kaput Magazin

kaput – The Magazine for Insolvency & Pop is now launching as a print magazine!
Issue 1 will be released on May 8, 2026 – pre-order single issues now!

Over 150 pages of music, pop, and contemporary culture—not just content, but something you actually read, take with you, and return to time and again. No feed, no algorithm, no subheadings to keep you scrolling—just a magazine that stays with you.

In terms of content, *kaput* is right where pop actually exists today: between artists, scenes, and the realities of production; between euphoria and exhaustion; between the glamour of music and the economic conditions under which it is created. The first issue features interviews with artists such as KeiyaA, Daniel Avery, and Rocco Schamoni, alongside discussions about streaming, club culture, and the question of how one can even make music under current conditions without burning out.

The point is never to draw a clear line or to explain pop as a self-contained system: the texts contradict one another, run parallel to one another, and intertwine—just as pop itself does. No consensus, just friction!

kaput print magazine is for everyone who doesn’t just consume pop music but wonders what’s actually going on—in the club, online, in the studio, and in their heads. For people who’d rather read one good piece than skim through ten mediocre articles. And for everyone who knows that music is more than just what’s currently trending on Release Radar.