Holger Czukay

Don Van Vliet – the late singer-composer-provocateur known as Captain Beefheart – was recovering from the deepest nadir of his musical life, two mid-Seventies albums of straight-line rock and sugar-rhyme ballads, when he hit another: the 36-year exile of his comeback shot, Bat Chain Puller (Vaulternative). Read More

It's hard to tell now whether the term "krautrockoriginally concocted by the British music weeklies as a catch-all for the experimentally-minded bands coming out of Germany in the beards-and-bellbottoms era —was intended derisively or not, regardless of it's political incorrectness. But after German band Faust used the appellation for a song title in 1973, it started to transcend its origins, and over the decades it has become a generic tag for the post-psychedelic sonic storms stirred up by the likes of Amon Duul II , Guru Guru , Faust , Ash Ra Tempel and Can , as well as their more electronically minded cousins, Tangerine Dream , Kraftwerk , et al—music that has been incalculably influential to every generation of rockers to come along since. But while classic albums by the aforementioned artists have been comfortably ensconced in the krautrock canon for some forty years now, the books may have to be reopened in order to accomodate the arrival of The Lost Tapes , three CDs' worth of recently unearthed, previously unheard, archival Can material that seems sure to blow more than a few fans' minds. Read More

We spoke with Irmin Schmidt about the discovery of The Lost Tapes, the future of music production, and the formation of CAN. Read More

It's an awful nice feeling when people in the music industry treat me like I'm a legitimate journalist. Read More

In celebration of the upcoming release The Lost Tapes (June 19th), Can founder, Irmin Schmidt and collaborator Jono Podomore (aka Kumo) will DJ at Amoeba Music in Los Angeles on Thursday April 12th at 6:00pm. Read More

Can plan to reenter society's psyche with The Lost Tapes. Read More

The Lost Tapes; the long awaited box set of unreleased studio, soundtrack and live material. Read More