As the 2014 edition of the Haldern Pop Festival descended upon the meadows, we sent Chloe Mayne along to find out more about Germany’s best small-and-staying-that-way musical celebration. Haldern Pop Festival is a… Read More
Set in the heart of the countryside of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s legendary small-and-staying-that-way festival Haldern Pop is about to blossom upon the pastures for the thirty-first time. Its roots reach down to an… Read More
It was always going to be difficult to justify the World Cup being staged in a country where the money would have been better utilised on vital improvements to its woefully insufficient infrastructure.… Read More
Germany-based Milky Chance have garnered over 38 million hits on Youtube with their blend of singer-songwriter folk, which has elements of reggae and electronica. They’re a band you clearly need on your radar, so we… Read More
Chloe Mayne speaks to The Blue Angel Lounge keyboardist Theo Berwe about the creation of the new record, calamitous live shows and the growing redundancy of psychedelia: Said in no light terms, The… Read More
Berlin-based Kat Vinter has just unleashed her latest single. We asked her to tell us about herself: I am a solo Australian songwriter/artist living in Berlin. Wish I could add ‘multi-linguist,’ to the description but German… Read More
South East London’s favourite psychedelic darlings, Black Market Karma have recently released their fifth (yes, fifth) studio album – and gosh-darn, it’s a goodun’. Titled Upside Out Inside Down, it’s a swirling, hemisphere-spanning… Read More
The fact that the majority of Europe was recently hidden under snow/dirty floodwater makes it seem almost ludicrous to consider planning summer festival trips, but, believe it or not, festival season is just… Read More
Germany-based Australian Isidore Tillers revisits her childhood bedroom: I went home a few months ago. And by home I don’t mean my beloved Sydney. Despite spending a good part of my childhood, as… Read More
Isidore Tillers considers the aesthetic, the smells (and the doors) of Karlsruhe’s SüdWest Stadt: I’ve been living (on-and-off) in the South-Western German city of Karlsruhe for the best part of a year. Life as a… Read More
SIZARR are a group of childhood buddies that hail from a little German town called Landau. Sound-wise, SIZARR are an indie/electronic band with strong leading vocals, they could be likened to the more… Read More
Somethingyousaid.com’s Jemma Cole reviews the latest incarnation of Marc Houle, live in Berlin: Last week, Marc Houle unveiled his new band effort, exposing a side a side of himself which takes his techno… Read More