Charli XCX – Music, Fashion, Film The pop provocateur turns muse into manifesto Charli XCX has spent the better part of a decade dismantling what mainstream pop is supposed to sound like. From her early mixtape run with Vroom Vroom and the era-defining Pop 2, through...
livia Rodrigo has never been particularly interested in playing it cool. Since her seismic debut single drivers license broke streaming records in early 2021 and announced her as one of pop’s most emotionally unguarded voices, the Los Angeles-born singer-songwriter has built an entire career on the radical act of feeling things too much and writing about it anyway.
RAPK – „Mond“ RAPK richten den Blick nach oben und bleiben doch mit beiden Füßen in Kreuzberg: "Mond" ist eine neue Single, die weniger auf laute Rap-Gesten setzt als auf nächtliche Atmosphäre, Melancholie und dieses typische Großstadtgefühl zwischen Sehnsucht,...
Walk into a Vietnamese spot in Lichtenberg run by the same family for thirty years, then into a Mexican-Japanese tasting counter operating out of what used to be a Neukölln laundromat, and you'll...
Nobody tells Berlin's food scene what to do. Not the Michelin inspectors, not the venture capital crowd, not the landlords jacking up rents for the fourth consecutive year. The city eats on its own...
While we've spent countless years devoted to the concept, vibe and lifestyle of what we consider the indie approach to life, I have to admit this is a new one on me: indie beer. #MyBetterHalf...
The Indie Berlin Music Marketing Playbook — Week 3 Last week we talked about the one-sheet — your single-page snapshot for a quick introduction. This week we go one level deeper: the EPK, or...
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Bandcamp Takes a Stand: Putting Human Creativity First - plus Bandcamp Fridays! While Bandcamp looks ahead to an expanded 2026 schedule,...
Hey there, fellow music makers! This week, we're focusing on the world of Instagram. That magical platform where visuals meet your music and where fans can get a glimpse into your world. I know what...
Berlin and Germany have become especially strong climate-tech hubs because they combine a wealth of engineering talent, strong public and private funding (although there could always be more haha),...
Berlin has long worn its cosmopolitan identity like a badge of honour. Cheap rents, a deep creative gene pool, and a "come as you are" culture turned a reunified city into one of Europe's most...
The future of European tech is being forged in the skeleton of its industrial past. In Berlin's startup epicenters, century-old factories aren't just being preserved—they're being weaponized as...
Two years is nothing in the life of a country and an eternity in the life of a government. Keir Starmer arrived at Number 10 in July 2024 with the biggest Labour majority in a generation and left...
Spring is edging its way warily into the room, back against the wall so that winter motherfucker doesn't jump it from behind, as it has been known to do in the past…but this time spring's ready for...
Welcome to the beginning of our series WTF Politics from indieBerlin where we take a weekly meander through what's happening in German politics, every Tuesday - especially for expats and...