The new comeback single with synthpop band Thermostatic, “Animal”, that we told you about a while ago is out now in digital form (iTunes, Bandcamp, Spotify etc).
Robots playing on new Squarepusher EP
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Squarepusher is set to return with a new 5-track EP “Music for Robots” on April 7. The EP will be the results of a project in which Squarepusher composed for a specially created team of robots, the Z-Machines, along with other selected composers.
Founding Devo member Bob Casale has died at age 61. Alan Myers, drummer, died of brain cancer last year at age 58.
Tom Shear is the man behind Assemblage 23, and last year he did a crowdfunding drive for a new side project where he could let out his EBM tendencies. [more...]
FLA + Sneaker Pimps = true
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We can finally reveal the contents of the Front Line Assembly remix album we first reported about last spring. It’s grown a bit since then and now features two new songs (“Contagion” and “Next War”) co-written by Ian Pickering from Sneaker Pimps (!) and a big bunch of remixes by a pretty awesome lineup of remixers. [more...]
Korg Inc. just announced their development of a “faithful recreation” of the legendary analog synth ARP Odyssey. This cult item from the seventies is definitely one of the key sound sources for many of the Release Magazine artists.
Don’t miss our latest reviews – of the latest new albums from Gabi Delgado, The Sound of the Crowd and Seabound.
Scottish synthpop trio Chvrches has put out a new video: “Recover (Travelogue)”, featuring clips from their current tour (concerts, travelling, interviews, TV shows like David Letterman etc). Watch it below. [more...]
May 12 should see the return of Swedish pop slash electronica slash new wave slash r’n'b quartet Little Dragon with their 4th studio album, to be called “Nabuma Rubberband”. The US release date is May 13, via Loma Vista Recording. [more...]
Spoken-word poet and novelist Maggie Estep died on Wednesday. She had a heart attack two days before and was just 50.
Estep was known to many Release readers for recording the songs “Luscious Apparatus” and “Control Freak” for Alan Wilder’s Recoil album “Unsound Methods” and some have also heard her spoken word albums.
