D/B Recommended: Soap&Skin @ Volksbühne Berlin | Sunday, 12.02.2012

Austrian alternative singer/songwriter Anja Plaschg made her critically acclaimed album debut as Soap & Skin in 2009 as a teenager and is releasing her second album on March 19th 2012. Entitled Narrow, it’s the follow up to 2008′s rather lovely Lovetune For Vacuum, a set of very gothic torch songs composed largely of spidery piano, [...]

D/B Recommended: Warren Suicide feat. Oval @ Volksbühne Berlin | Friday, 13.01.2012

Berlin’s Punk artist duo Cherie (Vocals & Visuals) and Nackt (Vocals & Sound) are Warren Suicide. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Warren Suicide were founded as an Electro Trio in Berlin in 2003. Nackt and then band member Fremdkörper were looking for a sound, a character while Cherie was drawing a strange figure on [...]

D/B presents: The Books @ Volksbühne Berlin | Tuesday, 26.04.2011

The Books are an American experimental music duo founded in New York City in 1999, consisting of guitarist and vocalist Nick Zammuto and cellist Paul de Jong. Their music is a mix of electronica, folk, and acoustic music, incorporating samples of sounds, speech and music. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]They have released three [...]

D/B presents: Current 93 @ Volksbühne Berlin | Monday, 28.03.2011

Current 93 is an eclectic British experimental music group, working since the early 1980s in folk-based musical forms. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] The band was founded in 1982 by David Tibet (né David Michael Bunting, renamed ‘Tibet’ by Genesis P-Orridge sometime prior to forming the group). Tibet has been the only constant [...]

D/B Presents: EFTERKLANG LIVE + the Film “AN ISLAND” @ Volksbühne Berlin | Sunday, 13.03.2011

Ever heard of Efterklang? Efterklang [ε f t ∂ k l a η ], 1) danish word for “remembrance” or “reverberation”. 2) indie music group from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2000. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Rarely, a band name has been more suitable: Whenever and wherever you hear Efterklang’s music, suddenly a [...]

D/B presents: Lydia Lunch & Philippe Petit play Twist of Fate @ Volksbühne Berlin | Friday, 07.01.2011

Lydia Lunch has for the past 3 decades forged a unique body of work that bares testimony to a creative schizophrenia which encompasses film, poetry, the spoken & written word, music and photography. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]She was voted by “Time Out New York” as one of the most influential performers originating [...]

D/B presents: Swans @ Volksbühne Berlin | Monday, 13.12.2010

Michael Gira has decided to reconvene his legendary group Swans: “THIS IS NOT A REUNION. It’s not some dumb-ass nostalgia act. It is not repeating the past. After 5 Angels Of Light albums, I needed a way to move FORWARD, in a new direction, and it just so happens that revivifying the idea of Swans [...]

D/B Recommended: Greie Gut Fraktion @ Volksbühne Berlin, Friday 22.10.2010

Following the release of their debut album, Baustelle, earlier this year, the Greie Gut Fraktion perform live in Berlin this month as part of the Volksbühne’s Musikbühne series. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] The duo formed by Gudrun Gut and Antye Greie aka AGF, have taken construction sites as the central theme of [...]

D/B Recommended: Musikbühne with JÓHANN JÓHANNSSON & String Quartet | Sunday, 26. September 2010

Jóhann Jóhannsson is an Icelandic musician, composer and producer. Wonderful deep, mighty and mordern classical music. Digital in Berlin highly Recommended! [Audio clip: view full post to listen] He is a co-founder of Kitchen Motors in Reykjavík, the art organization/think tank/record label which specializes in initiating collaborations, promoting concerts and exhibitions, performances, chamber operas, producing [...]

D/B Recommended: Robert Henke aka Monolake Talk @ Roter Salon Berlin / Tuesday, 29.06.2010

Anyone who heard his talk at Transmediale earlier in the year will know Robert Henke aka Monolake is not merely a talented producer and performer, but an interesting and entertaining public speaker too. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] The last in the interesting series Soundaten / Ö-Töne aus der Produktion invites Monolake to [...]

D/B recommended: Burnt friedman & jaki liebezeit @ Volksbühne 26.02.10

No sooner is the Club Transmediale festival over than CTM Concerts present us another highlight show for the month of February. Jaki Liebezeit and Burnt Friedman share a preference for so-called Secret Rhythms, which means that the rhythms are not hidden but less common, often foreign to western culture. [Audio clip: view full post to [...]

5 Jahre // Years of Zentrale Randlage

Friday,  29th May, 2009 Berlin @ Volksbühne im Prater / Kastanienallee 7 – 9 / Berlin (Prenzlauer Berg) Under the motto “still homeless // still rockin’” and undeterred by the lack of a permanent residence Zentrale Randlage’s nomadic roaming takes it to the Volksbühne’s Prater for a 5th birthday party including live concerts, visuals and [...]

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