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Mit „Salt Moon City“ hat der Belgier Iskander Moon ein starkes Debütalbum veröffentlicht, das bereits eindrucksvoll zeigt, wohin die Reise gehen kann. Nach einer Solotour im Herbst 2026 geht es für ihn Anfang 2027 mit voller Band auf Tour. Am 30. Januar 2027 dürfen wir ihn bei uns im NUN begrüßen und laden euch herzlich ein:

Iskander Moon (BE)
Full Band Tour Germany 2027

Wann denn NUN?
Samstag, 30.01.2027 20:30 Uhr (Einlass: 19:00 Uhr)

Wo denn NUN?
Café NUN, Gottesauer Straße 35, Karlsruhe

Tickets: VVK: 13,00 € | AK: 15,00 | Tickets gibt es im NUN Onlineshop

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Iskander Moon (BE)
Full Band Tour Germany 2027

Presented by: Untoldency, Bandup, Frontstage Magazine & Spider Promotion

Wer den jungen Belgier bereits live erleben durfte, weiß woher sein Ruf als außergewöhnlich starker Live-Act kommt. In seiner Heimat baut er derzeit ordentlich Momentum auf: Die Tickets für seine Clubtour im Herbst verkaufen sich rasant, und der Auftritt mit Band beim diesjährigen Pukkelpop-Festival war ein weiterer, eindrucksvoller Beweis für seine Live-Qualitäten.

Diese fantastische Fullband-Show holen wir nun nach Deutschland! Im Januar & Februar spielt der Shootingstar aus Brüssel eine 2-wöchige Tour, direkt im Anschluss an seine Solo-Tour im Herbst 26, die ihn auch durch Österreich und die Schweiz führt.

22.01.27 Hamburg Birdland
23.01.27 Köln Helios37
26.01.27 Leipzig Moritzbastei
27.01.27 Dresden Ostpol
28.01.27 Göttingen Nörgelbuff
29.01.27 Nürnberg Stereo
30.01.27 Karlsruhe Café NUN
31.01.27 Freiburg Klimperstube
04.02.27 Langenberg KGB
05.02.27 Hannover Kulturzentrum Faust
06.02.27 Berlin Lark

Nach der vielbeachteten EP Are You Lost Here? (2024) und der Debütsingle „Saturday Silence“, über Monate hinweg im Radio zu hören war, hat der junge Indie-Pop-Singer-Songwriter Iskander Moon im Februar 2026 sein Debutalbum „Salt Moon City“ veröffentlicht.

In den vergangenen zwei Jahren sammelte Iskander Inspiration bei mehr als 60 Konzerten in ganz Europa. Gleichzeitig produzierte und arbeitete er von seiner neuen Wahlheimat Brüssel aus an Singles und Alben zahlreicher anderer Künstler:innen.

Ganz seinem nomadischen Lebensstil entsprechend, entstand Salt Moon City an den unterschiedlichsten Orten – unter anderem in Berlin, New York und in einem Schloss aus dem 19. Jahrhundert direkt hinter der französischen Grenze. Das Ergebnis ist ein facettenreich orchestriertes Alternative-Pop-Album, auf dem der 25-jährige Iskander seine Qualitäten als Soul-Balladensänger ebenso eindrucksvoll zeigt, wie seine musikalischen Wurzeln als klassischer Pianist oder als Performer einer Rockband.

Wer genau hinhört, entdeckt einen musikalischen Alleskönner: Inspiriert von Künstlern wie Paolo Nutini, Sufjan Stevens und Coldplay ebenso, wie von den Werken klassischer Größen wie Bach und Debussy.

https://keepkarlsruheboring.org/event/konzert-iskander-moon-or-cafe-nun-karlsruhe

#folk #indiefolk #konzert #livemusik #nun #fedika

Le son du VorteX | Radio @[email protected] · 2026-09-10 · 18:03 UTC

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GetMusic - Free Bandcamp Codes @[email protected] · 2026-09-07 · 18:10 UTC

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Darren Hayman - Ukulele Songs from the North Devon Coast EP

"Darren Hayman (Hefner / The French / New Starts) shares one of his earliest solo releases to accompany your rainy Summer holiday"

https://getmusic.fm/l/iEWBVS

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Panorama of the Mountains @[email protected] · 2026-09-02 · 18:00 UTC

Album Recommendations – September 2026

I’ve given up on trying to regularly write reviews of new albums, but I still want to share albums I enjoyed. Below are several new (and new-ish) albums – no ratings, no criticism – just music I enjoy listening to and hope you will too.

Album: Bedroom Sand
Artist: Radkey
Genre: Punk rock
Release Date: July 14, 2026
Label: Little Man Records
Favorite Tracks:

Victory
Falling Out of Grace
Ready to Burn

Radkey is three brothers from Missouri (Isaiah Radke (bass), Solomon Radke (drums), and Dee Radke (lead vocals and guitar). Their third album rocks hard.

