Head over to Music Reviews for or latest reviews of Gesaffelstein, Moderat, Page, Goldfrapp and Nine Inch Nails. Reviews in progress include VNV Nation, Syrian and Die Krupps.

Bloc, the festival that went back to basics with its warehouse parties near the Olympic Park in London, is back for more of the same. [more...]

London venues will host a week-long festival of events to celebrate the electronic music of Belgium this month, starting this weekend. [more...]

Rammstein frontman Till Lindemann published his second poetry collection yesterday. The debut was called “Messer” and the new 160-page book is called “In stillen Nächten”.

[more...]

The New Dress featuring Johan Kinde (Lustans Lakejer), Mårten Kellerman (Statemachine), Emma Nylén (Emmon, Paris) and Annika Mellin (Paris) will perform “Songs of Faith and Devotion” live, in full, in the All Saints Church in Stockholm on October 25. [more...]

The new release dates for VNV Nation’s “Transnational” album are: October 11 (Europe), 18 (vinyl) and November 19 (North America).

The next Pet Shop Boys single will be “Thursday”, featuring rapper Example (November 4).

Watch the video, shot in Shanghai below. [more...]

And One mastermind Steve Naghavi broke one of his legs on September 24 and is currently hospitalized. The first 4 concerts of the new German tour have been moved to March and April 2014 and more might follow if Steve’s does not recover fast.

Click here to listen to Moby’s new album which is called “Innocents” (just like the classic Erasure album obviously). It’s out next week. Click the more-link to see the rather scary (for Moby) cover. [more...]

New York label Minimal Wave will reissue “Irene & Mavis” on November 5. This is the 1980 debut EP from UK veterans Blancmange, recorded in 1979. The EP is remastered and will come as a limited edition 10″.