Kategoriarkiv: Interviews

Many of new wave’s greatest bands simply couldn’t keep up with the change of the times, and, just like disco acts, many of them simply faded from view by the mid 80:s – or changed their sound. Fast forward 30 years and the 21st century offers a range of new and interestering ”new new wave” …

Fortsätt läsa ”The ”new” new wave: We Are Waves interviewed”

Twentyfour years ago, De/Vision released their debut album “World without End” and the synthpop duo started six years prior. So 2018 they celebrate their 30th anniversary and when they made a stopover in Hamburg on their “Citybeats Tour” Release sat down with Thomas Adam from the band. He talked about their long career and diminishing …

Fortsätt läsa ”Three decades of De/Vision – The dark interview”

We have interviewed Front Line Assembly numerous times but Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber are as busy as always. There’s lots of new stuff to talk about like two FLA albums, a single with Robert Görl, a massive tour, Rhys’ solo album and new Delerium. We sat down with Bill Leeb in Hamburg for a …

Fortsätt läsa ”Welcome to the future – Front Line Assembly interviewed in Hamburg”

We spoke to Paul Hartnoll, one half of the legendary electronica group Orbital. Now they say you should never meet your heroes, but we can tell you that doesn’t apply here. So sit back and follow us through some interesting tales about everything from the new album to Brexit to the 90:s, including a couple …

Fortsätt läsa ”Reaching the highest level – Orbital interviewed”

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 …

Fortsätt läsa ”Lending his skills to the dark stars: Release met Kurt Uenala”

Fourteen years after their debut EP and three albums later, making them household names and ushered a generation of indie kids onto the dancefloor, Digitalism still continues to produce a never-ending stream of electronic club hits. The last three years have even seen a much more focused work ethos by taking control of their career and …

Fortsätt läsa ”Release’s visit to Digitalism’s Hamburg bunker”

The sheer number of acts arising on the German goth rock scene is almost unrivaled and the scene is fraught with competition between a never-ending stream of new bands entering the scene. To stand out is quite a challenge. One of these bands that recently have started to catch some attention in Germany is far …

Fortsätt läsa ”Standing out in the dark crowd – Release sat down with Florian Grey”

Two releases into their career, Stockholm’s post-punk and darkwave outfit A Projection have provided listeners with a widely-varying palette from which to draw. After being signed by Hamburg based Tapete Records even before there was a full band setup, A Projection have seen a massive increase in popularity and already played the major festivals on …

Fortsätt läsa ”Post-punk and darkwave for a new age – A Projection interviewed”

1981 was a remarkable synthpop year with releases like Depeche Mode’s ”Speak and Spell”, Soft Cell’s “Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret” and The Human League’s “Dare”. And then we have Midge Ure’s Ultravox, with the classic single ”Vienna” (taken from the 1980 album with the same name) and the album ”Rage in Eden”. Release’s Fredrik ”Schlatta” Wik …

Fortsätt läsa ”How to make a career last for half a century – Midge Ure interviewed”

Only a year and a half year after their critically acclaimed album ”Nyctophilian”, Stcokholm post-punk/goth rock four-piece Then Comes Silence released their fourth album ”Blood”. It came out in October 2017 on Nuclear Blast, thus they changed label from Gotland based Novoton. Extending the ”Blood” tour into 2018, Then Comes Silence returned to Hamburg supporting …

Fortsätt läsa ”Where post-punk meets goth rock: Then Comes Silence interviewed”