Kraftwerk take their “The Catalogue 12345678″ 3D live concept to The Netherlands. [more...]

Helen Marnie from Ladytron continues on her solo path. She has left her debut album “Crystal World” behind her and is now working on the 2015 follow-up. The first taste is new single “Wolves”. Listen below. [more...]

Browse Fredrik Wik’s gallery with 66 pictures (some of them with comments) from the unique Kalabalik på Tyrolen festival outside Alvesta, Sweden. Rummelsnuff, Keluar, She Past Away, Popsimonova, Berndsen and Planet were just some of the live acts. Kalabalik på Tyrolen is something of a family gathering with a fine list of small and up-and-coming artists from genres like electropop, darkwave and minimal wave, positively many of them with female members. [more...]

Front Line Assembly have been touring quite a bit lately, and have just announced a bunch of dates in Germany and Poland in the fall. The big news though is that former member Rhys Fulber is back with the band on stage again.

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The 2014 edition of the annual Electronic Summer festival in Gothenburg was sold-out and a success, with a Depeche Mode mini-convention and bands like Aesthetic Perfection (injuries and severe pain did not stop them), Covenant, Assemblage 23, Legend, Client and Pouppée Fabrikk on stage. Take a look at the many festival pics (and read the comments) from Fredrik Wik and Jan-Erik Saarinen in our gallery below. [more...]

A gallery by Fredrik Wik from the concerts with EBM and electronica duo Fixmer/McCarthy and local EBM act Ekobrottsmyndigheten at Musikens Hus in Gothenburg on September 11 2014. [more...]

Vogon Poetry (synthpop band from Sweden) has just released the EP “More Things to Do in Zero Gravity”, including tracks from the album “Don’t Panic” and 2 new pieces. They have also signed with Russian label ScentAir Records. 

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The German DJ duo Blank & Jones have been curating collections with different 80:s bands for many years in their “So80s” series, and now the time has come to release “So80s presents Alphaville” to coincide with them celebrating 30 years since their debut album. [more...]

Daniel Myer (Haujobb, Architect, ex-Covenant) has revealed that he is collaborating with Swedish industrial band Agent Side Grinder. We have previously written about their collaboration with The Klinik vocalist “Go (Bring It) Back”.

Watch the latest video from Tricky below. “Sun Down”, taken from the new album “Adrian Thaws”, features guest vocals from Tirzah and actors Norman Reedus (The Walking Dead) and Mizuo Peck (Night at the Museum).

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