Can
Jon Hassell: radical musician who studied with Stockhausen and worked with Eno
The influential experimental US composer ‘celebrated and dignified’ his ‘fourth world’ sources and contributed to albums by Brian Eno and Talking Heads
Alexis Petridis
27, Jun, 2021 @6:51 PM
Jon Hassell, avant garde US composer, dies aged 84
Family and fellow musicians pay tribute to inventor of influential ‘fourth world’ musical aesthetic
Laura Snapes
27, Jun, 2021 @12:13 PM
All Gates Open by Rob Young and Irmin Schmidt review – in praise of the rock band Can
Whether or not the German experimental band, beloved of the Fall and John Lydon, are the ultimate chin-stroking rock outfit, their albums will endure
Alan Warner
23, Jun, 2018 @8:00 AM
'I grew up in total ruins': Irmin Schmidt of Can on LSD, mourning and musical adventures
The last founding member of the visionary German band left alive, the 81-year-old recalls how he rejected his Nazi father to find freedom in music
Alexis Petridis
31, May, 2018 @1:30 PM
Holger Czukay obituary
Founder member of Can who took a prominent role in producing and engineering the German rock band’s albums
Adam Sweeting
06, Sep, 2017 @3:38 PM
Holger Czukay, bassist with Can, dies aged 79
The man who helped give the German psychedelicists their driving rhythm section was found at his apartment, with the cause of death currently unknown
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
06, Sep, 2017 @8:00 AM
Jaki Liebezeit obituary
Drummer and co-founder of the pioneering German krautrock band Can
Adam Sweeting
24, Jan, 2017 @6:16 PM
Can's Jaki Liebezeit: the man who marched to the beat of his own drum
The late drummer of krautrock band Can influenced the likes of Roxy Music and Talking Heads by restructuring rock’s basic rhythm and drumming like a machine
David Stubbs
23, Jan, 2017 @4:10 PM
Jaki Liebezeit, drummer of seminal krautrock band Can, dies at 78
German avant garde rock group announces on Facebook page that drummer died from pneumonia
Elle Hunt
23, Jan, 2017 @1:31 AM
Can's Irmin Schmidt playlist: Swans, Laibach and more
The keyboard-playing founder of Can shares his favourite tracks – by turns interesting, complex and plain weird – for this week’s playlist
Interview by Harriet Gibsone
01, Feb, 2016 @4:00 PM
Future Days review – an absorbing history of Krautrock and 1970s Germany
David Stubbs’s story of Can, Kraftwerk and Germany’s postwar generation is enthusiastic and well researched, writes Ian Thomson
Ian Thomson
17, Aug, 2014 @11:30 AM
Krautrock pioneers Can to release official biography
The two-volume book is a collaboration with Faber Social and is due for release in spring 2016
Tim Jonze
28, Mar, 2014 @12:55 PM
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