MUSIC
Replay of the beginning: "Bajaga and the instructors", the first four decades
The group "Bajaga and Instructors" presented their cult debut album "Positive Geography" 40 years ago in what was then the Trade Union House, and now the MTS hall. On that occasion, they did a "remake" performance on Sunday, playing only songs from their debut album
New album
Beyoncé – “Cowboy Carter”: Through African-American and Female Heroes
On the album "Cowboy Carter", Beyoncé takes us through the complex history of the relationship between black and white America, letting us know how many seemingly traditionally "white" things actually had their dark-skinned pioneers, heroes and audiences. This is a big record, no doubt about it
Music and holidays
The story behind the song "Last Christmas"
You either love this song or you want to play it half-heartedly when you hear it. Because it is inevitable during the holiday season. Wham! For almost four decades, this duet accompanies us with the song "Last Christmas". How did it come about?
Rock and roll phenomena - the "lost" album: Neil Young - Chrome Dreams
Chrome dreams
Neil Young's lost Chrome Dreams album went down in oral legend by not being around when it was recorded in the mid-seventies. If it had, it would have been considered a masterpiece of its time, as it clearly is now that it has finally been released in its entirety.
New album: Peter Gabriel – i/o
Grand Master's Pledge
Ethereal, deep and multi-layered, Peter Gabriel's new album reveals the artist's most subtle feelings and provides a sophisticated, almost spiritual view of the interconnectedness of all aspects of life, the complexity of social circumstances and the inexorable passage of time.
New albums: The Kills – God Games (dominoes)
A minimalist approach to rock and roll
New album: St. Dog - An unknown experience
Alone against myself, alone against all
The anger of a once maddened human substance growls like a dog, it has no other choice. When faced with the nothingness of her empty prospects, her despair takes on a powerful spiritual aura. Laughing in the face of the universe, shouting with it through the megaphone of the divine, gives the little man the necessary incentive to attack with sound the terrible dead end in which he unexpectedly got entangled in the middle of all those expanses. Does this sound like an esid trip to you? No, it's a new album by a great Belgrade band St.. Dog
Navigator
Do the Beatles dream of electric sheep
New album - Duran Duran - Danse Macabre
Halloween disco party
The new concept album of the famous Birmingham band is a not overly ambitious, but cleverly designed compilation of reinterpreted "spooky" hits from the past, along with several new songs from Duran Duran, who with this themed release wanted to create a musical soundtrack for the "ultimate Halloween party".
Roger Waters at eighty years old
The man who "bites the hand that feeds him"
Roger Waters celebrates his 80th birthday today. He is the face of Pink Floyd that the whole world knows, although he has not been a member for forty years. The anti-establishment message of a political nature that runs through the music of one of the most famous groups of all time - is his message ... as we can clearly see on the benign albums that have been made since his departure, since David Gilmour took it upon himself to lead it
New album: Pet Shop Boys, anthology Smash
It's better with a brain
This is just one of the many choices, because there is enough basis for various sets of favorites, and let's not forget that PSB openly mocked the concept of "greatest hits" quite early in their career.
In memoriam: Sinéad O'Connor (1966–2023)
Nothing could compare to her
The video for the song "Nothing Compares 2 U", in which at the end Sinéad O'Connor weeps continuously looking into the camera, is one of the most famous videos in pop music of all time. For almost the entire duration of the video, the shot is fixed on the face of a young girl who slowly begins to shed tears as she sings about lost love. We later learned that the tears were real. Like everything else in Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor's anti-career was real
New album: Joni Mitchell at Newport (Rhino)
With a little help from friends
The just-released live album from Joni Mitchell and her friends has the flavor of a testament to someone who's been through everything there was to be.
New Album: PJ Harvey – I Inside the Old Year Dying (Partisan)
Growing up with Polly Jean Harvey
Festival
Recapitulation: What a country - such is Exit
Or how the banner on the rampart of the Fortress "Welcome to Novi Sad - the capital of Vojvodina" got there in the first place and how it turned into a three-color map of Kosovo and Metohija
Interview
Vladimir Skočajić Skoča: Instead of smashing my head, I write a song
His first collection of poems entitled "Sometimes you wake up in Belgrade" was published a few days ago. "Songs are therapy for me. Belgrade seems sad to me today. I think that the period between 2000 and 2003 is the best that Serbia can do."
Interview: Oliver Nektarijević, poet and singer of the band Kanda, Kodža and Nebojša
If reality could be summed up in one word
And all the worst that happened to me - let it happen And all the best that happened - let it happen again (Kanda, Kodža and Nebojša, I'm fine now)
In the new issue
Composer Irena Popović Dragović: Being a soldier without a uterus
In the time we live in, activism is traditionally associated with the concept of disagreement, ie. dissidence in a society that can take various forms - from the simplest ones such as propaganda, up to extreme cases that can escalate into sabotage or armed struggle
A Brief History of Hawaii's Music and More
Hula blues – the music of the lost paradise
Volcanic lava may be engulfing Hawaii, but the music doesn't stop playing! Hawaiian music represented a quarter of the first gramophone records released in the early 20th century, directly influenced the creation of country music, and was highly regarded by non-Nazi Germans during World War II. Moreover, a Prussian concertmaster of the military orchestra first recorded it and then modernized it, allowing the whole world to enjoy the music of the lost paradise
Sixtieth birth anniversary - Jim Morrison (1943–1971), poet
The Iron Gate of Perception
James Douglas Morrison died of a heart attack, in a bathtub, in a hotel room, on July 1971rd, XNUMX. If the roll of the dice that night had had a different outcome, Morrison would have turned sixty this December eighth. This ending, however, hastened the beginning of the realization of his last wish - the wish to be taken seriously as a poet
Stop drug addiction
Music as a sedative
Experiments have shown that roses like Vivaldi the best, that pigs eat best with Mozart, that cows are more milky if they listen to Beethoven, and that sheep feel most beautiful with Liszt.