Pablo Castoldi – Column – Part II, created in Brazil and Argentina
Pablo Castoldi is in peace with everything
We always knew this was going to happen at some point. I remember thinking about the future watching…
Beiträge mit dem Stichwort "Column"
Pablo Castoldi – Column – Part II, created in Brazil and Argentina
Column – Part II, created on the Hispaniola Island and Jamaica
PABLO CASTOLDI: “Look at the palms… instead at those who rest in their shadows”
"Hopefully what we are going through will help us see those who have always been at risk, always neg…
Column – Part I, created in Koufonisia, Greece
Pablo Castoldi: “I would like to do Architecture “
"Perhaps because of having been born on the tide of materials from a house in construction, I always…
The Majority as a Sect VII
»REPUBLIC IS NOT A LOT, SOCIALISM IS THE GOAL!«
The series »The Majority as a Sect« will run until September and the author made a bet with himsel…
CTM Festival 2017, the world and a boy with a walkman
AN INFINITE EXPERIMENTAL LABORATORY
Last night, after a day full of discussions with my students at the Institute for Popular Music, I h…
2_30.09.2016
Five For Friday
It’s Friday, and in the music world, today is new release day. Stores are flooded with an abundanc…
Thomas Venker
„DON’T CALL US REFUGEES!“
You can’t be further away from Germany. I’m standing on a little hill in the northwest of the is…
Five For Friday
1 – 16.09.2016
It’s Friday, and in the music world, today is new release day. Stores are flooded with an abundanc…
Thomas Venker
ROCKET ROCKET USA
Back in the days summer meant that the newspapers blew up the most boring stories to make them their…
Denise Oemcke
Where the fuck is the album? Waiting for Frank Ocean!
Our author Denise Oemcke is waiting for the man! There is not much that I hate as much as waiting…
Andreas Gehm
Forever in Acid
About half a year ago a friend and I were discussing Andreas Gehm, the Cologne based techno producer…
Kaput & Attic Magazine & Outernational Days Bucharest
Dreaming in the Discotheque
The beauty of music is that one is not only able to enjoy it alone, but that it’s so powerful in b…
Thomas Venker
The eyes of evil
A few days ago I was sitting opposite a guy in a weirdly empty room in a clinic within a forest outs…
Thomas Venker
… is in fragments
Somedays words just misbehave. That idea that felt so urgent and relevant during the first coffee en…
Linus Volkmann
“R.I.P., LOSER“ – A PIETY 2.0-GUIDELINE
When someone died in the past, ground was poached up and their body got buried in a hole. A rather m…
Thomas Venker
Let us talk about the future
Arriving in Paris turns out not be as awkward as I’d anticipated. Yes, the military are reviewing …
Thomas Venker
Milch “Europa”
Who stands outside the garden´s fence Please be welcome and bye bye Thought the ghost that I …
Thomas Venker
Aproved by the artist
So back in April this year, I happened to receive an email from the editor of a well known German mu…
Thomas Venker
Caressing Klimaretter, Performing Arts and Groove Magazine
To Berlin, and in a neat side effect of our somewhat compact accommodation I floated into the editor…
Thomas Venker
Tolerated Ignorance
The Chicago based producer and musician Steve Albini is a man notorious for what could be termed “…
Die Goldenen Zitronen
“If I Were A Sneaker”
For the first time we post a videoclip as our weekly column. Listen carefully to the lyrics and yo…
Thomas Venker
No Crowd Surfing in the Crowd-Heavy Areas Please
It may sound unlikely viewed from today’s pop landscape, but in the year 1988 everybody wanted to …
Thomas Venker
Mixed Timeline Feelings
And now, to keep up with the world of all the things, let’s see what Facebook reckons I really oug…
Thomas Venker
Flashback to Miles, Melt! and Peter the Ogre
Earlier today I was sitting on a park bench in Cologne and drinking a coffee, reflecting as one does…
Thomas Venker
How many days do we have left to live?
The Greeks have voted, and it was a resounding “No”. “No” to the arrogance of the Troika and…
Thomas Venker
In praise of collective action
Instead of this column’s usual anti-stance, I decided to write today in favor of something: welcom…
Thomas Venker
“That’s not for me anymore”,
Well, it’s a few days since I returned from Primavera Festival 2015, and as always after such an i…
Thomas Venker
In praise of no parachutes on this flight.
“I think artistically it has been a blessing that I never had a back-up plan. No day job to take i…
Justus Köhncke - CARTE BLANCHETT #2
Groove is in the heart? Wait, groove is now in court!
Justus Köhncke thought we had agreed that in pop, a groove, when it really works, isn’t just a fe…
Doc Emmett Richter
Back to the Future with
In his second column for Kaput Claus Richter remembers a future not existing anymore.…
Thomas Venker
Has a few problems with sponsored content
Today’s column is brought to you by, the word „sponsored“. Ouch. Well, you’re probably well…
Thomas Venker
But I don’t want to be in the Boiler Room!
Nothing is as boring as the over-obvious enemy, the predictably normal nemesis... you try to reserve…
Linus Volkmann / Tanita Sanft
Why do people actually hate the nerds of OK Go that much?
Once upon a time...in a time, when even I still thought that I was certainly going to become a fan o…
Thomas Venker
Be my artist
A few days ago, an author friend of mine – who can’t quite make a living solely from his brillia…
Thomas Venker
Festival to go
A few days ago, the wonderfully sarcastic Trevor Jackson, reported from his booking at Sónar Copenh…
Motion Picture Character of the Week
Ellie Kemper as Kimmy Schmidt
A shining light from out of the bunker. Get a faceful of the unbreakable, unstoppable Kimmy Schmidt.…
Phillip Sollmann - Include me out
Toilet Paper and Bento Boxes
Phillip Sollmann starts his travel-column with every day observations of Japan. …
Thomas Venker
On not wanting to become a Google doc
It’s a bit like in horror movies. Nobody knows when “it” arrived, but now it’s everywhere...…
Motion Picture Character of the Week
Bradley Cooper as „American Sniper“
Is there a life after 160 deadly shots? …
