There are not many places I would rather be in the world when it comes to June. So having my accreditation letter in one hand, passport and boarding pass in the other, and two cameras and a notebook in my bag, it was off to the airport and Sonar in Barcelona again.
I looked forward to another good festival, and was open to new experiences, as there seemed to be a huge variety of acts this year – and a lot of new acts I hadn’t really heard of too. So, once I got the formalities out of the way, it was on to the music. [more...]
While the relatively new Covenant recruit Andreas Catjar focuses on the rebirth of his old raw indierock band Souls, Daniel Myer steps in once again, both in the studio and on stage. [more...]
UK electropop outfit Mesh have just released their new video “Kill Your Darlings”. This is the first single from the upcoming album “Looking Skyward”. [more...]
The Peace & Love festival in Borlänge, Sweden, started on July 7. Synthpop duo Kite has cancelled because the organisers “haven’t kept their promises and followed what we agreed upon”. [more...]
Browse our gallery from Bråvallafestivalen, Norrköping, Sweden, with photos of Rammstein, Editors, Nightwish and others by Martin Wilson (Release). [more...]
Progress Productions has just signed harsh, uncompromising industrial project Lucifer’s Aid. The single “Deep Inside” is out today with an album to follow later this year. [more...]
Watch the new video “Concrete”, featuring new vocalist Edith Frances, from electronic Toronto outfit Crystal Castles below. [more...]
Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber have joined forces again as Delerium and have finished a new album called “Mythologie” which comes out on September 23.
Donald Trump inspired The Below to record the single “I’d Like to Punch Him in the Face”, out digitally any day now. This is the first release on the old industrial and synthpop label Accelerating Blue Fish in ages, and as it is distributed via SubSpace Communications, their first product since 2012 (even if it’s a small one). [more...]
Achim Windel from German atmospheric EBM band Placebo Effect has suddenly passed away. [more...]