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If you think that just one weekend’s worth of loud music can’t have a major impact on your hearing, then it’s time to think again. And it’s time to think more seriously about it at this point in time because the festival season is about to start! Here are a few words from a grumpy old festivalgoer making this mistake for …

Around Sweden there are still Folkets Park (Volkspark in German and Google Translate calls it “the People’s Park” in English but I would say bullshit on that translation – does not sound correct) with long histories of entertainment in forms of dance and concerts. Several of the Swedish festivals were located in these parks, like Arvika and Hultsfred, which gave …

The endless stream of electronic bands from Germany seems to never end and on the darkwave, gothic, synthpop and futurepop scenes there are numerous bands facing the struggle of standing out in the crowd of electronic acts, yet to be discovered to get their timeslot in the spotlight. Osnabrück darkwave and electropop band Alphamay is certainly one of those bands …

With influences of the 1960s and the golden age of psychedelic rock however fused into a modern mix of stoner rock and bits and pieces of grunge, Birth of Joy swings the psychedelic hammer into the 2010s and skillfully find the “psychedelic authenticity” of the sixties on their new album “Hyper Focus”. Messed!Up’s editor, marked by the psychedelic rock imprint …

Every decade or so, a wave of young bands comes charging out of the soggy, overcast United Kingdom and ricochets around the globe, recalibrating how we listen to rock music and charting a course for the next ten years. Established music media such as Pitchfork, NME and Rolling Stone create endless lists of new and upcoming bands from the UK …

Catching up with the current incarnation of former dark goth rockers Klimt 1918 from Italy almost twenty years after their formation, was going to be an affair focused to the changing sound, the Italian underground scene and the connection between music and art. Messed!Up met up with Francesco Conte and founding member Paolo Soellner after their show at Hafenklang in …