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The Thing About Us #1
The questions nobody escapes. Because music is never really just about music. This first edition of The Thing About Us #1 brings together Alex Amen, Sylvan Esso, Graham Hunt, Carlotta Schmidt and The Healing Power of Horses, five artists wrestling with the same persistent questions: Who are we becoming? What do we hold onto? And what happens when certainty disappears? People spend an alarming amount of time pretending. Pretending to know where they're going. Pretending to hav
Anne
Jun 124 min read
On This Track #23: DOUR – “Towers”
Isolation as Infrastructure, Freedom as Tension With “Towers”, Vancouver post-punk band DOUR examine a form of isolation that increasingly defines contemporary life. Rather than focusing on loneliness as an individual experience, the song explores how modern social and technological structures encourage people to withdraw into self-contained worlds, transforming comfort and convenience into a subtle form of confinement. Photo by DOUR Released ahead of the band's debut album "
Raven
Jun 102 min read
On This Track: Midweek Listening #1
Five releases worth spending time with this week. Finding resilience through uncertainty, connection and change Not every song about struggle sounds the same. This edition of On This Track: Midweek Listening #1 moves between hardcore, punk, alternative rock and pop, highlighting five artists confronting uncertainty from different angles. Whether through personal transformation, burnout, conflict or friendship, these releases explore what it means to keep moving forward when c
Anne
Jun 103 min read
On This Track #22: Belvedere – “In Solidarity”
Punk as Responsibility, Solidarity as Action With “In Solidarity”, Canadian skatepunk veterans Belvedere reaffirm a long-standing tradition within punk culture: the belief that music can function not only as expression, but as a call to collective responsibility. Released ahead of their upcoming album "Seven Years of Bad Luck", the track examines the consequences of indifference and the importance of defending vulnerable communities before injustice becomes impossible to igno
Raven
Jun 92 min read
On This Track #21: DIVIL – “ORANGUTAN”
Catharsis as Practice, Friendship as Survival With “ORANGUTAN”, Dublin trio DIVIL approach songwriting not as reflection after the fact, but as a process unfolding in real time. Released ahead of their debut EP "DIVIL I", the track emerges from a period shaped by grief, illness and uncertainty, transforming personal turmoil into a document of collective survival. DIVIL by Meghan Law The origins of DIVIL are inseparable from the circumstances that brought the band closer toget
Raven
Jun 82 min read
On This Track #20: Citizen – “Halcyon Blues”
Growth as Continuity, Change as Commitment With “Halcyon Blues”, Citizen examine a form of loss that rarely arrives through dramatic rupture. Instead, the song focuses on the slow and often unspoken process through which relationships fade, capturing the uneasy space between recognition and acceptance. Positioned as the title track of the band's forthcoming album, the release reflects not only personal disconnection but also a broader meditation on continuity, change and emot
Raven
Jun 82 min read
INDIENOXZINE
ALTERNATIVE CULTURE. MUSIC.
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
Anne
2 hours ago5 min read
On This Track: Midweek Listening #6
Five new discoveries spanning indie dance, punk history, strange synths and folk. Five releases, five very different ways of looking at music. This week's On This Track Midweek Listening 6 moves from Friendly Fires' first new music in seven years to Basement's hard-won return, then steps outside the usual song format with Naomi Petersen's newly announced photography book. From there, Studio G takes us somewhere considerably stranger before Steve & Ginie Jackson bring things b
Raven
19 hours ago6 min read
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
3 days ago4 min read
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