Underground hip-hoppers Death Grips have a reputation for sticking the middle finger firmly in the face of the copyright system. They released their first mixtape, Ex-Military, under a Creative Commons non-commercial license allowing people to copy, distribute, display, and build derivative works based on their music. Then, Epic records got the same treatment. Having signed them and barred them from releasing their next albums under a Creative Commons license, they found out that the three piece from Sacramento might not be so easy to subdue with most of The Money Store and the entirety of No Love Deep Web being leaked online regardless. Catch them live in Berlin at Festsaal Kreuzberg on the 1st November and chip in €15 for a live performance and the three albums that they let you download, distribute and sample yourself for free.
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Underground hip-hoppers Death Grips have a reputation for sticking the middle finger firmly in the face of the copyright system. They released their first mixtape, Ex-Military, under a Creative Commons non-commercial license allowing people to copy, distribute, display, and build derivative works based on their music. Then, Epic records got the same treatment. Having signed them and barred them from releasing their next albums under a Creative Commons license, they found out that the three piece from Sacramento might not be so easy to subdue with most of The Money Store and the entirety of No Love Deep Web being leaked online regardless.

Catch them live in Berlin at Festsaal Kreuzberg on the 1st November and chip in €15 for a live performance and the three albums that they let you download, distribute and sample yourself for free.


 Decades after their brief yet influential career first ground to a sudden and mysterious halt, the Silver Apples remain one of pop music’s true enigmas: a surreal, almost unprecedented duo, their music explored interstellar drones and hums, pulsing rhythms and electronically-generated melodies years before similar ideas were adopted in the work of acolytes ranging from Suicide to Spacemen 3 to Laika. On Tuesday 11th at Festsaal Kreuzberg they buddy up with Brooklyn fuzzmongers Black Dice for an epic night of awesomeness from the outer limits. Don’t miss.
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 Decades after their brief yet influential career first ground to a sudden and mysterious halt, the Silver Apples remain one of pop music’s true enigmas: a surreal, almost unprecedented duo, their music explored interstellar drones and hums, pulsing rhythms and electronically-generated melodies years before similar ideas were adopted in the work of acolytes ranging from Suicide to Spacemen 3 to Laika. On Tuesday 11th at Festsaal Kreuzberg they buddy up with Brooklyn fuzzmongers Black Dice for an epic night of awesomeness from the outer limits. Don’t miss.

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Experimental noise rock group Micachu & the Shapes brings straightforward pop music sensibilities and avant-garde instrumentation together in a night of British indie music. Opening for the act is solo artist and freepop musician Kwes, whose music is largely informed by his color synaesthesia. It all goes down at 21:00, as part of Saalfest #2. DJs Masterfade and Swandansi from Urban Mutations will keep the party going all night long.
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Experimental noise rock group Micachu & the Shapes brings straightforward pop music sensibilities and avant-garde instrumentation together in a night of British indie music. Opening for the act is solo artist and freepop musician Kwes, whose music is largely informed by his color synaesthesia. It all goes down at 21:00, as part of Saalfest #2. DJs Masterfade and Swandansi from Urban Mutations will keep the party going all night long.

It’s a family affair tonight as Group Doueh, an avant rock band from Western Sahara, takes the stage at Festsaal Kreuzberg’s summer fest. The four-piece is made up of the Baamar family and a friend, and they put a psychedelic spin on conventional notions of traditional African music. Using instruments native to their homeland—including the tinidit, lute, and tbal—alongside more classicly Western, electrically amplified devices, this desert blues band has been fusing Mauritanian rhythms and straight-up rock for years.
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It’s a family affair tonight as Group Doueh, an avant rock band from Western Sahara, takes the stage at Festsaal Kreuzberg’s summer fest. The four-piece is made up of the Baamar family and a friend, and they put a psychedelic spin on conventional notions of traditional African music. Using instruments native to their homeland—including the tinidit, lute, and tbal—alongside more classicly Western, electrically amplified devices, this desert blues band has been fusing Mauritanian rhythms and straight-up rock for years.

US psych titans Wooden Shjips are in Berlin with the sole intention of bending all the minds that make it down to Festsaal Kreuzberg tonight. Prior to 2006, Wooden Shjips was an experiment in primitive and minimalist rock. After the project imploded, Ripley Johnson, guitar and vocals, assembled the current line-up of Dusty Jermier on bass, Nash Whalen on organ and Omar Ahsanuddin on drums. Fast forward to 2011 and West is the first record the band have made in a proper studio. The overriding theme of the album is the American West and the raw romanticism, mythology and idealism it embodies. It’s easy to see why these traits would appeal to Wooden Shjips, as their music lends itself to exploration. So while the venue tonight might feel like a familiar stomping ground, allow Wooden Shjips to take you on a journey to who knows where. Opening tonight’s show is UK folk legend Michael Chapman who needs no introduction, but here’s two anyway courtesy of BBC’s Spencer Grady and Q Magazine: Grady: Just as John Fahey and Robbie Basho were belatedly sainted by a slew of avant-garde musicians eager to enrich their experimental fields with old primitive tradition, so the same enclave have reached out to embrace Yorkishire-born minstrel Michael Chapman. Q Mag: This is the sound of a real songwriter who’s lived a real life and all that entails.   Wooden Shjips // Michael Chapman | Tonight, 21:00 at Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin
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US psych titans Wooden Shjips are in Berlin with the sole intention of bending all the minds that make it down to Festsaal Kreuzberg tonight.

Prior to 2006, Wooden Shjips was an experiment in primitive and minimalist rock. After the project imploded, Ripley Johnson, guitar and vocals, assembled the current line-up of Dusty Jermier on bass, Nash Whalen on organ and Omar Ahsanuddin on drums. Fast forward to 2011 and West is the first record the band have made in a proper studio. The overriding theme of the album is the American West and the raw romanticism, mythology and idealism it embodies. It’s easy to see why these traits would appeal to Wooden Shjips, as their music lends itself to exploration. So while the venue tonight might feel like a familiar stomping ground, allow Wooden Shjips to take you on a journey to who knows where.

Opening tonight’s show is UK folk legend Michael Chapman who needs no introduction, but here’s two anyway courtesy of BBC’s Spencer Grady and Q Magazine:

Grady: Just as John Fahey and Robbie Basho were belatedly sainted by a slew of avant-garde musicians eager to enrich their experimental fields with old primitive tradition, so the same enclave have reached out to embrace Yorkishire-born minstrel Michael Chapman.

Q Mag: This is the sound of a real songwriter who’s lived a real life and all that entails.  

Wooden Shjips // Michael Chapman | Tonight, 21:00 at Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin

If you’re not up to speed with US-based punk music, tonight’s your tip at Festsaal Kreuzberg. The Spits have been around for more than a moment, but have stayed fresh while taking punk to its essentials of angular rhythms enhanced with DEVO-styled synths. Originally from Seattle, these gut-busting dudes will invigorate and compel you to mosh your neighbor when they play only one of two shows in Germany this evening. Backing them up will be the no-less-impressive mostly girl group Hunx and His Punx, originally from San Francisco. Their homoerotic pop-punk will remind you that a glam, gay frontman is the true talent behind their trashy sexual antics.

Check out the event here.

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