Eat Your Heart Out

  So, after four months of virtually non-stop global touring, this decade’s surprise reunion success story wrapped up at the weekend as the all-new Atari Teenage Riot closed 2011 with one final gig and festive party at Hamburg’s Gruenspan. click here to watch clip Now bizarrely, the idea of ATR throwing a Christmas party was [...]

Germany overtakes the UK to become Europe’s largest music market by Gavin Blackburn The release of the annual “Recording Industry in Numbers” by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) revealed that Germany ranks ahead of the UK in physical music sales. Low digital penetration, a healthy CD market and a stable economy have [...]

Kassettendeck: new German book pays tribute to the defunct but iconic cassette It hasn’t been all that long since cassettes lined car dashboards everywhere, but a wealth of new digital formats quickly relegated the cassette to a forgotten corner of history. Can they make a retro comeback? When it was first unveiled at the Internationale [...]

Drama, depression and manifestos: in conversation with Ja, Panik   Austrian indie band Ja, Panik left their native Vienna two years ago and are now “stranded” in Berlin. Their fourth studio album, DMD KIU LIDT, recorded in ten days in Berlin-Neukoelln, was released on April 15. Ja, Panik is acclaimed as one of the most [...]