Nick Cave‘s newest album and latest career is a prime example of how much the wish to be effortlessly edgy, hip, and ‘dark’ with a hint of depth, blurs the senses and judgement of listeners. We start with the cover. It reminds me of an experience that I had earlier in 2019: while walking through …
or: The Most Bizarre David Bowie Cover of All Times This is the untold story of a genre that puts goth, emo and all other sad and desperate musical styles world-wide to shame. The story of songs of which some were banned from the Turkish public broadcaster in the 70s and 80s, because they “glorified …
(Read our related main story here: Crazy Turks – 1 / Müslüm Gürses & the Razor Blades) A selection of Müslüm Gürses fan comments under his videos on YouTube: – Listening to him is like shoveling earth on myself – Damned be those who made you write this song – You’ve raped our emotions again, …
(Read the related main story here: Crazy Turks – 1 / Müslüm Gürses & the Razor Blades and “Listening to him is like shoveling earth on myself.” Müslüm Gürses Fans on Youtube) Here is a selection of the best titles from about 75 albums that Müslüm Gürses released. The suffering doesn’t ever have to stop- …
My righteous dictatorship in Britain was in full bloom: I was an unrelenting, visionary and hard-working empress, I restored law and order, put the British nation back into line, and started a European war in order to kill Steve Bannon, who was working on a world conspiracy here. My vest as the highest military commander …
All societies have their points of least resistance, their wounds. Put your finger on the wound, and press down hard. Michel Houellebecq, To Stay Alive The adolescent years are crucial for the development of your spiritual and intellectual lineage, and your future track along it. You are and will always remain what you read and …
It is on Depeche Mode‘s smoldering masterpiece Violator (1990) where you find Personal Jesus, released as the album’s lead-single and becoming the biggest-selling 12-inch single in Warner Bros. history to that point. According to Johnny Cash a ‘gospel’ and “the most evangelical song I have ever recorded”, it remains to this day the perfect song …
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan Three cars are driving on a winded road through the rural Anatolian landscape, over hills and through plateaus, with their yellow headlights being the only illuminators of the unfolding night. Two of the men inside the car are convicts that have confessed to a murder and are accompanied by a group …
…And The Circus Is Back In Town And with it, endless joy and a big magical sack full of wonderful riffs and ideas paired with a rare playful masculinity and crude mischief is back in music. The new Desert Sessions Vols. 11+12 are pure adult fun pervaded by lunacy and sincerety, and it is like …
The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of …
