The legendary music film maker DA Pennebaker is dead. For Release readers he was best known as the man behind the classic Depeche Mode film “101″ and Bowie’s “Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars”.

We have updated our Spotify playlist “Releasemagazine.net | New Music”. Check out 7 new additions The New Division, Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio, Gutenberg + 4.

LA’s John Kunkel is preparing his next New Division album “Hidden Memories” (Division 87, Progress) and the first single “Fascination” is out now. It’s a laidback electropop tune touching the side effects of being on the road in the US. [more...]

The annual electriXmas one-day fest in Malmö, Sweden, has booked all acts but one. [more...]

After The Cure’s bass player Simon Gallup was unable to perform live at the Japanese Fuji Festival, last weekend, his son Eden took his place. [more...]

We have added new dates for Nitzer Ebb, Rein and Hatari as well as additions to the electriXmas and Kalabalik på Tyrolen festivals. There’s also a new event called Quad with Iris, Page and others in Gothenburg. Check out these and more in or Nordic live guide On Stage (the rest of the magazine is global).

Front Line Assembly’s Rhys Fulber has kept himself busy, and is already getting ready to release his second solo album under his own name.

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Ex-Kraftwerk member Wolfgang Flür recently celebrated his birthday, and put up a post on social media where he announced he’s working on a new album.

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Hatari have announced 18 “Europe Will Crumble” dates in January-April 2020. [more...]

Michael Arthur Holloway from Dead When I Found Her has been twiddling away on a side project called TV HWY.

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