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Allison Krupp

Allison Krupp is an American novelist, screenwriter, and travel writer, scouring the city for earnest conversations with other Berlin weirdos. Send her your music, writing, films, and tales of love, loss, and revenge: allikrupp7@gmail.com

Jackie Charles is Dream Pop Nihilistic Enough for Berliners

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Jackie Charles: Berlin’s newest face of eclectic, sweeping, soul-gripping dream pop, edged with a healthy dose of nihilism. Their first album, “Future Fantasies,” is glittering and provocative, a gorgeous addition to this already fever-dream of a year. Norwegian singer and songwriter Kaja Bremnes’ vocals are at-times whimsical and sweet, other times goth-y and charged, latching … Read more Jackie Charles is Dream Pop Nihilistic Enough for Berliners

“People’s Poet” John Cooper Clarke at Festsaal Kreuzberg

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John Cooper Clarke is punk’s answer to poetry performance. His show, June 20 at Festsaal Kreuzberg, is his first in Berlin, after an over five-decade career. We’re giving away tickets. Email win@berlinlovesyou.com with the headline: “John Cooper Clarke” for your chance to win two tickets to this sharp-tongued comedic-poet, once-roommate of Velvet Underground’s Nico, constant innovator and … Read more “People’s Poet” John Cooper Clarke at Festsaal Kreuzberg

Vera Sola at Monarch: “What it means to haunt and be haunted.”

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Vera Sola’s haunting lyricism and dark nostalgia at Monarch on April 16, 2019. Vera Sola’s recently released “Shades,” which was written, performed, and produced entirely alone, lends itself to drama, evoking the likes of Morricone and Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave. It’s imagistic in nature. Think: long shadows appearing around corners, sharp glances across rooms … Read more Vera Sola at Monarch: “What it means to haunt and be haunted.”

BLY’s Tips at the Berlinale 2019 – And How to Buy Tickets

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It’s been an electric time at the 69th annual Berlinale. It’s Berlin’s iconic film festival, with pretentious showboaters and film journalists and hungry auteurs roaming through your favorite glittering modern jolt of horror, Potsdamer Platz, since roundabouts last week. For this writer, hopping from film to film with my cell phone on airplane mode has … Read more BLY’s Tips at the Berlinale 2019 – And How to Buy Tickets

The War On Drugs to Soundtrack our Existential Crisis at Verti

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Nostalgic heart-busting Philly-born War on Drugs to headline new venue Verti on December 10. It’s funny to hear much-beloved indie rockers War on Drugs somewhere outside of the plains of Kentucky or the gritty factory towns of the east coast of America. Their layered music builds a wall of impenetrable sound, of lyrics that seem … Read more The War On Drugs to Soundtrack our Existential Crisis at Verti

Puschenfest: No Headliners. Edgy Weirdness. Killer Indie Music.

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Puschenfest assembles a stunning selection of indie artists for two days of music on November 16 and 17. According to one of the festival organizers, Andreas Oberschelp of music promoter Puschen, the colorful lineup “includes the first Berlin appearance of the French 7-piece indie garage band The Limiñanas, UK twee-pop youngsters Girl Ray, Toronto’s Meg Remy … Read more Puschenfest: No Headliners. Edgy Weirdness. Killer Indie Music.

Sad Google Worker: Berlin Dumped You. Now What? A Survival Guide

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Oh shit! The gentrification gods have spoken, and it’s a solid NIX to the Google campus that was meant to shadow over Kreuzberg, pompous and sure of both itself and Berlin’s shiny and bright technological future. To me, as an American freelance writer who is, in every sense Part Of The Problem (saying it before … Read more Sad Google Worker: Berlin Dumped You. Now What? A Survival Guide

Steady Holiday Brings Nightmarish Dream Pop to Monarch

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Los Angeles-based Steady Holiday brings ominous, ghostly dream-pop to Monarch on October 23. Tickets: only 9.90! Buy here. October is a ghoulish month. It’s one of hollowing a crater out in your bed, wrapping yourself in thick blankets and gazing enormous eyes out at that strange, grey drizzle. We’re in preparation, now. 4 p.m. darkness. … Read more Steady Holiday Brings Nightmarish Dream Pop to Monarch

Kurt Vile to Wordplay His Way through Dreamy Rock at Huxleys

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Kurt Vile brings ultimate slacker rock to Huxleys Neue Welt on October 18. Kurt Vile’s last-week release, Bottle It Up, comes three years after his highly-acclaimed album, b’lieve i’m goin down… gave us that all-too-familiar, gut-wrenching fear that who we’re becoming isn’t who we’re meant to be at all. When I hear b’lieve i’m goin … Read more Kurt Vile to Wordplay His Way through Dreamy Rock at Huxleys

6 Easy Ways to Still Have Fun in Berlin if You Died 150 Years Ago

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You died 150 years ago this October (actually, it was 147, but who’s counting!). On that impossibly beautiful mid-autumn Mr. Blue Sky day, you stretched your last morning stretch, gobbled up your very last senf-drizzled wurst, all in preparation for an untimely end: a carriage flattening you to mush into the gravel below, perhaps, or … Read more 6 Easy Ways to Still Have Fun in Berlin if You Died 150 Years Ago

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