Album: Uuuuuuuu
Artist: Picture
Genre: Dub techno
Release Date: July 17, 2026
Label: Short Span
Favorite Tracks:

Quuuuuu
Leeeeeee
Wooooooo

It seems like every month I’m recommending an electronic music album with a practically unsearchable titles. This one comes from Danish DJ/producer Natal Zaks and it’s very good.

Album: Days
Artist: The Mountain Goats
Genre: Indie Folk
Release Date: August 7, 2026
Label: Cadmean Dawn
Favorite Tracks:

Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds
Days
Going to Fennario
Hidden Majesty of Later Venom Albums

The Mountain Goats are back and as goat-y as ever.

Album: Lost Weekend
Artist: Phoebe Bridgers
Genre: Indie Folk
Release Date: August 13, 2026
Label: Dead Oceans
Favorite Tracks:

The Outside
Lost Boys
Bobby
Haunted
Never Going Back
I Can’t Wait

The super-talented Phoebe Bridgers returns with her first solo release in six years, filled with thought-provoking songs of love and grief.

Album: Connection
Artist: Qudrat Wasefi
Genre: Traditional music of Afghanistan/Fusion
Release Date: August 14, 2026
Label: unknown?
Favorite Tracks:

Connection
Grief
Home↔Breath

Qudrat Wasefi, a trumpeter from Afghanistan now based in Boston, blends tradtional music of Afghanistan with Western classical music featuring trumpet, piano, electronics, rubab (Afghanistan’s national instrument), tabla, and choir.

Album: Gotta Get Out
Artist: The Linda Lindas
Genre: Punk Rock
Release Date: August 28, 2026
Label: Reprise
Favorite Tracks:

Burning Out
Helado de Limón
Closer (feat. Hayley Williams)
I Could Be Wrong

Bela Salazar, Eloise Wong, Lucia de la Garza, and Mila de la Garza started The Linda Lindas at a young age, so even though this is the band’s third album in an 8-year career, their ages range from 16 to 21. Their musical sound continues to mature blending punk, pop punk, new wave, and surf rock sounds documenting the personal and the political.

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Panorama of the Mountains @[email protected] · 2026-08-20 · 15:00 UTC

Ten Songs With … The Mountain Goats

“Ten Songs With…” is a new, irregular series of posts in which I explore the music of a group or artist I like but am only familiar with a small portion of their catalog. Unlike my previous Deep Dives series this will be more focused, limited to highlighting – yep, you guessed it – ten songs.

Ten Songs With … The Mountain Goats

I became aware of The Mountain Goats around 15 years ago, and am familiar with several songs the band has released over the past couple of decades. But I was surprised to learn that The Mountain Goats have been recording since 1991, and have released 24 studio albums – plus live albums, compilations, EPs, singles, cassettes, and limited releases. This was going to be a challenging catalog to explore!

The Mountain Goats are essentially a project of John Darnielle, born in Indiana, raised in California, and now based in North Carolina. While Darnielle attended Pitzer College from 1991 to 1995, he released his first recordings as The Mountain Goats. Many early recordings were just Darnielle and his guitar, but he was joined by Rachel Ware on bass and vocals from 1992 to 1996. Peter Hughes joined for a brief stint on bass and vocals in 1996, and then returned to play with the band from 2002 to 2024. The other two long-time members of the band are Jon Wurster, drummer since 2007, and Matt Douglas, a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist since 2015. Numerous other musicians and collaborators have contributed to The Mountain Goats sound live and in the studio.

The first decade of The Mountain Goats drew on Darnielle’s urgency to record songs as soon as possible by playing them straight into a tape recorder. While Darnielle returns to this “lo-fi” style from time to time, since the release of Tallahassee in 2002, albums by The Mountain Goats are typically recorded in a professional studio with a full band. Tallahassee was also the first album released on a major label, 4AD. The Mountain Goats later recorded with Merge Records for 15 years. Since 2025, new releases by The Mountain Goats are independently released on their own Cadmean Dawn label.

Darnielle is known as a talented lyricist with a literary style. Many songs are autobiographical and confessional, including stories of growing up with an abusive stepfather (on the album The Sunset Tree) and his addiction to methamphetamine just after high school (We Shall All Be Healed). A recurring theme across his works include song cycles about the dysfunctional “Alpha” couple, who argue in character through the song lyrics. Darnielle has also created concept albums based on his various interests such as the Bible (The Life of the World to Come), professional wrestling (Beat the Champ), and goth culture and music (Goths).

To prepare for this post, I searched for lists of “Best Albums” made by fans of The Mountain Goats, making a composite list. From this list, I chose to give a close listen to the ten albums that seemed most essential (see below) as well as various singles and playlists of the bands best songs. From this project I made my list of Ten Song, albeit it seems to only scratch the surface of The Mountain Goats’ outpout.

