Following in the footsteps of “Musiki” in Kadıköy
A conversation about the reinvention of Turkish New Age, the spiritual force of Jethro Tull, and the…
Kapute Szene No.6
Kapute Szene VI – 07.05.2026/ 16-21 Uhr Kapute Szene presents the exhibition by Niko Chodor supp…
EM GUIDE – Interview
Interview with Charles Carey, co-founder of Radio Cult, a streaming platform designed for online com…
Interview
"There's no guarantee in music making a living. It's not like the guy that's driving the train. It's…
Kim Gordon – Exhibitions at JUBG / O-Town House
"Music in a way is much easier because I try not to think too much about it. I am pretty physically …
3 1/2 records for the weekend
As Cologne is still in 9pm curfew, music is more important than ever to keep the mood up. So here we…
Lena Platonos – Interview – DICE conference and festival
"I advise them to fight for their rights and hope for a more optimistic future." – Lena Platonos …
Labor Day Summary
“Time keeps slipping, keeps slipping Time, time keeps slipping Time, time keeps slipping Time, …
Oriol Riverola aka John Talabot
Together with Kaput Oriol Riverola aka John Talabot is reflecting on the new era of clubbing where p…
Thomas Venker
All ways lead to Rome – and mine tomorrow. What better reason do I have to drop a playlist of ita…
Week-End #5
Billy Childish and his gang were off stage for six year long years, before giving their comeback sho…
Junior Boys
Junior Boys have always been a musical chameleon. From dubstep via synth-pop to disco, their musical…
Record of the week
We really ought to be thankful that Dave Portner/Avey Tare, Noah Lennox/Panda Bear, Brian “Geologi…
Record of the Week
Jóhannsson stands for lived solidarity through music in a world that pretty much stands for exactl…
Dial Records
Christian Naujoks and Pete Kersten (Lawrence) send us in celebration of their birthday this "15-Minu…
Eurosonic Noorderslag
Groningen, January 2016. Again the bookers, bands and fans of pop music made it to the dutch northea…
Record of the Week
It was not a rare thing for Cale to try and cure frailty with toughness. The grim and angry rocker …
Record of the Week
Whether all of the bands featured on the compilation do in fact fall under the category “Mod” is…
Record of the Week
"I cannot help, but touch upon my own personal history in reviewing this." So says our writer Jens F…
Week-End #5
Weekend-Festival, the Cologne-based festival run by Jan Lankisch and Jörg Waschat, is already hitti…
Record of the Week
Christina Mohr and Jens Friebe on "Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz" by Miley Cyrus. …
A city walk with John Joseph of Cro-Mags
In New York City John Joseph, singer of the hardcore band Cro-Mags, offers a city walk to those pla…
Record of the Week
The title track of the album pretty much constitutes the work that is most typical of Peaches. How a…
Janet Jackson
What feels like the work of a decade for Jan Lankisch (Tomlab, Edition Fieber, Weekend-Festival), fi…
Bum Khun Cha Youth & Jens Friebe - videoclip premiere
"Es lebe das Unheil, es lebe der Abschied. Es lebe der Jetlag, es lebe die Schnecke." Bum Khun Ch…
Jean Michel Jarre
He may have reached the ripe age of 67, but futurist French musician, composer and producer Jean Mic…
"Passage" with Jens-Uwe Beyer
Jens-Uwe Beyer rented a car to take Kaput with him on a Tour de Cologne. Keywords of happenings:…
Helena Hauff
With her sets and productions Helena Hauff breaks open dark, unfathomable, often even gloomy sound w…
Jennifer Cardini
French producer and dj Jennifer Cardini send us some of her private photos of Burning Man and shares…
Record of the Week
While the world keeps spinning, Lana Del Rey's songs freeze individual moments. Mario Lasar and Chri…
Record of the week
With “Safe”, Louis Carnell has managed to create a fantastic album, an electronic opera about ou…
Joe Goddard of Hot Chip
Our author I met twice with Joe Goddard. Once after a sweaty night at Panorama in an apartment on B…
JG Wilkes of Optimo
Christian S sends out 10 questions to JG Wilkes of Optimo ahead of their gigs together in Cologne an…
FFS (Franz Ferdinand & Sparks)
What's to know about the exact circumstances of how and why this collaboration came about and the re…
Record of the Week
3 minutes and 48 seconds worth of pop music with the license to make you feel dizzy.…
Foals
Dana Bönisch visits legendary Studios La Fabrique, where Foals recorded their latest album.…
Record of the Week
Christina Mohr thinks that FKA twigs comes across as a revenant of Kate Bush with different means. …
Record of the Week
Christina Mohr can clearly state that no other album of 2015 has up until now managed to captivate h…
Øya Festival 2015
Alex Mayor and Thomas did spend 96 hours in Oslo for the Øya Festival - see and what they saw in th…
Ena
Exclusive “Kaput-Mix for Berlin Atonal Festival”, photo gallery and interview with the Japanese …
Following the roots with: Stephan Plank & Paul Ellington
Some time in the spring of 1970 the great jazz musician Duke Ellington entered the studio of Krautro…
Gabi Delgado
Delgado, who represents one half of Deutsch-Amerikanische-Freundschaft, took us on a tour through hi…
Berlin Atonal
Kaput interviews the three curators of Berlin Atonal: Laurens von Oswald, Paulo Reachi and Harry Gla…
Record of the Week
Christina Mohr and Jens Friebe listened to the new Album by Telepathe: "Destroyer".…
Danielle de Picciotto - Insolvency & Pop
Hacke and de Picciotto certainly had a shorter journey in mind when they packed their suitcases five…
Øya Festival 2015
There are hundreds of festivals in Europe at this point and your humble correspondents attend a fair…
Record of the Week
Jens Friebe on tragic misunderstandings in pop history and "Into the Deep" from Galactic.…
Record of the Week
There is more than one opinion in pop criticism. We're celebrating the difference and the arguments.…
Open Source Festival 2015
The Open Source Festival in 16 pictures. …
Prefab Sprout - Revisited
Paddy McAloon talks about his return to recording, the art of song writing and what he’s been doin…
