December 2012

  • Music Montag: Converge, Touché Amore

    Mike T West brings the pain. The sound of Oranienstraße salivating is audible this week as legendary punk hotspot SO36 hosts the end times a little early with the one-two dragon-punch of post-screamo future heroes Touché Amoré and their hardcore über uncles, mothershitting Converge! Los Angeles five-piece Touché Amoré are back in support of last year’s…

  • Music Montag: IAMX

    The best thing to come out of the storm-in-a-teacup over *that* New York Times Aussie-slacker-in-Berlin blog was the knowledge that Chris Corner is still producing music, in Berlin – his base since 2006. Buried at the bottom of The Local’s critique, “Struggling with Berlin’s artsy hype”, was a link to IAMX, the alias under which Corner has just released a…

  • How to Survive a Berlin Winter

    We’ve said it before: Berlin only has two seasons, summer and winter. As soon as it’s too cold to spend whole weekends in a beer garden or barbecue every meal, Berliners start ominously whispering “winter is coming”, as if they were Ned bloody Stark. Sometimes this is meant as a hint – “time to go…

  • Winter Walkies

    2 Responses to “Winter Walkies” Papaerk says: December 8, 2012 at 11:52 pm Love the pics, b and w always have a different effect bringing a new dimension to the shot..well done. Reply Kristina says: December 8, 2012 at 1:07 pm Loving the shots!! Make me miss Berlin! Even in the wintertime!! Enjoy and keep…

  • Music Montag: My Dry Wet Mess

    Photo by Amanda Ceccato 2012 My Dry Wet Mess is an Italian producer and visual artist who’s relocated to Berlin via Barcelona. Born Giovanni Civitenga, to the bass player in Ennio Morricone’s orchestra, he started making beats aged 14, trying to recreate the wibe of De La Soul’s Stakes is High using a sampler and…