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Revolting Cocks album postponed August 13, 2008 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg) After we received the new album by Revolting Cocks, "Sexo Olympico", label Sure Shot Worx said the RevCo management had suddenly postponed the release to February 2009. The private lives of Mr. Maxted August 13, 2008 | By: Peter Marks (Portland, Oregon, USA) Now out via Mordant Music is the debut album entitled "Lives and Privacy 94-89", by an enigma known only as Mr. Maxted. This record is issued on vinyl only and has been described as early Portion Control meets Severed Heads. Having listened to this work, we can easily say it is one of the nicest things to have graced Release's turntable this year (or, any year for that matter). To say that this latest issuance from MM is prescient would be an understatement. Sound samples are available at Mordant Music's site along with purchasing options. New solo album from Alexander Veljanov August 7, 2008 | By: Peter Marks (Portland, Oregon, USA) Deine Lakien's iconic frontman Veljanov (picture in the News piece below this one) will release his third solo album on November 7 preceeding it with a single on October 24. Titles of the single and album are being kept under wraps and plans are for the details to be revealed via Veljanov's Myspace. Previews of some of the new tracks are planned for this site also. Veljanov will perform a special show on October 16 as a launch for the album but no further touring information is available at this time. M'era Luna this weekend August 6, 2008 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg)
With Mono Inc, Lacrimas Profundere, Klimt 1918, Din(a)tod and Reflexion, the line-up for this weekend's M'era Luna festival in Hildesheim (near Hannover) is complete. As usual the two festival days - Saturday and Sunday - will be packed with Release acts; 42 to be exact. Some of the headliners are legendary veterans like DAF, Fields of the Nephilim, Front 242, New Model Army, Christian Death, Legendary Pink Dots and Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. We also have a bunch of dark rockers like Samael, Paradise Lost and Moonspell and hard EBM acts - Hocico, Combichrist and Agonoize, for instance. The electropop crowd can look forward to Apoptygma Berzerk, Mesh and Elegant Machinery. Some of the other live acts are Tanzwut, Ordo Equilibrio, Asp, Unheilig and Saltato Mortis. There are tickets left. Release is going to M'era Luna (Mikael, Lotta, Sören). Adrian White joins Celebutante August 5, 2008 | By: Johan Carlsson (Stockholm, Sweden) Former Front Line Assembly drummer Adrian White has just joined Celebutante, an electro/rock/pop outfit started by a guy named Mitchell Sigman. Adrian will play drums, and you can listen to their entire album here: http://www.celebusite.com/. Furthermore, Adrian is getting a tour with his own project Silent Alarm together for the fall. He's currently in the studio with his singer Louise (coincidentally Celebutantes live synth player) and a producer called Futcher creating more songs. First album by Rex the Dog in one month August 2, 2008 | By: Tobias Eliasson (gothenburg, Sweden)
Originally scheduled for a release in November 2007, the first album from Rex the Dog will finally be out on September 1. The title will be “The Rex the Dog Show” and the label his own Hundehaus Records. The first single will be “I Can See You, Can You See Me?” which will be out on 12” and as a digital download on August 25. We have the album and if you liked the sound of his previous singles, you won’t be disappointed. John Foxx and Blancmange soon re-released August 1, 2008 | By: Tobias Eliasson (gothenburg, Sweden) September 22 we will get a new collection by John Foxx from label Demon/Edsel. “Glimmer: The Best of John Foxx” will be a double-CD with material from his entire career including singles, album tracks, re-works of old Ultravox tracks, new remixes and his ambient “Cathedral Oceans” project. That project is also going to be re-released by the same label in 2009 and 2010. And they don’t stop there, classic synthpop duo Blancmange will have their albums “Happy Families”, “Mange Tout” and “Believe You Me” released in new, fresh versions. The exact date is not set as of now, but it's clear that they will all include the 12” mixes and some B-sides. The band is also said to be working on new material. |
