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Güner Künier’s Downtown has the cheeky grin of a person who has finally found the exit from the small town in her skull and decided to make the getaway in heels, eyeliner, and a stolen police siren. The Berlin-based Turkish-German post-punk artist releases the single as a blast of city fever, produced by Fabio Buemi with the kind of clipped, forward-motion insistence that makes a drumbeat feel less like rhythm than instruction. Keep moving. Keep looking. Keep inventing yourself before the sidewalks decide who you are.

The song runs on a Motorik new-wave chant, part Plastic Bertrand pogo, part B-52s day-glo absurdity, part Berlin after midnight with the streetlights buzzing in three languages. Künier sings as though “downtown” is less a destination than a private dare, a word loaded with glamour, escape, memory, and the slightly ridiculous courage required to believe another life is waiting two train stops away. The hook is fun in the way good pop is fun: immediate, a little bratty, and smart enough to leave fingerprints on the glass.

The song was birthed from the old ache of growing up away from the center, staring at the city as a promise machine, imagining every bar, alley, window, and glowing sign as proof that freedom had an address. Künier turns that hunger into something physical. The guitars snap and shove, the synths smear black lipstick across the chorus, and the bass keeps everything on rails, racing forward with the clean impatience of someone already late for her own reinvention.

The video pushes the joke and the threat into one cracked mirror. It is a frantic selfie-collage of guises and interruptions: Künier as sniper in a shower, masked fiend, underwater apparition, street dancer, prankster, target, and operator. The images come fast, too close, gloriously undignified, as though the camera has been dared to keep up with every version of her at once. There is danger in it, but also camp saving the song from posing. Downtown knows the city can chew up a dreamer, yet it also knows the dreamer may show up dressed as the monster.

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Güner Künier is set to embark on a tour across Europe and the UK this summer and autumn, starting with a Berlin appearance at Fête de la Musique before moving through festival fields, record shops, outdoor stages, and club rooms in Germany, Switzerland, and France. After summer stops at Fusion Festival, Bongo Joe Records, Berlin Global, Waldstock, Metropolink, Subrosa, and Platzhirsch Festival, Künier joins Pisse for an October run through Arnhem, Brussels, London, Bristol, Paris, Lyon, Saarbrücken, Basel, and Frankfurt am Main,

Güner Künier tour dates:

• June 21 — Berlin, DE — Fête de la Musique at Rough Trade Outdoor Stage
• June 24 — Lärz, DE — Fusion Festival
• June 27 — Geneva, CH — Bongo Joe Records
• July 3 — Biel, CH — Summer Fest at Terrain Gurzelen
• July 4 — Berlin, DE — Berlin Global at Schlüterhof
• July 10 — Lüneburg, DE — AStA Sommer Openair at Leuphana Universität
• July 11 — Pegnitz, DE — Waldstock Festival
• July 18 — Attendorn, DE — Gauklerfest
• August 7 — Heidelberg, DE — Metropolink Festival
• August 21 — Montesquiou, FR — Montesquiou on the Rock’s Festival
• September 10 — Dortmund, DE — Subrosa
• September 18 — Duisburg, DE — Platzhirsch Festival
• October 1 — Arnhem, NLD — Willemeen (supporting Pisse)
• October 2 — Brussels, BEL — Magasin 4 (supporting Pisse)
• October 3 — London, UK — Shacklewell Arms (supporting Pisse)
• October 5 — Bristol, UK — Louisiana (supporting Pisse)
• October 7 — Paris, FR — Supersonic (supporting Pisse)
• October 8 — Lyon, FR — Le Sonic (supporting Pisse)
• October 9 — Saarbrücken, DE — Karate Klub Meier (supporting Pisse)
• October 12 — Basel, CH — Sudhaus Basel (supporting Pisse)
• October 13 — Frankfurt am Main, DE — Mousonturm (supporting Pisse)

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Hotels, hangouts, crash pads, recording studios, sweaty gigs, swanky nightclubs… and where it all ended in tragedy: Jimi Hendrix was here

Grammy-nominated blues artist Kenny Neal is recovering after suffering what his family described as a major heart attack.

The news was shared on Neal’s social media channels in the following statement:

“Kenny Neal’s immediate family would like to inform everyone that Kenny survived a major heart attack this past Saturday in Louisiana. After an intense effort to save his life, he is now stable and recovering in the ICU. We would like to thank the incredible medical staff who have been providing exceptional care to Kenny.

Our family is requesting privacy at this time, as he is not yet out of the woods. Please keep Kenny in your thoughts and prayers, and we will provide an update in due time.”

One of the most respected figures in modern blues, Neal earned a Grammy Award nomination in 2017 for “Best Contemporary Blues Album” for Bloodline. The acclaimed release also earned two honors at the Blues Music Awards and further cemented Neal’s reputation as one of the genre’s leading artists.

Neal was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in May.

Born into a musical family, Neal has spent decades carrying forward the swamp blues tradition while blending elements of soul, funk, and contemporary blues. Throughout his career, he has released numerous acclaimed albums and become a fixture on blues festival stages.

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Know dreams are just for the lonely
But this one is my only
And in the search I found it
I have the key, the lock had to admit

Lost and Found, the second single from CD Ghost’s forthcoming album When The Rain Stops, begins with a private loss: the disappearance of an inner light, the kind a person may spend years trying to recover without knowing exactly where it went. Built around glossy guitars, a moody groove, and Cody Han’s most vulnerable and direct vocal performance yet, the track turns that search into something intimate and open-ended. A voice becomes the way back. A dream becomes a shelter. Speech becomes the fragile thread keeping two people from dissolving into silence, sleep, and distance.

That emotional center gives the song its ache and lift. CD Ghost expands their dream-pop language into indie rock here, bringing out the warmth of guitars and the plainspoken power of a melody that feels close enough to touch. Inspired by the duo’s early high school indie bands, Lost and Found understands how a single dream can become a compass, then a burden, then a source of identity so deep that passion and obsession begin to blur. The song lives inside that blur, but it never loses its pop instinct. It carries longing with a clean melodic line, letting the feeling rise without forcing it into spectacle.

The official video, directed, edited, and colored by Blake Dimas and Cody Han, finds the perfect visual counterpart in something wonderfully simple: the band practicing the old-fashioned way, in a garage, captured with a VHS-style softness that makes everything feel close, casual, and unguarded. With camera work by Sarah Mae Martin and a special guest appearance from Julian Sharwarko (Harsh Symmetry, Omnihell) on bass, the clip brings the song down to earth without dulling its romance. It is all cables, instruments, worn-in walls, easy movement, and the quiet electricity of people playing together because the song has called them into the same room.

The video shows Cody Han and Blake Dimas in a setting where music feels less like a product and more like a proof of life. The grain of the image, the relaxed body language, and the lack of overstatement make the performance feel like a memory still warm from being lived. You can almost sense the hours behind it: the teenage bands, the unfinished songs, the hope that survived bad days and distance.

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As a preview of When The Rain Stops, out July 31 via Born Losers Records, Lost and Found suggests a record made for people trying to hold onto hope while the world loosens around them. CD Ghost balance glossy synths, warm guitars, dance beats, and laid-back drums with a rare emotional clarity. The video keeps that clarity intact, reminding us that sometimes the most romantic image in music is still a band in a garage, reaching together for the same light.

Listen to Lost and Found below, and order the album via Bandcamp here or directly through the label here.

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