
If you thought Thanksgiving provided a good reason for great new releases , you haven't seen anything yet. The first full week of December is giving us a load of not only some fantastic records from major labels, but it's also delivering a nice array of indie albums--not to mention a few off the wall abnormalities. The pack of artists is led by T.I. , who releases the eagerly awaited No Mercy (pictured to the left). The only way this Atlanta rapper's new album will surprise us is if it manages to NOT jump to the [...]
Bad news! Einstürzende Neubauten 's 30th Anniversary tour has been cancelled. If you were looking forward to seeing them on their two L.A. dates, Dec. 1, at the Music Box and Thursday, Dec. 2 at the EchoPlex , you're out of luck: It is with great regret that Einstürzende Neubauten announce the cancellation of their planned thirtieth anniversary appearances in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto and New York. While the US Department of Homeland Security did issue approvals for the band's visas, it was not done in time to secure the [...]

Experimental act Einstürzende Neubauten have a compilation album, Strategies Against Architecture IV , which is out now digitally (the physical copy arrives on December 7), and the German band will be hitting the states for a few shows this December. It's focused to only a few cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto, and (of course) New York. They'll perform here at the end of their tour on the 14th at Webster Hall and 15th at Bowery Ballroom. Einstürzende Neubauten tour dates: 12/1 – Los Angeles, CA [...]
(from http://www.kurzweilai.net/) Members of the public could form the backbone of powerful new mobile Internet networks by carrying wearable sensors, according to researchers from Queen's University Belfast. The novel sensors could create new ultra-high-bandwidth mobile Internet infrastructures and reduce the density of mobile phone base stations. The engineers from Queen's Institute of Electronics, Communications and [...]

"Meine Seele brennt, Ich versteck mich, sitz in meinem Loch, Und warte auf die Träume, die mich retten..." The Teutonic blues, or: from a whisper to a scream with the Collapsing New Buildings. Ein Prachtexemplar from the mid-eighties. Einstürzende Neubauten - Seele Brennt MP3

The Berlin based Einstürzende Neubauten have confirmed two London shows for this October. They're playing the HMV Forum on Saturday 16th October 2010 and then at The Relentless Garage on Sunday 17th October 2010. Tickets can be bought for both shows for £33 (advance) or for individual shows, at £22.50 (advance) for the HMV Forum show and £15 (advance) for The Relentless Garage show. The classic and highly influential band will play slightly different sets over the two nights. The second, at the Garage, will be a 3-part program featuring films and [...]

The Berlin based Einstürzende Neubauten have confirmed two London shows for this October. They're playing the HMV Forum on Saturday 16th October 2010 and then at The Relentless Garage on Sunday 17th October 2010. Tickets can be bought for both shows for £33 (advance) or for individual shows, at £22.50 (advance) for the HMV Forum show and £15 (advance) for The Relentless Garage show. The classic and highly influential band will play slightly different sets over the two nights. The second, at the Garage, will be a 3-part program featuring films and [...]

Bonnie Dobson : Morning Dew [ purchase ] Einstürzende Neubauten : Morning Dew [ purchase ] "Take me for a walk in the morning dew my honey, take me for a walk [...]

Gig Of The Week - Parallel Voices 2010 @ Siobahn Davies Studios Pulling together an incredible cast of cross-media artists, Parallel Voices 2010 is the third event of it's kind at the Siobahn Davies Studios in Elephant & Castle. Curated this year by Carsten Nicolai the event aims to bring together performers that bridge the gap between the audio and visual mediums and the two headline figures for me are Blixa Bargeld (Einstürzende Neubauten, The Bad Seeds) and electronic maestro Christian Fennesz. Given the supreme quality of their musical work, you'd expect their discussions to be [...]
11. LIARS @ LUX25 de Novembro de 2003Primeira vez em Portugal, primeira vez de várias ocasiões em que os apanhei. Escrevi, na altura: "Antes de mais, convém esclarecer que o título [Liars Death] não é nenhuma certidão de morte aos Liars. Bem pelo contrário. Quem viu o grupo nova-iorquino esta noite no Lux (ou, presumidamente, no Sá da Bandeira, um dia antes) poderá perceber o trocadilho se

