The Depressing Grandeur of Billy Woods
Portrait
When fear is not only breathing down your neck, but right in front of you: Billy Wood's new album is so impressively oppressive because the threat comes from all directions.
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Various Artists
Kompakt 500
Kompakt
Maria Somerville
Luster
4AD
Eliot Lipp
Kona/Silver Bass
Bastard Jazz
Cuneiform Tabs
Age
W.25TH
Deradoorian
Ready For Heaven
Fire
Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru
Church Of Kidane Mehret
Mississippi
Cindytalk
Camouflage Heart
Dais
Credit 00
Put The Funk Back In 2 Techno
Rat Life
Bennie Maupin
The Jewel In The Lotus
ECM
Moin
Belly Up
AD93
24Jun 2025
Marcos Valle
Hamburg • Knust
Hamburg • Knust
07Jul 2025
Yeule
Berlin • Columbia Theaer
Berlin • Columbia Theaer
08Jul 2025
Massive Attack In Concert
Berlin • Zitadelle Spandau
Berlin • Zitadelle Spandau
12Jul 2025
Gaswerk Music Days 2025
Berlin • Gaswerksiedlung (+8 more)
Berlin • Gaswerksiedlung (+8 more)
Radical live music at Berlin’s Gaswerk Music Days in July
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Caribbean in the Karoviertel: »Tropical Birds« starts in September
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The Mighty Mocambos hit the road with a new album
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Carmen Electro plays an exclusive Vinyl Set at the HHV Store
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CACTUS Party Series celebrates Premiere this Friday in Berlin
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Mulatu Astatke on Farewell Tour – one last time in Berlin in September
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Surprise Chef to play their only German show this September in Berlin
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Clapper returns with vibrant sophomore album »Under the Radar«
News
Label Watch: Nø Førmat!
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For over 20 years, Paris-based label Nø Førmat! has championed music beyond market trends – from African collaborations to modern classical. Founder Laurent Bizot believes in artistic integrity over algorithms. In an AI-driven world, human unpredictability is his mission statement.
Surprise Chef on getting in the »bone zone« and rejecting Quincy Jones
Interview
If you love an analogue sound, there are fewer better than Australia’s Surprise Chef at delivering it. As they release their fourth album »Superb« on New York-based Big Crown Records, run by Leon Michels and Danny Akalepse, we talked to guitarist Lachlan Stuckey.
The sounds of Violeta García even make Peacocks sing
Portrait
Violeta García seeks the extreme in her music: sonically, physically, emotionally. Between noise, improvisation and curiosity, she creates a raw expression that defies all categories. When you listen to the Argentinian, you don’t just hear a cello, you hear an attitude.
Records Revisited: Willie Nelson – Red Headed Stranger (1975)
Column
Willie Nelson has released more than 100 albums. *Red Headed Stranger* is his magnum opus. Musically, it is simple in the best way – morally, however, it is highly complex.
Guest Mix: Abstraxion
Column
With his new EP »Void Sequence«, Abstraxion revisits the nineties without the retro filter. The French producer and DJ blends progressive house with a queer club consciousness and an underground vibe. This is also the case in our guest mix.
Moor Mother & Lonnie Holley live on May 16, 2025 at the XJAZZ Festival in the Festsaal Kreuzberg
Report
Free jazz meets spoken word, memory meets the future: at the XJAZZ Festival in Berlin, Moor Mother and Lonnie Holley create a sonic ceremony that transcends all genre boundaries. Their music is resistance, poetry and lived history all in one. A concert that moves.
Car Seat Headrest have never been amateurs – and now you can hear it, too
Portrait
Between the Iconic and the Unknown: The Legacy of Xmal Deutschland
Portrait
Records Revisited: Spoon – Gimme Fiction (2005)
Column
Emma-Jean Thackray doesn’t fit in, with her huge Baggage of Inspiration
Portrait
If you want to explain Franco Battiato’s music to someone, you have to go a long way
Portrait
Alice Coltrane and the Birth of Spiritual Jazz
Portrait
Marshall Allen: What is a Century in the Face of Eternity?
Portrait
The Eternal Myth of Les Rallizés Dénudés
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