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 …
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 …
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 …
Wanda Robinson was born on November 18, 1949 in Baltimore, Maryland during the same year as Gil Scott-Heron who became a chronicler of African American culture and a fierce critic of politics, society, and the U.S. government, an innovator with his rhythmic poems anticipating hip-hop/rap. During the same years when Gil Scott-Heron released his albums …
It was in a cute little club in Sheffield. I had heard rumours about this band, Queens of the Stone Age. How can you not be interested in a band with such a name? I didn’t know what to expect- the best approach to a concert if you ask me. The Queens started with one …
