I have a dark secret. Actually I have lots of dark secrets. But I digress. Occasionally a beautiful girl will come to me in a bar1 and say, “Hey boy! What was the first band you ever saw?”. In such cases, I look her squarely in the eye (or eyes, if she has two) and …
A Woman Under the Influence is one of the most famous films directed by John Cassavetes, the father of American independent cinema. Cassavetes used to make his own films behind the back of the big industry and financed them with the earnings of his career as an actor. For this reason, he could afford to …
Lars von Trier’s Dogville (2003) offers us an alternative interpretation to the mystery of the incarnation than what Christianity has traditionally come to understand in Christ’s humanization. Instead of the possibility of salvation, Dogville suggests Christ’s incarnation as the possibility of a universal condemnation. The story of God-becoming-man remains more or less the same; yet the conclusion reached is …
Picking up on postponed concerts which are now finally taking place, you can be up to a few surprises. After being postponed for two years because of the Corona pandemic, and with the tour now being called Year of the Rat Year of the Ox Year of the Tiger, the Einstürzende Neubauten concert in Cologne …
There’s no rules. Show me the rule book. Liam Gallagher Noel Gallagher has a lot of things to say about his brother Liam, but it was just one thing that was very apt: „He’s the angriest man you’ll ever meet. He’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup.” True Noel, because …
Harmonia was described by Brian Eno as the “most important rock group”. But you originally wanted to bring Roedelius and Moebius into Neu! at the time? When NEU! was invited to do a tour in the UK in 1973, Klaus Dinger and I faced the problem that we needed musicians to help us put our …
by Octavio Carbajal González “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” , a remarkably gleaming and grotesque film, brought to us by the peculiar and extraordinary Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, is directly based on the Greek tragedy “Iphigenia in Aulis” by Euripides.We are introduced to Steven Murphy, who is a respected cardiologist and surgeon. His wife …
Amon Düül was originally a collective that emerged from a far-left commune in Germany, the more musically talented members of this group formed the band Amon Düül II, arguably the most psychedelic band of the Krautrock scene, led by Chris Karrer on guitar, violin, and vocals and featuring John Weinzierl on guitar and vocals, Renate …
Best listened to on a CD in your car stereo while driving down a desert highway, the psychedelic rock band Agitation Free had returned from an eye-opening and mind-expanding two week trip through Egypt, Lebanon, Cyprus, Greece, the band’s contact with other cultures captured on tapes that they interspersed throughout the seven tracks of Malesch …
Best listened to on CD in your car stereo with the volume cranked up while speeding down a desert highway, Blues for the Red Sun is the band’s best (alongside Welcome to Sky Valley) and not only one of the greatest heavy metal albums of the 1990s, arguably one of the greatest heavy metal albums …
