GRATEFUL DEAD
Playing With The Band
Although they have not officially existed since 1995, new CDs of them are released with impressive persistence. Grateful Dead - with or without "The" - is a myth. But despite all the fables and legends that entwine around them, they were a real band with flesh and blood musicians. What makes the Grateful Dead exceptional, why don't you get tired of their countless live albums with always the same songs? Where are the boundaries between legend and reality of one of the most influential bands in rock history?
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shopping list DAVID BOWIE - The Beatles complete their shopping list
He's a star with every fiber of his being. It almost seems as if he really fell from the sky at some point (but certainly not 60 [!] years ago) and has been there since then, already finished, quite the cool Rock'n'Roller, which he somehow has always been true in the public perception. David Bowie has never revolutionized the music scene, he has ennobled it about a million times, giving it class, style and esprit like no other artist before and after him.
HOELDERLIN
Back in the dream city
26 years after the last record "Fata Morgana" Hoelderlin return with a new album and several concerts. At the same time, the entire back catalogue is available again digitally remastered with bonus tracks. A short look back at the history of this Krautrock institution.
PAIN OF SALVATION
"Music is bigger than man!"
With "Scarsick" the fans of the most innovative progressive metal band of the last years should be reconciled again after the bulky "BE" concept, because it contains again more elements, which characterized Pain Of Salvation in the last years - wouldn't there still be the longing waiting for "The Perfect Element, Part 2". Singer and band speaker Daniel Gildenlöw knows more about it in a telephone conversation - with a revelation that might be in his sense: It is worthwhile to always look very closely..
BLACKFIELD
The high school of pop songs
In 2004, ten sophisticatedly produced pop rock songs full of harmonies and melodies were the result of the collaboration between Israeli singer Aviv Geffen and British singer Steven Wilson, singer and guitarist of Porcupine Tree. The duo traded as Blackfield, and even then it was clear to the musicians that it wouldn't stay with one album. Wilson's busy schedule prevented an earlier sequel, but now the second Blackfield album has been released. It ties in seamlessly with its predecessor. Friends of the challenging pop song can also convince themselves of this on the current tour. A self-confident Steven Wilson answered our questions in advance.
AEREOGRAMME
Broken hearts and broken larynxes
The fact that the Scottish band Aereogramme is an exceptional phenomenon in the indie music scene has already been proven with their two albums released so far. But nobody had expected a stroke of genius like the new, quite cryptically titled work "My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go". Frontman and lyricist Craig B. spoke with eclipsed about the strange history of the creation of a masterpiece.
RICKIE LEE JONES
The beauty of old pictures
It is easier to catch a fish with bare hands than to stylise Rickie Lee Jones. She shaken off the reputation of a younger copy of Joni Mitchell with her electronic album "Ghosty Head" in 1998 at the latest. Afterwards we went on a stylistic roller coaster ride towards the American Songbook and politically motivated jazz. Their new album "Sermon On Exposition Boulevard" sounds like a return to Woodstock aesthetics against the structural background of Sonic Youth.
ALIAS EYE
The other sons of Mannheim
The Mannheim quintet Alias Eye is undoubtedly one of the best that Germany has to offer in Melodic Artrock. After the second longplayer "A Different Point Of You" it put its fans to a hard test of patience by letting it pass for more than three years without any new output. Finally the third album "In Focus" has arrived. We talked to singer Philip Griffiths about why it turned out different than its predecessor.
EXCALIBUR
Celtic legend in all-star garb
Excalibur, the legendary sword of King Arthur, has inspired the imagination of many musicians in the past. The Frenchman Alan Simon, who recently produced the album "Open The Door" by ex-Supertramp Roger Hodgson, has already taken on the magic sword for the second time and recorded the album "Excalibur II - The Celtic Ring" with a large number of stars.
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JETHRO TULL - LOCOMOTIVE BREATH
"LOCOMOTIVE BREATH" IS ONE OF THE GREATEST SONG CLASSICS IN ROCK HISTORY: OF COURSE THE RAILWAY AND ITS HOT BREATH PLAY A SUPPORTING ROLE, BUT IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY, YOU DISCOVER A TEXT THAT INTELLIGENTLY DENOUNCES THE OMNIPOTENCE OF THE CHURCH.
ECLIPSED ROCK-HISTORY
JAMES TAYLOR
