Three songs about knowing your worth, chasing bigger things and figuring out who you are when everyone is watching.This week's Three Track Week 35 brings together three songs that approach pop from ve...

Five new tracks about what we carry with us - memories, identities, relationships, and the communities we find along the wayMusic can hold onto things that are difficult to put into words. A relations...

Three songs about the ways connection, memory and self-perception shape how we move through the world.This week’s Three Track Week 34 looks at the spaces between connection and distance, experimentati...

Five artists from Iceland, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway brought Nordic folk, electronic music and experimental sounds to Berlin’s Kesselhaus.There is a particular kind of silence that only happ...

Three songs that turn inner pressure, creative chaos and self-respect into completely different sounds.This week’s Three Track Week 33 moves between atmospheric alternative pop, genre-defying experime...

Five releases shaped by love, ambition, groove and the art of staying true to yourself.Some songs arrive with a story already attached to them. Others ask for a little more patience, letting their ide...

From heartbreak and whiskey-soaked nights to family, Southern roots and finding purpose, Riley Green’s fourth album traces the different versions of a life.Editorial Review | Partner FeatureThere is a...

Five releases about artistic survival, love, self-reinvention, and the pressure to keep moving.German-language music can hold a lot of different worlds. Some songs put complicated feelings into plain ...

Five independent releases about creative resistance, summer memories, emotional honesty, DIY communities and finding perspective when life feels overwhelming.Music can be a way of pushing back, holdin...

Five new releases about attachment, change, uncertainty and the messy space in between.Some songs are about knowing exactly where you stand. Others are much more interested in what happens when you do...

Five new discoveries looking at anxiety, burnout, intimacy, political awareness and the strange ways music helps us make sense of the world around us.Music does not always have to be explicitly politi...

Three songs that turn vulnerability, self-doubt and the fight for self-preservation into different forms of sound.This week’s Three Track Week Signals 15 moves between raw hardcore, futuristic post-pu...

Five new discoveries moving between post-punk, chamber pop, dark alt-pop, electronic indie and melodic punk.Some songs arrive with a lot going on around them. A new album, a story, a video, a whole wo...

Three songs that find their own balance between emotion, energy and atmosphere.This week’s Three Track Week 32 moves between atmospheric Pop/R&B, driving ’70s-inspired rock and calm, expansive shoegaz...

Five new releases moving through love, heartbreak, experimentation, anger and complicated attachment.This week’s On This Track Weekend Listening 11 selection moves between indie rock, country, experim...

Three songs about breaking free, searching for escape and finding your own space.Three songs that move between defiance, pressure and dreamlike introspection. This week's Three Track Week Signals 14: ...

Five new discoveries moving from dark alt-rock and folk-pop to jazz, melodic punk and post-electronic grooves.Five releases, five very different ways of dealing with what happens when life gets compli...

What would a music industry look like if gender equality were not merely an aspiration, but a reality?That question sits at the heart of "The Sound of Courage – Music and Equality in the Nordic Countr...

A conversation about cultural ownership, collaboration and why “the source matters”By the time Ria Boss stepped into the audience at the Palais of Kulturbrauerei, the distance between stage and crowd ...

Our final day at Pop-Kultur Festival Berlin takes us from hypnotic folk-inspired sounds and meditative performance art to intimate German pop and a packed Kesselhaus.Our final day at Pop-Kultur starte...

Our third day at Pop-Kultur Festival Berlin takes us through African pride, intimate electronic performances, darkwave and explosive indie rock at the Kulturbrauerei.By Friday evening, the Kulturbraue...

Five artists we discovered during our first two days at Pop-Kultur Festival Berlin.Pop-Kultur Festival is the kind of festival where it is difficult to leave with just one impression. Across our first...

Our second day at Pop-Kultur Festival brings us from dreamy pop and jazz-infused sounds to heavy bass, wild performances and new connections at Festsaal Kreuzberg.After our first night at Pop-Kultur F...

Five new discoveries spanning indie dance, punk history, strange synths and folk.Five releases, five very different ways of looking at music. This week's On This Track Midweek Listening 6 moves from F...

