Depeche Mode’s successful ”Global Spirit Tour” has come to and end. As previosuly reported, the grand finale is made up of two concerts at Berlin’s Waldbühne, together with DAF – on July 23 (see pics below) and 25. We can also reveal that Anton Corbijn’s film company is at the site, filming with multiple cameras. [more...]

Check out the autumn’s and winter’s live, festival and club dates in our Nordic guide On Stage (in all other sections we cover the whole world though).

If you like your electro fast, pulsating and full of vocoders and bleeps, you could do a lot worse than checking out the newly released album by Blastromen.

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Back in 1990 the stars aligned and Bill Leeb from Front Line Assembly, and Dwayne Goettel and Cevin Key from Skinny Puppy joined forces to create the one-off project Cyberaktif. They released two singles and the album “Tenebrae Vision”. Now Artoffact is re-releasing it on double CD, digitally remastered.

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Disappointing main acts but great shows by up-and-coming bands, lovely interviews with bands as Mogwai, jam sessions, sore feet, sauna-hot weather, amazing Roskilde volunteers, and dust, lots of D.U.S.T. – that’s what my 27th Roskilde Festival was about.

The profile has changed over the years. In the nineties you could see Release bands like Front 242, Front Line Assembly, Covenant and Apoptygma Berzerk, but the last ten years have seen a shift in musical direction with more focus on bands and artists appealing to the younger generations. Still, we had Chelsea Wolfe, Massive Attack, Mogwai, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Myrkur, Four Tet and above all Nine Inch Nails. [more...]

Sonar is probably the most famous electronic music festival in the world, it also is one of the most eclectic – bringing together all kinds of disciplines of music and styles under the umbrella of what is described as “Music, Creativity & Technology”. Sonar by Day tends to follow this ethos more closely than the nightclubby feel of Sonar by Night, and interestingly this year (the 25th anniversary of Sonar) the focus was even more varied than ever. So sit tight as I take you on a world tour of electronic music via Sonar by Day. [more...]

Amphi Festival is soon upon us for its 14th edition, at Tanzbrunnen in the center of the fair area in Cologne. They invite fans and supporters of the dark scenes to a massive “family gathering” on the flood banks of the river Rhine. [more...]

Dark synthpop/goth/postpunk icon Henric de la Cour will release a new album in the autumn. It’s called ”Gimme Daggers” and will be out on Progress Productions.

Don’t miss our Playlist with new music recommendations, listed in the menu under Features.

Ex-Sneaker Pimps singer Chris Corner’s alter-ego IAMX is back with his dark electronic fusion of music genres. After releasing his eighth album “Alive in a New Light”, Chris is hopeful after some dark years and his personal battle against clinical depression and chronic insomnia. Release met up with the brainchild of IAMX before his show in Hamburg and had a chat about being difficult to work with, a brighter future and having ”a Skinny Puppy”, Cevin Key, to look after his puppy while being on tour. [more...]