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I first heard The Vaccines – Teenage Icon on one of the Berlin videos I was considering when I put together the posts for my Video Week. The refrain ‘I’m no teenage icon, I’m no Frankie Avalon’ has been stuck in my head ever since. The Vaccines – Teenage Icon [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/46295064 w=500&h=281]
Almost three weeks ago now, on his 66th birthday, David Bowie surprised everyone by releasing a new song – Where Are We Now? – a melancholy tune that reflects on his time living in Berlin in the 1970s. Following the new single’s release my social media feeds were abuzz with (mainly positive) reactions and Berlin […]
Real Scenes – Berlin by Resident Advisor, like a previous Sunday Documentary post, Children of Berlin, explores the explosion of Techno in Berlin after the fall of the wall. People who lived through and shaped the development of the Techno scene in Berlin discuss the factors that led to the city becoming the go-to destination […]
I don’t know much about the German music scene but I’ve heard the name Cro, so when the video for Einmal um die Welt (Once Around The World, for English speakers) popped up as a YouTube suggestion I decided to give it a click. And I’m glad I did. The catchy blend of Rap and […]
I’ve had First Aid Kit – Hard Believer bouncing around in my head since I saw the band walking around the DDR Museum in Berlin yesterday afternoon. Sisters Johanna and Klara Soderberg are from Stockholm, though you wouldn’t know they’re Swedish to hear them sing or talk. It’s almost as if they are channelling the […]
I was more than a little surprised to hear Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly – Find The Time playing as I walked along the aisles in Kaiser’s the other day. I guess someone must have picked up on the line ‘Or to move to Kreuzberg and escape into the night’ and decided it would be […]
My latest Ohrwurm is Foals – My Number. Foals made a big impression in the UK in 2008 with their debut album Antidotes but it left me cold. Their latest single, the catchy and upbeat My Number has caught my attention though. My Number is taken from Foals’ third studio album, Holy Fire, which will […]
The 1975 apparently caused quite a stir in 2012 but I’m only just hearing about them. And unfortunately for me, I discovered them just a couple of days too late because they played at Lido in Berlin on Wednesday – gutted. Formed at school in Manchester the band have been busy recording their debut album and will […]
Named Zane Lowe’s Single of the Week with good reason, Frightened Rabbit – The Woodpile is a belter of a song just made to be played with the volume turned up. I was surprised to learn that the band has been together since 2003 and will release their fourth studio album, Pedestrian Verse, in February […]
When a video has had over 1 billion hits on YouTube it’s bound to have a spawned a multitude of parodies. I loved Eton Style by the posh boys of Eton but this Gangnam Style parody based on the Ampelmännchen (the East Berlin green and red men) with its video filmed in Berlin is obviously […]
