Today Jean Michel Jarre announced a new album: “Oxygene 3″. The December 2 release marks the 40th anniversary of the first “Oxygene” album, an electronic music milestone. [more...]

According to this Ticketmaster page, Depeche Mode is holding a special event in Milan on October 11 for media, invited guests and fans. Those not attending will be able to follow the event on depechemode.com. [more...]

A short but relevant News message: We just want you to know there’s a countdown over at depechemode.com…

Don’t miss our Scandinavian live guide On Stage, with up-to-date tour, club and festival dates. Recent additions: Youth Code, electriXmas (line-up complete), Elegant Machinery, Lustans Lakejer, Midge Ure, Spark! and Stigma – new club in Stockholm. The rest of Releasemagazine.net is international and not just about Scandinavia.

Today, industrial dance veterans Meat Beat Manifesto will be participating in the nostalgic Coldwaves music festival being hosted at the venue Metro in Chicago. It will be the first show in over 5 years for MBM members Jack Dangers and Benjamin Stokes. [more...]

Release writer Sebastian Hess went to the outskirts of the tiniest village outside a tiny town in the south of Sweden to find coziness enough to last a lifetime. Read his report on the underground electronic music festival Kalabalik på Tyrolen here. [more...]

Don’t miss our latest reviews. We have examined albums by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Rome, Haus am Rand, Pride and Fall and Mesh.

Bill Leeb’s and Rhys Fulber’s resume is indisputable, with a whole bunch of both seminal and successful albums under their belt. After some adventures apart, they recently joined forces again to make a new Delerium album. “Mythologie” is a darker, and in many ways more modern sounding album than previous efforts, and I thought it would be interesting to ask Bill some questions to get the skinny on how “Mythologie” got made.

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Below, you can watch a short clip from the Covenant studio in Helsingborg, where Eskil Simonsson and Joakim Montelius talk about their latest single “Sound Mirror”. [more...]

Nathan Cooper aka Kid Kasio has a new video out, and you can watch it after the jump.

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