Dreamy guitars, honest feelings and the memories behind Sesame Girl’s new EP Interview Feature There’s something very personal about the way Sesame Girl write. Their new EP, "Butterfly Wing in a Silver Locket", holds onto memories, friendship, insecurity and love without trying to make any of them bigger than they are. Instead, the Australian band lets those feelings sit alongside dreamy guitars, fuzz and softer moments, giving the songs enough room to breathe. Photo credit:

Five new releases about desire, identity, change, heartbreak and finding your way forward. Some songs pull you in straight away. Others take a little longer, and sometimes it's the detail that makes you stay. This week's On This Track Weekend Listening 10 moves from complicated desire and Korean indie pop to finding confidence, looking back after thirty years and making peace with a difficult past. Five very different songs, but each one has something personal at its centre.

Three songs about power, restless minds and the messy process of finding your way back to yourself. Some songs hit you with noise, some pull you into a mood, and others take their time to reveal what they're really about. This week’s Three Track Week Signals 13 brings those different approaches together with De Staat, Hyper Minds and Lucy Frost. Three very different sounds, but each one turns a difficult feeling into something you can actually hear. Listen to this week’s Thre

What happens when a festival deliberately puts things together that do not seem to belong together? A folk act next to electronic pop. A Berlin newcomer alongside an international artist. Club culture meeting theater, performance and experimental music. At Pop-Kultur Festival 2026, the unexpected is not a side effect of the program - it is part of the idea. Visual by Pop Kultur Festival From August 24th to 30th, the Berlin festival returns with around 120 program events acros

Three releases that sound one way at first, then reveal something else when you stay with them. Ballyhoo!, Cusk and Forget Them Wendy don't sound like obvious neighbors. One arrives with big guitars and a chorus made for shouting along, another turns fragility and unease into something almost hypnotic, while the third lets a summer afternoon drift by before quietly changing the mood. This week's Three Track Week 30 brings them together through that contrast - three releases t

A Space That Doesn’t Need to Explain Itself Located in Kreuzberg, SO36 is one of Berlin’s best-known spaces for punk, independent music and queer culture. Its history is visible in the room, but SO36 doesn't feel like a place living in the past. It feels used, active and completely at ease with what it has become. Photo by C. Fleig On the night we visit, the room is only half full. It doesn't feel empty. The audience is diverse, from casually dressed visitors to people whose