“INDUSTRIAL: Silk Roads 3000” – Interview with Ali Kazma
Ali Kazma: “We make all of these things, but we don’t see this beauty”
At the center of Ali Kazma’s work “Subterranean”, filmed roughly a decade ago in a vast factor…
“INDUSTRIAL: Silk Roads 3000” – Interview with Ali Kazma
Punk-Special by Kaput - Magazin für Insolvenz und Pop and Gegenüber the transatlantic magazin of the Goethe Institut North America
Jan Röhlk: “I’m not going to wait until I’m 67 anymore—I’m going to do everything I can from my bucket list right now.”
The “blessing of being born late” often opens up a unique perspective on history: you experience…
Punk-Special by Kaput - Magazin für Insolvenz und Pop and Gegenüber the transatlantic magazin of the Goethe Institut North America
Love in Slow Motion: Peter Sempel – A Portrait of a Man Who Has Remained True to Punk
Since filmmaker and photographer Peter Sempel passed away on March 20, four days before his 72nd bir…
Punk-Special by Kaput - Magazin für Insolvenz und Pop and Gegenüber the transatlantic magazin of the Goethe Institut North America
Too Much Future – Punk in East Germany
Despite relentless surveillance, harassment, arrests, and intimidation, East German punk built a res…
Interview
Emir Barin “It is about to make the people feel like they are a part of the family at Barın Han”
"We believe that if we limit an artist or say "no" to their work, we would be like the people who sa…
Jazzfest Berlin – Interview Rob Mazurek
“I search for the sound inside the sound.A note is never just a note. There is air, attack, grain, overtone, decay, vibration.”
On 31 October, the duo brings this history to Jazzfest Berlin, presenting primarily material from "H…
Punk-Special von Kaput - Magazin für Insolvenz und Pop und Gegenüber dem transatlantischen Magazin des Goethe-Institut
Princess Hollywood: “The places where people used to score drugs or throw up are now hidden behind a VIP barrier”
Witchcraft, copy art, and the lingering echo of LA punk – a meeting at the cemetery with Pleasant …
Punk-Special by Kaput - Magazin für Insolvenz und Pop and Gegenüber the transatlantic magazin of the Goethe Institut North America
The Clash: Rejecting Rejection
Punk means defiance, punk means reduction, punk means: No Future. …
Punk-Special by Kaput - Magazin für Insolvenz und Pop and Gegenüber the transatlantic magazin of the Goethe Institut North America
Jonas Engelmann: “Punk’s 50th Birthday Is Pretty Much Nonsense”
If you want to uncover genuinely new insights about the long-lived, global phenomenon of punk throug…
Punk-Special by Kaput - Magazin für Insolvenz und Pop and Gegenüber the transatlantic magazin of the Goethe Institut North America
Ichi – Ni – San – Shi / Japanese Noise as a Radical Punk Mutation
In this sense, Japanese noise is perhaps the most consistent realisation of what punk once sought: t…
Taiwanese artist Li-chin Li in conversation with Thomas Venker
Li-chin Li : “I enjoy exploring my own limits through the interaction of body, sound and space”
"What has always fascinated me most is the act of creation itself. In every performance I am not onl…
Interview
FarAvaz “Anger Means Hope”
On her way to the interview, FarAvaz posts an Instagram story: “The Islamic regime couldn’t forc…
Feature – Kaput Print
Ronald M. Schernikau ‘Writing, Being Gay, Being a Communist’
Who is Ronald M. Schernikau anyway? In his own profile, he describes himself with a few simple words…
Interview
Tomoko Sauvage: “Working as an independent musician, with independent festivals and labels, and with people who are passionate about art, is precious”
Tomoko Sauvage is sharing artistic insights with Thomas Venker on water, resonance, fragile matter, …
Essay
Geese – Quit Thinking
The music press went nuts – The New Yorker called Geese the winners of 2025 – and threw around t…
Feature
Fairouz Hasan “How can a film about Palestine have an ending?“
Hasan’s works are an attempt at holding something that is under the constant threat of vanishing: …
Guests: Gudrun Gut, Laureen Kornemann, Christin Nichols, Anton Teichmann – Moderation: Thomas Venker, Linus Volkmann
Insolvency & Pop – A Roundtable Discussion “The Social Fabric of Culture is Disintegrating”
For our first print issue, we posed this question to four very different figures from the pop music …
Column
WE BETTER TALK THIS OVER #14: „SOLAR POWER“ VON LORDE (2021)
To understand “Solar Power”, you first have to grasp the aesthetic of its predecessor “Melodra…
Mark Fell, 2026
Macaroni synthesis revisited… on the life, work and philosophy of Yasunao Tone (1935-2025).
