The endless rebuttal Nov 15, 2009
By the late 1970s, the show s producers say, small groups of electronic artists including Human League, Daniel Miller (aka The Normal), and Cabaret Voltaire were creating sounds that fit neither the prevailing rock or mainstream pop models. But the Beatles-on-Ed-Sullivan moment for synthesizer-driven music, the BBC says, came in 1979, when Gary Numan appeared on the British show Top of the Pops. (Boston Globe)
Civil rights activist to speak on social justice, women's rights Oct 20, 2009
Angela Davis was taken into custody when a gun, allegedly registered in her name, was used in a fatal shooting of a California Superior Court judge Aug. 7, 1970. Davis was put on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, the third woman in history to be on it. (Daily Orange, NY)
High Fidelity Sep 7, 2009
Reznor was also influenced by the abrasive electronic pulses of industrial music, a trend that started in the nineteen-seventies in England with bands like Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle. Throbbing Gristle s songs were menacing first-person narratives about physical and emotional extremes. (New Yorker)
Essentials: This weekend's live music picks Mar 27, 2009
Sunday @ 21 Grand: Blank Dogs is the no-fi, mega-crudded-out project of one Mike Sniper, an ex-member of DC Snipers, who sounds as if he spent his early years wearing out one too many Cabaret Voltaire and Silicon Teens record. The pile of wax he's accumulated over the past couple of years oozes with synth-based, psych-wave nuggets galore. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Dazzling wordplay Mar 1, 2009
Across the road at No1 stood the Meirei Bar, home of the Cabaret Voltaire, the crucible of Dadaism, a modernist art movement based on chance founded by (among others) the expatriate Romanian Tristan Tzara. What if these three historical giants, more or less, could be brought together to discuss the nature of art, revolution and literature as an epoch thrashed in its death throes and a brave new world tantalisingly beckoned. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
