Throughout 2012 Swedish TV viewers have be able to watch 10 half hour long shows filled with music videos, background stories and new interviews with 80:s stars. Now EMI in collaboration with SVT have put together a 3 CD and digital compilation with most of the hits from the TV show. [more...]

Today, Electronic Winter in Gothenburg announced that US synthpop band Iris has been added to the January 12 festival line-up. [more...]

Trent Reznor just posted on his Facebook that we can expect a lot of new material from his camp in the upcoming months. [more...]

Electronic Summer in Gothenburg on August 31-September 1 was a great success. After all the cheers and hurrays, the organisers Depeche Mode Party have already made plans for an Electronic Winter festival (and loosely another Electronic Summer festival 2013). [more...]

Vince Clarke has helped Norwegian artist Ane Brun to cover Depeche Mode’s “Fly on the Windscreen”. [more...]

Release spoke to Thomas Wydler, drummer of the Bad Seeds, during Mick Harvey’s concert at Stora Teatern in Gothenburg, Sweden on September 18 and he confirmed that the recording of a new Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album was now completed. [more...]

Julian & Marina is a new Swedish synthpop project, consisting of Marina Schiptjenko and Julian Brandt. [more...]

If you go to Dependent Records on Soundcloud you can check out 2 clips from the upcoming “Airmech” video game soundtrack by Front Line Assembly.
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The German futurepop/synth band Neuroticfish have been laying dormant since 2005, when their last album “Gelb” was released. Lately there have been rumblings of a return, and now suddenly we have an album title. [more...]

The vinyl only label Minimal Maximal has manufactured a The Neon Judgement live LP. The hand-numbered (520 copies) 180g vinyl “We Never Said You’re No Good” contains the complete live recording of a live broadcast from 1984 and 2 rare tracks. [more...]