Sufficiently Forward-Looking: An Interview with Einstürzende Neubauten

By Tim O'Neil

The singer and lyricist gives his take on the music-industrial complex, including the challenge of visiting the United States. [10 January 2008]

Einstürzende Neubauten: The Jewels

By Spencer Tricker

Avant-industrialists Einstürzende Neubauten reprogram with an album of experimental miniatures. [23 July 2008]

Einstürzende Neubauten: Alles Wieder Offen

By Tim O'Neil

The picture we see in 2007 is of a band in complete control of their faculties, to the point where even the seemingly chaotic force of violently exploding sheet metal has been domesticated. [20 December 2007]

Einsturzende Neubauten: Palast Der Republik [DVD]

By Tim O'Neil

The creation of their music is oftentimes as visually stimulating as it is adventurous, and the well-lit and clear-eyed presentation on this DVD gives the audience a perfect vantage with which to see every percussive stroke of genius. [16 April 2007]

Einstürzende Neubauten: Kalte Sterne: Early Recordings

By Emily Sogn

Einstürzende Neubauten are a force of nature, or, um, a force of industry. The band originated in Berlin as part of Die Geniale Dilletante, an arts collective inspired by the Dadaist arts movement that had reached its boundary-pushing apex in the early years of the second world war.

Einstürzende Neubauten

By Rob Horning

Einstürzende Neubauten: Perpetuum Mobile

By Katie Zerwas

Perpetuum Mobile follows on the heels of a long tradition of German industrial music from the early days of Kraftwerk all the way to the genre’s more recent hard-core incarnation à la Rammstein.

Einstürzende Neubauten: Strategies Against Architecture III: 1991-2001

By Margaret Schwartz

Berlin’s Einstürzende Neubauten—that’s “Collapsing New Buildings” to the uninitiated—are in many ways an embodiment of a certain stereotype about German art rock.

Einstürzende Neubauten: Silence Is Sexy

By Theo Rhodes

Many bands attempt to defy or destroy the established musical boundaries. Few succeed, and fewer still do so with the fervor and style of Einstürzende Neubauten.