READ MY EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH MILCH NOW!

GO HERE: WWW.MYSPACE.COM/LEPUSHIT

Milch has agreed to an interview, his first in 27 years, and we've confirmed a date. I am to meet him at the bar in the rear of the Fairmont Vier Jahreszeiten on Thursday evening.

As you may have already read at Le Push's MySpace site, he has agreed to a tape recorder being present. This means that, in addition to the full interview being posted on Saturday, I'll be uploading a segment to the audio player, so you can all hear Milch speak.

Bye for now, Pushies.

P.S. I received a letter from a fan named Helga Gertschausen, who asked if Le Push has really been tapped to compose the score for the next Harry Potter film. Not true, Helga. I'm not sure where these rumors are surfacing, but there has never been an offer made, and should there ever be, I seriously doubt the boys would do it, as they despise linear narrative. Footnote: Le Push was asked by the German government, in 1991, to write a piece for the funeral of the actor, Klaus Kinski, but Werner Herzog, his friend and long-time director, went with Wagner instead.

- B.T.

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Oh, Pushies.

I am devastated. The American music press has apparently remained unwavering in its absurd disdain for Le Push. After hearing Die Energie Der Mutterschaft, I was certain that the boys would finally gain what they had always sought: tighter pants, and approval in the U.S. But the review by this online "hipster" magazine, Pitchfork, has shown once again that even the most self-professed open ears grow shy at the sound of the band's work. How can one listen to the new song and not be overcome with feelings of - how can I describe? The rape and murder of beauty, and then the resurrection of beauty, and beauty turning around, and raping and murdering the resurrection? This is surely what Jacques Cousteau meant when he said, "Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea, we act like barbarians."

Alas, the boys are despondent as well. I could not even reach them this evening to confirm our supper at Die Klebrige Made, here in Hamburg. They had been working since 4 AM this morning in the studio. We were to share a Pufferfish.

Do not let this single review discourage you! Tomorrow is another day, and where there is another day, there is another day of progress on the new album. I will bid you goodnight now, but as you little Pushies must be soaking wet with tears, I offer you a video of a laughing baby.

Sleep tight Pushies.

My feelings are indescribable. I am still listening to the preview of the fourth album. If Die Energie Der Mutterschaft is any indication of what's to come, this may be their greatest work.

Go to Le Push's MySpace site now! Fourth album preview!

Salutations, Pushies. Well, I awoke this morning to that bitter e-mail from Milch, and now I'm depressed. If you haven't read it, it was posted today, at the band's site (myspace.com/lepushit). It seems that the boy's obscurity over the last 27 years has allowed for some appropriation of their namesake (that, and the fact that nothing they ever did was copyrighted - in their early days, none of them believed in paper). I'm so upset. I think I shall go to Eichtalpark tonight, sit on a bench and weep a little. Perhaps I will purchase a Bierschinken and feed the pigeons. Are there still pigeons in Eichtalpark? I shall cry on them. Until tomorrow.

P.S. I was on my way to pigeons and Bierschinken when Vole phoned. Under no circumstances will Le Push be changing their name, he said. I am lifted from my sorrow! The pigeons must wait. I will go to the bars in town instead, and perhaps find some Pushies to share my Bierschinken. Hazah!

Hi, Pushies! Sitting in my hotel room in Hamburg right now, as I prepare to meet the boys at their new studio. I remember interviewing them on their old studio steps some years ago. Told me to follow them in my car. I didn't have a car, I had a bicycle. Schommel went over and spit on it while Bot called me into the back seat of their limousine. "Where are we going," I asked. The last thing I remember was Milch punching Bot, and Bot getting angry and saying that he was supposed to punch me, and then Vole laughing, and punching me. I woke up somewhere near Denmark. How I long for those days. Something in the smell of the water, here in Hamburg. Water on the walls. Cold, but warm on the ground - where the factory sounds are coming from. Footsteps all around. Harsh light under the door. The human sounds are below me, and in the walls....

I'm sorry, I took some mushrooms when I got to the hotel, and apparrently their kicking in. I'll write after my visit to the studio.

Bye, Pushies!

What's up, Pushies! Some news: received a call on my cell. It was Vole. Apparently, Bot watched a documentary on ocelots this morning while eating breakfast and is now convinced that three key songs for the record must be re-written. He chose not to elaborate. Apparently, that tracklisting isn't as concrete as we'd imagined. However, he suggested that I come to their new studio in Hamburg tonight! I wish I could cram every Pushy into that tight little space, but you'll have to settle for my keen reportage for now. So long, Pushies!

Mission Statement

To report on the progress of Le Push's as-yet-untitled fourth album.