Eigentlich ist Lucas Gregorowicz ja Schauspieler - bekannt vor allem aus dem deutschsprachigen "Klassiker" Lammbock, vor kurzem zum Beispiel aber auch in einem Tatort zu sehen. Seine aktuellste Kinorolle ist aber in Fatih Akins Sou Kitchen zu finden, der am ersten Weihnachtstag ins Kino kommt. Dann ist das selbstbetitelte Soloalbum seiner Band Bad Boy Boogiez, deren Sam Cooke Cover Ain't that Good News auf dem Soundtrack zum Film zu hören ist, bereits drei Wochen alt. Entstanden ist die Band als Food Giant schon vor mindestens 9 Jahren zur Verabschiedung von Leander Haussmann [...]
Excerto da mais recente newsletter dos Einstürzende Neubauten, acabada de receber:Dear friends of the Einstürzende Neubauten, We've been pooling our thoughts, screening drafts and rejecting ideas for a long time.And now, our new and amply full fan shop is finally online!!!We believe that the result is quite impressive. The shop has much to offer and not just visually, but also with regard to

Com o advento da fotografia digital e das redes sociais na internet, muitos fotografos amadores tiveram finalmente as ferramentas necessárias para mostrar os seus trabalhos. Se no passado era em muitos concertos tirar fotografias, hoje são poucos os artistas que não permitem tal facto. Na era digital, até mesmo os músicos beneficiam de uma maior exposição, neste caso fotográfico. Se a qualidade geral é por vezes muito baixa, muitos dos fotografos amadores apostam na qualidade, e alguns deles, acabam por realizar excelentes trabalhos. As redes sociais como o Flickr são optimos espaços para a divulgação das fotografias. A [...]

To play catch up from last week's missed mix, I'm giving you two once again. They're timely with their themes, the first being all German artists and the second being songs about war. In fact, in many ways these two themes are inextricably linked. As everyone celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down, it inevitably brings Berlin's extraordinary history, along with Germany's more generally, back into the spotlight. And Cold War is war after all. I've written about how much I love Berlin here before, and it still remains one of my top cities [...]
A list compiled by Chibalo's Travis Bos of his favorite albums of the decade.

Elektrokohle (Von Wegen), o novo DVD dos Einstürzende Neubauten, vai ser post à venda no próximo dia 3 de Novembro. Trata-se do primeiro concerto dos Neubauten em Berlim Oriental. O concerto foi realizado em Wilhelm Pieck-Hall do centro industrial VEB Elektrokohle. O filme não é somente o registo do concerto ao vivo, tendo também mais de 70 minutos de documentário que inclui os momentos vividos da unfificação das duas alemanhas e a suas diferenças culturais.

I'm not sure I've ever acquired the Unsane taste, their destructive Demolition Derby noise is jarring and raw and most of the time a little too visceral for my tastes although it does provide a decent soundtrack to the drive home from work when I've had a bad day and feel like mowing down other drivers who think the left lane is the leisurely-driving lane. Unsane's Chris Spencer hooked up with Ari Benjamin Meyers of Einstürzende Neubauten in early 2008 in Berlin [...]
Still sounding more futuristic than a lot of music released today. This amazing footage comes from a Dussledorf music festival in 1982.
Faltam dois dias para que este ano chegue ao fim. 2008 foi tão pródigo em azares, em dissabores e em sinais carregados de pessimismo para o futuro que nem vale a pena fazer retrospectiva do que se passou, nem sequer dos bons momentos. Mais vale esquecê-lo rapidamente, como se de um pesadelo se tratasse, e acordar para o novo calendário que aí vem. Ainda assim, deixem-me fazer a brincadeira
1. Rokia Traoré @ FMM Sines, 26/7 2. Neil Young @ Alive Festival, 12/7 3. Portishead @ Coliseu do Porto, 26/3 + Coliseu dos Recreios, 27/3 4. Einstürzende Neubauten @ Aula Magna, 4/5 5. Michael Gira @ Teatro Miguel Franco de Leiria, 24/2 + Nimas, 25/2 6. Black Lips @ Porto-Rio, 21/4 + Lux, 22/4 7. Mão Morta ("Maldoror") @ Culturgest, 23/4 8. Animal Collective @ Lux, 28/5 9. Extra Golden @ ZDB, 2/