Berlin (Germany)

Chris Corner Got Way, Way More Crowd-Funding Money Than He Sought

For years, Berlin-based singer/multi-instrumentalist Chris Corner has been working alone. Originally from the U.K. and having first came to prominence in the 1990s as part of the electronic group Sneaker Pimps, he has self-produced his last four albums as IAMX. Sometimes, he even directed his own vi ... More >>

EDC 2013 Lineup Announced

Electric Daisy Carnival is back at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway this year, June 21-23. It is sold out. But we'll provide full coverage, in case you can't be there. The full lineup is below, in alphabetical order.

Five Great Lesser-Known DJs To See At Coachella

For dance fans there has been little difference between Coachella and Electric Daisy Carnival in recent years, except that the former supplemented its Tiesto-Kaskade-Deadmau5 lineups with alt-rock while EDC did so with dubstep and drum 'n' bass. See also: Everything you need to know about Coachella ... More >>

Berlin Discoveries: Greatness Emerges at the Year's First Major International Film Festival

The 20 Greatest EDM DJs: The Complete List

Electronic dance music's recent resurgence has made the genre more popular than ever before, but it's still often not taken seriously as an art form. World's Douchiest DJs: The Top Five The 20 Worst Hipster Bands Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre And yeah, many goofily-dressed ravers are ... More >>

The 20 Greatest EDM DJs: 20-11

Electronic dance music's recent resurgence has made the genre more popular than ever before, but it's still often not taken seriously as an art form. And yeah, many goofily-dressed ravers are so high they'll literally dance to anything. But below we've highlighted 20 top-notch spinners who put real ... More >>

Music Picks: Robert Glasper, Nick Waterhouse, Omar Rodriguez Lopez

Art out of leftovers

Q & A With Luisa Weiss: Her New Book, the Future of The Wednesday Chef Cooking in Germany

If you've spent much of the last seven years reading Luisa Weiss' celebrated food blog The Wednesday Chef, as many of us have, it will not surprise you to learn that her new book is a charming read. Nor will it surprise you to learn that she's an engaging reader in real life, as she was when she c ... More >>

Warhol, Live Onstage! A New Show Adapts the Artist's Films Via Improv

The Wednesday Chef: Luisa Weiss Reads From My Berlin Kitchen at Vroman's

Many of you know Luisa Weiss from her blog The Wednesday Chef, the long-running and utterly lovely site that Weiss started in 2005 to compare, more or less, the weekly editions of two of this country's best newspaper food sections, those of the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times. I first met ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Great German Music

KCRW Broadcast #176 for Saturday, August 4, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! In a Rut Fanatics! Hello from Germany. I am currently living in the Hamburg at an airport hotel. I am doing two nights at the Wacken Festival. Since I am here and not with you and the other two at the Jasonic Tem ... More >>

Top 12 LGBT Movies You Need To See, as Picked by Film Fest Organizers

Outfest, L.A.'s gay and lesbian film festival, ended on Sunday, reminding us that films about the LGBT experience serve an important role in the community, from teaching teenage boys and girls that it's alright to kiss other boys and girls, respectively, to connecting social activists with images su ... More >>

5 Gems From Outfest History

A Day of Weimar: Three Illustrated Lectures on Sex and the Occult in Pre-War Berlin

Black Licorice Found to Fight Diabetes

The cure for diabetes might be ... candy? Scientists have discovered that licorice root, the raw material for licorice candy, may be effective in treating type 2 diabetes, The Atlantic reports. A research team at the Max Plank Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, Germany, has identified a ... More >>

Music Picks: Funk-a-Palooza, Keith Jarrett, Ute Lemper & the Vogler Quartet

Also, Hot Snakes, Strange Boys, Ken Parker, Flash Express and others

Andrzej Zulawski's Possession at Cinefamily

Vaginal Davis, Performance Artist, on Why Her 'Pussy Is Still in Los Angeles' Though She 'Lives in Berlin'

Vaginal Davis, the one-of-a-kind genderqueer performance artist/writer (Cholita, Bricktops, Fertile LaToya Jackson Magazine, much, much more) returns from her adopted home of Berlin for My Pussy Is Still in Los Angeles (I Only Live in Berlin) at the old Bullocks Wilshire. Still jetlagged, she update ... More >>

She's Bla-a-a-ack! I Mean Ba-a-a-ack!

Berlin Meets Bakersfield

LinA In LA Party Picks: Sexy Elves and a 40 of Olde English Malt Liquor

Don't shop til' you drop, bop til' you drop! European electronic dance dynamos, a hip-hop master (DJ Quik) and wax-wielding women (in hottie holiday garb!) round out the dance offerings for the first week of December. Fri., Dec. 2 Departure's got another global groover to get you grinding, Tiefsch ... More >>

Monday Morning Food News: Happy Halloween

Guzzle & NoshChocolate!​Happy Halloween. Here's the food news you need to know this fine morning. The rise & fall (& return?) of Mr. Jelly Belly. [Business Week]Barney's Beanery has ghosts, maybe. [LAT]Alton Brown on hosting Iron Chef & the end of Good Eats [WSJ]Chocolate's bittersweet legacy: ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! The Cool Sounds of September

​[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Now that we have been released from the grips of August and go deeper into September, I a ... More >>

Music Picks: Agnostic Front, the Latebirds, Def Leppard, Jay Rock

Also, Kristeen Young, Diego Garcia, the Human League and others

Berlin Currywurst: Sausage Über Alles

Guzzle & NoshSausages dressed in flavored ketchup at Berlin Currywurst.​There were always plenty of good butchers around town, if you knew where to look, but now that butchery has, for better and worse, acquired a patina of hipness, meat and potatoes, with all the old world comfort and stodgin ... More >>

Valerj Pobega: Model Student

reliq, SYMBOLCLUB and More: Berlin Goths Keep It Up All Night

grayl growlsphoto by Adi Parvulescu​ Our writer Drew Denny traveled from L.A. to Lithuania, Germany, Poland and Denmark meeting artists and musicians for her "Overseas Underground" series. Her next stop was a goth club in Berlin, where she met the band reliq. Despite their myriad references ... More >>

Helene Hegemann, Plagiarist of the Club Scene and 'Most Hated Girl in Germany,' in Exile in L.A.

