A small, unpolished venue with a strong sense of community Tucked into Kreuzberg, Wild at Heart feels like a venue that has never had much interest in becoming polished. The walls are covered in stickers and posters, while tinsel and disco balls compete for space overhead. Everything feels slightly overloaded, slightly chaotic and completely authentic. It is dark, atmospheric and unmistakably punk. Wild at Heart feels less like a conventional club than a room belonging to a s

A weekend of music, movement and cultural expression transforms the streets of Berlin once again Under the heavy heat of an almost 30-degree Berlin weekend, Karneval der Kulturen once again takes over the streets of the city. Between crowded sidewalks, drifting basslines and moving crowds, the festival’s 30th anniversary transforms Berlin into a temporary landscape of sound, movement and cultural visibility. What began in the mid-1990s as a response to racism, exclusion and s

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