Tonight, the Electronic Summer festival announced the first 5 live acts: DAF, Apoptygma Berzerk, S.P.O.C.K, Spark! and Vanligt Folk. There will be a total of 8 acts spread out over 2 days (August 30-31), at Brewhouse in Gothenburg.

FKP Scorpio has decided to move the legendary Hultsfred Festival to an event ground in Stoxa near Stockholm’s Arlanda airport. They will keep the name (for now).

This year’s E-tropolis in the Columbiagelände in Berlin takes place on Saturday. E-tropolis is an annual one day fest from the people who brings us the fine Amphi Festival. [more...]

Brooklyn based label The End Records has just announced the signing of the legendary dark rock band The Mission UK. A new album and tour are expected.

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The Flow Festival will be headlined by, amongst others, Kraftwerk, Grimes, Blixa Bargeld, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and The Knife. The festival takes place in Helsinki, Finland, on August 7-11.

Eddie & Marina (Page and more), Tyske Ludder and Mr Jones Machine grab the 3 last spots on the Electronic Summer festival line-up. [more...]

The winter leg of Depeche Mode’s “Delta Machine Tour” is taking shape as we speak. So far, the following dates have been released:

Belfast (November 11), Dublin (November 9), Amsterdam (December 7), Oslo (December 13) and Lodz (February 24). [more...]

Blancmange, Das Ich (pic), S.P.O.C.K, Twice a Man, Leaether Strip, Malaise, Neotek, Blipblop and Asfalt make up the line-up for Nostalgifesten #2, a one day nostalgia festival in Malmö on Saturday, April 27. We talked to Blancmange who are preparing a new, fifth album, S.P.O.C.K and one of the organizers. [more...]

Iceland’s Legend have released a video for their song “Benjamite Bloodline”.

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“Elements of Rage” is the title of the new album, coming this summer, from hard electronic band Tolchock from Sundsvall in Northern Sweden. The rhythmic and danceable “Down in the Hole” it the first single. [more...]