
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
