The Knife have altered many of their songs for the wildly theatrical stage show they’ve been touring through North America, and now those reworkings will be available on record. A mini-album called Shaken-Up Versions compiles new versions of songs from throughout the group’s discography. To kick things off, director Bitte And...

After putting out one of the best albums of 2013 with the gargantuan Shaking The Habitual, the Knife have been touring an equally bombastic live show that finally came to New York this week. You can check out photos of last night’s dance-centric performance at Terminal 5 by photographer Erik Erikson above. And below you [...]

I caught the Knife’s Shaking The Habitual live show at Sweden’s Way Out West festival last summer, and I hated it. Everyone I’ve spoken to about the group’s recent live shows either agrees with me or virulently disagrees. Their show is a divisive thing: A massive performance-art spectacle, full of modern-d...

It’s no wonder that it’s taken some time for remixes of the new Knife album to come out, since the best way to describe the response to Shaking The Habitual is with that scene from Scanners when Michael Ironside uses his psychic powers to make that newscaster’s head explode. But now that we’ve had time [...]

The Berlin-based dance-music feminist Planningtorock last worked with the Knife on their experimental 2010 opera Tomorrow, In A Year, and now she’s reworked their Shaking The Habitual single “Full Of Fire,” overhauling it completely and transforming it into a double-dutch electro playground chant called “L...