Music
50 aus 2025
These 50 records helped making 2025 not as bad as a year as it often felt...…
25 from 2000-2025
Prefab Sprout “I Trawl the Megahertz” tastes like the battery-acid-bitter, corrosive, chemical-electric, milligram-heavy crystals of the methamphetamine MDMA
With “I Trawl the Megahertz” by Prefab Sprout, Lars Fleischmann takes us to the beginning of th…
25 from 2000-2025
The biggest party evers: Kante “Die Tiere sind unruhig”
Kaput author Marcus can't dance fell in love with “Die Tiere sind unruhig” by Kante several time…
25 aus 2000-2025
Testimony to self-creation: Lana Del Ray’s “Lana Del Ray A.K.A. Lizzy Grant”
Ariana Zustra's pop album of the quarter-century: “Lana Del Ray A.K.A. Lizzy Grant” by Lana Del …
Photo Gallery
a temporary autonomous zone: Lambrini Girls in Cologne
When the Lambrini Girls walk on stage, it feels like someone unplugs the polite circuitry of the roo…
25 from 2000-2025
Five days before release: Interpol “Turn on the Bright Lights”
Saskia Timm attests to Interpol's keen sense of aesthetics for “Turn on the Bright Lights”…
25 from 2000-2025
Resignation, denial, melancholy: Tocotronic “Kapitulation”
“Coma-like, but still standing”: Phllipp Kressmann on “Kapitulation”, the eighth album by th…
25 from 2000-2025
Pardon me, but it’s a ******* masterpiece: Akufen “My Way”
Ambient, glitchy, sexy and hilarious – Alex Mayor going deep on “My Way” by Akufen. …
25 from 2000-2025
An endless nighttime drive down the highway into the abyss of human existence: HTRK “Psychic 9-5 Club”
Dustless music – Anton Teichmann on “Psychic 9-5 Club” by HTRK…
25 from 2000-2025
A true icon: Peaches’ “The Teaches of Peaches”…
… has had a lasting impact on pop and subculture – Katja Ruge on “The Teaches of Peaches” by…
25 from 2000-2025
Not an ounce of fat: The Strokes’ “Is This It”
The most important rock album of the past 25 years – Torsten Groß on “Is This It” by The Stro…
Exhibition, Hartware Medienkunstverein, Dortmund
„Genossin Sonne“ – in Bild und Wort
The essayistic group exhibition Comrade Sun is dedicated to artistic works and theories that connect…
25 from 2000–2025
Speaking from the heart of every teenager: Die Ärzte ‘Geräusch’
Vicky Hytrek is ready to travel back in time with ‘Geräusch’ by Die Ärzte…
25 from 2000–2025
o hell with anyone who wants to slow us down: Japandroids’ ‘Celebration Rock’
Only positivity fills his heart, all negativity evaporates – Lennart Brauwers on ‘Celebration Ro…
25 from 2000–2025
Doesn’t fit into any (German) pop mould: Jens Friebe’s “Vorher Nachher Bilder”
Guitar-driven indie pop, Scott Walker-inspired ballads and Euro disco dance – Christina Mohr on Je…
25 from 2000–2025
The prologue to an idea
So why not ask 25 authors about the albums that shaped this period for them? A crazy undertaking, of…
25 from 2000–2025
Piss forever: Schnipo Schranke ‘Satt’
An interview with the toilet door open, charmingly obscene hits that you still can't get out of your…
„UNCANNY VALLEYS"
Talking Kaput #17 w/ ECE ÖZEL & MARIA WILDEIS
In conversation with Kaput editors-in-chief Thomas Venker and Linus Volkmann, Cologne-based artist M…
Questionnaire „Electric Lights – Women in Electronic Music“
Anja Schneider: „Music is simply everything to me“
„I’ve evolved over the past 20 years, but that special Anja Schneider hypnotic minimal groove is…
Interview w/ Patricia Carolin Mai, MAI:COMPANY-Gründerin und Choreografin
Patricia Carolin Mai: “Every Body an Archive”
"I experienced the classical system myself, but I never functioned in it, and after some reflection,…
A look back on PS 2025 in 20 pictures
Primavera Sound 2025
Uv Lucas documented this year's Primavera Festival for Kaput. If you weren't there yourself, you'll …
EM GUIDE – Easterndaze – Jakub Knera
15 Central and Eastern European festivals you need to attend
From abandoned sanatoriums to fields and disused mills, these festivals and their places become acou…
Kaput Video
Deep Talk Holding Pattern & Moving Bodies”
The exhibition Holding Pattern is the result of an invitation from Anne Hilde Neset (Oslo) to the aw…
Room40 – Top 25
Room40, like a room you return to in dreams, it just is.
Room40 doesn’t shout. It hums, crackles, expands slowly in the chest like breath held just a littl…
EM GUIDE – Easterndaze – Text: Lucia Udvardyova
Music Biennale Zagreb: A Diary
Lucia Udvardyova attended Music Biennale Zagreb (MBZ). Photos: Music Biennale Zagreb…
Photogallery
Big Ears Festival 2025
Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, will remain an exceptional event in the international mus…
Videopremiere: „Quand le grenier aura pris feu“
Anadol & Marie Klock – an unfortunate encounter between pigeons and various people
We are more than happy to present the brand-new video for the single "Quand le grenier aura pris feu…
Georg Boskamp is remembering the artist formerly (and later again) known as Prince.
