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Millions in punk memorabilia go up in smoke

Punk protest

The son of Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren has set fire to roughly 5 million British pounds worth of punk music memorabilia. Joe Corre complained that the rebellious genre has become just another marketing tool. 

Samba's 100-year triumph

USA Parade zum Brasilien Tag in San Diego (Imago/ZUMA Press)

It's a musical style that's compelling and melancholic, poetic and political: On Sunday, Brazil celebrates the 100-year success story of samba. DW looks back at the heartbeat of a nation. 

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A season of revolution: The Beethovenfest 2016 19.09.2016

DW offers music, in-depth coverage & interviews from the festival celebrating all things Beethoven.

We want your favorite Christmas song!

12.12.2014 DW popXport Sarah Willis

Everyone loves Christmas. Send us a video of you singing or playing your favorite Christmas song on an instrument! The lucky ones will air on "Sarah's Music" on December 17 2016.  

The PopXport Playlist - fresh every week

20 German hits, tips and classics

 

From cool to classical: Jazzfest Bonn releases 2017 program

Ellen Andrea Wang (Solveig Selj)

Tickets will go on sale next week for Jazzfest Bonn, an event that draws thousands to the former German capital. The 2017 program features not-to-be-missed highlights from the international and German jazz scenes. 

Freddie Mercury: Long live (the) Queen

Freddie Mercury (Getty Images/M. Metcalfe)

Freddie Mercury, lead singer of rock band Queen, died on November 24, 1991, of AIDS-related complications. He fought until the bitter end to keep recording his music, and 25 years later his music lives on. 

DW PopXport Oceana (Warner Music)

Melting Pop - Oceana from Hamburg

Musical cultural diversity and a hit theme song for the 2012 soccer EM from the German singer Oceana. 

Trumpet star Till Brönner plans world-class jazz center in Berlin

Berlin Till Brönner (picture-alliance/Geisler-Fotopress)

Celebrity trumpet player Till Brönner is behind a plan to create a hub for jazz in Berlin, to rival New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center. The German Bundestag has already approved 12.5 million euros for the venue. 

Green Day leads anti-Trump protests at American Music Awards

Green Day performs Bang Bang at the 2016 American Music Awards (Reuters/M. Anzuoni)

The American Music Awards turned political on Sunday as performers spoke out against President-elect Donald Trump and his incoming administration. Drake, Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande were the night's big winners. 

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PopXport - The German Music Magazine

The top 10 most successful German covers

A good cover's better than a bad original - just ask the likes of Boney M., Cascada and ATC. All German acts who've stormed the charts with new versions of old hits. 

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Kate Müser

Music is in Kate Müser's blood. Her dad was a professional musician and she grew up in one of the world's major music hubs: California. After studying music in the US, Kate moved to Germany - and stayed. 

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Markus Schultze

Music is his passion. He's played guitar and sung in many different bands. So, when Markus Schultze goes in front of the cameras for PopXport, he knows what the artists he's introducing to the world have been through. 

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Sarah Hofmann

Singing might not be her biggest talent. Music for her means above all: dancing. Whether ballet, ragga or swing, it never takes her long to jump on the dancefloor. But most importantly: she’s a passionate journalist. 

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Luca Vasta

Her greatest passions are music and acting. Luca Vasta has been singing in different bands and writing her own songs since she was a teenager. After high school, she studied Performing Arts in Hamburg. 

Munich Rapper Ebow, Copyright: Nils Schwarz

In Focus Melting Pop

Ebow, Culcha Candela, Patrice or Symbiz: Artists with international backgrounds have a huge influence on German pop music. We present them in our "Melting Pop" series. 

German Band 'Any Given Day', Copyright: Redfield Records

The Next Generation

'Initiative Musik' supports new acts from Germany. And media partner popXport has a special feature on one of the promoted acts every month. 

PopXport Ranking

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The best of the best

'PopXport Ranking' is a unique project - an analysis of the German pop scene's popularity abroad that is unprecedented in scope. 10 TV broadcasts will be highlighting the most successful musicians to hail from Germany. 

PopXport Ranking  

Deutschland Sarah Willis mit Katia und Marielle Labèque beim Beethovenfest Bonn 2016 (DW/J. Gröllmann)

Sarah's Music - Contemporary Classical

Sarah‘s Music - Breakdancing in Bonn

This wonderful combination of Katia and Marielle Labèque, a rock guitarist, a drummer and 7 breakdancers electrify the audience with David Chalmin´s modern day version of Romeo and Juliet at the Beethovenfest in Bonn. 

Sarah Willis

06.2014 DW Sarah's Music Moderatorin Sarah Willis

"The horn is for boys", her schoolteacher told her, and so he suggested that she learn the flute or the oboe. That remark served as a challenge to Sarah Willis who had her first french horn lessons at the age of 14 at school in England. 

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Millions in punk memorabilia go up in smoke

The son of Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren has set fire to roughly 5 million British pounds worth of punk music memorabilia. Joe Corre complained that the rebellious genre has become just another marketing tool.

Punk memorabilia torched in 40th anniversary statement

The son of Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren has set fire to roughly 5 million pounds worth of punk music memorabilia. Joe Corre complained that the rebellious genre has become just another marketing tool.
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Samba's 100-year triumph

It's a musical style that's compelling and melancholic, poetic and political: On Sunday, Brazil celebrates the 100-year success story of samba. DW looks back at the heartbeat of a nation.
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The fabulous Fifties

The 2016 Federal Press Ball is Fifties-themed because the very first ball took place in 1951. Even today many Germans are still in love with the style and the music of that decade. What’s behind this fascination?
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Ball season in Europe

After the German Press Ball, Europe's ball season really gets underway. The highlights include the Semper Opera Ball in Dresden, the Opera Ball in Vienna, or the The Doge's Ball in Venice.
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Sarah‘s Music - Breakdancing in Bonn

This wonderful combination of Katia and Marielle Labèque, a rock guitarist, a drummer and 7 breakdancers electrify the audience with David Chalmin´s modern day version of Romeo and Juliet at the Beethovenfest in Bonn.
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We want your favorite Christmas song!

Everyone loves Christmas. Send us a video of you singing or playing your favorite Christmas song on an instrument! The lucky ones will air on "Sarah's Music" on December 17 2016.

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Rediscovering the lost art of listening 

The German start-up "PLAYTIME One Album" invites people to sit in a theatre listen consciously to old vinyl records with no distractions. The idea even brought a nomination for this year’s Cultural Brands Awards.
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Euromaxx - Lifestyle Europe 25.11.2016

Japanese conductor Yutaka Sado interprets the "Ode to Joy" with 500 singers in  Austria. Plus, relaxing to music and Bohemian chic in an elegant Copenhagen apartment.
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Welcome to eco@africa

This week, we ask if concrete can create solar power, music reforest Madagascar and 3D printing save the rhino. Plus, how there is such as thing as water that's too clean.
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Making music for Madagascan trees

Berlin's Orchestra of Change collects money in order to reforest Madagascar, where people are heavily reliant on wood for cooking and building houses.
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From cool to classical: Jazzfest Bonn releases 2017 program

Tickets will go on sale next week for Jazzfest Bonn, an event that draws thousands to the former German capital. The 2017 program features not-to-be-missed highlights from the international and German jazz scenes.