With “If You Can Reach My Heart You Can Keep It” the multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker reflects on his most personal ...

When the promoters behind the Romanian party and festival series Interval announced its closure last December, we took it as proof that their project to open up their countrymen’s hearts and minds to ...

In 1981, when I was 16, my parents let me travel by myself for the first time, so I jumped in a car with a friend and took off for West Berlin. Back then, my home town, Vienna, was ultra-conservative ...

In this essay based around themes he’ll touch on in his upcoming book Ghosts of My Life, Mark Fisher—the noted blogger known as K-Punk and the author of Capitalist Realism: Is There No ...

Call it what you will, but there’s no denying that West African funk or boogie will light up a European dance floor—and no one knows that better than Nomad and Dirk Leyers. Operating as Africaine 808, ...

This week, in an article titled About Vatican Shadow Link With the Far-right, culture journalist Jean-Hugues Kabuiku has highlighted relationships between experimental producer Dominick Fernow—also ...

In this special preview of our new Summer 2013 print magazine, we present the cover story—an extensive interview with the divisive pop phenomenon—in full. Photo by Robert Carrithers. Lana Del Rey: I ...

Located in the heart of Cologne’s historic Belgisches Viertel district, Gewölbe has long occupied its role as the city’s hub for house and techno. The word Gewölbe literally means “vault”, and the ...

Over time, as the influencers eventually became influenced by those they influenced, a special hermeneutics of pop music was born. Today, pioneers seem to constantly be reinterpreting themselves ...

Few artists use music like Xosar (a.k.a. Sheela Rahman). The Berlin-based techno producer draws on her near-encyclopedic knowledge of the occult to create works that feel like they’re somehow enacting ...

House is a continuation of disco. You can hear that easily in its arrangement and in its sound, which samples and pulls liberally from the popular club music of the ’70s and early ’80s. And, in fact, ...

David Bowie’s sitting in the private room of an extensive suite of the Hamburg Atlantic hotel. The curtains are drawn, in the next room, a television crew is preparing a short interview. Outside the ...