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The concert series Soul*Jazz*Mirror offers up-and-coming artists a stage, allowing them to present themselves to an audience in a professional environment. Especially for younger ...

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 ...

Musa is a fighter. As part of the BSMG (Black Superman Gang) with Megaloh and Ghanaian Stallion, the Berlin resident found the right space ...

Before launching a solo career, Jonathan Jarzyna roamed the pop cosmos as co-founder of experimental band Fenster. Four collaborative albums and a feature film ...

»It’s normal to be different« – Graf Fidi has built a career out of this message. As a rapper, social worker, and speaker, he ...

This festival is all about the creative and content-related examination of the sound system as a cultural concept, offering visitors a participatory approach on ...

Dream and reality, desire, compulsion and knowledge form the basis of human passion. We move in the spaces in between, constantly changing perspectives. LIE ...

Post Neo: That’s the experimental electronic pop music duo of Nicole Luján and Pauline Weh, based in Mexico City and Berlin. Post Neo’s tracks ...

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

Amnesia Scanner’s beats sound so familiar, something you’ve definitely heard before but can’t quite place. Energetic kicks and deep bass drums jolt your body ...

Ofiri has made a name for himself in the Israeli hip-hop scene as a producer, rapper, DJ and Bboy. Early on, he formed his ...

Blaenks Clubvideo Workshop offers young female musicians, DJs and producers the possibility to gain insight in the production and DJing of club videos and ...

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

DJ and producer KABLAM (aka Kajsa Blom) was born by the Swedish coast, and has lived in Berlin since 2012. She started her career ...

Under the moniker TEll A ViSiON, Berlin-based singer, songwriter and music producer Fee Kürten is rediscovering herself: evolution not revolution! While she still served ...

Music Cities Convention is the largest and most extensive gathering on Music Cities. The conference brings together leaders from governments, cities and regions, academics, ...

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 ...

RUI HO is a non-binary music producer and DJ from China (in the following called they/their as pronoun) whose work is a mix of ...

The Poetry Meets Series ist eine seit 2014 bestehende kreative Plattform für lokale und internationale Künstler:innen, die ihre Arbeit im Kontext von »Love, Peace und Togetherness« ...

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 ...

For over 20 years, singer, rapper and freestyle MC Chabezo was the frontman of various group. In 2020, after a long period of musical ...

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

»I like to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. I don’t hesitate to irritate. I’m bored by the ordinary.« – xanah operates as ...

The artist Christiane Rösinger, born in 1961, has been shaping the Berlin local music scene since the early 1990s as an »indie music icon« ...

Yvois is an Aotearoa (New Zealand)-born, Berlin-based producer of warm, wonky beats and singer of moody aural treats. Armed with a collection of dusty ...

When Worldwiderythm – also known under the artist name Nais – started producing music at the age of 17, he did not set himself ...

Julian O’Swald aka O’Swald is a Berlin-based songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and music producer. He draws on various genres such as jazz, indie soul, indie pop, ...

Hendrik Weber aka Pantha Du Prince is one of the popstars of the electronic music scene, and he definitely earned his fame. Born 1975 ...

Future East Festival is a contemporary music and new media art festival. The interdisciplinary festival presents electro-acoustic, electronic, and explorative music and audio-visual performances, ...

Favouring emotional expressionism and intense beats, Catnapp is pushing the boundaries of electronic music with a unique and bold take on songwriting and production. ...

People Club are a five-piece indie soul band formed in Berlin in late 2017. Their distinctive aesthetic blends social-commentary lyrics with classic soul-ensemble sounds, ...

Sam Vance-Law is pop music through a queer lens. From pick up lines to raising a child, marriage and divorce to crises of faith, ...

Founded in 2021, [Endlich] put together a diverse line-up for a free open-air event followed by a club night at OXI in 2022. The ...

Hans Unstern is a multitude who writes songs, builds musical instruments, releases albums and radio plays, and gives dazzling performances. On ›DIVEN‹, their latest ...

The ensemble and artist residency Grounded Outer Space People explores the relationship between transmigration and music, curating open listening sessions, workshops and presentation meetings. ...

