Music
Backtrack: PortraitXO
The singer, songwriter, producer, and installation artist reveals the soundtrack to her life
Maya Shenfeld: A Sonic Adventurer
Maya Shenfeld talks Berlin, her album Free Fall, and her upcoming workshop with Ableton’s Loop Create
The Cutest Rave in Berlin Turns One!
Lunchbox Candy celebrates one year of queer and inclusive parties
Everyone’s Invited: Is Bang On Berlin’s Most Inclusive Festival?
Founder Eilis Frawley takes us behind the scenes of this year’s event
Music for the Masses
Melissa Perales on bringing down barriers and curating culture for all
Reel Good Music
Modeselektor’s masterful ode to mixtape culture
Unravelling the Helix
Getting Personal, and Professional, with Catnapp
Sounds of Berlin: April 2022
Your monthly music round-up from Berlin’s best and brightest
Backtrack: Mark Reeder
The Berlin legend reveals the records that define his life
Light on the Horizon
How a chance meeting between Tristan Jong & Robert Owens led to a house anthem for optimists
Sounds of Berlin #10
A selection of great tracks from old faves and new talent
The Woman in Constant Motion
Step inside the kinetic world of creative polymath, Juliana Huxtable
Folk Music by the Fireside
The inaugural open air event hosted by The Famous Gold Watch records
Sounds of Berlin #9
The latest and freshest Berlin tunes you’ve been looking for
Berlin Music Video Roundup #5
A fresh crop of sound and vision from the city
Sounds of Berlin #8
Fresh Berlin sounds of all shapes, sizes and dimensions
Nazira On Championing Kazakh Culture
The up-and-coming music producer’s influential voice in club culture
Berlin Music Video Roundup #4
We’re back with new optic nerve-tickling pleasures and wide-ranging sounds
Sounds of Berlin #7
LOLA’s hand-picked selection of Berlin’s best new sounds
Berlin Music Video Roundup #3
More of Berlin’s music videos – you’re welcome
Label of Love: Detriti Records
Davide Lace is dancing with chaos in Berlin
Sounds of Berlin #6
Our latest batch of Berlin favourites, handpicked with love
Sounds of Berlin: 20 for 2020
A selection of the year's best releases, picked by industry heads and LOLA
Underground and Out There
Mary Ocher’s new agency that’s diving deep into the world of experimental music
Berlin Music Video Roundup #2
Delicious, decadent ear-and-eye candy coming your way from Berlin's best
Sounds of Berlin #5
This month's best new Berlin-based releases that will warm your eardrums
An Ocean of Noise
Robin Staps on two decades of Earth-shattering rock music
Berlin Music Video Roundup #1
The most exciting new visual-audio releases from Berlin-based artists
Uncaged Melodies: When Street Football Meets Electronic Beats
Tristan Jong on the story behind an uncanny connection between football and music
Sounds of Berlin #4
Help yourself to our buffet board of Berlin’s best new music
Gudrun Gut: Forever Going Her Own Way
Understanding the singular vision of a German music legend
Sounds of Berlin #3
Feed your hungry ears with new music from the city
Robot Bennett On Releasing His Debut Techno Track, Aged 70
The septuagenarian spinner marks another milestone in his late-blooming career
Coming To Town: Jessy Lanza
The Candian-born singer and producer on anger, anxiety and family
Sounds of Berlin #2
Stick these releases into the Walkman that is life
Voyages New With COMA
Heavenly electro pop from one of Germany’s best
Behind the Track: Alanas Chosnau – Losing My Mind (Call of the Wolf mix)
Mark Reeder on the inspiration for his Le Chant du Loup soundtrack song
Inside the Mind of Gaff-E
We speak with the formidable MC ahead of her LOLA party performance
Song Premiere: Eilis Frawley ‘Illusions’
The Berlin-based percussionist's debut single is a delicious slice of avant-garde pop
Introducing: Nansea
The genre-bending purveyor of queer chamber-pop
Label of Love: Disco Halal
Moscoman's influential imprint
The Queen of Filth
Genderfluid hillbilly Christeene is coming for you
True Romance
How Curses and Berlin fell for each other
Brown Clouds Clearing
Fat White Family’s Scintillating Turnaround
Rebuilding the Inner City
Kevin Saunderson brings his son to the fore in new line-up
“Do what you love every day”
The mantra that fuels DJ/producer and Disco Halal boss Moscoman
When life gives you lemons, start a record label
Meet Lemon Test, the imprint putting its own twist on electronica
Nils Frahm
Master of melody, Builder of dreams
Ducks! Things That Were Lost track-by-track
A sneak preview of their brand new album
The LOLA Guide to Maerz Musik 2019
Our top picks for year five of the diverse and experimental festival
Sounds of Berlin #1
Ryan Rosell from The Chop on the Berlin releases he is digging right now
Behind The Iron Curtis
The Berlin-based electronic artist channeling melancholy and ambiguity
Ten Years of Shameless/Limitless
Independent promoter Kevin Halpin celebrates a decade of gigs and good times
More Than Just Music
The Northern Ireland Music Prize is a beacon of hope
