More and more people are switching to Japanese green tea and are giving coffee a miss. The trendiest one is matcha. Matcha is the powdered Japanese green tea used in the famous Japanese tea ceremony. It has a very ancient history since it was brought from China by the Zen monk Eisai. Matcha is obtained by stone-grinding a tea called tencha to produce a powder. Matcha Latte anyone?
In the cool neighborhoods of Berlin and London you can see green tea shops opening up left and right. One we really like is Mamecha in Berlin Mitte. Check it out.
The phrase ‘modern psychedelia’ often feels like an oxymoron, but on Human Ceremony Sunflower Bean make perfect sense of it, rewardingly broadening their musical horizons in the process and as with the Nuggets compilations it’s as diverse as you like yet retains a marvellous cohesion at the same time. TrendEngel will have the pleasure to see the band live in Berlin in a weeks time in legendary Kantine am 
3 guys from Paris created 
One store in Paris and now one in London. You will see Papier Tigre all over the place in a few months or years – and hands down one of the coolest logos around.
Cupcakes is so yesterday – now it’s all about the doughnuts. Forget Krispy Kreme and Dunkin Donuts. The new gold standard is 
Baskets is a new show – let’s call it a sitcom that is created byLouis CK and Zach Galifanakis – about a wannabe clown called Baskets (Zach) and his struggle. The beauty of his show is that he presents us with deeply flawed characters in relatable (though comically exaggerated) scenarios. However, he always finds the humanity in people and his character is someone who is really trying to do his best, though failing miserably. Baskets is just a miserable failure who thinks that his problems are created by the world and rages at it in sad retaliation. You never feel his love for clowning as much as his hatred for everything else.
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It isn’t often that you hear of a pop star on the rise who is simultaneously pursuing a career in the spotlight and a master’s degree in philosophy from the Sorbonne, and yet Petite Meller is doing exactly that. Ambiguous in age and willfully obtuse when you try and pry, here is a Londoner (via Paris and New York), who is equal parts afro-electro chanteuse and psychoanalytic, post-structural Dionysian. Add the Godard inspired music videos, like recent single “Backpack,” plus a Lolita aesthetic to the mix, and the result is both painfully chic, and almost unbearably French. Her album will drop soon and the latest single is pretty damn good. Possibly better than Gaga. Pop at its best:
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