Kudur is a music and performance-focused party series organized by the trans/queer PoC members of the Berlin-based collective with the same name. At Kudur, ...

The Last Postman is a multilingual artistic-pop/indie post-rock experimental project with live electronic elements generated by playing multiple instruments and found objects. It was ...

Instrumental work with audio samples is a fundamental component of contemporary music culture. The Sample Music Festival is the first educational music festival devoted ...

The festival Die Nächte des Ramadan perceives itself as a Berlin-wide culture festival for Muslim-affected art and culture. In 2017 with its concert series ...

#EinfachSein – That’s Fargo. In the tender age of six years, Falk-Arne Goßler was already on stage: He has been the child of choice ...

After much anticipation, 2016’s eponymous debut cemented Oum Shatt’s distinctive sound: distilled rock ’n’ roll, discreetly interwoven Arabic harmonies and hypnotic rhythms from various, ...

Tim Koh is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer and visual artist, most notably known as a long-time member of the band Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti. ...

Steve Mekoudja travels the world with words. The Cameroonian writer is active as a computer technician and cook, runs a podcast and has mastered ...

As Blazey, Millé and Nik are a duo active in the genres of pop, soul and hip-hop. Their respective musical backgrounds, as well as ...

Sookee is a rapper and feminist, she is political and in a party mood, combative and in need of harmony. Contradictions are part of ...

With its cross-genre programme, Torstraßen Festival has established itself as a seismograph of the diverse scenes within Berlin‘s pop music underground. The aim of ...

Jascha Kreft and Tammo Dehn are childhood friends, native East Frisians, Berliners by choice and experts in curiosities. Since 2014, they have been fusing ...

Off the back of a young and wild experience with his first band Paris Suit Yourself (UK/BigDada), Victor Tricard has grown into a solo ...

Baby Satan Nights presents contemporary musicians and artists, unlimited by genre, from post-punk to experimental electronics. The aim of the event series is to ...

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

In their project Æ, Indonesian vocalist and producer Akila and half-Bolivian, half-Danish vocalist and instrumentalist Elias explore the dualities they have been faced with ...

A project by DISK Agency, Streaming – Tools for an Unknown Future uses qualitative interviews with artists, project makers and app developers to see ...

FAYIM is a singer-songwriter who creates a perfect balance between profundity and ease – with his lyrics, his distinctive voice and his empowering and ...

Zurück zu den Wurzeln (Back to the Roots) is a festival that has been actively promoting inclusion and participation at cultural events since 2017. ...

Corinne aka ARA found music through her family. Her father, who spent his life in Matonge, the most musical district of the Congolese capital ...

5 Seconds – Musik für Hall & Raum SPEZIAL is a project set in Friedrichshain’s Zwingli-Kirche in consideration of the church’s impressively long reverberation ...

Red Mess concerts are known to be a deep crooked experience with high volumes that somehow express and represent some sort of anger within. ...

As a homosexual BPOC rapper, venturathagay subverts hip-hop culture with cheeky, humorous and explicit lyrics, offering the genre’s largely cis-male, often toxically normative followers ...

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

FHAT is a new duo made-up by American singer-songwriters Aaron Pfeiffer and Sedric Perry. Their journey began with a joint writing session in London, ...

Enyang Ha is a Berlin-based Korean electronic music composer and performer. Her approach is based on experimenting with her voice, sampling her body and ...

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 ...

The singer and guitarist Timo Tolkmitt and the drummer Till Trenkel have know each other since the 90s, growing up in the outskirts of ...

The event series arkaoda Berlin NOW presents a diversely-curated music programme encompassing electronic music, acoustic music, pop, classical music, and noise. It sees itself ...

Even with plenty of accomplishments behind him, the Reverend doesn’t seem to be slowing down. By night, he likes to roam the canyons of ...

The Bassquake Weekender is an inclusive and intergenerational festival for bass music. The aim of the event is not only to network, but also ...

A’th has been interested in the relationship between migration, belonging, resilience and music not only since her art school degree in interactive performance and ...

In her native country, Switzerland, Berlin-based Mia Aegerter has released four highly acclaimed and awarded full-length albums– all written in Swiss dialect. With her ...