Coming to Town: Iceage
The Danish punk upstarts are back
Coming to Town: Villagers
In conversation with the inimitable Irish troubadour
Song Premiere: Ducks! unveil ‘Pinprick In’
Berlin's finest electropop duo drop stellar new single
Coming to Town: Suede
Brett Anderson on being an outsider and the beauty of the blue hour
WHOLE Lotta Love
The team behind Europe’s first queer festival open up ahead of highly anticipated second edition
The LOLA Guide to Pop-Kultur Festival 2018
Our top selections from the three-day smorgasbord of happenings
Snapshot: Torstraßen Festival 2018
The choice highlights from this year’s TSF
Label of Love: Project Mooncircle
The Berlin imprint with fifteen years of outer-space exploration
Coming to Town: Mick Harvey
Honoring the artistic influence of Serge Gainsbourg, 90 years later
LOLA Recommends: Gigs in April
We List Our Unmissable Gigs of the Month
Video Premiere: Adventure Team ‘Family Matters’
The Berlin-based slacker indie trio drop debut album and single
LOLA Recommends: Gigs in March
We List Our Unmissable Gigs of the Month
Coming to Town: Jen Cloher
The Australian singer-songwriter on her deeply personal new album
Coming to Town: Steven Wilson
We talk pop, truth, and artistic freedom with the musician and songwriter
Young Syrians Rapping for Revolution
Syrian rapper and activist Mohammad Abu Hajar on fighting authoritarianism
Coming to Town: Liima
We talk dystopian futures and eighties childhoods ahead of their Berlin gig
LOLA Recommends: Gigs in December
We List Our Unmissable Gigs of the Month
Song Premiere: Luckless, So Talk (Ducks! Spinning Circles Remix)
A first listen to the collaborative dreamy disco remix
Five Berlin Artists You Need to See at Loop
LOLA's top tips for this weekend's festival
Copy, Paste, Delete, Repeat
Romano's genre-fluid journey through music
EP Premiere: Bonnie Li ‘Plane Crash’
Dark and bewitching melodies abound
Getting To Know: Sarah Walk
The singer–songwriter on her powerful debut album
Video Premiere: Hior Chronik ‘Whispers From The Surface Of A Lake’
A dreamlike concoction of ambiance, drone, and harmonics
Song Premiere: KOY ‘RUN’
Did someone say 'electronic mermaid witchcraft'?
Coming to Town: The Black Angels
Frontman Alex Maas talks Trump, psychedelics, and the confusion of our times
Ostpunk Never Dies
Henryk Gericke on what it meant to be a punk in East Germany
BIMM’s Class of 2017
An album of Berlin’s up-and-coming talent, track by track
Buddhism, Politics and Power Struggles
What’s going on with alt-indie icon Thurston Moore?
LOLA Recommends: Gigs in August
We List Our Unmissable Gigs of the Month
LOLA’s Melt Festival Selects
What we’re most looking forward to seeing this year
20 Years of Melt
Germany’s top festival celebrates two decades of good times
Exercise One Are Keeping Techno Dangerous
The Berlin duo invoking the spirit of the nineties
LOLA Recommends: Gigs in July
We list our unmissable live events of the month
Video Premiere: Angela Chambers ‘Siren’
A choice cut from her debut EP gets the video treatment
Getting to Know: Carla dal Forno
Talking cello, painting and her debut solo album
Calm After the Storm
Nick Donovan of DeadBear on life, work at BIMM Berlin, and the inspirational hunger of his music students
The Gift That Keeps on Giving
Frontwoman Sónia Tavares shares her thoughts ahead of their Berlin show
Brilliant And Bold
Love, legacy and smashing the system with Black Cracker
Tour Diary: Gurr
The Berlin-based Garage-rockers share photos from their recent European tour
Hello Humans
Ducks! introduce their dream disco and electronic weirdness
Coming To Town: HVOB
We catch up with the band ahead of their sold-out Berlin gig
Promoting with Purpose
Meet Bang On, the Berlin indie collective putting female musicians centre stage
Boys Noize: Banging the Drum for Berlin
The electro outsider on following his punk spirit
Bigger Than This Land
Multi-platform artist, Mary Ocher talks politics, place and privilege
How My Mother Raised Me
Mitski talks post-pubescent tightrope walking ahead of her show at Lido
Fire, Bikes, Beyoncé
In conversation with ethereal singer/producer Magic Island
Introducing: Eveline
The electro-pop duo on releasing their debut
Sweet Reposition
The Temper Trap’s Dougy Mandagi on making indie smash hits and moving to Berlin
Closer to Some Kind of Truth
Bulgarian pop artist DENA on her deeply personal new material
Orchestral Manoeuvres
Andy Leomar's Symphoniacs: where classical meets electronica
Peaches
Rubbing Berlin up the right way
Money Talks
Gross Net’s Philip Quinn on his debut album
In the Friend Zone with Michael Mayer
Unveiling the collaborative process behind the techno legend's latest album
Pondering Infinity
John Kameel Farah's Spiritual Sound
Cliffe Notes
Barry Cliffe's Top Five Berlin Bands of the Moment
Luckless
Introducing an ever-changing musical outfit from half a world away
Breaking Through The Silence
Electronic producer Ryan Vail on his debut album