Jacob Wirtschafter"I became the most hated girl in Germany. But maybe that's not a bad thing."​ At just nineteen, Helene Hegemann has experienced the full volatility of fame. She was crowned "Wunderkind of Bohemia" for her novel Axolotl Roadkill, a sex and drugs-infused depiction of the German ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Steingarten

Turning a Negative Into a Positive

Three new photography exhibits explore the accidental artistry of pre-digital techniques

Bockwurst Fight: Wurstküche Vs. Berlin Currywurst

N. GalutenBockwurst from Wurstküche​In Los Angeles, we have access to a lot of sausages. They come in many different sizes, hail from almost every continent on earth, and boast a diverse representation of the animal kingdom. They can be raw or cured; smoked, grilled, boiled, fried, or steamed ... More >>

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Eat This Now: Traditional Currywurst and Jambalaya Fries at Berlin Currywurst

A. TrachtaThe Currywurst at Currywurst.​ L.A. may be known for its street food, but currywurst, Berlin's most popular grab n' go snack, was largely off our radar. That is until two weeks ago when three German transports opened the aptly-named Berlin Currywurst restaurant in Silver Lake's Sunse ... More >>

Theater Reviews: The Hyacinth Macaw, Locked and Loaded, Gigi

Also The Sonneteer, Wrinkles and more

Raving Without Ecstasy: Is It Even Possible?

Caesar SebastianRavers at Together As One.​Following our weekend report about the 62 medical emergencies and 25 arrests at the annual "Together As One" New Year's Eve rave, several commenters weighed in to accuse us of being biased. After all, these megaraves are just good clean fun for the w ... More >>

Will L.A.'s 'Subway To The Sea' Really Relieve Traffic?

Kyle T. WebsterIs this subway good for traffic or just a good way to burn money?​Despite evidence that the recently approved "Subway to the Sea" down the Wilshire Corridor would do little to ease congestion (yet would cost you $9 billion and counting), Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa th ... More >>

"There is No Masterplan" - Atari Teenage Riot's Alec Empire Discusses First Tour in 10 Years

"There is No Masterplan" - Atari Teenage Riot's Alec Empire Talks First Tour in 10 Years

TGIF Mix: D-Formation's Tribal-Tech Journey Reigns In Spain

D-Formation.​Spain is becoming the new Berlin in dance music. Jimmy Van M, Chus & Ceballos and D-Formation have been turning out some fresh DJ mixes from the Iberian Peninsula. The latter provides our latest TGIF mix, a groovy, tribal-tech journey, via the dependable podcast series from YoshiR ... More >>

Plate Spinning: Listings From the Past Week

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Can food companies and their millions of ad dollars do anything to fix the obesity epidemic? [Zester Daily] -- An op-ed by Jonathan Gold on why we should save Los Angeles' food trucks. [Los Angeles Ti ... More >>

Rave Shooting: 26-Year-Old Clara Chun Dies At South El Monte Party

​A 26-year-old woman was killed and three men were wounded, one critically, at a rave in South El Monte early Saturday, according to authorities and the Pasadena Star-News. According to the Star-News the dead woman was identified as Clara Myung Hee Chun, 26, of San Gabriel. Sheriff's official ... More >>

Today in WTF: Here's Your Chance to Win a Mold of Peaches' Teeth!

Timothy NorrisPeaches is shocking (again)​ Ah, Peaches... Today the Canadian-by-way-of-Berlin shock-dance diva (and Beta version of the Lady Gaga product) is releasing a new short film through YouTube. Also, for some reason, she wants you to hype it on Twitter in exchange for a mold of her t ... More >>

DJ Q&A: A Few Questions For Heidi (Who Says She Wants To Get Naked On The Dance Floor)

Heidi is somewhat of a techno prodigy, having grown up in Windsor, Ontario, in the shadow of the genre's birthplace, Detroit, and eventually moving to London to learn the record-bin ropes working in famed music store Phonica. Today she resides in dance music's new capital, Berlin, spins monthly on B ... More >>

DJ Q&A: A Few Questions For Booka Shade's Arno Kammermeier

Berlin duo Booka Shade has broken out of the Berlin underground and into The New York Times with its accessibly melodic techno and mesmerizing stage presence. The pair that started out with groovy choons found mostly via online outlets such as Beatport has become a big-league electronic act known to ... More >>

Old Glory

Germans Fulfill Peaches' Weimar Fantasies by Banning Her Little Subversive Cabaret Act

"A degenerate cabaret singer and her Jew pianist singing about Jesus? Vee are not amused."​Oh, Peaches! Why oh why do you insist trying to engage the Germans? Yeah, "Berlin in the 90s," cheap housing in East Berlin, weird theater, state sponsored art things, yadda yadda. You lived your Weimar/ ... More >>

Dance Club Pick: Disco Returns

Ten Techno Jams We Still Love

Whether it's IDM, minimal, electro, acid or whatever other name you want use to pinpoint a sound, we love techno. We love the way it forces us to dance, even when we're sitting in front of a computer in an office trying to finish a story. We love the way it affects our walk when we enter a party. W ... More >>

THE POLITICS OF DANCING

Noriyuki Sugie guest stars at Breadbar

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