History is made at night

There were violent clashes in Hamburg yesterday over the threat to evict the Rote Flora social centre. The ex-theatre in the city's ...

This is one of my favourite headlines for a while, from  Slate.Com : 'Bodybuilder Sneaks Aboard German Leader’s Jet, Stages One Man Ra...

At this time of year it is customary to raise a glass to one of Germany's finest music critics: Albrecht (Ali) Höhler (1898-1933). His e...

The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin works on two levels -above ground the 'Field of Stelae' conveys a sense of sca...

Going to be in Berlin next week to do a talk as part of the launch of the new edition of Datacide magazine (number 11), in which I have an ...

'The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancin...

Yesterday's post on mandolins and anti-fascist resistance in Warsaw has prompted this response from Ruin Gebirk in Berlin: "I read...

I'm going to be in Berlin on Friday taking part in this... If you're within several hundred miles you should try and make it down! D...

Anita Berber (1899-1928) was a dancer in pre-Nazi Germany, famous/notorious for a life of bisexuality, drugs and semi-naked performance. Wit...

Advance warning – I will be doing a talk in Berlin on Friday October 31st, part of an event to mark the tenth issue of Datacide zine. Not s...

It's been a while since I posted anything about space music (see here for the original Disconaut text ), but I came across this fine pi...

Another classic article from the zine vaults, again incredibly not already online. 'Decoder: the sound of muzak' by Tom Vague was fi...

Having recently come across the online journal Music and Politics (discovered via Normblog ), I am working my way though some of its intere...

The Nazis were hostile to jazz on racist grounds and various restrictions were placed on it. A complete ban was impossible to enforce, partl...

The White Rose (die Weiße Rose) was an anti-fascist resistance group in Germany 1942-3, initiated by students in Munich. A number of its me...

The 19th century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche clearly appreciated dance, and in his imagining of the “the glowing life of the Di...

Extracts from a call for transnational days of action for squats and autonomous spaces: 'On Friday the 4th and Saturday the 5th of April...

Herman Hesse's novel Steppenwolf , first published in 1928, is an outsider novel whose protagonist, disgusted by German militarism and b...

This month's round up includes neo -prohibition in the US, drug testing in a Thailand nightclub, sound systems at the G8 and a rave in a...

The Waltz was the focus of outrage as the dance spread from Austria and Germany to France and England in the late 18th and early 19th centur...