Tomorrow night, singer-songwriter Hanni El Khatib is performing his fusion of garage rock, blues and doo-wap at Berlin's Bassy Club. We sent Anastasia Lévy to find out about what the multi-instrumentalist and ex-skateboarder calls...read more
Sandra Amarie (a Canadian-born New Yorker) has been doing a lot of gigging around on the cool club + bar scene in Berlin and she's been getting herself noticed by all the right people (including BANG BANG BERLIN, ha!). Together with her four-piece...read more
Woah. Permit us a momentary freakout at the cosmic small-worldness of this ickle sphere we inhabit. Long-time Bang Bang pick My Panda Shall Fly has been added to the bill of the album launch party of another of our faves, Emika....read more
By Kristi Genovese of Live For This.
It may have taken a while to get a settled line up, but Berlin-based The Mokkers sure sound as good as they look, playing a mix of psychobilly, garage and punk to make a fresh style. Despite having a slight...read more
By Mike T West
Current indie-pop blog darlings, Cults were here for a balmy show at Comet last week - the first time they had set foot in our fair nation's capital. Although girlfriend-boyfriend song writing team Brian and Madeline were...read more
Despite countless setbacks and extended breaks, Los Angeles hardcore band Strife keep their values close to their hearts. Especially after the release of In This Defiance (1997), which featured Deftones, Fear Factory and Sepultura, the band...read more
Surreal are two Brits on a mission. Laurence, the vocalist, writer and Londoner of the pair works with the all-round musical mastermind, Tim, to create tunes that have turned the heads of 6Music's new music guru, Steve Lamacq and their first...read more
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POSH! The Prince is a living acronym for "Passionately only serving him", A creative sensation located in Berlin, I caught up with POSH! The Prince,...read more
When I first started brushing shoulders in the London club scene and up until I left London, Hannah Holland was the soundtrack to my nights out, pumping out the heaviest bass and best music I have ever heard in my life, from Trailer Trash to Bugged...read more
Tiefschwarz are absolutely as staple to Berlin's club scene as the TV Tower. So it is without a (schwarz/black) shadow of a doubt that german designer, Michalsky, asked the pair to compose the music to accompany his latest collection on...read more
With a mere 48 hours and counting until the Ritter Butzke pays host to one of the best one off parties of the year thrown by Kitsuné to celebrate their 10th compilation (hooray!), headliners and swedish music biz heartthrobs, Lo-Fi-Fnk,...read more
The Kitsuné party is just days away - read this interview with Finnish grrrls, LCMDF, to see just why they heart Berlin and what to expect from them at Ritter Butzke this friday!
BB: Firstly - could you please be so kind as to explain...read more
Sebastian Radlmeier is one of the co-founders of cult T-Shirt label German Garment which he runs together with his 3 best friends, Matthias Schweighöfer the actor, Joko Winterscheidt the TV Presenter and Kilian Kerner the fashion designer. (We...read more
Wow...What a glorious day for me today, I had the extreme pleasure of interviewing the soundtrack to my mid-teens... Chromeo. I have been addicted to their tunes ever since 2004 I think their music is spectacular... especially their new album...read more
As promised to you last week dear reader, please feast your eyes on the secound round of the countdown to the Kitsuné party I'm having in my bedroom (headphones and comb singing are a must to gain access!) - an interview with the french...read more
It's not very often that the fruits of labour from a BBC Sherlock Holmes style culture hunt are anything but stand out in their presentation but I must say that the broadcasting corporation whom are responsible for everything from the first drones...read more
Ahead of the Kitsuné party on November 26th at Ritter Butzke to celebrate the highly anticipated 10th Kitsuné compilation, I'll be spending the next few weeks pawing at the live acts on the bill to bring interviews straight to your...read more
It's not very often that a German name pops up from a London based band that aren't either heavily leaning towards pure Krautrock retro inspiration in their sound or dressing from head to toe in red shirts with black ties a la Kraftwerk style in an...read more
I recently had the gorgeous opportunity to interview Uli Wombacher, mastermind behind the world famous club Watergate and is currently gearing himself up for the second ever BerMuDa (Berlin Music Days) which is yet another one of his brainchilds....read more
Jake The Rapper is the oh-so-lovely, larger-than-large, tattooed, bearded character you've no doubt seen if you ever went to Bar25 , where he was a resident DJ and part of the extended family. Or you may have seen him at his own night at Villa or at...read more
Does a woman who has done SO much to bring the ears and electronic music eyes of the world to Berlin really need any introduction? Ellen Allien is a Berliner by birth and has proceeded to bass people's attitudes about Berlin to new levels of...read more
In just under four weeks Berlin's hugest airport which once hosted air lifts of supplies for its residents will open its gates to arguably one of the best billed festivals the city has ever seen. The Berlin Festival will take place on September 10th...read more
GOOD electro and minimal flavours gracing the ears of a Berliner can be compared to the experience of seeing a gang of unicorns flying over the TV Tower in our fair city. Even higher on the scale of rare sights is a DJ team that are playing...read more
One of London's most sought after parties which definitely lives up to its name by way of sheer fresh out-of-the-oven of good ideas, Half Baked, will be served up this Saturday in its usual non-conventional style for the very first time in...read more
BANGBANGBERLIN.COM CAUGHT UP WITH KRIS HENZLER, AKA KRISIMAN, AN ORIGINAL FOOTBALL FAN WHO PENNED A WORLD CUP SONG JUST FOR FUN, POSTED IT ON FACEBOOK AND NEXT THING HE KNEW, WAS 'DISCOVERED'. NOW HE HAS THE GERMAN FOOTBALL FANS EATING OUT OF HIS...read more
