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James Chatburn is a Berlin-based Australian soul singer, songwriter and producer. He has combined influences from divided musical worlds to create something that does ...

MOLM Museum of Live Music understands live-music culture as part of a worldwide cultural identity. Within a two-day exhibition in August 2020 in Berlin’s ...

The duo veenus x boats is active not only among different cultures but also between genres: German-born Vietnamese singer Vee aka veenus and producer ...

Meron is a Berlin-based singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist with a sound strongly rooted in R&B. He started making music at an early age, writing ...

Enda Gallery has been active in the Berlin music scene with his soulful music since 2012. After four years of producing, writing and collaborating ...

The Krake Festival for bold electronic dance music has been taking place since 2010 in Berlin. It promotes outstanding young artists and showcases the ...

Tel Aviv-born artist Mor Elian moved to Los Angeles as a teenager, living there for ten years before relocating to Berlin. Elian co-owns the ...

Ray Sonder and Saxon Gable are waiting in the wings. As Baby Smith, the two founding members of their successful previous project People Club ...

15 Minutes of Femme is not only a stage but also a platform created by and for women, trans and non-binary artists, musicians and ...

Danielle Arielli has always been surrounded by music. Her mother, a music teacher, taught her to sing and to play guitar and piano, and ...

Laurel Halo is an American electronic music composer and producer, currently based in Berlin. Since her now cult-status debut album Quarantine was released by ...

Soy&Synth is an independent grassroots event series initiated by Berlin-based Indonesian art collective Soydivision, dedicated to experimental and improvisation music practices from BIPOC emerging ...

Wooly Aziz is a solo, progressive R&B/soul/left-field project by Jannat Sohail from Pakistan, also listed in the Alternative Power 100 Music List (2020) for ...

Developed by musicians who emigrated from Asia Minor to present-day Greece because of their ethnic-religious affiliation, the cross-genre art form of rebetiko is now ...

Since 2014, Alexandra Grübler has been dedicated to the musical exploration of resistance, autonomy and identity with her project Baal & Mortimer, which originated ...

When two best friends found a band, the result is a world full of insider jokes. Gurr’s debut album ›In My Head‹ introduces their ...

The Festival für selbstgebaute Musik (»Festival for Self-Built Music«) seeks to highlight two topics: unusual, home-made instruments and similar, idiosyncratic non-conformist musical concepts. In ...

Tatiana Heuman works on music and sound creation between Argentina and Europe. She plays drums, likes loops, repetitions and surprises. Her unique approach to ...

Berlin-based singer and songwriter Stella Lindner is originally from Southern Germany, born and raised in the Bavarian countryside, on the banks of the Danube ...

Neo-soul artist MiDi KwaKwa grew up in two contrasting cultures: with her Ghanaian parents in a small West German town. In her formative years, ...

Christian Naujoks is a Lübeck born and raised visual artist, composer, DJ and singer. Since completing his studies in Electroacoustic Composition and Media Theory ...

Linda Finny is a Berlin newcomer who’s already perfected an infectiously energetic sound, managing to be both atmospheric and punk. She is currently working ...

With a mix of hip-hop, pop and everything in between, stockdale have been delighting their fans since their formation in 2018. Aiming to make ...

For about ten years, diveRcity has been enabling young people to enjoy themselves and their cultures. Whether with a concert, jam session, graffiti battle, ...

East Side Music Days is Berlin’s first street music festival, which premiered in 2015. This public festival around East Side Park and the Oberbaumbrücke ...

Erin Renfro’s solo project, Blue Babe, is an authentic and atmospheric introspection into a darkness not easily shared with others. The indie pop-rock singer-songwriter-composer ...

PeroPero is a progressive-metal duo from Austria, based in Berlin. PeroPero’s complex and explosive grooves confront drums and guitar with wafting analogue synthesizers, while ...

Berlin School of Sound returns with the three-day festival POP SOUNDS POP STORIES, this time with a thematic focus on crossover rap, poetry and ...

With the rising costs of rent and property, urban displacement has become omnipresent in Berlin. As part of Alles Muss Raus! – Für Schaffung ...

On his debut album ›Monologue‹, released in 2019, Syrian singer-songwriter Yousef Kekhia questions the material and idealistic appropriation of reality. »Hal Ard Lamin?« (»Whom ...

Kerim Melik Becker aka Kechou is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, rapper, producer, and instrument maker based in Berlin. He works with live loops and (North) ...

Jungstötter is the moniker of Berlin-based singer Fabian Altstötter. The frontman of the band Sizarr, which split up in 2016, has teamed up with ...

With Come Together!, both established and young Sinti and Roma artists have a platform to present themselves to the city and its visitors. The ...

Johanna Borchert is a singer, pianist and composer whose roots lie in jazz. In October 2014, the charismatic artist released her first record ›FM ...