0(+> Sign O’ The Times – “Honestly, I don’t really believe in the concept of luck”
Minneapolis/Minnesota, mid-November 1996. This was arguably the most challenging period of Prince’…
EM GUIDE — Interview with Ozan Tekin about "Mornings for Sale / Satılık Sabahlar: No.2"
“In Istanbul, the seamless cycle of night and day unfolds almost unnoticed”
"For me, the effect of the blue hour has always been more profound than that of a sunset. It’s a m…
CTM Festival 2025
10 CTM shows not to be missed this week
In 2025, the CTM Festival will once again be one big awesome overload: an endless stream of panels, …
Video "Down Comes the Goose" by LILLEVAN
Tarwater “Down Comes the Goose”
The comeback of Tarwater was one of the positive surprises of the music year 2024. After a ten yea…
2024 – Das Jahr in Insolvenz & Pop
“There is nothing to say, it would all sound banal” – 2024 mit Cristina Marx
"They were all simply very, very nice festivals/events and therefore many concert highlights."…
2024 – Das Jahr in Insolvenz & Pop
Exiting large group performances & most painterly paintings: 2024 as seen and heard by Markus Müller
"Two celebrations of Peter Brötzmann’s incredible influence and lasting aura. Both very different…
„Electric Lights - Women in Electronic Music“
“Excitement, passion or relief” with Marie Davidson
"I’m too self-aware to witness the whole evolution process of my own identity. I have to wake up a…
Video premiere of the remix by Berlin based producer KMRU for Belgian artist Youniss
KMRU x Youniss: „Walad“
We are very happy to present you today the remix by KMRU to the track „Walad“ together with the …
Fotogalerie by Rainer Holz
Fred Frith 75 Birthday Festival
Last night, the British multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser Fred Frith performed in three…
Stagediving
“I am transforming, I am vibrating!” Nick Cave live in Germany
With all the twilight of the gods surrounding Nick Cave's current live concerts in Germany, is there…
Interview
Wolfgang Pérez : “I try to make my music so mercilessly honest that you can find out something about it and heal yourself”
"On the one hand, this change of language simply came about because I was involved a lot with Spanis…
Videointerview
Are you possessed, Kopy?
Interview with live sequences with Japanese artist Kopy aka Yuko Kureyama. Conducted at Salon des A…
Interview – Durchlüften 2024 by Humboldt Forum
Vincent Moon: “A weird research on space and time – and how to bend them”
"No contracts, I entirely believe in the free flow, the confidence in terms of, well, I'm not going …
„The Week“ in conversation with Eliza Rose, Ellen Allien and Sugababes
Just feel that soft summer breeze … the sunrise moments … a kiss
Summer vacation means time to relax at the pool or park with books, or listen to albums and songs th…
Hot for the warm-up: Monheim Triennale 2024 - ‘The Prequel’
Monheim Triennale: “Each event becomes a little art happening”
It’s a dizzying array of musical encounters and the ultimate goal is that the experience of the Pr…
Musik: Make Boys Cry / Pogendroblem (mit einer Unplugged-Premiere)
Talking Kaput #13: Beats und Verzweiflung. (Wie) kann Musik Einfluss auf Politik nehmen?
Thomas Venker and Linus Volkmann talk to their guests about spaces of possibility and utopias on bea…
EM GUIDE – Interview
Charles Carey on the art of web radio making
Interview with Charles Carey, co-founder of Radio Cult, a streaming platform designed for online com…
Interview with Lukasz Polowczyk / EM GUIDE
“It’s just wild that all of this exists, that we are here to experience it”
Lukasz Polowczyk is a Berlin-based sound artist, poet, and educator. His brand new video art piece "…
Telekom Electronic Beats Podcast The Week with Kelela
Kelela „If a white woman was doing the same exact thing that I’m doing, she would be probably ten times as big”
Sometimes it is not easy to listen to a conversation. But it is necessary. One hears clearly the str…
Interview
CocoRosie: „Guided by an inner force“
"We don't listen to much new music or music at all." CocoRosie in conversation with kaput. …
Festival Announcement – Rewire – 4.-7.4.2024
Prädikat kaput: 11 Rewire 2024 performances not to be missed
Every April the spearheads of avant-garde and experimental electronic music gathers in The Hague for…
Eugene Robinson
“A WALK ACROSS DIRTY WATER AND STRAIGHT INTO MURDERER'S ROW: A Memoir”
Question: Who is Eugene Robinson?
„Now I realize what’s more true than not is that there are a lot of people who deserve to die, …
Kaput-Mix-Series
Keikee “This is not a kaputt mix”
"For me, Acephale was a venue I could visit without hesitation. (...) as a DJ, it was a special plac…
Xmas special feature
Astrid & Alexander’s Winter Guide to Cosmopolitan Food and Drink in European Cities (LDN, PAR, BER edition)
A good pub should of course be authentically old and a bit broken. Ideally there should be no televi…
2023 – Annual review
“… I danced by violent times It was hard to live, live” – 2023, a year’s worth of 25 albums
Anohni and the Johnsons “My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross“ (Secretly Canadian) My Back …
