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On This Track #30: The Nagual Effect – "Dive Away"
When Losing Your Balance Becomes a Way Back to Yourself Editorial Review | Partner Feature Security often reveals itself as an illusion only after it disappears. We build routines, relationships and ambitions believing they will remain unchanged, until a single moment exposes how fragile those foundations have always been. The challenge is rarely the collapse itself, but deciding what deserves to be rebuilt once certainty is gone. On This Track 30: The Nagual Effect "Dive Awa

Anne
Jul 102 min read


Three Track Week #24: What We Carry With Us
How Music Explores What Stays With Us Not everything we leave behind is gone. Sometimes we carry grief, sometimes memories, and sometimes the people who quietly shape who we become. This week Three Track Week 24, Ona Mafalda, Man Mountain, and The Lazy Eyes each explore a different version of what stays with us. Listen to this week’s Three Track Week 24 selection. This week’s tracks are available in our playlist INDIENOXZINE | Selections, updated weekly on Spotify. Ona Mafald

Anne
Jul 55 min read


Community Building for Independent Artists: Why Community Outlasts Reach
Why sustainable careers increasingly depend on relationships rather than visibility. AI-assisted editorial collage The Illusion of Unlimited Reach The digital music landscape has transformed how artists reach audiences. A song released in the morning can, in theory, be heard around the world within hours. Streaming services, social media platforms and recommendation algorithms have dramatically lowered barriers to distribution, allowing independent musicians to access audienc

Anne
Jul 25 min read


On This Track: Midweek Listening #2
Five releases worth spending time with this week. Finding yourself in the spaces between certainty and change Not every journey of self-discovery looks the same. This edition of On This Track: Midweek Listening #2 moves between alternative pop, indie folk, alt-rock and grunge-inspired indie, highlighting five releases that explore identity, healing and emotional growth. Whether through reclaiming autonomy, confronting loss, navigating inner conflict or questioning adulthood,

Anne
Jul 13 min read


Three Track Week #23: Becoming Someone Else
How Music Questions The Person We Think We Are Not every version of ourselves is one we choose. Sometimes change is shaped by loss, sometimes by time, and sometimes by the restless search for connection. This week Three Track Week #23, Fiddlehead, Ken Burgan and DICE each approach the idea of becoming someone else from a different perspective. Listen to this week’s Three Track Week 23 selection. This week’s tracks are available in our playlist INDIENOXZINE | Selections, updat

Anne
Jun 285 min read


On This Track #29: Kaia Drell - "i took back my skin"
When Letting Go Means Finding Yourself Again Breakups are often framed as stories about losing another person. Less often are they understood as stories about losing ourselves. Relationships inevitably reshape identity, quietly influencing how people think, behave and see the world until it becomes difficult to separate who they are from who they have been with. When those relationships end, healing is rarely just about moving on. It is also about rediscovering the parts of y

Raven
Jun 272 min read

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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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