With the best will in the world I would get to Barcelona for my annual trip around all things electronic – the wonderful and enlightening Sonar festival. This year though proved to be very difficult, even for the organisers themselves. Thanks to a double booking of the venue, Sonar was to be one month later than normal, hence the middle of July rather than June. [more...]
Empirion’s “Resume” was our 400th record review in our WordPress system. [more...]
We have updated our Spotify playlist “Releasemagazine.net | New Music”. Check out 11 new additions within the synthpop, EBM, darkwave, post-punk, synthwave and industrial genres from Apoptygma Berzerk, Glass Apple Bonzai, Page, Octolab, Twin Tribes, Sweat Box featuring Nicklas Stenemo from Kite, Sapporo 72, Wingtips, Isidor, Sixth June and Fractions (Zanias remix).
VNV Nation will play a number of smaller sized Christmas-themed concerts in Germany in November and December. [more...]
Peter Murphy (Bauhaus) suffered a heart attack on the evening of August 13 and is hospitalized in NYC. [more...]
ARTE broadcasted several concerts from the German M’era Luna festival live and many of them can be watched on demand for free. [more...]
We have updated our Spotify playlist “Releasemagazine.net | New Music”. Check out 7 new additions from Suicide Commando, Ladytron, Empirion, Hocico, A Spell Inside, Patenbrigade: Wolff, Electric Youth.
“Nein Danke!” is the title of the new EP from Norwegian electropop veterans Apoptygma Berzerk, scheduled for September. [more...]
Die Krupps have announced a full European tour with 19 dates in November and December. In addition to this, they have a few other gigs planned. [more...]
The legendary music film maker DA Pennebaker is dead. For Release readers he was best known as the man behind the classic Depeche Mode film “101″ and Bowie’s “Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars”.