Musik als Leidenschaft (DE)

A Talk by Rolling Stone Germany
Jan Lankisch runs the Week-End label, which has released albums by the likes Marshall Allen, Farida Amadou, and Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O’Rourke. He also organises the Week-End Festival in Cologne, which brings together international pop culture and critical discourse. With a keen ear for musical trends, he has spent years creating platforms for contemporary artists working at the intersection of art and pop.
Maik Brüggemeyer is a music journalist, author, and long-standing editor at Rolling Stone. He writes about pop, literature, and social issues, and has published several novels and biographies – including one on Bob Dylan.
In this talk, Jan Lankisch and Maik Brüggemeyer explore the role of passion in music today. Despite their professional credentials, both regard themselves primarily as music fans. They reflect on how this outlook fits with the realities of today‘s music industry: What has become of subculture since the 1990s? What traces have commercialisation and mainstream absorption left behind? And how can personal convictions and cultural work be upheld in the age of platform capitalism?