Recommendations of the Editorial team
With the album “Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally.” produced by Kid Harpoon. returns Harry Styles back after four years – although he never disappeared from the limelight. What is it like to live there and what characterizes his music? Jens Balzer went in search of clues for one of the biggest pop stars of our time
ARLO PARKS
Arlo Parks combines euphoric club sounds and existential lyrics. With Johannes von Weizsäcker she talks about New York nights and fragmented feelings
WOLFGANG NIEECKEN AND BAP
Wolfgang Niedecken has a lot to celebrate this year. His band BAP has been around for 50 years and he’s turning 75. Maik Brüggemeyer spoke to him about origins, political art and a long journey that is now entering the home stretch
ROBYN
Transformed with “Sexistential”. Robyn hormonal states of emergency, desire and motherhood in euphoric club pop
By Jenni Zylka
RUSH
Scandals, excesses, crashes? None. Instead there is at Rush nerdy prog rock and bookish lyrics – and recently a German drummer
By Fabian Broicher
RAYMOND PETTIBON
His works now hang in the most important museums. But in the beginning there were Raymond Pettibon Record cover for Black Flag
By Sebastian Zabel
Raymond Pettibon is one of America’s great contemporary artists. Before he became a regular in the world’s museums, he drew album covers. An exhibition in Ludwigshafen now shows his best. The artist provided a motif to the German ROLLING STONE – our subscribers can enjoy an exclusive subscription cover that is not available in stores
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SUN O)))
Practice reduced to a duo Sunn O))) their unique mix of drone metal and sound sculpture, natural mysticism and meditation
By Jürgen Ziemer
JOE JACKSON
On his new album connects Joe Jackson Pub rock, new wave, jazz and pop with a melancholic diagnosis of the present
By Max Gösche
The Mix
Bible meets Punk: For the second time Nina Hagen recorded an album of gospel songs. Meanwhile they traveled Gorillaz to India. Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett report on it – and reflect on life in the age of AI art. Also in the mix: Tedeschi Trucks Band, Suzi Quatro, Fortuna Ehrenfeld, Squeeze and many more
Reviews
Max Gosche is impressed by the power of the new album Robyn. Fabian Broicher is dedicated to two great avant-gardists: Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart. Arne Willander honors the work of Herbert Grönemeyer for his 70th birthday
Playlist: New Noises in April
As varied as April weather: This time our playlist covers a stylistic spectrum from piano pop to blues and southern rock to folk and ethereal shoegaze
1. BRUCE HORNSBY “INDIGO PARK”
In this title track from his new album, the US songwriter mixes his patented piano pop with blues and proves that he still has a knack for an irresistible hook.
2. FOY VANCE “I AIN’T SOLD ON TIME”
Also not averse to the blues, but even more committed to soul and folk, the Irish singer Foy Vance follows in the footsteps of his American idols from the 50s and 60s.
3. TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND “FUTURE SOUL”
The band around singer Susan Tedeschi and master guitarist Derek Trucks demonstrates with pieces like this that their southern rock, charged with blues and gospel, is still at the highest energy level.
4. THE MILK CARTON KIDS “A FRIEND LIKE YOU”
For 15 years, the Californian duo has been recording records with beguiling folk ballads that are reminiscent of the Everly Brothers, and not just because of their harmony singing. “A Friend Like You” is a touching road trip.
5. DEARY “ALMA”
On their debut, the London trio around singer Dottie Cockram unfolds otherworldly shoegaze and dream pop odes somewhere between Cocteau Twins and Julee Cruise.
6. ARKELL’S “NEXT SUMMER”
With dance-rock exuberance and Springsteen-esque bell arrangements, the Arkells are increasingly becoming a Canadian version of the Killers.
7. JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ “A PERFECT STORM”
A wildly throbbing masterpiece from the Swedish songwriter’s new album, which evokes the beauty of a nature that cannot be tamed by human hands.
