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Twice a year, the event series Tanzhalle brings together musicians from the genres of reggae, dancehall, cloud rap, and trap. The goal is to ...

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 ...

RENU is a British-Bengali, Berlin-based composer, producer, tabla player, percussionist and curator who started her musical journey around 2000. Her quest for musical experiences ...

Singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Johanna Amelie resides in Berlin. She writes folky, ethereal, and contemporary songs about anything that stirs her emotions, whether it ...

If you’ve ever spent a night roaming Berlin bars and tumbled into a blue-foggy morning, with a grin still on your lips, you should ...

Steven Warwick is an artist, musician and writer living and working in Berlin. His practice is paradigmatic of an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses theatre-making ...

The Dunckerstrassenfest began seven years ago as a concept and an initiative by musicians and music-lovers – joyful, unpaid, without commercial interests. In 2019, ...

The AYO City Festival, launched by the artist collective Freak de l’Afrique, aims to provide a platform for BPOC artists and their communities, making ...

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

A vantage point to experiencing GIL’s music is one’s body and the haptic-affective sensation music creates; this was also the way in which the ...

Every year, more than 70,000 people gather in Berlin for a peaceful demonstration, united by music, for a tolerant and humane society as ›Zug ...

Madam Data is a musician, composer, and sound scientist who explores machine and spirit interfaces. Their fantasies are about truly knowing what sacredness is, ...

The Berlin Song Week is an event concept for the creatives »behind the song«. Songwriter and producer get the chance to present themselves to ...

The situation for initiatives, clubs and free spaces for (cultural) projects within big cities becomes more and more precarious. New openings are exceptions proving ...

Founded in 2017 by the musicians, writers and activists Sandra and Kerstin Grether, Ich brauche eine Genie – Popkultur, Feminismus, Spaß und so (»I ...

The international network female:pressure, a network founded by Electric Indigo that brings together female, transgender, and non-binary musicians from the field of electronic music ...

In 2020, Bertil Thomas curated an interdisciplinary, four-part salon series on behalf of the artist group Die Kette, creatively questioning the conditions of the ...

Heatsick is the project of musician and visual artist Steven Warwick, whose album ›Re-engineering‹ has been released on PAN. Heatsick’s entrancing live show is ...

Kitty Solaris is underground and disco, cool, direct, soft and sincere: »Solaris sounds almost like a grunge Lana Del Rey; it’s dark and moody, ...

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

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 ...

Schrunzel & Der blaue Schmetterling is the collaboration between the artist Schrunzel and his girlfriend Sabrina Böckl, aka Der blaue Schmetterling, with the aim ...

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 ...

Radical Sounds Latin America is an online platform and annual non-profit festival based in Berlin that showcases innovative talent from Latin America and its ...

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 ...

It’s not easy to define who or what Perilymph is: lonely DIY bedroom recordings, four-member live band, communal project – the dynamic and concept ...

»Drei Asoziale mit einem Monsterbass kommen auf die Bühne und erklären dir was!« With a direct yet sympathetic approach, Guterzogene Asis is the crew ...

After moving to Berlin in 2010, Philipp Gorbachev befriended Rebolledo and Matias Aguayo, which set the wheels in motion for a series of debut ...

While guitarist Manuel and drummer Johannes were already working on a joint project, singer Maria initially joined the band as a feature guest. That ...

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

With its diverse programme, Berlin’s musicBwomen* network specifically supports young FLINTA+ talents at all levels of the music industry. FLINTA+ individuals are personally supported ...

Kendy Gable is Berlin-based, American singer-songwriter that weaves poetry and stories into haunting melodies. She has performed throughout the United States, Canada and Europe ...

In 2019, glanz&krawall started a radical alternative to the classical-music festival industry with Berlin is Not Bayreuth, attracting over 1,000 visitors. In 2020, the ...

It’s difficult to tell at what point art ends and life begins, where economics and theatre part ways (if ever), and where the psychosocial ...

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

Mind:Body:Fitness is an Australian born and Berlin based artist whose distinctly idiosyncratic music has been showcased my CTM, RBMA, Tropical Waste, Creamcake, NTS and ...

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

Martyna Kubicz aka MIN t is a composer, producer and vocalist hailing from Wrocław, Poland. She has graduated from multiple music schools in Wrocław ...

KEØMA was founded by Chris Klopfer and Kat Frankie. Based in Berlin, the duo’s self-titled debut album was released in January 2016 on Embassy ...

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 ...

Launched as a joint initiative of the synth-punk band Mexican Radio and the citizens’ association Zukunftswerkstatt Heinersdorf, the one-day Heinersdorfer Punk Fest in Pankow ...

Wanja Janeva grew up in Berlin as the daughter of Bulgarian parents. Since then, she has travelled the world with her voice. She is ...

The Norwegian-Irish singer and songwriter Tara Nome Doyle grew up between city life and untouched nature. Her music embodies these inner conflicts, varying between ...

Uo Ray’m’s work focuses on the relationship between sound and memory: our sense of hearing in hyper visual times and our sense of belonging ...

Portrait XO is an artist who creates musical and visual works through traditional and non-traditional methods. In collaboration with Dadabots, Portrait XO won the ...

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 ...

Initiated by AL.Berlin, The Witches Tales is an event series offering a stage to artists of all kinds of different musical genres. Every week ...

Handiclapped has been organising accessible concerts in Berlin since 2008, making it a pioneer of inclusive events. The aim of the concerts is for ...

