D/B Recommended: Little Annie & Baby Dee @ hausungarn Berlin | Tuesday, 21.05.2013

Posted on | May 21, 2013 | No Comments |

Get ready for two of the ultimate divas: finally, LITTLE ANNIE and her dearest friend, the extravagant singer and pianist BABY DEE, have been able to document their long-running collaboration with an album: STATE OF GRACE.

It is featuring the matchless BONNIE „PRINCE“ BILLY and has been released on the UK’s TIN ANGEL RECORDS in fall 2012. LITTLE ANNIE’s autobiography YOU CAN’T SING THE BLUES WHILE DRINKING MILK is out now, too. For anyone interested in POSTPUNK and all sorts of subcultural things this is a read not to miss! Read more

D/B Recommended: Volcano The Bear & Harmony Molina @ NK Berlin | Wednesday, 22.05.2013

Posted on | May 21, 2013 | No Comments |

Volcano The Bear have, in the words of The Wire magazine, “produced some of the finest, wildest British music of the last 10 years on record and on stage…”.

Or, as Losing Today puts it, “No one sounds, has sounded, or will ever sound quite like Volcano the Bear.” They are one of experimental music’s best kept secrets. Read more

D/B Recommended: The Residents @ Kino Babylon Berlin | Thursday, 23.05.2013

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As part of their WOW – Wonder of Weird – 40th Annivesary celebrations, cult avantgarde band The Residents undertake an extensive European tour including a show at the Babylon Kino in Berlin-Mitte.

This truly indefinable band have based their career on breaking boundaries and defying conventional logic. They are one of few groups to achieve mythical status within their lifetimes and their influence is undisputable. Read more

D/B Recommended: Waajeed @ Chesters Berlin | Friday, 24.05.2013

Posted on | May 21, 2013 | No Comments |

The J.A.W Family is keeping busy & welcomes another heavyweight Producer, Beat maker & DJ coming from the “D” for a special takeover: Jeedo aka WAAJEED.

Waajeed is not less than a former founder of the legendary Slum Village crew, together with his late close friend J Dilla & responsible for a handful of tracks on the group’s Trinity (Past, Present and Future) album. Read more

D/B Recommended: Neko Case @ Heimathafen Neukölln Berlin | Monday, 27.05.2013

Posted on | May 21, 2013 | No Comments |

A firm favourite of the late great John Peel who literally played her hit Twist The Knife in a loop up to 4 times in one show, this is a rare chance to witness a bona fide country singer on a Berlin stage.

There’s a special challenge to being an artist in this increasingly fractured cultural age; a delicate balancing act, between being of your time, and striving for timelessness. Few contemporary artists even try. Neko Case is an exception.
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D/B Recommended: Swans & Larsen @ Volksbühne Berlin | Tuesday, 28.05.2013

Posted on | May 21, 2013 | No Comments |

After years of pursuing Angels of Light and recording and producing a diverse roster of artists for his Young God label, Michael Gira has decided to reconvene his legendary group Swans.

As he says: “THIS IS NOT A REUNION. It’s not some dumb-ass nostalgia act. It is not repeating the past.” Read more

D/B Presents: Teenitus – Bratwurst im Exil – Festival @ Various Locations Berlin | Wednesday, 29.05. – Friday, 31.05.2013

Posted on | May 21, 2013 | No Comments |

TEENITUS is a fresh, genre defying DIY festival for sonic burnouts, weirdos and blowholes.

Fusing noise, literature and visual delinquencies, TEENITUS is designed for people who appreciate challenging ideas produced and enjoyed beyond the realms of mainstream culture. Read more

D/B Recommended: David Grubbs @ Haus Ungarn Berlin | Thursday, 06.06.2013

Posted on | May 21, 2013 | No Comments |

Hot on the heels of his new album release on Drag City, The Plain Where the Palace Stood, putstanding guitarist David Grubbs returns to Berlin as part of an extensive European tour. As a member of Gastr del Sol together with Jim O’Rourke, Grubbs played a pivotal role in the evolution of post-rock.

The american guitarist will be joined on this occasion by Andrea Belfi and Stefano Pilia. With support from Miasmah’s Svarte Greiner this is guaranteed to be an exceptional evening.

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D/B Recommended: FS Blumm & ZA! @ West Germany Berlin | Friday, 07.06.2013

Posted on | May 21, 2013 | No Comments |

Berlin guitarist FS Blumm is a truly unique talent and the so-called King of Pling will on this occasion present tracks from his brand new album.

Special guests ZA! from Barcelona may be just 2 people on stage, yet the sound they produce is that of a futuristically transoceanic primitive orchestra. Read more

D/B RECOMMENDED: PATRIC CATANI @ KANTINE BERGHAIN BERLIN | WEDNESDAY, 12.06.2013

Posted on | May 21, 2013 | No Comments |

As a release party for his new album Blingsanity on Keep It Business Berlin based micro-musician, rapper and electro dadaist Patric Catani will deliver another explosive performance at the Kantine Berghain this June.

With releases on Mouse On Mars’ Sonig label and a discography as long as your arm, Catani never fails to surprise and is amongst the finest of electronic music performers active today. Read more

D/B Recommended: Exhibition & Performance: Nuno da Luz “Laissez Vibrer” @ Enblanco Berlin | Saturday, 18.05.2013

Posted on | May 18, 2013 | No Comments |

After 4 years packed with many great exhibitions, concerts and workshops, the project space Enblanco in Kreuzberg presents its last exhibition.

“Laissez Vibrer” by portuguese artist Nuno da Luz is an installation that deals with wind noises and ambience sounds. Read more

D/B Recommended: Michael Hurley @ Monarch Berlin | Wednesday, 15.05.2013

Posted on | May 15, 2013 | No Comments |

Mr. Hurley’s songbook is one of the most important living, walking, talking, singing, playing bodies of work in Northern American culture.

Ever since 1965 up until now, he has consistently unleashed a string of records in such labels as the seminal and anthological Smithsonian Folkways Records. Read more

D/B Presents: Performance “Callcenter Übermorgen” @ Sophiensäle Berlin | Wednesday, 08.05. – Wednesday, 15.05.2013

Posted on | May 15, 2013 | No Comments |

Callcenter Übermorgen – the training center for missed opportunities in life and new life plans, a journey through a world of alternatives!

Take a roller coaster ride through language menus and labyrinths of choices – swing past the dizzying heights, sinister slopes and depressing lows of the 21st century life rendered a slave to optimization. Read more

D/B Recommended: Denseland @ hausungarn Berlin | Saturday, 18.05.2013

Posted on | May 15, 2013 | No Comments |

Listening to Denseland (Hanno Leichtmann, David Moss and Hannes Strobl) evokes shades of bygone music’s and not.

Lou Reed’s Berlin period, Joy Division, Einstürzende Neubauten, the extended vocal madness of Roy Hart and Laurie Anderson, the distortions of the early Contortions, reduced Grandmaster Flash and John Carpenter. Read more

D/B Presents: Charlie Parr @ Monarch Berlin | Sunday, 19.05.2013

Posted on | May 15, 2013 | No Comments |

Many people play roots music, but few modern musicians live those roots like Minnesota’s Charlie Parr.

Recording since the earliest days of the 21st century, Parr’s heartfelt and plaintive original folk blues and traditional spirituals don’t strive for authenticity: They are authentic. Read more

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