If you’ve seen our video feature WE CALL IT TECHNO!, you know that Frankfurt has long been a central node in Germany’s techno culture. What you may not know, however, is that the city has a rich ...

In this special preview of our new Summer 2013 print magazine, we present the cover story—an extensive interview with the divisive pop phenomenon—in full. Photo by Robert Carrithers. Lana Del Rey ’s ...

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Last month, we revealed part one of our in-depth feature on African-American roller skating communities, and before we unveil the second installment, we’ve decided to roll out an exclusive interview ...

In March, Amsterdam based venue and music hub Radio Radio lived up to its name with the launch of its online radio station, broadcast live from the venue. With Dutch DJ and United Identities label ...

In the past, being an ambitious band or musician meant coming up with new and exciting concepts for albums. With Biophilia, Björk has decided to reinvent the concept of the album itself. Her seventh ...

This bedrock of sonic liberation also formed the basis of techno music. During the genre’s birth in the late 1980s and early 1990s, its hometown of Detroit was already in the grips of debilitating ...

Ali Khalaj (a.k.a. Namito) grew up in Iran at the height of the revolution and the region’s subsequent years of warfare and unrest. After escaping to Berlin, he fell into the ranks of the Osho cult, ...

Max Dax met Jimmy Somerville in a nameless posh hotel along a nameless, not-so-posh street near Alexanderplatz in Berlin. Muzak wafted through the speakers in the hotel lobby, but the filter coffee ...

If you don’t know about Omen, then you don’t know much about German techno. This was the sweatbox where Sven Väth held court; his living room where he became known as “Baba” and established himself as ...

City pop is a genre of Japanese popular music that was popular in the 1980s and featured a “cosmopolitan” image that appealed to those who benefited from the so-called post-war “economic miracle,” an ...

The line-up was still pretty heavy on trance and goa, right? AJ: Mahasuka was the headliner. It was trance, sure, but state of the art. What did you do after the successful first Nation? And what was ...