• The office of the post-industrial city? (photo: Charles Haynes/Flickr, 2011)
    Commentary
    How does music affect the image of a city? In his recent book «Deindustrialisation and Popular Music», Giacomo Bottà elaborates the relationship between de-industrialization and genres like house, industrial or post-punk. Here, he thinks about the seemingly new role of techno in COVID-19 times.
  • Filmstill: Olimpia Splendid (Music), Tuomo Tuovinen (Video): «Jukka-Pekka» (Finland 2013)
    Short Essay
    A lonely and sad man, sitting on a conveyor belt, scanning fizzy drinks and marshmallows. That's (almost) all you see in the video «Jukka-Pekka» by Olimpia Splendid. A critique of the capitalist labor system: that's how our author reads it.
  • Die Goldenen Zitronen
    Playlist
    Was ist Europa? Mitä on Eurooppa? Cos’è l’Europa? L’Europe c’est quoi? What is Europe? This is a good and confusing question. I actually have no idea anymore, so I started digging into popular music videos.