On more occasions than not, after getting tanked up on Gin Tonics and red wine and listening to Iggy and New Order most of the evening, my friend Karla and I will end up listening to Elvis’ “In The Ghetto” and ABBA’s “The Winner Takes it all” – don’t ask. Yesterday was different though, since …
The now cryogenized Walt Disney, awaiting his resurrection at minus 180 degrees Celsius, conceived and realized a deep-frozen infantile world full of regressive imaginations and phantasms through his movies. Movies that taught especially American society on how to notoriously sugar-coat, and which established an entire unhealthy system of values and ideals, mostly beauty ideals that …
Jann Wenner’s boring biography Sticky Fingers is still an astonishing read because it is eye opening about the fact on how his Rolling Stone distilled and defined music history and basically laid down the rock canon with simultaneous corporate help from radio stations and major labels. The RS critics’ darlings were elevated into (super)star status …
The late John McGeoch once opined that, “everyone remembers where they were when they first heard Public Image”. Certainly, that was true for me. I was in my bedroom, where I spent all my time when not in record shops. I recall I was lying on the bed. I also remember where I was when …
Crisis creates art and prosperity leads to tastelessness. This has recurred throughout history. The most recent example was how mortgage fraud of the late 1990s/early 2000s and the United States housing bubble of 2001-2005 coincided with the rising popularity of reality TV. Reality TV features people whose own privileged lives share little to no resemblance …
One of the worst presents I ever got was a copy of Thom ‘with an H’ Yorke’s Anima. Released in June 2019, Anima was instantly hyped as a “masterpiece“, followed by an aggressive PR campaign involving Netflix streaming a short musical film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson where Thom Yorke plays the lead “in a …
The whistling… this fucking whistling. Only a few seconds into the song, and you’re already in some twisted Land of Oz- finished, fucked up and destroyed. Throwback to my first introduction into torture: early 90s in gray Germany- the Berlin Wall has fallen and the Scorpions’ “Wind of Change” is all over the place, and …
Part album review, part hit-piece, and part shaman ritual. I beg your indulgence… [First the Shaman…] “Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin”. Brother and Sisters, gather around and hear the words. We gather today with purpose and truth, although it may pain some of you. It’s …
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 …
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 …
