Alte Helden blicken zurück Gitarrenheld George Lynch läßt die Vergangenheit nicht los. Nach dem Split von Dokken war er sowohl solo als auch mit seiner neuen Band Lynch Mob unterwegs, dann aber...

The success of the annual Ozzfest samplers seemed to inspire souvenir CDs from other tours as well. As with most similar recordings, the PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TOUR: LIVE CONCERT RECORDING album is only...

Brutal, loud, and insanely intense, the Minneapolis-based American Head Charge is so extremely over the top that at first the listener might not notice that the band is also one of the most intelligent,...

In 1966, the bossa nova craze was at a peak, and A CERTAIN SMILE, A CERTAIN SADNESS marked a collaboration between two of its biggest stars -- vocalist Astrud Gilberto, brought to fame by her classic...

Smooth jazz usually enjoys a bad reputation with critics, who tend to complain that the music is shallow and bereft of any personality. It's thanks to albums like Gerald Albright's BERMUDA NIGHTS that...

The following text was written on in the night of July 31, 2002, after seeing the world premiere of CUBE 2: HYPERBUCH in Munich. The review was published on Ain't It Cool News; it was probably the very...

Der eine oder andere mag Notiz davon genommen haben: Am Mittwoch, den 24. April 2002, war Ereignistag in Österreich. Um gegen die bevorstehende Universitätsreform, oder genaugenommen gegen das dadurch...

Nicht alles, was so publiziert wird, ist auch zwangsläufig gut. Die banale Erkenntnis dieser Einleitung fand ihren Weg in diese Kolumne via der neuesten Aussendung der ÖH, einem Magazin, das Adjektive...

Dieses Gedicht erschien zuerst in Poetry Salzburg Review No. 4 (Spring 2003). ------------------ 4 8 15 16 23 42

"Schlecht" – würde man das Ergebnis der Evaluation des SS 2001 an der Anglistik in einem Wort zusammenfassen wollen, wäre es wohl dieses oder ein artverwandtes. Das Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik...

Viele von unseren Kollegen wissen nicht, wie sich die Tagesroutine eines Studienrichtungsvertreters gestaltet – einige wissen nicht einmal, daß es uns gibt. Tieftraurig ob unseres Schattendaseins...

This isn't a full-fledged review of Herbie Hancock's album FUTURE 2 FUTURE - it's my initial response to the record which I wrote for the (now-defunct) Hancock mailing list. I got Herbie's...

Releasing the song "Push It" as a single was an excellent choice for the industrial metal group Static-X, since the track perfectly blends all the different elements the group has to offer: rhythmic,...

What distinguishes Linkin Park from other nu-metal bands is that which causes the biggest controversy about them: While they have all the typical ingredients of the genre (angst-ridden lyrics, heavy...

The sad thing about the fourth Crazy Town single, "Revolving Door", is the fact that, after the enormous success of the song "Butterfly," a smooth, immensely catchy pop ditty, the band seems to concentrate...

After YESTERDAY'S DREAMS and MOONSHADOWS, SPELLBOUND is Alphonso Johnson's third and, unfortunately, last album (to date) as a leader. Whereas MOONSHADOWS featured a lot of famous guest players, such...

SECURITY, the second recording released by Cypher 7, a project "created and encoded" by session keyboardist Jeff Bova and engineer Alex Haas, is actually twice as good as their excellent first CD, DECODER....

I wrote the following concert review a few days after attending Herbie's show on April 12, 2000 in Munich. It was originally sent to the now defunct Hancock mailing list. On Wednesday, April 12, Herbie...

For the third manifestation of Praxis, Bill Laswell returned from the cut-and-paste trash metal of the second album, SACRIFIST, to a band approach, as on the first, TRANSMUTATION. Concentrating on the core...

Saving the German cinema seems like a campaign to save the boll weevil, but with LOLA RENNT, Tom Tykwer did the job. A simple but powerful story filmed in a wildly experimental style, mixing fast-moving...

Before Hancock's 1984 album SOUND-SYSTEM was released, this advance single (referring to the album as being called HARDROCK) allowed a first glance at the FUTURE SHOCK follow-up. With "Hardrock", Laswell...

Conceived as a soundtrack to a non-existent movie, the third CD released by the French fashion house APC (Atelier de Production et de Creation) is a masterpiece crafted by "The Man Who Needs No Sleep,"...

Scandinavia is definitely a place which sends new impulses in jazz. After trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer's KHMER in 1997, which presented a fresh combination of ECM jazz, ambient, and electronica, here's...

The concept which Bill Laswell and Alan Douglas conceived for this CD has been tackled by various musicians with varying results, taking the jazz tradition of the past and updating them for the present,...

CARAVAN BEYOND REDEMPTION is a captivating album for all of its 70-plus-minute running time. Starting from their usual brand of doom metal, heavily influenced by Black Sabbath, but boasting an original,...

KHMER is surely the most unusual album ever released by ECM -- unusual because the label, which is best known for elevated chamber jazz, presents the solo debut of trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer as a production...

This 12" single was released in 1983 as an advance for Herbie Hancock's album FUTURE SHOCK, presenting its hit "Rockit." Even though the cover says that the track is featured in a "stretched version"...

Have You Ever Seen The Pain of many a jazz fan who's listening to certain '70s albums of certain jazz musicians? Stanley Turrentine recorded various albums for CTI in the early 1970s which perfectly...

In 1975, Herbie Hancock's group the Headhunters, which brought him immense success at the time, released their first solo album. Produced by Hancock, but without his participation, the lineup features...

Whether you'll like ENCOUNTERS OF EVERY KIND, the follow-up to Meco's successful STAR WARS AND OTHER GALACTIC FUNK, depends on whether you like both lounge and disco. Or, more precisely, whether you'd...

This pop-jazz recording by Japanese pianist/keyboardist Keiko Matsui is actually better than many comparable contemporary jazz recordings. The melodies are catchy and charming but rather low-key, most...

Even though Bill Laswell was already immersed in numerous projects since the end of the '70s, including leading his loose ensemble Material, he didn't release a solo record until 1983, and BASELINES...