" ... Tone rejected any singular reading of his work. It was as if he saw our thoughts and theories …
Feature
Kapa Tult – A Sense of inner conflict
The young band Kapa Tult have mastered the art of lyrically capturing their generation’s lived rea…
Long Read
A Song Ain’t No Bridge Anymore – On Cultural Boycotts and the BDS Campaign
What role can culture play in mending rifts, what can it do to create solidarity across nationalitie…
Following in the footsteps of “Musiki” in Kadıköy
Ahmet Sinan Hatipoğlu: “Demos are always better, because there is no “mathematics” in a demo, only feeling.”
A conversation about the reinvention of Turkish New Age, the spiritual force of Jethro Tull, and the…
Kapute Szene - Conversations I: Stephan Mathieu
Stephan Mathieu: “Cutting hair, playing drums, computers, Early music, mastering. Ultimately, it all fits together and defines me as a person. Keep learning every day; slow growth is good growth.”
His mastering work is internationally known and covers a broad range of genres, with clients includi…
Interview
Chris Ryan Williams: “I’m a relatively introverted person. Leaving my house to get on the bus or the train and just “being” there is a shared experience that I don’t take for granted.”
The screen flickers, and for a fleeting moment, the transatlantic distance between Cologne and New Y…
Interview
Amelia Holt: “Are you interested in being part of something special, or are you here for the money?”
I catch up with the New York-based DJ, promoter, and agency head Amelia Holt. Between the snow-duste…
“Heavy Waters” at CTM 2026
Zeynep Schilling: “I can’t imagine making art only for art’s sake. I’ve always been political, starting in high school.”
“Heavy Waters” is not a metaphor in search of gravity; it is gravity. It asks what it means to m…
A conversation with Chloé Zhao by Daniel Kothenschulte
Chloé Zhao: “To me, love is not about happiness (…), love is about transformation”
"I don't think you can love with an open heart without the capacity of handling the pain from being …
Interview – Jason Williamson on “The Demise of Planet X”
Sleaford Mods: “It’s very rare that I’m on a positive streak”
Jason Williamson reflects once again on political exhaustion, masculinity, consumerism, and ageing w…
Interview
Sera Kalo “Vulnerability and surprise. That’s what I’m looking for. Always.“
On February 23 at HAU1, the Caribbean–US American singer and composer presents her latest album, …
25 from 2000-2025
Masterful pop song structures: Junior Boys “So This Is Goodbye”
Mario Lasar feels slowed down by “So This Is Goodbye” by the Junior Boys.…
Interview
Elia Einhorn: “I thought I’d fried my brain forever—music saved me”
""The American music industry is absolutely fucked for artists right now. Streaming pays almost noth…
Kaput Revisited – Interview / Reportage
Akufen “I butcher Sound”
Marc Leclair (Akufen) has taken minimal music to a new level with radio samples in the style of Cada…
Chakeiya Camille Richmond – Interview
KeiyaA: “Black healing music coming from Black pain, that’s the tradition that I still follow” Interview with Chakeiya Camille Richmond
"Do I always have to be the fat Black feminist that's educating y'all on stuff? It's yes and no. Yes…
S.H. Fernando Jr. (alias SKIZ) & Julian Brimmers im Kaput Interview
“The biggest thing about MF DOOM is that he was authentic in a very fake world.
MF DOOM is one of the most enigmatic and brilliant figures in hip-hop – an extraordinary rapper fu…
Interview
Daniel Avery “The older I get, the more I realize that the exciting thing about an artist’s journey is the journey”
"I feel that everyone on the record played an equal part. It has my name on the cover, but I'm just …
Monheim Triennale – Interview
Tyshawn Sorey “I’ve got this!”
