Tag Archive for: music

Barcelona awaits / Brunch Electronik 2026

Music | Spotlight
Brunch took electronic music out of the sealed logic of the club and placed it in daylight, beside the sea and inside the weekly rhythm of Barcelona. Dancing became one of the ways the city recognises itself. The festival is the fullest expression of that shift, a temporary portrait of Barcelona as Brunch has helped imagine it: open, social and perpetually in motion.

Identity Is a Shared Hallucination / Caia Hagel

Art&Culture | Interview
Caia Hagel’s memoir ANON turns an intimate AI companion experiment into an investigation of identity. When another intelligence reflects us perfectly, are we discovering ourselves or becoming someone else?

A Different Kind of Love / Stone Festival 2026

Music | Highlights
In the heart of Essen, amidst the remnants of an industrial past and the vibrant energy of the present, Stone Techno Festival organised by The Third Room collective took place. This event is more than just music; it’s a collective ritual blending history, technology, and underground culture. Three intense days in a place steeped in memory, where every beat tells a story and every sound becomes part of a unique experience

At the Threshold of Sound / Lost Music Festival 2026

Music | Spotlight
The fifth edition of Lost Music Festival returned to Labirinto della Masone, the world's largest bamboo labyrinth in Fontanellato, Italy. Before the first experimental electronic music performance, the festival had already settled into its own rhythm. The bamboo, the gathering crowd and a programme of site-specific works shaped an environment where sound, contemporary art and nature dissolved into a single experience.

Spectral Grace / Chelsea Wolfe

Music | Interview
Chelsea Wolfe returns with “The Dark” and “Death is Not the End,” the first glimpse into her forthcoming ninth studio album and a new era that expands beyond music into the spectral world of GHOSTS, her collaboration with Heretic Parfum. In this exclusive Nasty Cover Story, we explore the connections between sound, scent, transformation and the unseen forces shaping her unique artistic universe.

The Counterculture Of Counterculture / Antipop 2026

Music | Highlights
Twenty years in and the name changed back. ANTIPOP is what Neopop was called when it started in 2006. Pereira changed it in 2009, when the project took a different shape. Bringing it back now — one edition, no ambiguity — is the festival saying out loud what every choice it's made has been saying quietly for years.

Road to Whole Festival / 2026

Music | Spotlight
For its eighth edition, WHOLE Festival returns to Ferropolis from July 17 to 20. The former open-pit mining site outside Berlin, defined by five decommissioned excavators frozen above a lake, hosts one of Europe's most significant gatherings of queer electronic culture. Across four days it becomes a temporary world where music, intimacy and collective care reshape the landscape.

The Darkness was Always There / Haus Arafna

Music | Interview
Darkness was never their subject. It was their address. Mr. and Mrs. Arafna have built two projects, Haus Arafna and November Növelet, and a label named after a body producing milk for a life that will not come. Every record pressed, packed and shipped by hand. Every sound assembled once and never again. A conversation with the band, drawn from thirty-five years spent observing what they describe as the slow collapse of the human project.

Matcha Latte Or Last Beer / Cosmo

Music | Spotlight
For two decades, Italian club culture has treated music as a night-bound language, reserved for post-midnight spaces. At Mi Ami Festival’s 20th edition, Cosmo played into Sunday morning, stretching the festival beyond its expected frame and reshaping how live sets in Italy’s scene unfold across time.

Music Comes First, The Rest Is Hush / DVS1

Music | Interview
Thirty years later, DVS1 is still building rooms designed to make you listen. No phone, no booth lights, no stage. Just sound, HUSH and underground techno.

The Club That Does What The State Won’t

Music | Spotlight
Tempio del Futuro Perduto has redistributed 700 tonnes of goods, supported refugees, and held mental health services for a generation the city forgot. Now it is proposing something more permanent: a club built to last 100 years. This May, Milan becomes the meeting point for independent cultural spaces from Berlin, Paris, Shanghai, Tbilisi, Barcelona, Amsterdam and Beijing — all converging around one question: what does a dancefloor look like in 2125, and who gets to decide?