Whenever I start working for my Songs of the Week, I typically scan the candidates I archived for that reason and then select the leading track. I eliminate songs which I feel should finally not make then the cut and create…

Even though Charly Klauser is active in the German music scene since almost two decades, her album Mehr (“More”) released on 24th June 2022 is in fact her debut one. I ran into the ten songs of the Greater Cologne resident on…
Early summer 2022. After the Covid-19 crisis feels to have come to a certain end, air travelers all over Europe need to stay strong: newspapers report about handling issues in practically all major European airports. German newspapers complain about long…
Doing some shopping (including the local sweets outlets) and visiting the Drielandenpunt, where Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands meet, I recently had a night in Aachen in the very West of Germany. As there is a quite new Hilton Group outlet,…
If you feel that Cologne Carnival songs or party music must be a rather regional and limited things, stats of bands like Kasalla proof you wrong. The Cologne party rock band released songs like Pirate (“Pirates”), which have more than ten…
Home town Cologne instead of Nashville: after my trip to CMA Fest in Nashville had to be cancelled due to illness, I was more than happy that I could at least feature one very interesting act the same week. Johnossi…
The German language has the nice opportunity to simply combine two noun to a new word. Seele means soul in German and a Hippie is just the same as in English. The combined word Seelenhippie is the title of Dan O’ Clock’s new EP…