Tyshawn Sorey is one of those rare artists who collapses the usual partitions between worlds: contem…
Interview – Enjoy Jazz Festival
Adrian Younge: Jazz Is Dead
"It’s a hard line between white and black people. It's strange to me because it’s just classism,…
EM GUIDE — STRUMA+IODINE – INTERVIEW
Lorenzo Senni: ”I´m not scared of what I desire”
"Everything we do matters. I speak about my work — so about myself — every second of my life. On…
Feature
Lynchian Lovesongs and Rock Romanticism: Bambara
The music and live shows of "Bambara are deeply, fervently Romantic — in the same way as the core …
EM GUIDE – Struma+Iodine – Interview
HANNAH TODT AKA AUTOR: “FLUTES CAN BE VERY PUNK”
HANNAH TODT IS A VIENNA-BORN, BRUSSELS-BASED ARTIST AND MUSICIAN WHOSE INTERDISCIPLINARY PRACTICE SP…
EM GUIDE – Easterndaze
Jugoslavija Wave: New compilations revisiting the ex-Yu post-punk and new wave legacy
If I had a single ticket for the time machine that could take me to any historical or prehistoric pe…
Interview GAJEK – Struma+Iodine – TEXT: MARA NEVER, PHOTOGRAPHY: PHILIPPE GERLACH
Gajek “There are many tricks for white male artists to be kind of absent from our work, absent as people”
"World history playing out in the daily lives of people, geopolitical conflicts and siblings not tal…
Interview – DURCHLÜFTEN – 2025 – EM GUIDE
Etran de L’Aïr “To us, the desert is freedom. It is our home”
"We have no worries there. We're at ease, we're at home, we do what we want, work on our music. We'r…
Record of the Week meets Hospital Trauma
Pulp in the hospital
In the 47th year of the band's existence, Pulp landed their first number one hit in the United Kingd…
EM GUIDE — Interview
Lifeguard: “We wanted to make a punk record that sounds like you accidentally dubbed it onto a tape of noise music”
Kaput author Lennart Brauwers spoke to frontman Kai Slater about the band's fantastic Matador debut …
EM GUIDE – Struma+Iodine – Interview
RROSE: “THE PULSE IS THE ANCHOR. EVERYTHING ELSE IS FLUID”
ACROSS A DISCOGRAPHY THAT RESISTS EASY CATEGORIZATION, RROSE HAS LONG PURSUED A SINGULAR AESTHETIC. …
Interview
Heiner Goebbels: Signature / No Signature Papers
“Complexity, polyphony, brokenness,” is Heiner Goebbels' answer to the question of what music mu…
EM GUIDE – 34.sk – Verena Hahn
Forsberg, Mede & Nareswari: The Pain of not sharing a Language
WHEN ADELA MEDE, MARTA FORSBERG AND NINDYA NARESWARI MET UP FOR THIS INTERVIEW IN LATE JANUARY 2025,…
EM GUIDE – caroline – Interview
Jasper Llewellyn (caroline) “It’s like less pensive and contemplative. In a way, it feels more hectic”
In an interview with Kaput author Lennart Brauwers, leading band member/multitalent Jasper Llewellyn…
EM GUIDE – Monheim Triennale – Interview
Oren Ambarchi: “I’m definitely interested in exploring things slowly and taking my time with the exploration“
"I do remember always being told that “music is just a hobby” and “you need to find something …
EM GUIDE – Interview – Blaues Rauschen Festival
Jessica Ekomane “Music has this capacity to make you feel the whole possible and impossible spectrum of your emotions […] and I want to appeal to all of it, all at once”
Jessica Ekomane’s sound doesn’t merely fill a space – it redefines it. The Berlin-based compos…
EM GUIDE – Easterndaze – Text: Dragos Rusu
Bucharest’s Post-Pandemic Experimental Music Scene
In summary, while Bucharest’s experimental music scene faces significant post-pandemic challenges,…