Jinka is a writer/singer/producer of Transylvanian origin who dropped the first single of her artist project in mid-2017. She set up her laboratory in ...

Valentin Ginies is a musician, producer, DJ and owner of the label 11001 Records, which focuses on techno, ambient, experimental and other abstract musical ...

The Kiezsalon is a forum for innovative music beyond the borders of genre as well as a meeting point for friends, loners, lovers and ...

24/7 DIVA HEAVEN are three Berlin musicians pushing the limits – even if it hurts sometimes. Spanning punk, noise, grunge and a riot grrrl ...

Kreuzberg-born artist Mesu Diye was inspired by her parents’ Turkish birthplace on the Black Sea when naming her project. Mesudiye, a small village in ...

Stella Zekri is a vinyl DJ and singer. Her dynamic, cross-genre sets combine her love of club music, disco, jazz and hip-hop. As a ...

Influenced by German oldschool hip hop as well as influences spanning from Peaches to Die Goldenen Zitronen, Hole, Kurt Weill, John Frusciante, Suzi Quatro ...

Born Ronja Zschoche in Hamburg in 1993, Haiyti inherited her musicality. Her mother is a music teacher, her father the Croatian musician and music ...

The Rendez Vous dinner parties organized by Musique Couture are a meeting point for people coming from the fashion, media, arts, movie, or music ...

After years as a shy solo entertainer, Adrian Schull just happened upon a band. Or rather, he was looking for them. There are pros ...

YVY MARAEY grew up in Berlin as the daughter of a German mother, but she never let her father’s Brazilian culture escape her. Along ...

Allysa Grace is an Asian-Latin-American vocalist and keyboardist from Austin, Texas, now based in Berlin. Her latest release, ›Wondercolors‹, is an edgy catch on ...

Paul and Leo Eisenach are siblings. For many years they shared a room – nowadays they share a drummer and a keyboard player and ...

It’s common knowledge that female musicians often receive too little attention and that festivals book far fewer female acts than male acts. The concert ...

Amplify Berlin is a residency and mentorship programme designed to support projects by emerging musicians, composers, producers and performers in Berlin. Month-long residencies pair ...

Newcomers with a special twist, that little something that makes them stand out from the crowd – that’s what the Berlintouch event series has ...

Islamiq Grrrls hibernate during the day and loiter at night. While often associated with forests, many Islamiq Grrrls are ecotone species that live in ...

Live at Kranoldplatz is an open-air concert series at Kranoldplatz in Neukölln. The event presented musicians active in Berlin, especially in Neukölln, supporting a ...

Fraencis crafts his music with the intent of leaving listeners in a slight state of unease as he explores the dark and moody side ...

An homage to the lunar calendar, Celestial Festival creates space for pan-Asian and pan-BIPOC to connect, form solidarity and give empowerment. The festival’s mission ...

BANTUNAGOJÊJE is when Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat meets jazz in downtown Salvador. In addition to influences like Afrobeat, fusion jazz and funk, the band’s sound ...

The work of Mexican-born Daniela Huerta hovers between performance art, sound design and multimedia projects. Under the pseudonym Baby Vulture, she developed her own ...

The collectively run venue ausland founded the series pop im ausland in 2015, dedicated to musical forms that lie between accessibility and experimentation. Current ...

Tech Talk is an event series giving artists and musicians the chance to exchange ideas and knowledge on a regular basis. Berlin-based musicians can ...

Erfolg is the German-language solo project of Johannes von Weizsäcker, whom some may know as a member of the London-Berlin pop group The Chap. ...

Hailing from Crete, interdisciplinary artist and performer Abyss X became a virtuosa in experimental cross-genre composition by crafting a unique melange of her homeland’s ...

Torn away by a wave into the depths of the sea, Voodoo Beach are surrounding us with dark psychedelic rock, which on the one ...

URIN are a Berlin-based raw-punk/d-beat/hardcore band with noise influences, whose band members from Poland, Sweden and the USA have come together in 2018 through ...

VALENTIN heralds a new era in the music industry. She paves the way for upcoming artists who, just like she did, grew up hand-in-hand ...

The collective Berlin Reggae United organised concerts in autumn 2020, partly live – in compliance with applicable health measures to contain the spread of ...

Ziúr is a Berlin-based DJ and producer, dedicated to combining different sonic textures and brainy beats into a functional dancefloor framework – clearly intended ...

The band ROSEMARINE is an experience in itself: trashy, grungy vibes meet electronic sounds, all framed by experienced songwriting. It is an artistic statement, ...

Chrisman is one of the rising stars of the new electronic scene in Congo, his tracks tearing down the boundaries between gqom, tarraxinha, soukous ...

Kultur & Straße (Culture & Street) is a one-day festival for and with homeless people. The shared experience of culture creates an inclusive meeting ...

