Patronized by Wilhelm II as a music centre and since graced by Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Springsteen, Frankfurt's Festhalle is stinging at its new epithet of 'Germany's worst venue'.
In a new feature, The Local will look into a successful entrepreneur's life each week - the story behind their successes, major challenges and how being an entrepreneur changed their life forever. Kicking things off from Berlin this week AUPEO! co-founder and CEO Holger Weiss.
A study by music-streaming service Spotify has revealed the global reach of Berlin-born music, with genres originating in the capital finding a loyal audience in some unlikely places.
A heavy metal fan was found to have bleeding in the brain a month after a night of headbanging at a Motorhead concert, doctors in Germany reported on Friday.
The international exhibition that spans David Bowie's career across five decades opens its doors to the public this Tuesday at Martin-Gropius-Museum in Berlin.
UPDATE: A German former rapper who joined jihadists fighting in Syria was reported dead on Tuesday by jihadist sources, but hours later some retracted the claim, saying he was still alive.
The Rolling Stones have said that their tour will still come to Germany this summer, despite cancelling the Australian leg following the death of L'Wren Scott, frontman Mick Jagger's partner.
Thieves have stolen around 100 antique instruments worth €150,000 from a collector's house in Bremen. The owner has offered €20,000 for their return in an online appeal.
They are Germany's most successful musical export, inspiring other big hair bands such as Bon Jovi- and this Friday releasing their first acoustic recording. Power balladeers The Scorpions are this week's Germans of the Week.
British rockers Status Quo were so wild during crazy tours of Germany in the past that they now cannot possibly tell the tales, they admitted to The Local on Friday.
Germany has got used to a barrage of politicians’ faces on posters during the election campaign. But one mayor has taken a less conformist route to office – releasing a folk music video featuring a skimpy bikini and a dirndl.
Heavy metal fans have taken over a small north German town at its annual music festival. Since kicking off on Thursday, guests have been head-banging along to some of the loudest bands in the business.
The Bayreuth Festival, the annual month-long summer music fest dedicated to Richard Wagner (1813-1883), is staging seven operas in the bicentenary year.
This Friday, his latest song will be banned to minors - a move made faster than normal in an attempt to stop sales benefiting from the controversy. For good or bad, this makes rapper Bushido our <b>German of the Week</b>.
The anniversary of the July 19th, 1988 show in communist East Berlin has prompted a new book, a documentary, talk shows and wide media coverage looking back at what was by all accounts a magical summer night.
Germany is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of <b>Richard Wagner</b> on Wednesday. Probably the country's most revered and reviled composer, the man considered both a musical genius and an anti-Semite is The Local's German of the Week.
Justin Bieber's pet monkey, which was seized by German customs in March, officially became German property this week after the Canadian pop star failed to claim the animal, officials said.
Ray Manzarek, co-founder of legendary 1960s rock band The Doors and creator of their signature organ sound, died on Monday in Germany after a long battle with cancer, his manager said. He was 74.
More than 20,000 Goths from all over the world gathered in Leipzig in eastern Germany over the Whitsun weekend to celebrate all things dark and Gothic.
