Mute Records has just announced a box set with 50 acts ‘performing’ John Cage’s infamous 1952 avant-garde composition 4’33” – which directs musicians not to play any instruments. It’s just the kind of high-concept piece […]
Tag: Laibach
The hills are alive with the sound of Laibach
Laibach have been triggering sensibilities way before warnings became a thing, and their new video is another masterstroke of performance art trolling. In 2015, the Slovenian industrial act became the first Western band to be […]
Gebert Einer Nation: How Laibach turned Queen’s One Vision into a totalitarian anthem (1987)
Laibach are probably Europe’s most grossly-misunderstood band, but they don’t make it easy for themselves. In an age of offence-ometers permanently in the red, there aren’t enough trigger warnings for the veteran industrialists. Laibach emerged […]
Kamerad, komm tanz mit mir: Laibach in Berghain, Berlin
I’m a stone’s throw from the Berlin Wall and a blood-soaked axe-swastika is spinning behind five silhouettes in strobe-lit slow motion, grinding out 10 factories’ worth of industrial clatter. The screen lingers on deepthroat blowjobs, […]
