There was a time, not too long ago, when Nina Hagen ruled the club world. It was a brief, sporadic reign, fraught with band-personnel changes, maybe the occasional wild mood swing, or maybe with a ...

Nina Hagen—the German punk and new wave icon—has shared a new song with funk legend George Clinton. It’s called “Unity.” The cosmic dub track was created following the killing of George Floyd, and ...

Since her solo debut in 1978, Nina Hagen has been considered the enfant terrible of the German music scene. Their shrill performances like the one on December 9, 1978, in Dortmund's Westfalenhalle ...

The Chicago Reader is back in print! Our February issue is being delivered to more than 600 locations across the city beginning February 4. Find the closest newspaper box, coffee shop, bar, library ...

On Thursday, among the three songs played by a military band at her request was a 1974 hit from East Germany by a singer who fled to the West and went on to become a flamboyantly coifed leader of the ...

German punk and New Wave icon Nina Hagen recruited George Clinton for “Unity,” a new single inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement. “Let’s all enjoy the unity in the community/There is no room ...