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Arvika and M'era Luna line-ups complete Jun 13 2007 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden) We were hoping for a big headliner in the last artist release from Arvika but we get... 69 Eyes. The line-up is now complete. This year's fest have many interesting small and medium sized acts (like I AM X and Portion Control) but for the biggest stage Vintergatan, the organisers have spent their money mostly on bands of lesser interest for the Release readers. As usual, a bunch from the Release staff will pack their bags and go. See On Stage. Germany's M'era Luna also completed their line-up today, with Emelie Autumn. Lowe remixed by Elegant Machinery and Iris Jun 13 2007 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Stockholm trio Lowe, known for their elegant modern synthpop, are laying the final touches on their second album "Kino International", scheduled for October. First however, they will deliver a 21 track 2CD in a limited edition digipak called "Tenant Remixed". It's out in one week and contains remixes of songs from their debut "Tenant" and previously unreleased tracks. Among the remixers we note Elegant Machinery, Iris, Håkan Lidbo, Colony 5, People Theatre and a couple of Russian acts. 
New Garbage single, compilation and DVD in July Jun 10 2007 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
A DVD will be released as well, offering 15 videos, interviews, backstage footage, and live performances. The tracks on the album are: 1. "Vow" 2. "Queer" 3. "Only Happy When It Rains" 4. "Stupid Girl" 5. "Milk" 6. "#1 Crush" 7. "Push It" 8. "I Think I'm Paranoid" 9. "Special" 10. "When I Grow up" 11. "You Look So Fine" 12. "The World Is Not Enough" 13. "Cherry Lips" 14. "Shut Your Mouth" 15. "Why Do You Love Me" 16. "Bleed Like Me" 17. "Tell Me Where It Hurts" 18. "It's All Over But The Crying (remix)". Roskilde Festival sold out Jun 5 2007 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Denmark's proud Roskilde Festival reports that all tickets have been sold to this year's event on July 5-8. 75 000 people are expected to show up to see live acts Björk, Muse, Beastie Boys, LCD Soundsystem, Tïesto, The Killers, In Flames, Trentemøller, Basement Jaxx, Datarock, My Chemical Romance, Jeans Team and many more. Further Vault exploration from Subconscious Jun 1 2007 | By: Peter Marks (Portland, Oregon) "Back and Forth Vol.7" and "Kushbush/Music for Grassbars" (Subconscious Studios) are now out and selling quite rapidly. This new installment of the Back and Forth series features an entire disc's worth of outtakes and demo recordings from the chaotic "Last Rights" and "The Process" eras of Skinny Puppy. Fans will be pleased to know that an alternate version of the song "Candle" is included on this album and Decree fans will no doubt sit up and take notice of some Mr. Goettel's work which appears here and was included on Decree's debut album "Wake of Devastation". "Kushbush" is an entirely new album recorded this year by Cevin Key and Phil Western. It is the first new work by Plateau since the last Vault-only release "Iceolator". Wheras Download's "Fixer" was a lush exercise in melodic dissonance, "Kushbush" is a much more minimal affair that will have IDM/glitch fans scratching their heads in wonderment. "Music for Grass Bars", the debut album from Plateau has been enhanced with the addition of the band's "Dutch Flowers" EP which has long been out of print. "Music for Grass Bars" confounded both the fans and critics upon its original release back in 1997 and will no doubt continue to do so. These two releases complete the latest Vault subscription series which also included new work from The Tear Garden and for some reason or other more unreleased mayhem from Key's guilty pleasure: Hilt. |
New Garbage single "Tell Me Where It Hurts" 