Shybits is a Berlin based trio made up of friends Liam (UK), Piero (Italy), and Megan (South Africa). The band have been playing their ...

The festival Kultur am Dorfplatz is committed to both the existence and preservation of open cultural spaces and to strengthening solidarity in civil society ...

Lion Sphere blend thumping electronic fragments with heavy hip hop grooves, spacious guitar licks and raw vocals. The Berlin four-piece creates a mesmerizing fusion ...

Marco Barotti is a modern performing artist in the broadest sense of the word. After leaving his studies at the Siena Jazz Academy far ...

As the child of a German mother and an African-American father growing up in Berlin, Celina Bostic learned early on to adapt to the ...

Kaltès is a musician and DJ based in Berlin. She has an extensive background in music, having studied jazz and improvisation in Brussels before ...

Under the title Studio C two concerts are going to take place in autumn 2017. Each edition will be curated by a different artist ...

Imagine if Portishead formed in Berlin today. Josef Beuys comes along, shreds the band with a coarse wire brush and exhibits them in a ...

Inspired by Parliament-Funkadelic, Prince and Liberace, SADO OPERA hail from St. Petersburg, offering a mix of disco, boogie and electro-funk fused into a high-energy, ...

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 ...

This is the 4th convention of “Live Music and Inclusion”. It takes place every 2 years in Berlin. This year, the focus is on ...

West Berlin in the late 1970s and 1980s: The city is thriving with a musical subculture that values DIY, sampling, improvisation and crafting as ...

LiveBytes Berlin is a platform for up-and-coming Berliner artists and local venues – with the aim of giving them national and international attention. Audio ...

As ANOTHER NGUYEN, singer and songwriter Ngoc Anh Nguyen makes electronic-tinged, contemplative pop. Influences like Julia Michaels and Adele meet ARY, Tsar B and ...

Costantino Toth aka Onirologia works as a composer and sound engineer, conceiving sound as an »achronological archive«, tying in themes of transformation and home. ...

With a colorful music, artistry and cultural programme, the SpreeSpektakel has been inviting visitors to the Holzmarkt grounds every year since 2015. The aim ...

After sharing a bunk in one of Berlin’s numerous hostels for several weeks, Joakim Jägerhult and Liam Blomqvist from Sweden began to share ideas ...

Fenster is a psychedelic pop band consisting of Jonathan Jarzyna (DE), JJ Weihl (USA), Lucas Ufo (FR) and Elias Hock (DE). After releasing two ...

A major aim of the CTM Festival since its inception has been to make space for radical forms of musical expression and dissonant emotions. ...

The first encounter of the members of Modha was rather unexpected, crossing paths as hired musicians playing in a live band. At the time, ...

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

Temple Haze’s music is an ever-evolving and ever-changing tapestry. From his roots in blues and alt-country music to modern downbeat, ambient and lo-fi, Temple ...

The MellowJam places an emphasis on togetherness and community. With workshops, performances and music, the festival took place over three days directly along the ...

Since 2021, the conceptual artists Samuel Casata and Valentin Wagner have taken over the pavilion of the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, creating a space for ...

In her many artistic approaches, spanning experimental installations and photography to video and audio works, Natalia Escobar follows an ongoing interest in investigating streams ...

The Puschenfest is a two-day music festival that returned to the Festsaal Kreuzberg in 2018 after a five-year hiatus. Its aim is to create ...

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

As Ale Hop, Peruvian-born Alejandra Cardenas composes electronic and electroacoustic music that adds influences from noise, pop, avant-garde and ambient to an unorthodox repertoire ...

Unprofessional is a state of mind. The producer Unprofessional comes from a small town on the east coast of Italy. Coming from a visual ...

What Luisa Babarro creates with her cello and her voice are gems in form of songs. Her compositions take the audience on an extraordinary ...

YAEL grew up in a village in Rhineland-Palatinate. She had musical ambitions from an early age, first learning to play the guitar, later singing ...

The internationally know brother duo of Ali and Basti Schwarz discovered its passion for electronic music and techno in the early 90s as club ...