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When Einstürzende Neubauten formed in West Berlin 44 years ago, few would have predicted the speed-fuelled, metal-bashing industrial pioneers would be easing into their fifth decade by releasing their most coherent yet varied body of work so far. Frontman Blixa Bargeld tells Wesley Doyle how biological determinism, public improvisation and feather boas all fed into its creation
Jeremy Allen talks to the Einstürzende Neubauten mainstay about early forays into electronic and industrial as well as drunken country and western plus an album inspired by the joys of Blackpool. All photographs courtesy Alexander Hacke
For years Anita Lane was overshadowed by her collaborator and ex-boyfriend Nick Cave. Eleanor Philpot argues that we instead need to see the singer as an artist whose exploration of female sexuality was way ahead of its time
Sod the first few EPs, we say a band's real hidden gems are buried at the end, among the ill-advised career moves and last grasps at fading relevance. Here, tQ writers fight the corner for their favourite unloved and underrated records from the tail-end of their favourite artists' discography.
Jeremy Allen investigates the current vogue for artistic reenactments of concerts and tours, from Genesis' The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway to The Cramps and Einsturzende Neubauten making a racket at the ICA. Featuring interviews with Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Jo Mitchell, Vivienne Gaskin, Jeremy Deller Mike Rutherford impersonator Sébastien Lamothe
“I think this is best record in the world,” underground Czech legend Bruno Ferrari tells Wyndham Wallace. “Because I hear only my record. I fuck on all other bands.” Contains NSFW video clips. All photographs by the author
Best known for documentaries about Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Einstürzende Neubauten, for his latest project Uli M Schueppel has profiled German avant-guitarist Caspar Brötzmann. The director talked to Dino Gollnick at the recent Berlin Film Festival
As Jane's Addiction unleash new track 'Irresistible Force' John Doran digs out an interview with Perry Farrell, who discusses his wilderness years spent making jewellery, impersonating David Bowie and domestic spats with his girlfriend while living in a car
"I'm gonna start a revolution from my bed," once sang Noel Gallagher. Tim Burrows, on the other hand, argues that those bedroom-dwelling music makers who were hyped to change the face of music in 2010 aren't as ground-breaking as many first thought...
Karl O'Connor guides Luke Turner through the 13 teenage hits that made him Regis, with tales of smelling like a badger on the mail train to Brum and what happens when you get a member of Einstürzende Neubauten the wrong gravel on the way
As ADULT. prepare to tour Europe, Nicola Kuperus and Adam Miller tell Daniel Dylan Wray about their 13 favourite albums drawn from the tough and leather side of life, from Throbbing Gristle to Nitzer Ebb, Einstürzende Neubauten to Drexciya
Our series of articles curated by Kevin 'The Bug' Martin continues with a Baker's Dozen from Mika Vainio, solo artist and former member of Pansonic. He tells us about how the likes of Suicide, Neubauten, the Alex Harvey Band, King Crimson and more soundtracked a life of working in slaughterhouses and vegetarian restaurants
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