"I'm willing to take the risk that I might be the only one who likes it."
INTERVIEW: Director and actor Patrick O'Beirne refines absurdist stage performance and shares what Berlin might need to escape theatre bureaucracy, just in time for his English-language series Out of...
View ArticleBlack Rebel Motorcycle Club: Lightning strikes twice
INTERVIEW! Robert Levon Been formed the drone-y, neo-psych trio BRMC in the late 1990s. This year brings a new record and their own label. Berlin awaits rebellion on Sunday, April 7 at C-Halle.
View Article"Reality is not enough for me anymore"
INTERVIEW. Denis Côté not only has a full retrospective of his work at Arsenal from Apr 12-23, but also a phenomenal new feature called Bestiaire, a genre-defying portrait of animals shot in eight days...
View ArticleExclusive! Pussy Riot battles on!
INTERVIEW. Pussy Riot's Yekaterina Samutsevich has been taking on the big guns yet again, this time with Der Spiegel. On probation in Moscow since 2010, the punkette rocker fights back against claims...
View Article"You always want to play the part you're not right for"
INTERVIEW: Mark Wahlberg long ago swapped out drugs and the moniker Marky Mark for the role of actor and producer. But he still enjoys a brush with crime, playing the betrayed good-cop in his latest...
View ArticleEight questions for Aron Sanchez of Buke and Gase
INTERVIEW. Brooklyn-based duo Buke and Gase's handmade instruments make them difficult to classify, but create a sound definitely easy to listen to. Catch them at Berghain on April 22.
View ArticleFive questions for... Jon Spencer
INTERVIEW. Jon Spencer is the linchpin of both Pussy Galore and current outfit Blues Explosion which ushered in the White Stripes era. They’ll be blowing up Mr. Dynamite on May 1 at Heimathafen Neukölln.
View Article"I’m not really compatible with rich people"
INTERVIEW. Andreas Koch may have shut down his art space Koch + Kesslau in 2004, and for good reasons, but the Berlin artist continues to have a full palette. The newest issue of his art magazine "von...
View ArticleYou & Nic Down by Gretchen: Nic Offer of !!!
INTERVIEW: While Tyler Pope has abdicated his post amongst the exclaiming post-punk dance band, Nic Offer keeps the chking going strong. They gig Thri!!!er at Gretchen on Sat, May 4.
View ArticleIt's raining film: Raindance Film Festival hits Berlin
INTERVIEW: Elliot Grove is the creator of London's Raindance Film Festival, arriving in Berlin on Friday, May 10, with a crash course in indie filming and some boozing and schmoozing.
View ArticleWe are still Modeselektor
INTERVIEW: OB-boys (as in Ost Berlin) Sebastian Szary and Gernot Bronsert started making electronic music two decades ago in the ripely unified Hauptstadt. Monkeytown Records released a DVD-only...
View ArticleSeven questions for... Occupy Barbie Dreamhouse
INTERVIEW: Barbie Dreamhouse, in all its pre-fab tackiness, opens today. Instead of Ken, Berlin may have other occupiers in mind: Occupy Barbie Dreamhouse. They hold a demo on May 16 on Alexanderplatz...
View ArticleKate Strong – "What would critics do without our mistakes?"
Theatertreffen INTERVIEW. Praised by the jury for her "wonderfully overwrought, stylized circus figures," British performer Kate Strong is coming to the Theatertreffen for the second year in a row.
View ArticleTricky of the trade
INTERVIEW. The magnetic Bristolian is back in both original form and Berlin, Wed, May 22 at Berghain with Mykki Blanco, sporting a new album, False Idols (!K7), a new label, and a new attitude. Sort of.
View Article"At times, I wanted to abandon the project"
INTERVIEW: Romanian director and Golden Bear winner Călin Peter Netzer's post-communist film drama, Mutter und Sohn, is out in theatres now. Oedipal and social themes abound and it has the film...
View ArticleWater music: HEALTH bassist John Famiglietti
HEALTH, for which John Famiglietti makes bass faces, is one of the few noise bands with an ecstatic dance world following. Get a prescription at the latest Certain People night at Berghain on Wed, June 5.
View ArticleFive questions for... Scout Niblett
INTERVIEW. The star-gazing indie gem Scout Niblett brings her latest, It's Up to Emma, to the Berlin stage. Scout her out for yourself tonight, Mon, Jun 3 at Volksbühne.
View Article“Telling a story is no longer really possible”
INTERVIEW. Explore the work of Lebanese-American poet and artist Etel Adnan through dance and drama in Corinna Harfouch and Frank Raddatz's Dreizehn Drei Dreizehn, taking over HAU 2's stage from Thu,...
View Article“You felt this sweep of history”
INTERVIEW: Olivier Assayas' Après mai charts the idealism and conflicts of a group of young Parisians, coming of age in the wake of May 1968. He uses his own experiences of the time to inform the...
View ArticleEXBlicks: My Hungary in Berlin
INTERVIEW: Rita Lengyel's first documentary looks at emigration, identity and attitude through the lens of her own Hungarian-German family. Catch it at the next EXBlicks at Lichtblick Kino on Mon, Jun...
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