The Best of 2018 list from Johan Carlsson, Release Magazine.
Our year lists are here
Starting today, we will post Best of 2018 lists from the Release staff. Fortsätt läsa ”Our year lists are here”
Exclusive premiere: the new video from My God Damn Territory
We host the January 1 premiere of the new video from Stockholm synth/indiepop duo My God Damn Territory: ”Get Undressed”. It’s taken from the album ”Kajser und Marit”, produced by Eddie Bengtsson (Page). Fortsätt läsa ”Exclusive premiere: the new video from My God Damn Territory”
Check out our Playlist
Check out our Playlist section, where we add new recommended music. It’s positioned under Features. Neuroticfish, Agent Side Grinder (pic), Grimes, Zanias, Spark! and Radioaktivists are some of the latest additions.
Three days of industrial, EBM, synthpop and dark metal
The line-up for the annual Out of Line Weekender festival is complete and the 2019 edition will see a slightly bigger musical palette. Fortsätt läsa ”Three days of industrial, EBM, synthpop and dark metal”
The ”new” new wave: We Are Waves interviewed
Many of new wave’s greatest bands simply couldn’t keep up with the change of the times, and, just like disco acts, many of them simply faded from view by the mid 80:s – or changed their sound. Fast forward 30 years and the 21st century offers a range of new and interestering ”new new wave” bands foiled in bits and pieces of post-punk, electronic dance music and synthpop chords.
However, rather than turning to the UK, the major new wave country in the 1980:s, one of the more interesting new acts has its origin in Italy. Release sat down in Hamburg with Turin based four-piece We Are Waves, who recently released their third album, ”HOLD”, filled with flanger effects, lots of treble and mid frequencies, and chorus pedaled bass lines, bringing back memories of the early 1980:s. But their not after nostalgia, instead they want to make a fresh take inspired from the heroes of old like The Cure, Joy Division and Killing Joke and new music like Editors, Gesaffelstein and Moderat. Fortsätt läsa ”The ”new” new wave: We Are Waves interviewed”
1/4 Dark Tranquility + 1/3 Universal Poplab = Kennelklubben
Martin Brändström from famous metal band Dark Tranquility and Christer Lundberg from synthpop trio Universal Poplab will now release their debut album as Kennelklubben – 30 years after they founded their band. Fortsätt läsa ”1/4 Dark Tranquility + 1/3 Universal Poplab = Kennelklubben”
E-tropolis 2019 line-up complete
All the live acts for next year’s E-tropolis festival in Oberhausen (Ruhr, Germany) on March 16 have been announced. Fortsätt läsa ”E-tropolis 2019 line-up complete”
Download enters an ”Unknown Room”
Cevin Key has a lot of different projects, but the biggest ones are probably Skinny Puppy and Download. The latter has finally finished a new album, due out next year.
Bleep x hits London with a wide range of electronic music
Electronic music store Bleep has, for the month of December (and partly into January), set up a pop up store in East London. Located only metres away from Dalston Junction station, the store is the physical embodiment of what could be found online via Warp Records site since the 1990:s. Fortsätt läsa ”Bleep x hits London with a wide range of electronic music”