MADEIRADIG Festival 2010 | 03-06.12.2010 | Official Line-Up announced

Already confirmed for this years awesome line-up are Ben Frost, Janek Schaefer, Richard Skelton, PITA, The Beautiful Schizophonic, Peter Broderick, Caro Mikalef & Stephan Mathieu, Simon Whetham & Hugo Olim, Max Tundra and there are more to be announced soon.

D/B Recommended: Aloe Blacc | ALBUM GOOD THINGS COMING SEPTEMBER 28 & LIVE in Berlin in October @ Bohannon Club

Aloe Blacc is an American soul singer, rapper, and musician. His first album, entitled Shine Through, was released by Stones Throw Records in 2006. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] He began his career in 1995 as an MC in and indie rap group called Emanon. By the end of the 1990s, Blacc was [...]

D/B Recommended: Arvo Pärt Conference Soundtrack of an Age @ Royal Festival Hall London | 24.11.2010

Arvo Pärt’s transcendent music is one of the defining soundworlds of the last 30 years. Through media, concerts and recordings his work has crossed boundaries of religion & culture and established itself as one of the most popular and recognisable features of the contemporary musical landscape. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]This two day [...]

D/B Movie Feature: Separado!

Separado!, the new film starring Super Furry Animals frontman GRUFF RHYS is an odyssey to a Parallel Universe.  It’s a rockumenrary, road movie, action, adventure film and much more besides. Star Trek meets Buena Vista Social Club in this psychedelic western musical as Welsh pop legend Rhys takes us on a pan continental road trip [...]

D/B Recommend: Birthday Party 3rd Anniversary @ Jacki Terrasse Berlin | Saturday, 31.07.2010

3 years ago the first Birthday Party Berlin tip-toed on the scene with a barely-legal party in a basement and enough people for the police to come a-calling 3 times in 4 hours. Since then they’ve been your #1 source for confetti-fueled party action! They’ve brought in awesome live acts, inflatables, freaky kids masks and [...]

D/B Recommended: Olafur Eliasson: Innen Stadt Außen in Berlin @ Martin-Gropius-Bau, 28 April to 9 August 2010

Innen Stadt Außen is the first solo exhibition by the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson in a Berlin institution. The exhibition’s central theme stems from Olafur Eliasson’s close relationship with Berlin, the city in which he has lived and worked for many years. It is also where he has set up his multi-faceted studio, combining the [...]

D/B Recommended: ANONYM live in Berlin @ Bang Bang Club | Tuesday, 27.07.2010

Anne Rolfs (alias Allroh, ex-Wuhling) and Kevin Shea (Drummer of TALIBAM!, “Mostly Other People Do The Killing”, “Band of the year” Downbeat and other bands) are the duo “ANONYM”. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Both have worked with with Steve Albini (Pixies, PJ Harvey, Shellac, John Spencer, The Stooges) and together as ANONYM [...]

D/B Recommended: Hot Shots | Shorts Attack is turning 100 / Wednesday, 28.07.2010 @ Babylon Kino Berlin

Ever since 2002 Shorts Attack has been screening specially curated short film programs every month. An undertaking that’s not only unique to Europe, but probably the world! The 100th edition will be going off with a bang: 22 films in just 85 minutes! D/B highly Recommended!

D/B Recommended: Aidan Baker Live in Berlin @ Schokoladen | Thursday, 04.11.2010

Aidan Baker is a musician and writer alternately based in Toronto and Berlin. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Classically trained in flute, he is self-taught on guitar, drums, and various other instruments. As a solo artist, Baker explores the deconstructive sonic possibilities of the electric guitar as a primary sound source, creating music [...]

D/B Recommended: Embryo live in Berlin @ Madame Claude | 30.08.2010

Embryo are considered one of the most important German Krautrock bands of the 1970s. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] The musical collective from Munich has been active since 1969, although its story started in the mid-1950s in Hof where Christian Burchard and Dieter Serfas met for the first time at the age of [...]

D/B Festival Feature: Sonar Festival in Chicago | First Acts Announced

Sónar presents the first Sónar Chicago on the 9th, 10th and 11th of September 2010. With this new small-format festival Sonar returns to the United States. Some of the artists confirmed to date are The Slew, Oval, Ben Frost, Nosaj Thing, Martyn, Nicolas Bernier + Martin Messier: La Chambre des Machines, The Flashbulb feat. the New [...]

D/B 11+3 Interview with Teebs

11+3 is designed to give you an insight into the motivations and aspirations of the best creative minds in the world. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] This time with L.A. based visual artist & painter Teebs. Each artist is asked 11 set questions and to contribute 3 “facts” which can be any statement [...]

D/B Recommended: BBE Hot Sauce – BBE SOUNDSYSTEM night with PETE & JON @ Kleine Reise Berlin | Saturday, 31.07.2010

BBE has been putting out quality vibes for the last two decades and is one of the most influential and respected independent labels in the business. From the legendary Beat Generation series to the critically acclaimed Disco/Rare Groove/Funk Comps by the most influential taste-makers in the business, BBE has always put quality first.

D/B Recommended: STERMANN & GRISSEMANN live in Berlin @ Festsaal Kreuzberg | Friday, 24.09.2010

Stermann & Grissemann sind ein deutsch-österreichisches Satiriker-Duo, bestehend aus Dirk Stermann und Christoph Grissemann. Beide begannen ihre Karriere beim ORF, in dessen Rundfunkprogramm sie seit 1991 gemeinsam die Radiosendung Salon Helga betreiben. 1997 folgten erste Fernsehspiele, die im Rahmen der kunst-stücke ausgestrahlt wurden und seit 1998 betreiben sie auch bei Radio Eins eine Satiresendung.

D/B 11+3 Interview with Sahy Uhns

11+3 is designed to give you an insight into the motivations and aspirations of the best creative minds in the world. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]This time with Proximal Records artist and label co-head Sahy Uhns from L.A. Each artist is asked 11 set questions and to contribute 3 “facts” which can be [...]

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