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Ernst Busch (22 January 1900 - 8 June 1980) was a singer and actor. He was born in Kiel, Germany, and died in Berlin. Busch first rose to prominence as an interpreter of political songs, particularly those of Kurt Tucholsky, in the Berlin cabaret scene of the 1920s. He starred in the original 1928 production of Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera, as well as the subsequent 1931 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. A lifelong Communist, Busch fled Nazi Germany in 1933 with the Gestapo on his heels, eventually settling in the Soviet Union. In 1937 he joined the International Brigades to...

Sternbuschweg is a german band from Dessau based in Berlin. The band members are: Wolfgang Müller-Molenar: vocals, guitars Sebastian Schiller: guitars Denis Kather: electric bass Benjamin Erbig: drums & percussion The band exists since 1998, getting through periods of creative silence. Since 2000 as all band members moved to Berlin, Sternbuschweg have started to be more active. They've recently recorded their first album going to be released in the autumn. Their musical style can be described as a mixture of Madchester sound and The Smiths with German lyrics, which bear a quite specific sense of humour, not always being just...

Birdie, composed of Paul Kelly and Deborah Wykes, or Debsey, was an indie pop duo that formed in 1997 after playing in Saint Etienne's live backing band. Both members had previous musical jaunts however. London native Wykes opened for the likes of The Fall, The Jam, and The Undertones while fronting her band Dolly Mixture. Kelly was known for his stint with UK indie quartet East Village and directing promo videos for various bands. Their first album Some Dusty was released in August 1999 on It Records (which Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne provided A&R duties for) in the UK....

Hans Knappertsbusch (March 12, 1888 - October 25, 1965) was a German conductor, best known for his performances of the music of Richard Wagner, Anton Bruckner and Richard Strauss. Knappertsbusch was born in Elberfeld (present-day Wuppertal). He studied philosophy at Bonn University and conducting at the Cologne Conservatory with Steinbach. For a few summers, he assisted Siegfried Wagner and Hans Richter at Bayreuth. He began his career with conducting jobs in Elberfeld (1913–1918), Leipzig (1918–1919) and Dessau (1919–1922). When Bruno Walter left Munich for New York, Knappertsbusch succeeded him as General Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera. Knappertsbusch incurred...

From the sweetly dark, blizzard-driven imagination of Tara Busch, comes her debut album on Tummy Touch records,Pilfershire Lane. It is available in Limited Edition Box Set (limited run of 100 - includes stainless steel pop up synth with recordable circuit complete with microphone and speaker, Polaroid 600 photo, 16mm film and cd copy of the album) and digipack CD. Order here: http://tummytouch.greedbag.com/buy/tuch01-issue-spring/ It is an album based on a young girl's lonely, melancholic childhood in the 1970's. We journey with her in the seat of her rocket ship in "Over the radio", through the tantrum-stamp of her high school marching...