Music media often focus on the legends, icons and pioneers that we love to celebrate and pay tribute to from a very young age when we pin their posters to the wall in our childhood rooms. Messed!Up have used this kind of terminology as well, especially in our articles about Midge Ure and Anton Newcombe, two musicians that rarely need …

There’s no denying that all the great love stories throughout history are also abound with great tragedy. In my lifetime I’ve yet to see another musical genre that had the power to inspire an entire revolution and attract as much love as the grunge movement did in the 1990’s, then only for it to suddenly “die” a few years later. …

Reeperbahn Festival 2018 is around the corner and Messed!Up Magazine will be on location to do interviews, reviews and photo shoots of bands. Since it was first conceived in 2006 it has evolved into what is now a worldleading series of conferences, meetings, award shows, industry training sessions and hundreds of live performances, spread over four days and most of …

Fourteen years after their debut EP and three albums later, making them household names and ushered a generation of indie kids onto the dancefloor, Digitalism still continues to produce a never-ending stream of electronic club hits. The last three years have even seen a much more focused work ethos by taking control of their career and starting their own label, Magnetism. …

In Europe, every country claims its own hip-hop identity, with many countries, as France and the UK, making their imprints with their unique and formidable characters. In recent years, a lot of German acts have been drawing on Germany’s unique social flavor, creating a socially-rooted rap scene. Like Germany’s ever-growing international community, the scene is broad, accommodating all types of …

Is it possible to have a two-day festival at Sweden’s national arena for swimming, Eriksdalsbadet? Yes, of course! And you are allowed to use one of the swimming pool’s during the festival days! Popaganda Festival usually represents the end of the summer and the arrival of the fall, and this year was no different; Friday was burdened by typical Swedish …