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Three Track Week #19 - Independent Music Culture and Emotional Continuity
Between Return, Reinvention and Emotional Continuity This week’s Three Track Week selections explore how independent artists engage with continuity - not as nostalgia, but as a way of reconnecting with identity, memory and emotional experience. Across Americana-inflected indie rock, reinterpretations of classic songwriting and psychedelic pop shaped by emotional directness, the featured releases reflect different forms of return after periods of distance or change. Rather tha
Anne
May 246 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
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May 104 min read
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Pop-Kultur Festival Berlin, August 27, 2026: From Dreamy Pop to Heavy Bass
Our second day at Pop-Kultur Festival brings us from dreamy pop and jazz-infused sounds to heavy bass, wild performances and new connections at Festsaal Kreuzberg. Logo by Pop-Kultur Festival After our first night at Pop-Kultur Festival in silent green, August 27 brought a completely different atmosphere at Festsaal Kreuzberg. The walk through the trees towards the venue already felt like a transition. The noise of the city seemed to disappear, replaced by a quieter, more com
Anne
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The Sound of Courage: Music, Equality and a Nordic Space in the Heart of Berlin
What would a music industry look like if gender equality were not merely an aspiration, but a reality? That question sits at the heart of "The Sound of Courage – Music and Equality in the Nordic Countries", an exhibition at Felleshus, the publicly accessible community house of the Nordic Embassies in Berlin. The exhibition brings together artists, initiatives and projects from across the Nordic region to examine gender equality in music and the people working to make the indu
Anne
23 hours ago4 min read
Pop-Kultur Festival Berlin, August 26: A Night of Sound, Light and Other Worlds
Our first day at Pop-Kultur Festival takes us through experimental performances, unexpected sounds, and different worlds of music at silent green. Poster by Pop-Kultur Festival 2026 The first thing I noticed at Kino Arsenal was the silence. The room was properly filled, but nobody seemed particularly interested in talking. Instead, the audience appeared almost paralyzed by what was happening in front of them. A cello, flute, guitar and voice were surrounded by electronic soun
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