David Fricke: Lost and Found Sounds by Captain Beefheart, Can and a Mother of Invention
- 6:16 PM — May 18 —
- Source: Rolling Stone
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
Riffs, Rants and Rumors: Can Rewrites Krautrock History
- 10:50 AM — May 2 —
- Source: OurStage Blog
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
CAN: Interview
- 6:27 AM — Apr 25 —
- Source: Prefix Magazine
We spoke with Irmin Schmidt about the discovery of The Lost Tapes, the future of music production, and the formation of CAN. Read More
Review: Can – The Lost Tapes
- 10:32 PM — Apr 12 —
- Source: Swan Fungus
It's an awful nice feeling when people in the music industry treat me like I'm a legitimate journalist. Read More
CAN - DJ SET ANNOUNCED IN LOS ANGELES
- 1:14 PM — Apr 11 —
- Source: Alt Sounds
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 release “The Lost Tapes”
- 9:52 AM — Apr 4 —
- Source: donewaiting.com
Can plan to reenter society's psyche with The Lost Tapes. Read More
Can's Lost Tapes Coming in June
- 7:49 AM — Mar 30 —
- Source: antiMusic
The Lost Tapes; the long awaited box set of unreleased studio, soundtrack and live material. Read More
Biography
A founding member of the enormously influential Krautrock group Can, Holger Czukay was one of the pivotal underground figures... Read the full Holger Czukay bio.



