After flirtations with the plastic soul-funk of a surprising Young Americans (1975) and a phenomenal Station To Station (1976), David Bowie decided to move from Los Angeles to Europe. He finally settled down in West Berlin, sharing an apartment with his friend Iggy Pop. Both thought that the German city would be a good place …
This week we have not one, but two reviews of The Cure’s Wish, the band’s most commercially succesful album which says on it’s back-cover: “the cure are anti-apartheid, all royalties from this album will be donated to amnesty international.” *** “10, 9… 6, 5… 2, 1!” The fireworks exploded in the midnight sky, at different …
This album is one of the greatest albums in the garage punk genre, in fact it’s the only great album in the garage punk genre. Unlike a lot of modern bands who seek to emulate punk, it doesn’t sound contrived and better still it doesn’t sound workmanlike. This is a fun, passionate, rousing, rad, edgy …
Noel Scott Engel a.k.a. Scott Walker was born on January 9, 1943 in the midwestern United States. His ancestry on his father’s side was German- the meaning of the surname “Engel” is “angel”, echoed later in his song “Angels of Ashes”- and his ancestry on his mother’s side was French. The meaning of her surname …
40 licks, ripped out of time, for your listening pleasure. Has there ever been a rock band as cool as The Brian Jonestown Massacre? Hailed as “The Velvet Underground of the 90’s,” with a turbulent past characterized by rivalry and crime, a vitriolic hatred of the corporate music industry, and a requisite tortured genius of …
SALIHA ENZENAUER Mdou Moctar – Victime AfriqueMdou Moctar is the child of a conservative Muslim Tuareg family. As a child he enjoyed listening to the music of guitarists Abdallah ag Oumbadougou and Ali Farka Touré. When he was little, he built himself a guitar from a piece of wood and brake wires from an old …
We must be aware of the superiority of our civilisation. Silvio Berlusconi For some Dario Argento’s best giallo and lesser known masterpiece, the modernistic, cold, and stylish Tenebrae is worth watching for many reasons: bold psycho murders, moonstruck and somnambule acting which adds to the overall delirious suspense, extensive shots of memorably unusual ankles, vivid …
In 2003 or 2004, I worked for an international art-book publisher based in Cologne, and was on a business trip in New York City. We had breakfast scheduled with some people from the art and publishing scene at Gramercy Park Hotel. When I sat down at our table and looked around, I realized a strange …
During the exciting first years of the 90s decade, the USA were experiencing the angry and furious fever of grunge bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden. On the other side of the Atlantic ocean, an underground musical genre with a radically opposite sound had been fascinating England for some years: it was a mysterious, …
George Harrison was disappointed when he visited San Francisco at the tail end of the Summer of Love. “I went to Haight-Ashbury expecting it to be this brilliant place,” he said in a retrospective interview, “I thought it was gonna be all these groovy… people with little shops making works of art and paintings and …
