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01. June 2018

Klaus Meine , Scorpions

KLAUS MEINE - Leben zwischen Wedemark und Mexico City

Seventy Klaus became mine on 25 May. And although the Scorpions announced a few years ago that the band was going old, the opposite is the case. When we meet her front man, he is already sitting on packed suitcases again for a mini tour through Mexico. And the man with the leather cap, which has been covering his thinning head for many years, is still excited and euphoric when it comes to concert tours even after half a century in the service of the hard rock formation. In an exclusive conversation on his birthday, the worldwide celebrated star looks back on his life in business for us.

01. June 2018

Deep Purple

DEEP PURPLE 50 - Teil 3: Die Sänger

"It's the singer, not the song," that thesis rarely applied to Deep Purple. On the one hand the instrumental presence and potency in all five decades of the band was at least always at the same level as the lead vocals. And as long as Ritchie Blackmore was in the band, he provided the band with song ideas that would have worked well with other vocalists. On the other hand, there are these vocal great moments: "Child In Time" belongs to Ian Gillan and "Soldier Of Fortune" to David Coverdale.

01. June 2018

Klaus Schulze

KLAUS SCHULZE - Das Elektronikhirn

Since Klaus Schulze turned 70 last year, a release offensive of his record company has been underway. At the end of 2017, eleven remastered records from the massive catalogue of the Berlin electronics witch were released, in February again as many. And now with "Silhouettes" he has released another studio album with new material. An exertion for a person who currently has to go to hospital regularly.

01. June 2018

Graveyard

GRAVEYARD - Es ist noch lange nicht vorbei

Sometimes a time-out is just necessary. In the case of the Swedish retrorocker Graveyard, in conjunction with a personnel change, it has provided an enormous boost that the new studio work "Peace" has produced. A milestone in the band's history that delivers signature songs with tracks like "The Fox" and "It Ain't Over Yet" that are at least as good as the classic "Hisingen Blues".

01. June 2018

Subsignal

SUBSIGNAL huldigen Lateinamerikas Sensenfrau mit einer ihrer optimistischsten Platten

The title of the fifth subsignal album "La Muerta" is somewhat misleading. The themes of sadness and loss that shaped the previous work have given way to a much more optimistic attitude, which is reflected in great choral movements and a stronger AOR heaviness. In addition, the Munich-based Progband, which was founded in 2007 by the Sieges-Even members Arno Menses (voc) and Markus Steffen (g), has dispensed with overcharged arrangements so that their songs can breathe better. The likeable frontman Arno Menses is happy with "La Muerta" all around, which is also due to the RPWL makers Kalle Wallner and Yogi Lang, who put the finishing touches to the record.

eclipsed: "La Muerta" is your first album for Gentle Art Of Music. Label owner Kalle Wallner had already recorded the guitars for "Touchstones" and was guest guitarist on "The Beacons Of Somewhere Sometime".

01. June 2018

Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks

STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS nehmen die Welt, wie sie ist

For a whole five years there was nothing more to be heard from Stephen Malkmus and his Jicks. Now the former Pavement frontman opens a new chapter in the history of his band with "Sparkle Hard". At first glance the album doesn't seem to follow any inner logic, the songs seem as spontaneous and jumpy as an early novel by Paul Auster. And yet there is a red thread hidden in all this.

eclipsed: "Sparkle Hard" is stylistically very diverse, every song sounds different. Were these songs planned for an album from the beginning, or did you collect what you wrote in the last years?

01. June 2018

Ryley Walker

 In den nächtlichen Straßen von Chicago ordnet RYLEY WALKER sein Leben

It's been a good 20 years since Chicago was a Mecca of cross-genre metamusic. Bands and projects like Tortoise, Eleventh Dream Day, Town & Country, Isotope 217, The Sea And Cake, Gastr del Sol, Red Red Meat or The Red Crayola always found new combinations of rock, jazz, new music, techno, free improvisation, country, blues and much more. Out of pure helplessness they invented the term "post-rock" for this mix. The singer, guitarist and songwriter Ryley Walker is a generation younger than the musicians of the mentioned projects, but he wants to follow exactly their aesthetics. The nine songs on his new album build astonishing bridges between all these states of aggregation, which often do not follow any obvious logic. "I strongly oriented myself to bands like The Red Crayola, Gastr del Sol, Isotope 217 or the early Tortoise", Walker confirms his large-scale sound confusion.

15. May 2018

Foreigner

FOREIGNER - Lou, Luanne und Luzern

After a good 40 years of band history, there are still new challenges even for foreigners. After all, even the Anglo-American success rockers are not on stage every day with over 100 people to present the almost inexhaustible pool of Mick-Jones compositions with orchestral force. In addition to this extraordinary experience, the band boss also talks about the anniversary concerts at which he once again met the original singer Lou Gramm. And in May the band is back on tour in Germany.