Independent international alternative music web magazine based in Gothenburg, Sweden
Music media often focus on the legends, icons and pioneers that we love to celebrate and pay tribute to from a very young age, when we pin their posters on the wall in our childhood rooms. In Release, we also focus on the musical heroes working in the background, producing, programming or even singing on …
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Dave Gahan’s wife Jennifer Sklias-Gahan and her son James Rogers-Gahan have started a production company in New York called 18BleeckerFilms together with Patrick McDevitt.
In conjunction with the recently released ”Planet Jarre” compilation album, Jean-Michel Jarre has recorded a podcast, detailing his career from the humble beginnings in Lyon, to the electronic giant he is today.
It’s getting cold and dark here in Sweden. Sounds like the perfect time to rewind two months back to July and one of our favorite festivals, this year heated up to 35º C. The Release team reports from the 14th edition of the Cologne based festival Amphi, where we met and watched artists such as Midge …
Covenant will focus on songs from their first two albums during a concert night in Gothenburg on January 12 called We All Feel Better in the Dark.
Mysterious ”collapsing” Aphex Twin Logos started appearing around the globe last month – including London Underground station Elephant and Castle (once believed to be the home of the elusive electronic artist).
Peter Spilles – the mastermind behind Project Pitchfork – started a huge project that began with the last album ”Akkretion”, themed around ”genesis” and the birth of the stars and the planets.
On the release date of Jean-Michel Jarre’s best-of album ”Planet Jarre”, a new track from yet another new Jarre album has been posted online.
In case you missed it, longtime Release favorite Pig (Raymond Watts) and singer, actress and ex porn star Sasha Grey have joined forces to make a cover of KC & The Sunshine Band’s song ”That’s The Way (I Like It)”.
The German-Swedish synthpop band Seadrake, with members from Akanoid, Statemachine, Lowe, Minerve and Dark Millennium, will play live in Sweden for the first time this weekend.