Takseer started as a series of events and in 2022 launched the first edition of its festival. Its aim is at providing a stage ...

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

Inspired by the desire to experiment and collaborate with jazz and classical music, the singer Donata, educated at the Amsterdam University of the Arts, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cult’Sup’ is an event series designed to create space for the exploration of diverse African cultures. In a safer space, people of all ages, ...

Founded in 2013, the band Black Heino considers itself in the musical tradition of garage rock of the sixties and in the spirit of ...

Reverberating rimshots, organic bass and spacey synths meet melancholic vocals with lyrics about dysfunctional relationships and inner turmoil – two friends maneuvering from R&B ...

A MAZE. / Berlin is a unique cultural international festival for arthouse games and playful media that invites professionals and creatives from various fields ...

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

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 ...

TIES is a Berlin-based event series by Borshch magazine’s Mariana Berezovska and TYME. It celebrates the resilience of the city’s music communities and diasporas ...

The SoundSysters are a feminist sound crew that was founded in 2013 by women working as self-employed audio engineers. The collective is united by ...

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

Katrin Hahner (Berlin/Reykjavik) is a multidisciplinary and genre-bending sonic and visual artist and mastermind behind the new project KENICHI & THE SUN. Inspired by ...

Jeannel is an interdisciplinary artist, producer, singer and cellist. Growing up in a musical household, she received classical cello lessons from age six, and ...

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

Goodbye or hello? The art festival You Say Goodbye, We Say Hello invited to the Atelierhaus Australische Botschaft (Ost) with music, workshops, art installations ...

AUF is the band of singer and guitarist Anne Rolfs and drummer Mathias Brendel, based in Berlin. Anne Rolfs first became known as the ...

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

Five actors of the RambaZamba theatre group, amongst them two with Down syndrome, form a band called 21 Downbeat. Their songs evolve from own ...

Ava Vegas spent most of her youth on Ibiza, living in a small house her parents had built. Influenced by the Spanish island’s techno ...

Timur Tokdemir aka Mechatok hails from Munich but calls Berlin his home now. With his debut EP ›See Thru‹ the producer proved a distinct ...

Lucrecia Dalt first discovered the craft of music after a brief career as a civil engineer in Medellín, Colombia. Since that time, she has ...

Launched in 2020 with the Corona pandemic in mind, Picnic FM seeks to satisfy the hunger for a shared, live music experience in a ...

The objective of the #PANDAwomen Festival is to present women from the Eastern European music scene and to support alternative music projects by women, ...

Kutzkelina aka Doreen Kutzke is a German actress, performance artist, composer, singer, and vocal teacher specialising in the art of yodelling. She grew up ...

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

Bad Hammer are a shadow pop band who live and work in Berlin. Close-ups of nostalgia and sensation inspire Bad Hammer‘s timeless and cinematic ...

The sound of yunis is dynamic and intricate, but always bringing a fully-fleshed vibe that’s capable of moving dancefloors and fuelling the imagination alike. ...

Best known for her visceral rap performances, Berlin-based Cuban-American artist Rachel de la Torre (aka Lamb Kebab) attempts to reexamine the perspectives and roles ...

Mary Ocher is a singer-songwriter, poet, director and visual artist. Born in Moscow in 1986, she immigrated with her family first to Israel and ...

Gigolo Tears sounds like a banana split, broken hearts and the oiled muscles of a female bodybuilder on the beach. It is the solo ...

UNTRAINING THE EAR explores new ways of experiencing sound. With strategies of unlearning and processes of relearning, the listening sessions aim to decipher sound ...

Jamila & The Other Heroes are the new, wild and lively band, based in Berlin that creates funkadelic music. Since 2016 the singer has ...

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, ...

The interview project examines the changes in everyday life of musicians. On a total of four evenings, two interview guests each discuss how economic ...

Grandma and Grandpa want one thing at all costs: to give their grandson piano lessons. They put aside the money to drag him to ...

Erregung Öffentlicher Erregung play post-punk. They combine the energy of early punk with Krautrock’s driving beat and love for monotony, as well as the ...

»It all started within herself« describes Kya Kyani, who grew up in Amsterdam to Surinamese parents. Socialised as an orthodox Rastafarian, Kya Kyani was ...

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 ...

Those tender moments of cathartic house euphoria are what Sara Miller strives for, as the Irish-born DJ and producer conducts blissful trajectories through the ...

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

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 ...

Meat Moabit is a four-part concert series focusing on the diverse genre that are Metal, Doom, Gothic, Rock, Post Punk, Indie (and their crossover-hybrids) ...

Five Berlin boys and a small cellar: The result resembles a rather dense piece of pastry. It smells a little bit like Indie, tastes ...

Known as half of Berlin-based indie duo Gurr, Andreya Casablanca’s solo project shows an eagerness to experiment with genres outside of her comfort zone. ...

Tele was founded in Freiburg end of the 1990s playing typical indie-guitar-rock. ›Tausend und ein Verdacht‹, the band’s self-distributed debut album, was released in ...

The concert and event series Spotlight, held at Gretchen, was created to bring women into focus on stage. Women are still underrepresented in the ...

Jenny Penkin brings a new flavour to music with her gentle yet determined voice. Influenced by neo-soul artists on the one hand and all ...

Tucké Royale and Hans Unstern founded BOIBAND in early 2016 with Black Cracker as producer. Boy with I stands for the problematization of manhood, ...