I’m not a person to regret things, but there’s nothing to sugar-coat: the phase of my life that I went through in the mid-90s after leaving the Red Hot Chili Peppers shouldn’t be an inspiration for anyone. It almost destroyed me- I lost my teeth and gained scars on my arms, but I was very …
There are two kinds of conspiracies- those of events like John F. Kennedy’s murder or 9/11, which to this day remain highly suspicious and factually left too many questions open for the countless scientists and historians on the search for truth. Such conspiracies are valid, since history is full of lies and collusion by two …
Not many albums dare to open with a track so super-charged with raw “spunk” like “Blind Promise” (sonically speaking). It’s big and loud and beautiful. Wait… we can do better than that lame description- dismissing the album as merely “loud” or “beautiful” would be to miss its essence of depth and power. So let us try …
I bought X In Search of Space the week it came out, which allows some unpleasant conclusions to be drawn about my age. I got the album at ‘Jack’s Music Shop’ in Red Bank/New Jersey. Bestseller records were displayed prominently and promoted, but Hawkwind barely had any press and didn’t get much attention. So I …
My name is Heidrun Elisabeth, and I am a German transsexual living in Brazil. I was born into the wrong body but the right dynasty, namely the famous and honorable Goebbels family. My father Joseph was the Reich Minister of ‘Public Enlightenment and Propaganda’ in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. Laying the groundwork for …
I have bought Devo’s debut in 1979 after the track “Mongoloid” somehow made it into the Friday-Top-Ten of the wicked local Disco “Kaisersaal”, which was called ‘Ballhaus Vaterland’ (“Fatherland Ballroom”) before. I had wrongly perceived the album as punk- like everything that was gloriously going on one’s nerves. The subversion that emanated from the album …
Director: Alfonso Cuarón Throughout the history of cinema, some of the most acclaimed directors have given in to the temptation of capturing their childhood memories on celluloid. That’s the case with François Truffaut and his The 400 Blows (1959), Ingmar Bergman with Fanny and Alexander (1982) or Federico Fellini with Amarcord (1973). In 2018, the …
People will hate me for this choice, because the record is quite a rarity that came out on Record Store Day 2013, with an edition limited to 3500. On green vinyl by the way. I’m surprised myself at how often I have listened to Stephen Malkmus‘ version of the Can album Ege Bamyasi. It’s the …
Immediately I’m filled with nervous tension and excitement. The harsh electronic beat stirs something deep. The back of my head burns slightly. By the time the cool and detached vocal starts, I’m both hooked and convinced that I am hearing some renegade military message. It’s as if this harsh but always feminine voice is speaking, …
We need to talk about Kate Bush. Kate Bush did 22 dates at London’s Hammersmith Apollo in 2014, her first live shows in 35 years, and the tickets sold out in 15 minutes. Now guess what you got for the hype? Dancers dressed as fish skeletons, a wooden puppet child walking round the stage,a band …
