9/11 and the Music World: Collective Trauma in a Cultural Void
Essay
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented towards a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.
Features
Why Phoebe Bridgers is the defining indie pop star of our time
Portrait
Records Revisited: The Beatles – Revolver (1966)
Column
The unlikely pop of the Tara Clerkin Trio defies the logic of the feeds
Essay
Carla dal Forno on 10 records that have shaped her
List
Records Revisited: The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds (1966)
Column
Records Revisited: Beyoncé – Lemonade (2016)
Column
Fcukers are the poster band for the recession-pop revival
Portrait
Records Revisited: Brian Eno – Another Green World (1975)
Column
Nourished by Time is taking the world by storm with his raw take on R&B
Portrait
Kate Bush is arguably the world’s most famous anti-pop star
Portrait
Haim are taking a new path with their latest album, and it’s one you should follow
Portrait
An Introduction to Yugoslav Music History, Part 1: Music and Market Socialism
Essay
Akiko Yano is an Underappreciated Pioneer of Japanese Music
Portrait
If you want to explain Franco Battiato’s music to someone, you have to go a long way
Portrait
Kelly Lee Owens picks 10 records that have shaped, improved and formed her
List
Işık Kural picks his 10 Vinyl Records of the noment
List, Portrait
The Incredible Noise Chansons of Marie Klock
Portrait
Rosa Anschütz on the big Questions and how the Lack of Answers can be Art
Interview
Lost Girls on Disarmament in Pop and Loneliness in Life
Interview
How Total showed up in Berlin, but then nearly faded from memory
Portrait
Records Revisited: Talking Heads – Speaking In Tongues (1983)
Column
Records Revisited: Slowdive – Souvlaki (1993)
Column
Overmono on Shared Feelings and Separate Hotel Rooms
Interview
Ghia are Bielefeld’s best kept secret
Portrait
The Fabulous World of Genevieve Artadi
Portrait
Kate NV is in Search of the Perfect Loop
Interview
Kelela on Setting Limits as an Artistic Means
Interview
Aigner’s Inventory: September 2022
Column, List
How Stacks Evoke the Gloom in Pop
Portrait
Reviews
Haruomi Hosono
Yours Sincerely
Ghostly International
Mohamed Bourouissa
Lila
Pan
L’Rain
fata morgana
Mexican Summer
Julia Holter
Materia
Domino
Frances Chang
Been Thinking Bout Confession
RVNG Intl.
Chanel Beads
Your Day Will Come
Jagjaguwar
Feeble Little Horse
Bitknot
Saddle Creek
Various Artists
Stax Does The Beatles
Concord
Sans Merit
Trolley Polly
Knekelhuis
Swallow
Blown
4AD
Cindy
Another Country
Tough Love
Widowspeak
Roses
Captured Tracks
Tara Clerkin Trio
Somewhere Good
World Of Echo
Dagmar Zuniga
in filth your mystery is kingdom / far-smile peasant in yellow music
AD 93
Discovery Zone
Library Copy Do Not Remove
RVNG Intl.
Anadol & Marie Klock
Manivelles
Pingipung
Seefeel
Sol.Hz
Warp
Various Artists
Tokyo Pulse: Japanese Funk Modern & City Pop From The Tokyo Scene 1974–88
WeWantSounds
inrain
Rise
Music From Memory
SY3
Sleepwalker
Music From Memory
Avalon Emerson & The Charm
Written Into Changes
Dead Oceans
The Thinking Of The World Began Pounding In Our Ears The Moment We Hit Shore
s/t
STROOM 〰
Mitski
Nothing’s About To Happen To Me
Dead Oceans
Stereolab
Cloud Land / Flashes In The Afternoon
Duophonic UHF Disks
Sergio Maria Saguaro (Hiroaki Sugawara)
Rain Guitar
Forest Jams
Hitomi »Penny« Tohyama
Tokyo Funk Diva 1981-88
WeWantSounds
Akiko Yano
7 O’clock In Tokyo
WeWantSounds
Melody’s Echo Chamber
Unclouded
Domino
Helado Negro
The Last Sound On Earth
Big Dada
Various Artists
Going Back To Sleep…
A Colourful Storm
News
Week-End Fest 2026: Many roads lead to Cologne
Event • 
Meakusma Festival 2026 brings more than 140 acts to Eupen in eastern Belgium
Event • 
Robyn’s new album – one day early at HHV Store Berlin
Event • 
There’s even more to discover at Le Guess Who? this year!
Event • 
Peki Momés’ debut weaves Turkish pop with disco and psychedelia
News
Has the Line-Up Just Got Even Better? The Week-End Fest 2025
Event • 
Panda Bear plays an exclusive Germany concert in Berlin this November – cancelled
Event • 
Σtella brings her slow-burning Aegean pop to Hamburg’s Knust this October
Event • 
Pop Melancholy and Violin Solos when Sofie Royer comes to Berlin
Event • 
Erobique & Jacques Palminger celebrate the Principle of Shared Joy with a new album
News
Enjoy the oh-so-beautiful melancholy with Milan W. live in Cologne
Event • 
Yeule are bringing their raw Goth-Glitch-Hop to Berlin in July, with a new album coming out soon
Event • 
Arooj Aftab captivates her audience, and no doubt will do so live in Heidelberg at the end of October
Event • 
With »My Method Actor«, British musician Nilüfer Yanya presents her Ninja Tune debut in September
News
Critics’ favourites Oum Shatt from Berlin release new album
News
New album by Discovery Zone announced, no Metaverse release planned
News
New York singer Rahill live in Berlin and Cologne this November
Event • 
Róisín Murphy with new album, produced by DJ Koze
News
Erobique also shines on his first album in 25 years
News
Big Dada announces Rahill’s eagerly anticipated debut album, »Flowers At Your Feet«
News
Limited vinyl edition of Lana del Rey’s new album »Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd«
News
»Oshin« by DIIV lands a special edition for its tenth anniversary
News
John Peel session by Foyer Des Ars salvaged after 35 years
News
Saâda Bonaire – Lost Tape »1992« will be released
News
Toro y Moi – New Album »MAHAL«, also on red vinyl
News
Girlwoman – Das Große Ganze
News
Niklas Wandt – Exclusive Edition: »Solar Müsli«
News
The Free Design – Exclusive Edition: »Heaven/Earth«
News
Mieke Miami – Exclusive Edition: »Montecarlo Magic«
News