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Enjoyable, committed and airy-staged Indie Pop/Rock from Dusseldorf/Germany. The musical coinage of these guys should - audibly – be located between pretty much of everything, what is at more or less enroute from PEARL JAM to COLDPLAY up to date. One can put up with this quite comfortably –... more...

The man with the sense of huge, Folk-influenced, American Pop-emotions is back to present something new. Good thing, because his monumental "Troubled" - honestly - sounded quite moving to me. So… "Daisy" has its moments, no doubt. Ok, it’s not a second "Troubled", therefore this one sounds a... more...

Credits: Written, recorded and produced by Ramin Streets

Soulful Pop with tragic undertone. Although cooked quite conventionally "Bad Liar" does not taste stale in any way and MARILU’s voice has something inexplicable captivating. more...

Adult Contemporary Pop-Rock in the pure form: COLDPLAY minus any brittle Indie-eccentricity plus catchiest TOM PETTY meets SIMON & GARFUNKEL understanding of melodies equal "Sometimes" by SUPERNATURAL. These guys perfectly know about putting together x-times heard and approved moments of Pop to... more...

URIKOs "Knighthood Tales" is dashing, timeless, catchy LoFi-Indie-Pop, setting priorities species-appropriate: songwriting instead of clean production, soul and melody instead of too many notes. So, who care when the drums leap out of the groove sometimes.. when it's finally the vibe that... more...

+++The Alphabeat Podcast "Alphabeat TV" to get to know.+++After the Top 6 Entry of "Fascination" in the UK Singlecharts, the song also rotates in Germany hot on all radio stations.+++Get to know the six, always good-humoured Danes "almost" in private.+++ more...

Small but mighty recording by this gifted Singer/Songwriter-duo, making Blues/Soul-friend’s hearts leap for joy - but unfortunately is only available in LoFi-quality. However, it should not belie the musical abilities of Jennifer Simpson and Bernd Paul, who present a small selection of their... more...

Brashy LoFi-Indie-Rock with an upright attitude in the spirit of former TOCOTRONIC - certainly never out of fashion, because it never really was in. POPJOHNPAULs "Mir fällt auch nichts Besseres ein" leaves Hanover/Germany sound as a suburb of Hamburg/Germany - and with that you can’t really... more...

Aiming high-hooklines: "I don` t want to know" catapults itself by the means of a grinning and bubble gum-chewing TOM PETTY and timeless, pompous Mainstream Rock straight out of every Indie-context, in which one or two might have noticed this German combo from Koblenz, that keeps up with national... more...

Cute-squeaky Indie-Pop-Trash from Germany in a so called “Hamburger Schule”- tradition, reflecting friendly and engaging non-perfectionism. This is underlined by a wiggle-zoomed holiday-video- aesthetic and - above all of course - the magnificent song title, which is actually even... more...

Double jumps better - even live: catchy straightness kisses alternative US-guitarrock-flair with progressive influences and sounds like… nah, let`s save the namedropping and cut it short: who once listens here will automatically like it or refuse - not much remaining of a gray zone. Also... more...

"RAMIN STREETS serves pathos and 70's-style. Sounds like Travis 1972 in a New York Art-Bar". This is how my BeSonic-colleague and chief editor Michael Kolepke cut it to the chase concerning "Forsaken", the song by that nice guy from Chicago /Illinois, which is now here for a video review. And... more...

Credits: Ramin Streets

HELLA DONNA from Chemnitz/Germany: powerful, intense Guitarpop with Rock- and Punkelements getting you in the mood to party! With "Starstalker" they created a pressureful mainstream earworm of first grade - produced straight on point and combining some of the best moments of the GUANO APES and... more...

Credits: Sven Hessel / Elke Gefken

Ramin Streets on the search for the soul of Pop, for that large, genuine feeling. "Troubled" is a beautiful, sincere and heart-moving Ode to the internal pain of parting and the necessity for hope. Ramin Streets biggest strength is that he not attempts to hide the big gestures, the expressions of... more...

Credits: Ramin Streets

German everyday-life Pop is booming at present. Hannah B supplies an episode of her life in the way of mainstream acts such as Silbermond - directly, authentically and, yes, of course the everyday-life risen. Honesty earns acknowledgment and for some it`s also often heavily enough to tell life... more...