Reviews

The venerable Ox Fanzine invited all the Ruhrpott punks and genre-adjacent music lovers to its very own mini-festival at Don’t Panic. Though one of the five bands (Death by Horse) had to cancel due to illness, it was still a thoroughly enjoyable evening with remarkable momentum. Wick Bambix kicked things off with her acoustic guitar, but not completely solo (as …

Gluecifer! Finally! The band and I have quite a special relationship: I only really got into them after they split up. And when the acclaimed live reunion came in 2017, I had a ticket for the show in Berlin, but unfortunately, I couldn’t make it and could only hear from others how magical and magnificent the concert must have been. …

Last night, as part of their highly anticipated “Lumin Rain” tour, Arc de Soleil transformed the intimate basement of Hamburg’s Mojo Club into a warm, undulating soundscape. The Swedish-Sri Lankan brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Daniel Kadawatha, known for his signature blend of psychedelic funk, surf-rock flair, and Egyptian-inspired atmosphere, delivered a performance that was as technically brilliant as it was overwhelmingly …

Dan Snaith and his alter ego Caribou returned to Hamburg, the city that didn’t want to book him 15 years ago when he struggled to stand out in the crowd of bands, and where support DJ act Sofia Kourtesis – at the time a local promoter – came to his rescue to so solve the crisis. Ever since, Kourtesis and …

Growing up in Sweden and being a huge music fan, there wasn’t many options if you wanted to go to a summer festival. Basically, there was one big music festival back in the 1990s, called the Hultsfred Festival. The festival gave smaller Swedish a unique chance to play smaller slots before big international bands, and heaps of Swedish bands turned …

It’s rare that I head off to cover a festival not knowing 80 percent of the bands on the line-up, but Viva Sounds Festival in Gothenburg always finds new rising artists and it always ends up with me going home with one or two new favorites to follow years ahead. Isn’t that the reason to go to festivals, to discover …