EM GUIDE — Kolumne Gefühle und Gedanken zu einer Welt, deren Umriss mir nicht mehr gefällt

IT HAS PLAYED OUT – OR: THE TRUMPIZATION OF EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING

Spring 2025 doesn’t make it easy to believe that things will be better this year and in the coming years than in 2024, 2023, 2022 and ….
On the contrary: the disastrous cultural policy decisions in Cologne and Berlin, where the budget debates not only resulted in cuts to important institutions and projects, but also in some cases in complete liquidation orders (see the Cologne Academy of the Arts of the World), bode ill for German cultural policy after last weekend’s depressing election.
Current events in the USA are rightly fueling fears that even more massive cuts to social and cultural projects are looming here too and that regressive policies in general will make a mockery of the important progress made in recent years and decades…

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Transcript of a conversation between Keith McIvor of Optimo and Andrew Thomson in early 2024. Optimo forever!

Keith McIvor: “it’s always been very political and you just chose to ignore that side of it”

"... go nightclubbing is it's an escape from the whatever terrible things are going on in the world. Having a few hours not to think about that, about if you're in a shitty job. But the overall arch and ethos of it is obviously to me, the opposite of that. It's a platform to galvanize people and talk about these things..."…

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Festival report: Monheim Triennale 2025

Monheim Triennale 2025: Captured by art, place and possibility

Walk anywhere around Monheim the town, and you spot festival posters that declare “Monheim Trienna…

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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,…

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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…

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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 …

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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. …

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Interview

Heiner Goebbels: Signature / No Signature Papers

“Complexity, polyphony, brokenness,” is Heiner Goebbels' answer to the question of what music mu…

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