Several UK internet providers have blocked access to a Wikipedia page about German heavy metal band Scorpions due to an album cover that features a nude prepubescent girl, news agency AP reported on Monday.
Ex-Sneaker Pimp Chris Corner loves Berlin. Like many musicians, he’s made the city his home base. Exberliner Magazine's <b>Julie Colthorpe</b> grilled him on the IAMX project, his stage persona – and the Germans.
Singer Britney Spears will be honoured with a Bambi prize in Germany on Thursday for her comeback after a series of highly-publicised personal problems.
Press reports say that Amy Winehouses's marriage to Blake Fielder-Civil is over. He has left her for German model Sophie Schandorff. According to one paper, Winehouse said she and her husband were only together for sex.
<b>Exberliner, the German capital's leading English-language magazine, this month picks the best places to buy hard-to-find mags, have a nice cup of tea to fight the cold German winter, or get your hair cut in style.</b>
The new head of Germany’s famed Bayreuth opera festival, Katharina Wagner, narrowly avoided an auto accident early on Friday morning when she took the wheel after the driver of the car suffered a heart attack and died.
German glam pop band Tokio Hotel took home the “Best Headliner” award on Thursday night at the 15th annual MTV Europe Music Awards in Liverpool, England.
Germany’s oldest living chancellor is also a talented musician. Next week he will release a CD of Johann Sebastian Bach recordings, <i>Bild am Sonntag </i> reported on Sunday.
The Catholic diocese in the Bavarian city of Regensburg on Monday defended a decision to spend a reported €100,000 on birthday celebrations in the Vatican for Pope Benedict XVI's elder brother.
A conductor who forced a 12-year-old girl on her way to cello lessons to get off a train at dusk because she forgot her ticket has been suspended from his duties, Deutsche Bahn confirmed on Wednesday.
<b>Berlin's music trade fair Popkomm is normally a place to discover new bands – not technologies. But when Neale Lytollis heard the man behind the MP3 audio format was setting up a 3-D sound system at the city's legendary club Tresor he had to check it out.</b>
Just when you thought you could forget about their disturbing androgenous allure, German glam pop band Tokio Hotel has struck again, taking the Song of the Year prize at the MTV Video Music Awards Latin America.
Germany is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Elvis Presley's time in the country with music and exhibitions in the three cities he graced during his two year stint with the US Army.
Friday night's Bundesliga football match between Eintracht Frankfurt and Karlsruhe SC has been cancelled because the pitch was damaged during pop star Madonna's concert last week.
German teen band Tokio Hotel won the Best New Artist category for their video “Ready, Set, Go!” at the MTV Music Video Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night.
Building costs for Hamburg's new philharmonic have exploded by as much as €100 million, according to anonymous reports in German daily <i>Bild</i> on Wednesday.
Two of Richard Wagner’s great-granddaughters were chosen Monday to run the annual Bayreuth Festival devoted to the composer’s music, ending a bitter succession battle—for now at least.
Legendary opera singer Plácido Domingo is returning to Berlin this spring, <i>Die Welt</i> reported on Thursday. The world-renowned tenor will be back at the Berlin State Opera (<i>Staatsoper Unter den Linden</i>) this March to perform "Parsifal."
When the curtain came down on this year’s Bayreuth Festival on Thursday, the choice of opera for the final performance Richard Wagner’s last opera “Parsifal”—was deeply symbolic.
Frankfurt prosecutors and the German Office of Criminal Investigation on Wednesday launched a raid against neo-Nazi record companies, arresting a German and a Danish citizen after searches in Denmark and Finland.
Belgian opera impresario Gerard Mortier is teaming up with Nike Wagner, great-granddaughter of composer Richard Wagner, in a bid to run the legendary Bayreuth Festival, a report said Monday.
A new production of "My Fair Lady" just opened in Berlin, but <b>Ben Knight</b> reports the musical has a unique history in the once-divided German capital.
