Tag: Jörg A. Schneider

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Teen Prime have about as much claim as anyone to the title of greatest rock band in the world. The duo of Sebastian Fäth on guitar and Jörg A. Schneider on drums play what's easiest to describe as a kind of math rock without the aimless noodling or algebraic excess, always driving at something as their sound is rippled...

On her latest album as Slowfoam the curator and researcher, composer and sound artist Madelyn Byrd not only imagines but seeks to cultivate an idealised post-Anthropocene environment, where nature, technology and human autonomy might hold hands and the lines between organic and synthetic seamlessly blur. To this end she looks towards the ecofeminist, technoscientist and multispecies theorist Donna Haraway...

Sometimes a wind blows and nothing rises. No plastic bags which remain wantonly discarded on the sidewalk filled with rainwater and city sediment, no helium mysteries or daydream fantasies or premonitions of love. On his third album the South London artist JQ finds frolic instead in a seam of cultural detritus, from overheard conversations to YouTube makeup tutorials, advertisements...