It would be a fair comment to say that music lovers are lovers of music because the bands that they love, no one else really understands. A feeling the fans of bands such as Kyuss must love getting. Yes, to those uneducated in this field, Kyuss may well sound like another rock ‘n’ roll band. …
June – the longest daylight of the year, the summer solstice. Brainticket’s Psychonaut was released 50 years ago (June 1972). The back cover of the record contains cumulus clouds drifting across blue skies – a portrait of summertime. The front cover of the record (my vinyl copy is the most recent picture disc reissue by …
For the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, reality must be portrayed in all its richness, splendor and complexity. Reality must include our dreams, memories, and projections of the future. The universe of Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a mixture of Tarkovsky’s reasoning elements with some aspects of Thai culture: the belief in reincarnation, the intimate …
I tuned in into the public Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard trial because I am done with our hyperreality and cut myself off from reading the news and discourses produced by the mass media for good. Hard to resume the dimension of alienation caused by the many various fatalities of the past two years. I …
I was 16 and made a living from selling dope. My Mom left me alone pretty often back then and I had to figure out for myself how to get along. One of my customers was a guy from a record store. He recommended Let There Be Rock to me, and I think he even …
It’s a relief that music like this is still there to be discovered, lurking just out of arm’s reach in the digital pre-history. At a time when every shred of avant-disco’s shadowiest past would seem to have been aired out on YouTube and Facebook, DFA came up with some mind-blowing archival dance music from late …
Gabi Delgado has passed away a few hours after publishing this interview. He meant the world to me, and he will be terribly missed by his fans. Things indeed can come to a certain end. Gabi Delgado, March 2020 For me, you are without a question the most influental German band. Many people would name …
You can walk from there to ChinaFrom state to reptilian stateHoly Americans, singing vespersConvinced that they control somebody’s fate Mark Lanegan, Night Flight to Kabul February 2022 was one of the stranger months in the dystopian blur of the last two years: I am reading David Talbot’s The Devil’s Chessboard in tiny doses and laconically …
October 2010I wandered in my loneliness through falling autumn leaves in St. Louis, Missouri. My headphones were playing Teen Dream. I felt the heartbreak in Victoria Legrand’s voice as she sang “Walk in the Park”. I felt my own lost love in her lyrics. Beach House – Walk in the Park – Special Presentation Summer …
Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence. Werner Herzog Anticipations are high when a new GAS record is being released, as they are addictively cinematic and fuel our defrauded cravings for inspiration. Not only does Der Lange Marsch (“The Long March“) not disappoint these anticipations, but …
