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

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

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

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

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

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