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Confessions of a California goth: Bauhaus’ David J pines for the clouds

    This week, we caught up with musician David J, who was both the bassist in the goth rock sensation Bauhaus as well as bassist and vocalist of the '80s band, Love and Rockets. A Los Angeles resident, he admits that he feels uncomfortable with the current political situation in the United States, confessing, “it's in a sorry state, and I'm rather repulsed by it.” David J talks about […]

todayJune 9, 2018

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Music producer Victor Van Vugt is back in Berlin to tap the city’s ‘youthful, anarchic’ energy

    Victor Van Vugt is a producer, mixer, and engineer who has worked with acts including Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Einstürzende Neubauten, and P.J. Harvey. We speak with Van Vugt about his return to Berlin and his plans for the future. Van Vugt made Berlin his home in the 1980s before moving away to live in London and New York. He returned to Berlin four years ago […]

todayJune 2, 2018

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‘A little bit organic and electronic’: O-SHiN shares her dreamy pop with us ahead of Berlin gig

    We spoke to Dutch singer-songwriter O-SHiN about her creative and recording processes. She talks about recording her last songs while immersing herself in the Swedish countryside because “I really love lots of Swedish artists...and I wanted to learn from them.” The album was mixed in Berlin, O-SHiN explains: “I think my music is a little bit ...organic and electronic at the same time...The electronic part of it happened […]

todayMay 12, 2018

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Pop-Kultur’s Christian Morin on ‘bringing back meaning and content to music’

Pop-Kultur Festival will be back in Berlin for it's fourth year between August 15 and 17. We caught up with curator Christian Morin to talk about how the goals of the festival have evolved and what to expect from this year's lineup, which features Neneh Cherry amidst a "very strong female presence." Morin says that he wants the festival "to bring back meaning and content...to music, and the other goal […]

todayMay 5, 2018

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Rooting for the optimists and pessimists: Brian Eno’s Empty Formalism opens Berlin’s ISM Hexadome

  Composer and visual artist Brian Eno returned to Berlin this week for the opening of his audio-visual installation, "Empty Formalism," at the Martin Gropius Bau. The work is the first in a series of performances and installations created by artists for the newly created ISM Hexadome, a hexagonal structure featuring six large screens and over 50 speakers in a 3D sound stage, creating a spatial sensation coupling music with shifting visuals.  "One […]

todayMarch 31, 2018

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