Stockholm synthpop veterans The Mobile Homes have hooked up with new label Psykbunkern and are back with a new song, “It Used to be Fun”. Watch the video below. [more...]

The first taste from Italian veterans Kirlian Camera’s new album “Hologram Moon” is “Sky Collapse” (listen below). It’s a dramatic, dark but accessible collaboration between Kirlian Camera and Covenant’s Eskil Simonsson. [more...]

Several of the live acts for next year’s E-tropolis festival in Oberhausen (Ruhr, Germany) on March 17 have been announced. [more...]

Felix Flaucher from the bands Silke Bischoff and 18 Summers has died in his home in Ludwigsburg, Germany, after a long illness.

The annual one-day festival for synthpop, EBM and industrial music, electriXmas, in Malmö, Sweden is always successful and appreciated by the audience. Now, the complete line-up for the 2017 fest has been revealed. [more...]

Depeche Mode keep adding dates to their massive “Global Spirit Tour” and the latest announcement was about two Nordic dates. [more...]

Rabid Records will release “Shaking the Habitual: Live at Terminal 5” with The Knife on September 1.

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We update our Scandinavian live guide On Stage on a daily basis. Recent updates include electriXmas, Klubb Död, The Altern80s Club, Saint Etienne, Erasure, Lustans Lakejer, Bodyfest and Modeselektor.

Release had the opportunity to get some time with Edward Ka-Spel to speak about the new Tear Garden album “The Brown Acid Caveat”. They started in 1986, a time when vinyl distribution and print magazines were key to getting your band name out. 30 years later, Ka-Spel and Cevin Key are at it again with their 10th release and its a different world now. For this session, Edward was in London and our writer in Zürich.

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Electronic wizards Mind.in.a.box have worked on their sixth album for two years. Now, “Broken Legacies” is set for an October 13 release. [more...]