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Berlin startup That Was Easy AI shows how easy AI can be

Welcome to our brand new series featuring the best and coolest startups in Berlin and Brandenburg! Cool Berlin Startup #1: That Was Easy AI While "AI" - more than an artificial intellect, but a truly intelligent AI - is being bandied around so much at the moment that...

Video Premiere: Bookie Baker – The Ideal Expiration of a Stubborn Man

Having been a fan of Bookie Baker for years, ever since coming across their brilliant pseudo-western video for single Autumn Wind, we're delighted to be able to premiere their brand new video single "The Ideal Expiration of a Stubborn Man"....

The Cure: Songs Of A Lost World album review

By Ameena Ceesay If asked to name the most iconic alternative bands, or even iconic bands of the past 40 years, The Cure would and should spring to mind. After 16 years, the goth pioneers return with a new album, and all anticipation is met with brilliance. THE...

US chooses a dark path

I'm writing this early in the morning of the 6th November, and the truth is that not all the results of the US election are in yet. But, shockingly, disappointingly, frustratingly, it looks all too much as if Trump is set to win.* What happened to you, USA? For...

Red Dot Design Awards Best Brands & Communciation Exhibition from 2.11

Museum für Kommunikation Berlin presents the winners of the Red Dot Design Awards - exhibition opening on 2 November 2024 On 2 November 2024, the studio exhibition ‘Best Brands & Communication Design - Red Dot Winners Selection 2024’ will open at the Museum für...

Listen to Berlin Awards 12.11

On the 12th November the hoi polloi of the Berlin Independent music scene will gather once again for the year's highlight that is the Listen to Berlin awards, the night kicking off the Most Wanted Music conference and festival that starts the next day. And you get to...

Band of Freedom – 700 musicians and the Berlin Wall 9th November

The 9th of November is a date to remember in Berlin: because this is the day that, 35 years ago and almost by accident, the iron curtain broke, the Berlin Wall opened, and the two Berlins became one (okay that did take a while but this was definitely a dramatic...

Get Ready for MW:M24 – Workshops, Networking, and More at Most Wanted: Music 2024!

MW:M24 is back and better than ever! This year's edition brings hands-on workshops with experts from various fields in the music industry, covering topics from sustainability and AI to booking and monetization models. Don’t miss the chance to boost your industry...

Coma 54 lay down the gauntlet with debut EP Punkt Eins

Berlin-based, Irish-origin indie-rock band COMA 54 is set to release their first EP Punkt Eins on October 10th 2024, marking a significant milestone in the band's journey. While previously released singles have embraced more melodic set pieces, Punkt Eins, the single...

MW:M Empowering Local Music Markets X Balkan

Balkan x MW:M This year for the first time MW:M is running a pilot project in cooperation with one of the leading music business and showcase festivals in central and eastern Europe, MENT in Ljubljana, Slovenia and the Balkan wide initiative New Faces. Dogaja project...

“THIS IS YOUR LIFE. DO WHAT YOU LOVE, AND DO IT OFTEN. IF YOU DON’T LIKE YOUR JOB, QUIT. IF YOU DON’T HAVE ENOUGH TIME, STOP WATCHING TV. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE, STOP; THEY WILL BE WAITING FOR YOU WHEN YOU START DOING THINGS YOU LOVE. STOP OVER ANALYZING, LIFE IS SIMPLE. ALL EMOTIONS ARE BEAUTIFUL. WHEN YOU EAT, APPRECIATE EVERY LAST BITE. OPEN YOUR MIND, ARMS, AND HEART TO NEW THINGS AND PEOPLE, WE ARE UNITED IN OUR DIFFERENCES. ASK THE NEXT PERSON YOU SEE WHAT THEIR PASSION IS, AND SHARE YOUR INSPIRING DREAM WITH THEM. TRAVEL OFTEN; GETTING LOST WILL HELP YOU FIND YOURSELF. SOME OPPORTUNITIES ONLY COME ONCE, SEIZE THEM. LIFE IS ABOUT THE PEOPLE YOU MEET, AND THE THINGS YOU CREATE WITH THEM SO GO OUT AND START CREATING. LIFE IS SHORT. LIVE YOUR DREAM AND SHARE YOUR PASSION.”
-THE HOLSTEE MANIFESTO – WHICH WE EMBRACE

In Review: NO trigger

In 2022, No Trigger released their third studio album, Dr. Album, a decade after their sophomore record. Filled to the brim with melodic hardcore anthems, they’ve been playing around the world to bring it to the live stage, gracing us with a gig at Badehaus. “We don’t...

a new kind of social media: Getting started with Mastodon

Social media: You love it, you hate it. You find yourself in weak moments scrolling numbly down, clicking and swiping, brain in a fog. You click on a link you didn't mean to and end up in a rabbit hole of strange content, wondering how you got there...and where the...

Phileas in interview: “Almost Flawless”

Phileas in interview: “Almost Flawless”

The artist known only as Phileas – French-born, Berliner by choice – has been impressing people wide and far with his sonorous, rather sombre music over the last few years. His 2022 debut album was described by Rolling Stone as "almost flawless" and was "Album of the...