Mind on the media and media on his mind: tune in to our Vienna writer’s top picks of the year, from Lena Dunham to Frank Ocean. – more

Breaking Bad showed us the meth-head to Walter White’s madness—but what other series drove you crazy? Read the results of our Reader’s Poll to find out. – more

David Bogner crashes Andy Butler’s studio time to get the skinny on the new Hercules and Love Affair record and his impressions of Vienna. – more

The special program They Wanted to See Something Different was one of the highlights of this year’s Viennale Film Festival. David Bogner talks to Katja Wiederspahn, head of the Viennale program department, about the films on show. – more

Over the last two weeks David Bogner has attended countless screenings powered only by strong coffee and a unshakeable thirst for the abnormal. Now he emerges from the other side of the Vienna International Film Festival to give us his full report. – more

In which our hero Wolfram battles against his worst hangover of 2012 to give us his insider verdict of Electronic Beats Festival Vienna. – more

Didn’t get a ticket? Or, perhaps you did and are now wrestling with a hangover and can’t remember a thing. Whatever, allow us to explain how last night’s EB Festival in Vienna went down. – more

In which our hero falls in with the DFA crowd and ends up behind the decks at Richard Branson’s gaff in Morocco. Just another stop on Wolfram’s travels, then. – more

Austrian correspondent David Bogner spent three days (and nights) at the Waves Vienna Festival, and reports from the grand finale: The EB night at Flex. – more

There’s little more than a week left until the Arena Wien will be filled to capacity for Electronic Beats Festival Vienna 2012’s glorious line-up. To get you even more excited, we decided to ask Austria’s number one Wolfram about his most memorable gigs.This week he meets, um, Lady Gaga. – more