The DJ and producer duo MRJAH from Berlin is a pioneer in German trap music. In early 2013 the Duo produced the famous ›Splah!Mag ...

Chris Imler is an industry veteran, a jack-of-all-trades, a drum dandy, a beat prophet, and an unmatched player in the Berlin indie scene. He ...

As the voice of Berlin’s club scene, the Clubcommission works to ensure that the interests of Berlin’s club culture are taken into account by ...

Since 2008, Digital in Berlin has been curating, developing, and supporting concerts and festival formats as an independent cultural agency in Berlin and in ...

Born in New York City of Trinidadian heritage, singer-songwriter and vocalist Kosmo Kint has been part of the recent NYC music scene, singing in ...

Vamp Acid is a live acid dance producer, dark electro DJ and designer. Peppered with 80s analogue beats, her music combines sensual vocals with ...

With International Drone Day on 25th May in mind, the artists sn(50), Inter Lineas, Auguste Vickunaite + Nina Guo, Diane Barbé, DuChamp, Vida Vojić, ...

babelfis is an indie/pop duo formed by musicians Sevda Hamzacebi and Cem Dinler. Hailing from Istanbul – now based in Berlin, the band pursues ...

The Bedroom Sessions presented young musicians in Berlin and around the world. Artists had the opportunity to reach and interact with a global audience ...

Moro is an Argentinian musician and composer based in Berlin. Trained as a professional guitarist at the Manuel de Falla Conservatory in Buenos Aires, ...

The Creative Footpring is a non-profit initiative that measures and indexes urban creative space. It advocates for the protection of creative space globally through ...

For the concert series Play Date, the FELD theater in Schöneberg is applying its expertise in cross-generational work for primarily younger audiences to concerts ...

PANDAyiddish aims to present lively and progressive culture of the Jewish diaspora. With this series, the PANDA Theater in Prenzlauer Berg strives to strengthen ...

Ria Boss, also affectionately known as Cat Mama, is a real jack-of-all-trades. She has met Kamala Harris, hosts the show ›Cat Mama World‹ on ...

Eluize spends her time creating, curating and sharing a spectrum of electronic music to soundtrack the hours. The Adelaide-born, Berlin-based DJ, live act, producer ...

In 2018, Petra Hermanova began working with the autoharp, which has since gone on to become the key component of her musical work. Inspired ...

The open-air series Sonic In(ter)ventions aims to rethink public space as an interactive venue for independent artistic expression through energetic, musical improvisational practices. The ...

Curated by Tobias Lichtmann, Traurig und Untanzbar (»Sad and Undanceable«) is an event dedicated to presenting melancholic music. Featuring the artists Subheim, Blakk Harbour, ...

Laurids Richter is a drummer and producer from Berlin, that made a name for himself in the mid-90s jazz and hip-hop scene of the ...

diveRcity has been enabling adolescents to express themselves through active participation in culture for over a decade. Be it a concert, jam session, graffiti ...

Schattenspiel is a three-member formation that combines cello and electronic dance music in a 90-minute audio-visual live experience of light and sound. At the ...

In her art, Sarah Martinus works with subtle energies of the body and their complex interactions within the environment. Through abstract images, sounds, rituals ...

Founded on the idea of creating a platform for FLINTA* artists, the GRRRL-NOISY collective launched the GRRRL-NOISY Festival in 2022. It was created under ...

AIWA: Beats, Rhymes and Beyond from the Arab World is a concert series aiming at intercultural exchange between Berlin-based hip-hop artists and musicians from ...

SOUND(ING) SYSTEMS tells the story of the Cold War continuum starting from the so-called Loudspeaker War and the Studio am Stacheldraht in Berlin. In ...

Unlike many self-taught artists, JakoJako’s musical journey began with a profound knowledge of sound that she could acquire as a trained nurse during the ...

Sally Dige (»Dee-Ah«) is a multidisciplinary artist known for her darkly poetic yet highly danceable electro-pop songs, DIY stylistic videos, design and visual art. ...

Schorsch Kamerun and PC Nackt offer the discreet charm of reduction, joined by actress Annemaaike Bakker, performers from the Komische Oper Berlin, the Richardchor ...

Matching Outfits are a trio of adopted Berliners whose warped, wistful take on indie pop has been compared to »a Super 8 film from ...

Opera and Tango Argentino singer Feline Lang composes, programs and performs theatrical pop with an affinity for science fiction and spy thrillers. Her music ...

Aria’s music is a tribute to feelings. The musician, composer and songwriter created her debut album ›Fantasy Is My Religion‹ in this in-between state. ...

Güner Künier’s music is shaped by the sound of her voice and a minimalism that combines industrial beats, lo-fi guitars and experimental synthesiser sounds. ...