Schmutz on which festivals you shouldn’t miss this August
Looking for some great music recommendations this August? Schmutz has you covered.
Looking for some great music recommendations this August? Schmutz has you covered.
An adage known among music enthusiasts, “The Only Good System Is A Sound System,” is also the title of a Berlin festival this weekend exploring the sounds and politics of bass music.
Find the File, a new Haus der Kulturen der Welt festival, explores questions related to sound archives and preservation: what do we keep and who gets access? We hear from the festival's curator, plus musicians Derya Yıldırım and Tellavision.
Next weekend sees PEOPLE festival at Berlin’s Funkhaus. The festival is unique for bringing artists from all over the world together for a week of experimentation and collaboration before performing new works for a live audience. 160 artists will take part, including Bon Iver's Justin Vernon and The National's Bryce and Aaron Dessner, as well as Feist and Jenny Lewis. We spoke to festival organizers Tom and Nadine Michelberger, who […]
Isabelle Lewis is a dancer and artist, and this month you can experience her work at Martin Gropius Bau as part of the “Welt Ohne Aussen” festival. The festival explores immersive spaces from architecture to performance, to rave culture and tea drinking. Lewis was invited by the organizers to curate workshops that bring members of the public into immersive moments whether through dance or music. We spoke to […]
The Pop-Kultur festival is returning to Berlin next month, presenting over 100 events from Aug. 15 – 17 at the Kulturbrauerei. The festival gives musicians space to expand on the artistic currents underpinning much of pop culture and pop music today with a program of performances, new commissions, exhibitions, talks, and workshops. The festival's organizers have assembled a line-up of both international and Berlin-based artists. Finding balance was a […]
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 […]