Synthpop duo Erasure has just announced a new album – their 16th – and a new, extensive tour with a stunning total of 59 concerts. [more...]
The Gothenburg synthpop and EBM festival Electronic Summer will host a Depeche Mode covention on August 30, as part of this year’s festival. They have initiated the production of a Depeche Mode fan video documentary with the working title “The Depeche Mode fans of Gothenburg”.
Last year, the vocalist of German EBM band Funker Vogt, Jens Kästel, departed. But this was not the end of Funker Vogt. Mastermind Gerrit Thomas says a new vocalist is hired, although his identity is yet to be revealed. [more...]
Our latest reviews are of the new albums from Little Dragon, Vanguard, Plaid and Vogon Poetry.
Rational Youth and Psyche on German tour
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Synthpop veterans Rational Youth and Psyche just toured Scandinavia together and have just announced a 5-date German tour in October. Rational Youth will also perform an additional show without Psyche.
Details on the 10th Deine Lakaien album
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Deine Lakaien have announced their 10th studio album: “Crystal Palace” (August 8). “Crystal Palace” will hold 10 songs, with an additional 3 on the Special Edition.
Code 64 men Bjørn Marius Borg and Hans-Olof Mattsson have completed the first Xenturion Prime album in their studio Spacebound. “Mecha Rising” is scheduled for June 18. [more...]
Our latest reviews are of the new albums from Front Line Assembly, Kent, Scaremeister (Cevin Key project) and Nimon.
IAMX “live” in your living room
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Chris Corner (IAMX) will perform a worldwide on line concert on May 31. It will be a special acoustic peformance with music from the IAMX debut album “Kiss+Swallow”.
The legendary Chicago industrial, EBM, new wave and punk label Wax Trax! released a whole truckload of classic albums back in its glory days. Bands like Ministry, Front Line Assembly, Cyberaktif, KMFDM, Young Gods, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, and many many more made the label into the premier US industrial label. And now it seems it’s stirring again. Release’s Johan Carlsson interviewed Julia Nash, the daughter of founder Jim Nash who’s running things now. [more...]
