Topics of the November issue
The Beatles
They were still a tight-knit band when Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr recorded Revolver in 1966. Now Beatles producer son Giles Martin has finally made a remix that does the album justice
By Maik Bruggemeyer
Bjork
Her new album “Fossora” is again a marvel, but in the interview Björk is surprisingly little freaky. An encounter with a fun-loving artist
By Juliane Liebert
The 1975
The 1975 are one of the last great bands of our time – formerly for teens, now for hipsters. A Walk in London with Matty Healy
By Jan Jekal
Soccer World Cup in Qatar
On 11/20 The soccer World Cup in Qatar begins. For the first time, the tournament will take place in winter, not for the first time in a country where human rights are not very important. An attempt at classification
By Christopher Bierman
Michelle Phillips
As a member of Mamas & Papas, Michelle Phillips helped shape sixties pop. Now she’s finally telling her whole story
By Angie Martoccio
“1899”
After “Dark”, Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar have shot another mystery series: In “1899” there is not only suspense, but also a message for Europe
By Birgit Fuss
the mix
dillon
For Dillon, her new record is an artistic and personal liberation: she has become a mother – and discovered cloud rap with producer Alexis Troy
By Naomi Webster-Grundl
Dry cleaning
Dry Cleaning have made a name for themselves with spoken-word cascades and artistic minimalism. They are unpretentious – and see themselves as a political band
By Max Gosche
Q&: A-ha
The A-ha singer on record and film True North, Nature’s Great Pendulum and the failings of his generation
By Sasan Niasseri
Weyes Blood
With her melancholic pop etudes, Natalie Mering aka Weyes Blood reflects the state of the world
By Ralf Niemczyk
HISTORY: “Thrillers”
The best-selling album of all time was released 40 years ago: Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”
By Sasan Niasseri
Luke Haines & Peter Buck
On the second album, the British singer and ex-REM guitarist venture into psychedelic experiments
By Birgit Fuss
PLUS
Rachel Kushner, Phoenix, Indigo Sparke and more
Reviews
MUSIC
News from Tom Liwa and 83 other reviews
RS GUIDE: Jackson Browne
Hanns Peter Bushoff and Arne Willander on the work of the great songwriter
FILM, SERIES & LITERATURE
“Crimes Of The Future” and 18 other reviews
Playlist: Rare Trax in November
From the late 1970s, numerous bands experimented between punk and pop avant-garde – and thus created the blueprint for what was later called Neue Deutsche Welle. Our November playlist pays tribute to some of them
gray area “polar bear”
1980 on the compilation “Swiss Wave – The Album”, released a year later as a shortened single version, this stoic new wave hit with saxophone outro is without question one of the best songs by the Swiss band.
Carom “On the Search”
Carambolage were considered pioneers of so-called lipstick feminism. This piece, which oscillates between Talking Heads and X-Ray Spex, comes from their album “Bon Voyage”, which was only released 34 years after its creation.
The carpenters “Erwin, the dancing knife”
Inspired by reggae and ska, the band around Timo Blunck and Detlef Diederichsen played music that at times sounded as if Edwyn Collins’ Orange Juice had gotten lost in a German underground disco.
The Adrenaline Makes Your Blood Plan
The musician and painter Moritz Reichelt tests the limits of the surreal with his band Der Plan. This track from the debut album, “Geri Reig”, finds its home somewhere between Kraftwerk and “Starship Enterprise”.
Palais Schaumburg “Telephone”
In this song by the band named after the Federal Chancellor’s residence in Bonn, Dadaism and atonality meet deceptively common dance rhythms and disturbingly lovely children’s song harmonies.
Foyer Des Arts “A Queen with Wheels Below (Gerd Bluhm Remix)”
What begins as a piece by the Dexys Midnight Runners turns out to be ingenious avant-pop fun, which once even earned the duo Max Goldt/Gerd Pasemann an invitation to the John Peel sessions.
Nothing “Hello Potato Salad”
The Düsseldorf group around singer Andrea Mothes released three fabulous records between 1981 and 1983 and, despite their uncompromising punk sound, made it into the major label league.
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