The Soundcheck staff is in Berlin! Read about our adventures on a new blog, Soundcheck: On Site - Berlin.
(Pssst ... Soundcheck's weeklong Berlin series begins Nov. 5!)
Weaving La Fabri-K in America
"La Fabri-K" screens this Saturday at 4:30 as part of the Habana/Harlem festival at the Harlem ...
CD Picks of the Week
Bettye LaVette, “Scene of the Crime”
Every once in a while a forgotten soul singer reappears ...
Au Revoir Simone
A Reminder of Berlin's Past
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Just a block behind our hotel, near Checkpoint Charlie, stood the Berlin Wall. The stretch above is located in a fascinating outdoor museum called the Topography of Terror. This was the site of buildings which were ...
John's Impressions: from Berlin Radio to Turkish Doner Kebaps
Finally, sun. This must be an extraordinarily beautiful city in the summer. Lunch is usually eaten outside the little sidewalk stand where it's bought - which is barely tolerable today but which must be great when it's warm. Spent a fair amount of time in the Turkish district of Kreuzberg/Neukoelln, ...
Hansa Studios
Some of the gold records made at Hansa Studios include albums by Depeche Mode and Falco.
Built in a converted 1910 ballroom, 'Hansa at the wall' stood 50 meters from Hitler's bunker and was badly damaged during ...
Hansa Studios
Since the 1960s, countless musicians from throughout Europe and U.S. have made pilgrimages to the legendary Hansa Tonstudio on Potsdamer Platz. The recording studio's credits include major albums by David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Luciano Pavarotti, ...