Visage frontman and new romantic icon Steve Strange (Steven Harrington) has died at the age of 55. He experienced a heart attack in a hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. [more...]

Don’t miss our Playlist with new music recommendations by Release Magazine. New additions include the new albums by Susanne Sundfør: “Ten Love Songs”, Mind.in.a.box: “Memories”, Marsheaux: “A Broken Frame” and Karin Park: “Apocalypse Pop”. [more...]

Swedish pop band Saft reunites for a concert in Stockholm on May 9. [more...]

Don’t miss And One’s new video for the song “Unter meiner Uniform” (watch below), taken from the album “Magnet”. [more...]

“Digital Citizens” is the title of Autodafeh’s new single (February 27) and album (March 27). [more...]

Tonight, the annual Manifest Awards for Swedish independent music were held in Stockholm. Wulfband won the “synth” category. They did not attend but sent a video greeting.

The new video for “Shine” from German synthpop trio Camouflage was released today. It’s Camouflage in good form delivering strong and shameless stadium synthpop. Watch it below. “Greyscale” album review in progress. [more...]

It’s been 25 years since Depeche Mode’s masterpiece “Enjoy the Silence”. Many of us will never forget when it made its debut on Peter’s Pop Show 1989. Goose bumps. Watch the clip below. [more...]

Ten years after the latest album from Swedish synthpop trio Blipp, “Eko” will be released physically and digitally on February 17. Blipp was called Poetica Grotesque 1990-1992 and were covered in Release back then. Recently Dödsdans Records released a LP and Poetica Grotesque performed live in Stockholm. [more...]

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