For those of you that visited us at our booth at GermanFest this last weekend you may have heard some new German music. Some visitors wanted to know what bands or songs we were playing and how they could get a copy. So I thought I would make a list of some of the music with a link to purchase if you want…
Some university students in Germany thought it would be funny to take the winning song from the German winner of Eurovision and make it into an unofficial World Cup anthem. After posting their video on YouTube, it became an overnight success, bringing in over half a million views in under a week. EMI, the company that owns the rights to the original composition, ordered [...] Read more »
Spinner by Revolverheld
Formed in Hamburg back in 2003, Revolverheld is a product of Germany’s Neue Deutsche Welle punk revival. The band has cycled through several names since forming… Manga and then Tsunamikiller. In recent years they have produced several top hits in Germany, and Spinner can be added to the list after reaching number 13 on the German charts.
German Engineering At It’s Greatest
German manufacturing company, Liebherr, wanted to show the strength of one of their excavator’s, so what did they do to show it? Why not have it climb up a tower…check it out below!
Alles kann besser werden by Xavier Naidoo
Xavier Kurt Naidoo (born 2 October 1971 in Mannheim, Germany) is a German singer and songwriter of South African mother and Indian father, who sings in German and occasionally in English. He sings in a number of styles, including soul, R&B and hip hop.
Okay, we are spicing up this Video of the Week series on the blog. Every once in a while we will have a “Listen To This” post, which will take the place of that weeks “Video of the Week”. “Listen To This” will feature a song/music video from a German band that we want to share with our readers. Here in [...] Read more »
Hollywood Celebrates Its Stars
Germany’s ZDF program “Leute heute” has a nice 15 minute recap of last Sunday’s Academy Awards. Check the video out to hear a German translation of some winner’s acceptance speeches, including Sandra Bullock.
The Beatles Sing German
This last week on the DANK Forum, user jschlie posted a video of ABBA performing Waterloo in German and it inspired me to dig up this video of the Beatles doing a song in German. The Beatles have done a few songs in German, but with “Sie liebt dich” aka “She Loves You” they made a music video to go along [...] Read more »