Depeche Mode keep adding dates to their massive “Global Spirit Tour” and the latest announcement was about two Nordic dates. [more...]

Rabid Records will release “Shaking the Habitual: Live at Terminal 5” with The Knife on September 1.

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We update our Scandinavian live guide On Stage on a daily basis. Recent updates include electriXmas, Klubb Död, The Altern80s Club, Saint Etienne, Erasure, Lustans Lakejer, Bodyfest and Modeselektor.

Release had the opportunity to get some time with Edward Ka-Spel to speak about the new Tear Garden album “The Brown Acid Caveat”. They started in 1986, a time when vinyl distribution and print magazines were key to getting your band name out. 30 years later, Ka-Spel and Cevin Key are at it again with their 10th release and its a different world now. For this session, Edward was in London and our writer in Zürich.

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Electronic wizards Mind.in.a.box have worked on their sixth album for two years. Now, “Broken Legacies” is set for an October 13 release. [more...]

Two rare tracks from experimental/industrial band Coil will be released on vinyl in late September. [more...]

In one of the strangest-but-true news stories for a while, it appears electronica band LCD Soundsystem are indeed previewing their new album “American Dream” from an ice cream truck. [more...]

This year’s Bodyfest at Nalen in Stockholm will take place on October 7. [more...]

The August issue of the German magazine Musikexpress includes a Kraftwerk 7″ with a radio edit of “Die Roboter”. [more...]

The Gothenburg synthpop trio Vogon Poetry has just released their first single, the uptempo song “The Heart of Gold”, from their third album “Life, the Universe and Everything”. [more...]