Why Phoebe Bridgers is the defining indie pop star of our time
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Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that emerged in the 1950s and combines elements of rhythm and rlues and country music.
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Records Revisited: This Heat – This Heat (1979)
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Carla dal Forno on 10 records that have shaped her
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How unexpected collaborations gave rise to one of the most influential release series of the 1990s and 2000s
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Mitski and the ever-present desire for uneventfulness
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Maria Somerville live on 3 March 2026 at Silent Green in Berlin
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Die Nerven live on 28 February 2026 at Erlangen’s E‑Werk
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How Mica Levi, Moin, Still House Plants & Co. are continuing the tradition of breaking with tradition
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Records Revisited: Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974)
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Records Revisited: Sunn O))) – Black One (2005)
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How Water From Your Eyes find joy in slightly broken things
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Guest Mix: CV Vision
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Kate Bush is arguably the world’s most famous anti-pop star
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Big Thief on the Art of creating something great without small talk
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Alex G has made it – as the low-key megastar of indie
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Haim are taking a new path with their latest album, and it’s one you should follow
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Label Watch: Fox & His Friends
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An Introduction to Yugoslav Music History, Part 2: Liberalism and Disintegration
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An Introduction to Yugoslav Music History, Part 1: Music and Market Socialism
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Cuneiform Tabs help us to forget where we are
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Car Seat Headrest have never been amateurs – and now you can hear it, too
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Between the Iconic and the Unknown: The Legacy of Xmal Deutschland
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Records Revisited: Spoon – Gimme Fiction (2005)
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Derya Yıldırım picks 10 records that have shaped, improved and formed her
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If you want to explain Franco Battiato’s music to someone, you have to go a long way
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Jim Coleman picks 10 records that have shaped, improved and formed him
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Label Watch: Marionette
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Kelly Lee Owens picks 10 records that have shaped, improved and formed her
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Records Revisited: Yo La Tengo – And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-out (2000)
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Japanese New Wave On Dub 1980–1985
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United States Of Melancholia: Post Punk GDR 1982‑1991
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World Of Echo
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1000 Rabbits
Are We Friends Yet?
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Cluster
Sowiesoso
Bureau B
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Your Day Will Come
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Micha Acher of The Notwist
Henry And The Ghosts Songbook
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Chins For Lefty
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Opal Colored
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Jon Savage’s SF Sike 1966-72
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Spectacle Bonzai
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Everyone For Ten Minutes
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Perfect Crime
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Far East New Rock Invention 1969–1975
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Remember The Humans
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Toothpaste For Your Elephant
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Cloud Management & Vivien Goldman
Whoops Wrong Planet
Altin Village & Mine
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Outrageous post-punk to fall in love with: Concrete Vehicles are going on tour
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Chat Pile remain heavy – and allow more melody on new album
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beabadoobee brings in Hayley Williams, Chino Moreno and Brendan Yates for her new album
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Angine de Poitrine bring their microtonal math rock to Germany for the first time
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Freedom through complexity: Horse Lords’ new album arrives in June
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Domenique Dumont will be coming to Germany this spring
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CV Vision and Embryo meet in Berlin this February
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Between tradition and groove: Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek live in Berlin this November
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There’s even more to discover at Le Guess Who? this year!
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Has the Line-Up Just Got Even Better? The Week-End Fest 2025
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Puschenfest returns with Unwound, Tune-Yards, Automatic and Wombo at Berlin’s Festsaal Kreuzberg
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Panda Bear plays an exclusive Germany concert in Berlin this November – cancelled
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Noise rock newcomers YHWH Nailgun play live in Berlin in October
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Pop Melancholy and Violin Solos when Sofie Royer comes to Berlin
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Florist bring their enraptured Folk to German stages
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Wet Leg sharpen their sound – second album out in July
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Three steps from the »Abyss«, so Anika announces new album
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Black Country, New Road break new ground with new album »Forever Howlong«
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Dream and reality blur when Emika plays live in Berlin
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Music for the Soul: Tommy Guerrero plays live in Hamburg
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Derya Yıldırım and Grup Şimşek announce their fourth album »Yarın Yoksa«
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Skinshape brings his vintage sound to Berlin’s Gretchen and plays his first concert ever in Germany
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With »Als die Welt noch unterging« we are happily catapulting ourselves back into the abyss
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High Vis from London release their third album »Guided Tour« in October
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Lost Tapes of Coventry post-punk outfit Skeet to be released soon
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The timeless psychedelic pop of Wendy & Bonnie’s »Genesis« is being re-released
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Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek bring their Anatolian rock to the Berlin stage in September
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The Earth will Shake when Avalanche Kaito play live in Berlin in June
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More than 140 acts at this year’s Meakusma festival in Eupen, Belgium
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The rich variety of Turkish music at the first Acid Anatolia Fest in Hamburg in September
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