1994 Zopilote Machine
1995 Sweden
1997 Full Force Galesburg
2000 The Coroner’s Gambit
2002 All Hail West Texas
2002 Tallahassee
2005 The Sunset Tree
2008 Heretic Pride
2012 Transcendental Youth
2017 Goths

My Ten Songs

“Alpha Incipiens” – Zopilote Machine (1994)

“No Children” – Tallahassee (2002)

“Alpha Rats Nest” – Tallahassee (2002)

“This Year” – The Sunset Tree (2005)

“Dance Music” – The Sunset Tree (2005)

“Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1” – Transcendental Youth (2012)

“The Legend of Chavo Guerrero” – Beat the Champ (2015)

“Rain in Soho” – Goths (2017)

“Training Montage” – Bleed Out (2022)

“Rocks in My Pockets” – Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan (2025)

Have you listened to The Mountain Goats? If so, let me know your favorite songs in the comments.

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GetMusic - Free Bandcamp Codes @[email protected] · 2026-06-28 · 22:10 UTC

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KP the Songsmith - Gifted Mind (single)

"An acoustic indie-folk dive into the 'remorse loop' of adult ADHD, letting you know you're not alone in the chaos."

https://getmusic.fm/l/wcwPeM

#indiepop #pop #bedroompop #singersongwriter #acoustic #indiefolk #folkpop #introspective #storytelling #coffeehouse #confessional #guilt #adhd #mentalhealth #midtempo #neurodivergent #minneapolis #music

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GetMusic - Free Bandcamp Codes @[email protected] · 2026-04-07 · 13:47 UTC

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KP the Songsmith - Gifted Mind (single)

"An acoustic indie-folk dive into the 'remorse loop' of adult ADHD, letting you know you're not alone in the chaos."

https://getmusic.fm/l/GNN4BE

#indiepop #pop #bedroompop #singersongwriter #acoustic #indiefolk #folkpop #introspective #storytelling #coffeehouse #confessional #guilt #adhd #mentalhealth #midtempo #neurodivergent #minneapolis #music

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Jake in the desert @[email protected] · 2026-01-06 · 16:36 UTC

This one's a blast, just came out yesterday. Big contender for me this year, already. This is 'Slab Songs' by ANYTIME COWBOY (illustrator Reuben Sawyer) from California. Lo-fi, catchy, weird, dark, simple, folk, sometimes jangly, twangy, post-punk, punchy. ffo early Beck, Adam Green (Moldy Peaches), Guided by Voices.

https://anytimecowboy.bandcamp.com/album/slab-songs

(Reuben's been doing the Anytime Cowboy thing for a while, and has a bunch of earlier stuff that I checked out too, but THIS record this year is TIGHT and really brings together everything great about what he does. 🔥)

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BC BY-NC-SA @[email protected] · 2025-11-17 · 22:02 UTC

Sparkbird – A Troubled Piece of Fruit [Album]
#Folk #avantgarde #baroquepop #chamberfolk #chamberpop #folkpop #indiefolk #indiepop #oregon #pianorock #queer #singersongwriter #NewYork
CC BY-NC-ND (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives) #ccmusic
https://sparkbird.bandcamp.com/album/a-troubled-piece-of-fruit-album

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The Community Edition @[email protected] · 2025-11-11 · 20:02 UTC

OCTOBER 2025 WRAP UP

3boats— shoot (LP)

Release Date: Oct. 1, 2025

City: Cambridge

Genre: Folk

3boats’ debut album shoot is a collection of lo-fi songs and recordings that are quaint and intimate. Listening through the project from beginning to end feels like floating through a dream, with many of the songs intertwining modest acoustic guitar, soft blurry soundscapes and the occasional charming sound bite.

Space Kitchen— “It’s My Passion” (Single)

Release Date: Oct. 8, 2025

City: Kitchener

Genre: Art Rock

Drawing inspiration from 1970s art and progressive rock icons such as Rush, Yes, King Crimson and Electric Light Orchestra, Space Kitchen presents a familiar sound infused with their own unique DIY aesthetic. “It’s My Passion” features both keys and lead guitars that work playfully together to create a captivating theatrical performance.

Arcade Allstars—“Fare Thee Well” (Single)

Release Date: Oct. 17, 2025

City: Kitchener

Genre: Ska, Punk

With a blisteringly fast pace, an infectious groove and some spotlight-stealing brass and saxophone, “Fare Thee Well” is guaranteed to get listeners up and dancing. This is the latest single off Arcade Allstars’ forthcoming sophomore full length album Destined 4 Disaster which is set to release Nov. 7, 2025, on Pink Lemonade Records.

Frank Dux—“She Said, He Said” (Single)

Release Date: Oct. 22, 2025

City: Kitchener

Genre: Grunge, Shoegaze

Deeply personal and unapologetically vulnerable, “She Said, He Said” is a song about believing survivors of assault. The chaotically hazy and loud distorted instrumentation perfectly complements the band’s lyrical message which attempts to raise awareness about the problematic culture of misogynistic skepticism.

Courtney Wolfe—“Wild Card “(Singles)

Release Date: Oct. 24, 2025

City: Kitchener

Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Indie Pop

Delicately balancing on the line between airy pop and bold indie rock, “Wild Card” is a captivating lyrical exploration of temptation inspired by Courtney Wolfe’s personal experiences while remaining deliberately ambiguous. Wolfe puts forth a message of ownership and hopes for her listeners regardless of the vice they may be struggling with.

Album artwork sourced from Bandcamp.

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