laut.de is a German

online magazine An online magazine is a magazine published on the Internet, through bulletin board systems and other forms of public computer networks. One of the first magazines to convert from a print magazine format to being online only was the computer magaz ...

dealing exclusively with entertainment music, especially

pop music Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. The terms ''popular music'' and ''pop music'' are often used interchangeably, although the former describe ...

rock music Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States an ...

alternative Alternative or alternate may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * Alternative (''Kamen Rider''), a character in the Japanese TV series ''Kamen Rider Ryuki'' * ''The Alternative'' (film), a 1978 Australian television film * ''The Alternative ...

metal A metal (from Greek μέταλλον ''métallon'', "mine, quarry, metal") is a material that, when freshly prepared, polished, or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electricity and heat relatively well. Metals are typicall ...

, hip-hop,

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...

and

techno Techno is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempo often varying between 120 and 150 beats per minute (bpm). The central rhythm is typically in common time (4/4) and often ch ...

. It comprises record reviews, interviews, biographies of important artists, music-related news, as well as concert reports and recommendations. Fourteen music journalists and programmers work with laut.de. laut.de was founded in 1998 by Seitenbau GmbH in

Konstanz Konstanz (, , locally: ; also written as Constance in English) is a university city with approximately 83,000 inhabitants located at the western end of Lake Constance in the south of Germany. The city houses the University of Konstanz and was th ...

. Today, it is owned by Laut AG. The founder and chairman of the magazine is Rainer Henze.laut.de gewinnt Landesmedienpreis Online Redaktion 2002
. press1.de. 17 April 2002. Retrieved 6 January 2018. On 10 June 2005, laut.de launched the Internet radio laut.fm with an exclusive live recording of the song "

Radio brennt "Radio brennt" ('Radio burns') is a punk song by Die Ärzte. It was the seventh track and the third single from their 1987 album ''Ist das alles? (13 Höhepunkte mit den Ärzten)''. On the kid's shirt on the cover is Die Ärzte's mascot Sweet Gwe ...

" by German punk rock band Die Ärzte. From December 2006 there was also a daily podcast. At the Popkomm 2007, music video platform laut.tv was presented. Laut.de had 2.5 million visits per month as of October 2006. The website reached over 500.000 individual readers through August 2018.

Recognitions and awards

laut.de was the winner of the 2002 online editorial category prize of the Landesanstalt für Kommunikation Baden-Württemberg. The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

ranked it first on its list of recommended online music magazines, praising its wide-ranging coverage. In November 2011, '' Tonight.de'' also acclaimed the broad coverage of laut.de.

References

External links

Official website
German music websites Online music magazines published in Germany Online music and lyrics databases Magazines established in 1998 {{Europe-music-mag-stub