Författararkiv: Mikael Kahrle

Funker Vogt frontman Jens Kästel has announced that the concert in Berlin on November 30 will be his last.

Two legendary bands – Sparks and Telex – met at a Marc Moulin tribute evening yesterday in Brussels. Sparks performed the Telex cover ”Tell Me It’s a Dream”, written by Marc Moulin, and ”This Town Ain’t Big Enough for Both of Us”.

Nine Inch Nails have just announed a 25-date tour of Europe in May and June 2014, supported by Cold Cave. Full tour schedule below and we have added the Scandinavian dates to the On Stage section.

After the cancellation of the ElectriXmas festival in Malmö, Sweden, another organiser (Neostalgia/Babel) has put together an new festival: Electric Lucia in the same city on the same dates.

Skinny Puppy just released the video for the track ”illisiT”. It is directed by Jason Alacrity and taken from the album ”Weapon”.

As expected, Covenant will release the popular ”Leaving Babylon” song ”Ignorance & Bliss” as a single. It will be a limited edition affair with some high profile remixes in March. ”Ignorance & Bliss” is actually an 8 year old song that did not make it to the ”Skyshaper” album in the form it had then.

Critically acclaimed German dark electronic duo Seabound came to a halt when member Martin Vorbrodt moved to the USA 5 years ago. A couple of years ago Martin Vorbrodt and Frank Spinath started working on new songs over the Internet and anyday now, the new Seaboundalbum ”Speak in Storms” will be finished.

Watch the new video for ”Lies” from Scottish synthpop trio Chvrches. ”Lies” is orginally from 2012 but also on the stunning debut album ”The Bones of What You Believe”, out since September.

UK synthpoppers Client took a long break after Sarah Blackwood left the band about 3 years ago (she is back in her old band Dubstar by the way). Now mastermind Kate Holmes has recruited new skilled vocalist Client N (Nicole) from Bristol.

The annual ElectriXmas festival in Malmö, Sweden, in December has been cancelled. The team behind the festival say they did not want to go ahead with the event when the venue Inkonst lost its alcohol license.