Our first day at Pop-Kultur Festival takes us through experimental performances, unexpected sounds, and different worlds of music at silent green.The first thing I noticed at Kino Arsenal was the sile...

Did the Internet Kill Punk? “Generation Y Punk” Looks Back at a Subculture in TransitionPunk has been declared dead countless times. For the generation that entered the scene around the turn of the mi...

Three songs that build momentum in completely different waysThis week’s Three Track Week 31 moves between hypnotic alternative, driving Southern rock and melodic emo. Samuel Virgo keeps things strippe...

Dreamy guitars, honest feelings and the memories behind Sesame Girl’s new EPInterview FeatureThere’s something very personal about the way Sesame Girl write. Their new EP, "Butterfly Wing in a Silver ...

Five new releases about desire, identity, change, heartbreak and finding your way forward.Some songs pull you in straight away. Others take a little longer, and sometimes it's the detail that makes yo...

Three songs about power, restless minds and the messy process of finding your way back to yourself.Some songs hit you with noise, some pull you into a mood, and others take their time to reveal what t...

What happens when a festival deliberately puts things together that do not seem to belong together? A folk act next to electronic pop. A Berlin newcomer alongside an international artist. Club culture...

A Space That Doesn’t Need to Explain ItselfLocated in Kreuzberg, SO36 is one of Berlin’s best-known spaces for punk, independent music and queer culture. Its history is visible in the room, but SO36 d...

Five new releases about heartbreak, change, second chances and the things we carry with us.The five releases in this week's On This Track: Weekend Listening 9 move from a record that waited twenty yea...

Three songs about the space between what we expect and what we actually find.A signal might not mean what we think it does. Other people can start making choices for us. And sometimes the place we've ...

Distorted guitars, restless synths and a song that somehow manages to put everything in the same room.Artist Feature | New Release“Full Spectrum Dominance” doesn't ease you into Dummy's new era. It st...

Four new releases moving from theatrical metal and art rock to alternative guitars, folk-punk and uncompromising hardcore.Four songs. Four completely different moods. This week's On This Track Midweek...

A small, unpolished venue with a strong sense of communityTucked into Kreuzberg, Wild at Heart feels like a venue that has never had much interest in becoming polished. The walls are covered in sticke...

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Different sounds, different moods, but none of these three songs takes long to find its way under your skin.Southern rock, soft indie pop and melodic punk don't seem like obvious neighbors. Yet Trista...

Heavy riffs. Dark atmosphere. No wasted moments.Editorial Review | Partner FeatureWhen "The Walls Breathe" begins, EPTA7 doesn't waste any time. The opening guitar riff comes in almost straight away, ...

Five new releases proving that there's more than one way to move forwardFive artists. Five completely different ideas. That's what made putting this week's On This Track Weekend Listening 8 together s...

The Stories We Carry Without NoticingSome ideas become so familiar that we stop questioning them. We assume we know what strength looks like. We decide what's dangerous before looking twice. We even b...

Three new independent releases worth adding to your weekThree songs. Three completely different moods. In On This Track Midweek Listening 4, we move from hypnotic electronic production to hook-filled ...

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Not because they shout the loudest, but because they give you a reason to press play againI didn't expect these three releases to have much in common. One is a brand-new single. One is a live performa...

The Ship of Theseus in Modern MusicWhen you see posts on social media announcing that a band member has left the band or been kicked out, you often read comments like, "This isn't my band anymore" or ...

Five new songs that prove moving on rarely sounds the sameSome songs arrive with quiet reflection. Others ask you to turn the volume up and keep driving. This week's On This Track Weekend Listening 7 ...

How Independent Artists Resist Conventional NarrativesMusic careers are often told as straightforward stories. Artists find their voice, success follows, and each new release becomes another step forw...

A slow-burning dream pop track that rewards patience with an unexpected, emotionally charged finale.Some songs pull you in immediately. Others take their time. "The Difference" belongs to the second g...

Some songs stay with you because of what they say. Others because of the way they make you listen.This week's Three Track Week 27 brings together three very different releases. Nanaco Sato turns a sin...