sounds
Distorted guitars, restless synths and a song that somehow manages to put everything in the same room. Artist Feature | New Release “Full Spectrum Dominance” doesn't ease you into Dummy's new era. It starts with distorted guitars, then immediately puts a synth pattern right at the front of the mix. The pattern keeps returning throughout the song, almost like an anchor, while everything around it continues to change. Site note: I initially heard far more synthesizers in this t
Anne
Aug 133 min read
New music, heard first.
On This Track: Pop-Kultur Berlin Special
Five artists we discovered during our first two days at Pop-Kultur Festival Berlin. Pop-Kultur Festival is the kind of festival where it is difficult to leave with just one impression. Across our first two days, we moved between experimental performances, electronic music, dark pop, jazz, soul and artists who seemed to be working somewhere in between. Some sets were intimate and quiet, others turned the room into a dancefloor. There were performances that felt closer to theat
Raven
1 day ago7 min read
Three tracks. One week. No skips.
Three Track Week #31: From Hypnotic Alternative to Melodic Rock
Three songs that build momentum in completely different ways This week’s Three Track Week 31 moves between hypnotic alternative, driving Southern rock and melodic emo. Samuel Virgo keeps things stripped back on “ICU”, NorthFork bring the energy with the hook-heavy “Last Call”, while Time Spent Driving build “The Red Dress” around warm guitars, strong vocals and a steadily growing arrangement. This week's tracks are available in our playlist INDIENOXZINE | Selections, updated
Raven
6 days ago8 min read
Music, identity and culture - thought through.
Punkfilmfest Berlin - “GENERATION Y PUNK”
Did the Internet Kill Punk? “Generation Y Punk” Looks Back at a Subculture in Transition Punk has been declared dead countless times. For the generation that entered the scene around the turn of the millennium, one of its biggest changes came from somewhere unexpected: the internet. "Generation Y Punk – Update einer Subkultur" looks at German DIY punk between 2000 and 2020 and asks what happened when a scene built on personal connections, fanzines and self-organization sudden
Anne
5 days ago4 min read
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Pop-Kultur Festival Berlin - August 28: Power, Pride and a Festival in Motion
Our third day at Pop-Kultur Festival Berlin takes us through African pride, intimate electronic performances, darkwave and explosive indie rock at the Kulturbrauerei. Visual by Pop-Kultur Berlin By Friday evening, the Kulturbrauerei feels less like a collection of separate venues and more like one large moving crowd. People of all ages drift between the spaces, meet friends, discover new artists and stop for conversations before moving on to the next performance. Music spills
Anne
6 hours ago6 min read
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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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