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Charlie Bertsch

Culture Editor
Charlie Bertsch is The Battleground's Associate Editor. A co-founder of the pioneering internet magazine Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life, he has also written for Punk Planet magazine, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Phoenix New Times, Tikkun, ZEEK, Alternet, Souciant, The Tucson Sentinel, and The Battleground.

265 articles

Charlie Bertsch / 22 Jul 2020

The American Scream

Speaker Music’s Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry

Combining elements of minimal techno in the great African American tradition of Detroit and Chicago with dubstep, avant-garde jazz, and spoken-word, Speaker Music's new “emergency” album Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry delivers bass that is as compelling as it is challenging. (...)
Charlie Bertsch / 27 May 2020

Berlin and Everything

Einstürzende Neubauten’s Alles in Allem

A whirring mechanical device that hasn’t settled into a rhythm; a keening tone that wobbles slightly over the top; a thump that falls precisely where a beat wouldn’t: Alles in Allem, the new album by Einstürzende Neubauten, opens with a reminder of their origins as musicians who call the very idea of music into question.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 13 May 2020

The Power of Failing

Lorenzo Senni’s Scacco Matto

Scacco Matto sounds like a mosaic of Europop hits from the early 1980s. The album is made from pieces so tiny, their arrangement so abstract, that it transcends the referentiality of so much postmodern music.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 29 Apr 2020

End of the World Soundtrack

Vladislav Delay’s Rakka

Every track on Vladislav Delay's new album Rakka starts with the letter R. Each feels more relentless than the last, from the opening title track through “Rakkine” (“contraption”), “Rampa” (“cripple”) and “Rasite” (“burden” or “albatross”). (...)
Charlie Bertsch / 01 Apr 2020

Rock Against Corona

Die Ärzte Hearts Merkel

After days of reading one depressing news story after another about the pandemic that has turned our world upside down, I was desperate for anything that would brighten my spirits. (...)

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