We have all read the stories of the band’s expansive greatness. Or supposed greatness… Maybe I should be more respectful? Certainly Mr. Julian Cope will clear my head of any misconceptions I may have in his next, soon-to-be-out-of-print book on Krautrock. So let’s not argue the matter here. By 1976, Ash Ra Tempel was less a …
My older brothers were ahead of me with The Jam, but I was the one who discovered the Stone Roses. Hell knows what would have become of me without this record. It’s not only the soundtrack of my youth, it IS my youth: beautiful, sun-kissed pop songs with guitars. The Stone Roses was released in …
Electronic music has been ridiculously disappointing in recent years- too much repetition and lack of fresh innovative ideas. We’ve seen the cycle happen before when a music scene starts to turn inward, focusing on past glories reproducing sounds with “authenticity“. It’s a prescription for boredom. And electronic music is never more unbearable then when its …
“So that’s how Manowar started, in Black Sabbath’s backstage !!” Why did you feel the need to pick up a fucking guitar? I actually started playin’ piano when I was around seven, and I was doing really well. My theory teacher always said that my musical aptitude was off the charts, but in Junior High …
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 …
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 …
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 …
