To start with, as always, our “making of” from the print product advertised here:
THERE IS HOPE, THERE IS HEALING
Note to self: When The Cures greets Robert Smith from the cover of the magazine, you should definitely plan more time in the tea kitchen. I don’t care if Monday’s black. Hardly any other band can conjure up such an anecdotal flash mob. Literature expert Ariana Zustra, for example, tells with a pleasant shudder how she was afraid of Robert Smith and his look as a child in Croatia. You understand immediately. Tuesday, Wednesday, heart attack.
Volunteer Martin Schüler is also shuddering, but he speaks of a relationship that failed and what role a Cure album played in it. Record master Thomas Winkler states that he once had the same hairstyle and eye make-up as Robert Smith for a very short time. Exciting! Everyone wants to know if there are still photos of it. Maybe. Thursday never looking back.
Speaking of the hairstyle, “Smith once said,” recalls Linus Volkmann, handling three-day-old muffins, “he uses lubricating gel as a hair product.” Even the internet can’t confirm that, but people still prefer to believe it. When Managing Editor Stephan Rehm tells Rozanes a story about how he got lost in a dark winter forest, wearing little more than an MP3 player on which a Cure record showed him the way, work is finally out of the question . Luckily the week is almost over. It’s Friday, I’m in love.
The Musikexpress 12/2022 – the topics at a glance:
The Cure – The way out of the goth niche
With the release of their 14th studio album, The Cure have finally become the universally revered elder statesmen of indie rock. In the midst of the crisis in the live business, they play night after night in the biggest arenas on a gigantic tour. They are now one of those bands “that you absolutely have to see at least once in your life”. The Cure laid the basis for this status exactly 30 years ago with the album WISH. Important: a beer after work, a keyboard player who is actually a guitarist and Phil Collins’ hair painted over.
Weyes Blood – The hope before purgatory
Global crises, individualism and loneliness: On AND IN THE DARKNESS, HEARTS AGLOW, Weyes Blood draws a mood in times of ever faster acceleration. Dressed in otherworldly folk and orchestral chamber pop, she poses the question of the bond that holds us together. How can the connectedness between people exist in the everyday dystopia?
Phoenix – At the pinnacle of art
At night in the museum etc.: Yes, the indie pop darlings Phoenix set up a studio in the Louvre for their new album. But not even that made their slick sound rancid!
New Age – The Last Taboo
In the midst of a life crisis, our absolutely tasteful author Fabian Peltsch finds his way to what is probably the most uncool of all music styles: New Age. Driven by disgust and fascination, he sets off in search of the essence of this genre and flies to California. There he meets geniuses and madmen, but above all he finds himself between healing and humbug.
Röyksopp: “We don’t want to ask too much”
Even after more than 20 years in the band, Röyksopp still struggle with self-praise and artistic hubris. And even if they work on their music so obsessed with detail, as if they were solving a great mystery of mankind, it doesn’t matter to them whether they get XL attention or remain a footnote. In the interview, the electronica masters from Norway vacillate between modesty, laconicism and boredom. Interesting!
ME heroine: Nina Hagen – Forever Punk
Nobody is like her. That would be far too exhausting for everyone else. Equipped with the mission to work for world peace, Nina Hagen has been haunting the media landscape for many years. What sometimes gets lost is her musical position from the late 70s to the mid 80s: During this time, Nina Hagen lived punk and fed pop like no other artist did.
Also in the issue:
- Self-timer: First Aid Kid
- Theme interview: Sportfreunde Stiller about censorship tones and chocolate
- Blind Date: Tokio Hotel
- 9 facts about the Reeperbahn Festival
- Radar: Hawa, Ghost Car, Sophie Jamieson, Leftovers & Daniela Lalita
- Depeche Mode
- CD insert for subscribers with Weyes Blood, John Moods, Nina Hagen, Ghost Car, Leftovers & Tom Liwa
- Digital Playlist Featuring Weyes Blood, John Moods, Nina Hagen, Ghost Car, Leftovers, Tom Liwa, Stella Sommer, Connie Constance, MIA, Hawa, Zucker, Pogendroblem, Gabriels, Nick Hakim & Mount Kimbie
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The new music express – available from November 10, 2022 at kiosks and from home as an e-paper
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