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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
Anne
May 104 min read
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The Soundmap of Berlin: Discovering "Schokoladen"
Raw walls, €5 gin and tonics and a room full of people. Schokoladen feels like a piece of old Berlin that never quite left. Foto: Ansgar Koreng, 2014 · Lizenz: CC BY 3.0 DE Located in Berlin-Mitte, Schokoladen has been part of Berlin's alternative scene since 1990. It started in a former chocolate factory and has had to fight to keep its place over the years. Walk inside today and you get the feeling that not much has been done to make it look any different. The Soundmap of B
Raven
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On This Track: Weekend Listening #15
Five tracks about unexpected connections, memories that linger, learning to accept yourself and the question of what happens when the feeling fades. Some songs take you back to a person, a place or a version of yourself you thought you'd left behind. Others capture the moment when someone new walks into your life and everything suddenly feels different. This week's On This Track Weekend Listening 15 moves between those feelings. Panchiko turn a collision into something strang
Anne
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Alphabet - “Into The Blur”
A Little Bit of Nostalgia, a Lot of Guitar Credit: Tatiana Pozuelo There’s something bittersweet about “Into The Blur”, the new single from London four-piece Alphabet. The guitars have a hazy, almost weightless quality, but the drums keep everything moving. It’s the kind of indie song that makes you want to dance while feeling a little sad at the same time. A strummed guitar sets things in motion and the vocals come in almost straight away. Milo McNulty and Lena Pilshofer tra
Anne
2 days ago3 min read
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