Independent international alternative music web magazine based in Gothenburg, Sweden
40 years after their self-titled debut album Duran Duran is still going strong with their 15th studio album ”Future Past” (October 22, 2021). The new album features collaborations with artists as diverse as Swedish pop star Tove Lo, Blur guitarist Graham Coxon and Japanese punk band CHAI. Erol Alkan and the legendary Giorgio Moroder helped out …
Fortsätt läsa ”Duran Duran interviewed – harmonic friends in turbulent times”
Release writer Sebastian Hess talked to Adam Anderson, one half of Hurts, about their 5th album ”Faith”, partly recorded in Release hometown Gothenburg, struggling like Depeche Mode and the fact that singer Theo spent the first two weeks of lockdown in the company of only an octopus named Arnold. Singer Theo Hutchcraft has said that …
Fortsätt läsa ”New songs about faith and emotions – Hurts interviewed”
In 2015 Sebastian Hess and Henrik Wittgren from Release interviewed Nicola Sirkis in Stockholm, which resulted in our ”Indochine – The Swedish Connection” feature. In 2021 Indochine will celebrate 40 years as a band and we got the opportunity to talk to Nicola again. We also talked to Swedish drummer Ludwig Dahlberg to hear how he …
Release writer Sebastian Hess got to experience a rare live show during the Corona pandemic. Niklas Karlsson, who uses Niels Gordon as his artist persona, is a passionate fan of electronic music and the machines that you use to make it. To celebrate the release of his new album ”Land”, a live show in Gothenburg was …
Fortsätt läsa ”Niels Gordon – Sjövik, Sweden – May 15 2020 – report”
Do you know the connection between actor Hugh Grant and Depeche Mode? Do you know the reason 10 000 people with tickets turned up to a 3 000 capacity show with Depeche Mode in Sweden in 1984? If you know the answers, you are either a walking Depeche Mode encyclopedia. Or maybe you’ve just read …
Fortsätt läsa ”Interview with the authour of the ”Depeche Mode i Sverige” book”
Release writer Sebastian Hess went to the outskirts of the tiniest village outside a tiny town in the south of Sweden to find coziness enough to last a lifetime. Read his report on the underground electronic music festival Kalabalik på Tyrolen here.
Photo by: Sebastian Hess (Release) Release writer Sebastian Hess went to a ”hipster” festival to try to find some synthpop. He made it out alive with at least a few findings and feeling somewhat confused – but mostly just very privileged.
EBM tracks are known to be very direct and usually between 3 and 4 minutes long. Release writer Sebastian Hess decided to ambush Mattias Ziessow from Spark! for an interview as short as a track. The interview clocked in at 3 minutes and 40 seconds.
Swedish artist, remixer and producer Krister ”Krycko” Petersson has passed away at the age of 41. He was one half of synthpop/ italo disco act Vision Talk and over the years he had several other projects like Chinese Theatre, Vz Vintage Project and SwedIT.
Release writer Sebastian Hess jumped on the train from Gothenburg to Stockholm to catch IAMX live. This is his report together with photos by Martin Wilson.