Category: Music

  • Stand

    Stand

    Congratulations goes to my favourite songwriter Dyan Valdés on the release of her debut album today! Stand is available via R.I.P. Ben Lee Records on all streaming platforms as well as Bandcamp. Please support Berlin’s hardest-working musician and buy this beautiful album here.

  • Greetings from Weissensee

    Greetings from Weissensee

    Greetings from Weissensee! We’ve settled nicely into our new home, so I’ve put together this little playlist as a meditation on domestic life in Berlin, Germany. Love, marriage, kids, sleep deprivation – it’s all there! I hope you like it. Listen here.

  • Frequenzwerk

    Frequenzwerk

    I’ve got a new rehearsal space at Frequenzwerk in Weißensee. It feels great to be back in the songwriting game again.

  • DJ Santa

    DJ Santa

    I’m making a playlist. Checking it twice. You’re gonna find out who’s naughty and nice. I’m at Das Gift till late tonight. Stop by. Thanks goes to Shameless Limitless.

  • Psycho Jones

    Psycho Jones

    Who you gonna call when you’ve got a DJ gig on Friday and urgently need some pointers? The master himself: Psycho Jones! No one gets a crowd groovin’ like Psycho. Scroll through for some action shots. We had a nice chat today about his Depeche Mode cover project Flurfunk Modern and upcoming plans for 2022.…

  • DJ Set at Das Gift

    DJ Set at Das Gift

    Next Friday, I’m DJing at Das Gift: indie, punk and rock & roll from 10:30pm until very very late. I’ll also be spinning my favorite local artists: Dyan Valdés, Shy Bits, Laura Lee & the Jettes and Ghost Pony. Won’t you come down and say hi? Link to the FB event is here. Thank you…

  • Shy Bits

    Shy Bits

    I had a nice time hanging out with Shy Bits this afternoon. Check them out at Synästhesie Festival tonight! They’re on at 19:30!!!

  • Die Sterne at SO36

    Die Sterne at SO36

    What a joy to see live music again! The name of the band is Die Sterne, they are absolute legends, and last night at SO36, they knocked my socks off. Scroll through for some wonderful live shots and backstage antics. A big thank you goes out to Frank Spilker and Dyan Valdes for arranging the…

  • Congratulations, Dyan!

    Congratulations, Dyan!

    Congratulations to my longtime creative partner, Dyan Valdés , on her debut as a solo artist! If you haven’t heard it yet, please listen to her magnificent new single “Fade Away” via R.I.P. Ben Lee Records. It’s fantastic! Here we are, a few years back, at a Stereo Total concert. Scroll through to see a…

  • Coffee with Mark

    Coffee with Mark

    It was wonderful to grab coffee with radio giant Mark Sovel today at HEIDE’s Deli. The Blood Arm used to religiously listen to the station he ran, Indie 103.1, and his show with Steve Jones of Sex Pistols, Jonesy’s Jukebox, back when we lived in L.A. He interviewed us, played our music and acted as…