Future pop trio Pride and Fall from Stavanger, Norway, has almost finsihed their fourth album after 2 years in the making. German label Dependent (Front Line Assembly, Covenant) will release “Of Lust and Desire” in August. [more...]
Nivek Ogre has said in a couple of fresh interviews that he has chatted with Bill Leeb on Facebook about a possible joint Skinny Puppy and Front Line Assembly tour. However, nothing has been decided.
Röyksopp’s and Susanne Sundför’s “Ice Machine” cover will get a proper release on June 16. It’s on the Röyksopp-curated installment of “Late Night Tales” alongside new Röyksopp track “Daddy’s Groove” and numerous other tracks like Vangelis’ “Blade Runner Blues”.
A few days ago we wrote about the E-tropolis festival on February 22, 2014, that will move from Berlin to Oberhausen. Today, the first band announcements were made: Die Krupps, Apoptygma Berzek, Hocico, Aesthetic Perfection (pic), Faderhead, Tyske Ludder, Xotox, Chrom and (X)-RX.
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Very close to the festival on May 17-20, Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig lines up new bookings: And One, Paradise Lost, Tyske Ludder, Pankow, Catastrophe Ballet, Solar Fake, Bruderschaft, Aslan Faction and more.
May 24 marks the release of the new album from catchy hard electronics/aggro music project X-Fusion. [more...]
Held over the weekend of June 7-8, London’s famous music venue Brixton Academy will host an electronic music festival – Playground.
Of those announced for the festival already, artists include Squarepusher, Leftfield, Gary Numan (pic), The Orb, UNKLE, Kavinsky, Digitalism, John Foxx and the Maths and Wolgang Flür (ex Kraftwerk).
From what started off as a small celebration for independent music stores in the US in 2007, and the UK later, Record Store Day has turned into a worldwide celebration of the remaining record stores, vinyl and in a larger sense, the independent music scene.
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