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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...

Most Wanted Music Festival & Conference is coming round again

+++ MW:M Live 2024 +++Berlin’s Music Showcase Event is back:for the first time on two days! Get ready, music lovers: For the first time, MW:M Live will spread the excitement across two nights. Join us on November 13 and 14 as we spotlight a...

Gewalt are back

After receiving the unexpected news that their beloved bass player had decided to quit the band, Gewalt are ploughing on: The third single off their album, "Schwarz Schwarz," dropped on the 27th of September 2024, right before their new album "Doppeldenk" is about to...

Lor – Cameroonian sensation – live this weekend – don’t miss this one

* Weekend live special * Welcome LOR GOLDEN on Guitar, Looper, Vocals Lor on Audomack | Lor on Instagram Uplifting, empowering, and raw, Lor Golden is a rising star from Cameroon with an underlying gift to craft authentic lyrics derived from her experiences as a...

Mone in interview – appearing at Feral Folk Festival 21.9 Weissensee

The first edition of the Feral Folk Festival, put on by Roxy Rawson in cooperation with Famous Gold Watch Studio, with support from Music Board Berlin and presented by indie.berlin, is set to become a feral fixture in your calendar as it displays the best in folk,...

Miles East in Interview: renowned NYC session drummer turns songwriter

Miles East has spent over a decade as a top-of-the-league and in-demand session drummer in New York City. But he's much more than that: as his recent singles and brand new album show us, he's also a craftsman of a songwriter with a delicate touch and a voice to match....

Big Bang KI Festival 2024

This week (11th and 12th September) sees the DUP Unternehmer Day become the Big Bang KI Festival. Everyone's hopping on the AI bandwagon, it's true - or at least talking about it - but at the same time various aspects of AI (catapulted into the limelight as of two...

Indie Newcomers Atomic Lobster Speak Out

Atomic Lobster is a band from the lively Stuttgart music scene, consisting of Ella Estrella Tischa (guitar/vocals), Daniel Herrmann (bass/vocals) and Armando Bleher (drums). Inspired by greats such as PJ Harvey and Radiohead, they have developed their own unmistakable...

NEWS; REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS

Raye bei npr tiny concerts haut uns um

Ich kenne die Südlondoner Sängerin Raye durch ihren großen aktuellen Hit mit 070 Shake, Escapism. Hardcore perfekter knallharter Pop - siehe unten. Das hat mich dazu veranlasst, nachzusehen, was sie...

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Arlo Parks neue Single und neues Album

Die zweifach für den Grammy nominierte, mit dem Mercury Prize und dem BRIT Award ausgezeichnete Künstlerin Arlo Parks veröffentlicht ihre neue Single "Blades" aus ihrem zweiten Album My Soft...

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Arlo Parks new single and album

Two-time Grammy nominated, Mercury Prize and BRIT Award winning artist Arlo Parks releases her new single "Blades" from her sophomore album My Soft Machine, due out May 26. A Paul Epworth produced...

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