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…
Beiträge mit dem Stichwort "New York"
Interview
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”…
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…
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…
The Cologne Affair: Nicky Siano
Nicky Siano: “Unfortunately, DJing has become a dying art form
"e. You look at someone, you get a smile—that’s what you should get. It should be inviting and f…
EM GUIDE – Interview with Boshra Alsaadi
Boshra Alsaadi aka SAADI: “The reality is awful“
"The age old struggle…there’s obviously a lot of hardship in the arts. It's also hard for subver…
EM GUIDE — School’s Out with Shahzad Ismaily and His Daughter, Anika Loa Ismaily Quilter
Shahzad Ismaily: „I was sticking my face deep into the music“
"Let´s start the game. I wanna taste this Smoothie and guess what´s in it?" A day in Brooklyn wit…
EM GUIDE – Interview by Thomas Venker
No Land & Luke Stewart „„For me this moment in time is about cultivating a deeper listening to one another”
In September, I had the opportunity to meet No Land and Luke Stewart in Luke’s temporary residency…
Lamin Fofana – Interview, New York, Central Park, September 2024 – EM GUIDE
Lamin Fofana „Black music, black noise is not something that can be captured and put in categories“
Jonathan Forsythe and I meet Lamin Fofana on a beautiful September day on the corner of Central Park…
New York Special – Interview – EM GUIDE
Justin Strauss “Dance music is a different animal than it was when I started out”
"„Anyone who's been in this business for as many years as I have, there's going to be ups and down…
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, …
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation – Victoria Keddie
Victoria Keddie: “My work explores the cacophony of media ecologies that we operate within, both as an intimate and planetary exchange”
"The shifts in a planetary balance and our relationship to the planet and outer planetary systems ar…
An Interview with Brian Jackson – By Julian Brimmers
Brian Jackson – Survival Kits on Wax
"Part of life is the journey and sometimes not even knowing where you’re going. But knowing that y…
7 party tales by Vivian Host
Vivian Host: “I Came, I Saw, I Raved”
"Raves and music gave me a way to express myself and an escape at times where I desperately needed t…
Behind the scenes of the "Talking to Americans" production
Once Upon a Time in America
In the fall of 2017 photographer Jonathan Forsythe and writer Thomas Venker crossed the USA from Eas…
Ilse Ruppert – interviewed by Laurence Wasser
ILSE RUPPERT: “People have become very conscious of their image”
"I prepared very little for my shootings, it is in the pressure of the moment that I found the angl…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in conversation
Dorit Chrysler: “The community is everything to me and always creates new movement”
"The better you know yourself, the more fearless you can translate it into sound." – Dorit Chrysl…
Indo-American EDM musician Madame Gandhi on her India connection, bad habits and her way of activism.
Madame Gandhi: Envision a more positive future
I want to make my feminism accessible. I've always led from a really positive place I've always want…
Aurora Halal – “Electric Lights - Women in Electronic Music”
Aurora Halal: Poseidon. Witch. Angel
This Brooklyn-based producer and video artist has established herself in the last few years as one o…
Akiko Yano - Interview
“When you are communicating through music there is no fear or intimidation”
"Young people want to know about our music and I am grateful for that. I think some of it somehow ca…
Record of the Week
Colin Self „Siblings“ (RVNG Intl.)
"If this voice leaves you cold, you have long ago sold your humanity to the shadow beings." – Tho…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in conversation - Jennifer Tull Westberg
Jennifer Tull Westberg: “Gemstones are magical to me – gifts from deep in the Earth”
"I never really lack ideas as I am constantly being inspired. My biggest problem is actually finding…
Borderlands Trio – Interview with Stephan Crump
Borderlands Trio: “A lifetime of preparation for that moment”
Borderlands Trio is the formation of Stephan Crump (bass), Kris Davis (piano) and Eric Mc Pherson (d…
Evans/Dahl/Pride „Pulverize the Sound“
“Music such as this is trying to show a different and deeper way human beings can interact and co-exist.”
"The more I study, the more I find pathways through many kinds of music that help me develop my own …
FILTER Detroit – Kerstin Niemand on 12645 Moran Street, Detroit
“Detroit is an open city”
The direct contact with local artists revealed that the metropolis, which until now has only been kn…
Mozhgan Shariat
„The idea was to play weird, soundtracky monster music“
San Francisco based Mozhgan Shariat is alongside Solar and Jason Greer the co-host of the super well…
Princess Nokia makes you understand what Jennifer Lopez was talking about one upon a time ago
In search of feminist reality
Our author Merve Namli was a 14-year-old living in Istanbul when Jennifer Lopez’s single “Jenny …
Record(s) of the Week
Visible Cloaks / Melanie Velarde
The records of the week are all about archaeological quests, operations at the open hear and soft fe…
Kai Althoff
Hey Manhattan
If you have ever busied yourself with Kai Althoff’s oeuvre, then you now about the great desire fo…
Veronica Vasicka - Minimal Wave & Cititrax
“I don’t understand when what I like became cool and why.”
“I definitely felt like an outsider in high school. The other kids asked me why I was always weari…
Thomas Venker
ROCKET ROCKET USA
Back in the days summer meant that the newspapers blew up the most boring stories to make them their…
Jonathan Forsythe
“Morning Jost”
A photo series by Jonathan Forsythe shot on Jost Van Dyke in february 2016.…
Lena Willikens @ Beats in Space
Happy 5th of July
School free for summer for the Kaput column. Instead of slowly coming words you get a Beats in Spac…
Laura Gibson
“I really felt the loneliness of a big decision.”
Laura Gibson is the creator of a constantly growing and magnificently beautiful world of folk music…
Record of the week
Animal Collective “Painting With”
We really ought to be thankful that Dave Portner/Avey Tare, Noah Lennox/Panda Bear, Brian “Geologi…
A city walk with John Joseph of Cro-Mags
FOLLOWING THE TRACKS OF: NEW YORK HARDCORE
In New York City John Joseph, singer of the hardcore band Cro-Mags, offers a city walk to those pla…
Jay-Z - Revisited
“Are you sick of me?”
"I´m an old school kid", Jay-Z admits in this "Revisited" interview. …
Drift – Revisited
Leonberger Momente with Leah Singer & Lee Ranaldo
Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth and filmmaker Leah Singer visited Europe in 1994 to perform under their i…
Björk - Revisited
“I’m trying to forgive myself for everything.”
The Icelandic pop singer runs straight into the Museum of Modern Art New York - to search for eterna…
A night out in Harlem
Snow storme über New York
Jonathan Forsythe fought Hercules all the way to get some nice shoots of this special night.…
