Kalabalik på Tyrolen will return for the ninth time on August 23-24. As usual, the Swedish festival for DIY synth, wave and post-punk doesn’t care much for headliners and line up mostly unknown, but interesting names. [more...]

Let’s catch up with the Twice a Man camp. They’re as busy as ever and they have even restarted their old label Xenophone. [more...]

Check out our Spotify playlist “Releasemagazine.net | New Music”. New tracks will be added at least on a weekly basis. [more...]

Revolver Magazine asked their readers what is the greatest industrial (not EBM) band of all time. Here is the result. [more...]

The synthpop pioneers OMD have just announced the European leg of their new “Souvenir – OMD 40 Years Tour”. [more...]

Don’t miss our latest reviews of Ladytron, OHMelectronic, Acretongue and Front Line Assembly. Head over to our review section. Read more about our reviews after the jump. [more...]

Two members of Priest have left the band, including the vocalist. But main member Salt says his synthpop band will carry on. Read more, learn who is who and watch the brand new video “Obey” below. [more...]

Extreme EBM and BDSM-influenced band Hatari, which we have written about before, surprisingly won Söngvakeppnin last weekend. [more...]

Weekly episodes called “TRANSMISSIONS” will start on New Order’s YouTube channel from this Thursday (7th March), telling the story of their debut album “Movement”. [more...]

Ronan Harris is on the crest of the electronic music wave with his tenth VNV Nation studio album “Noire”, released in October last year on his own label. The combination of danceable beats, synthpop, EBM and atmospheric pieces of classical music telling stories of grandeur have contributed to the legendary status VNV Nation righteously can claim after staying at the top of the electronic scene for more than twenty years.

Much has changed since former album “Transnational”; Mark Jackson left in 2017 and at present VNV Nation is touring the world as a four-piece. In between the first and second leg of this world tour, we sat down with Ronan Harris in his hometown Hamburg to have an interesting chat about “Noire”, the surreal video experience in Tokyo and creative control. We learned that he has made six albums outside VNV Nation, that he hates the word futurepop and a lot more. We also took some photos, at the interview and at the concert.

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