Do you know the connection between actor Hugh Grant and Depeche Mode? Do you know the reason 10 000 people with tickets turned up to a 3 000 capacity show with Depeche Mode in Sweden in 1984? If you know the answers, you are either a walking Depeche Mode encyclopedia. Or maybe you’ve just read Martin Sernestrand’s new book “Depeche Mode i Sverige 1982-2016″. Release writer Sebastian Hess has read the book and talked to the author. [more...]

This week, Swedish synthpop duo Daily Planet released the new single and video “Set Me Free”. Watch the video below. [more...]

Rome is returning to the Nordic countries in December for a 5-date tour with a full line-up. Evi Vine is the support act. [more...]

Watch the new mashup video for “The Void” below, taken from the IAMX mini album “Everything Is Burning (Metanoia Addendum)”.  [more...]

Browse our photo gallery from The Cure’s concert in Stockholm on October 9, 2016. [more...]

Vince Clarke recently started his own label VeryRecords. The first release was his own collaboration “2Square” with Paul Hartnoll from Orbital, and now the second release is out.

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The new Depeche Mode album is called “Spirit” and will released in the spring. The “Global Spirit Tour” starts in Stockholm on May 5.  [more...]

Kevin Haskins has endured the legacy of the late 70:s band Bauhaus as its drummer and now archivist and autobiographer. Bauhaus is a quartet that needs no introduction and Haskins pursued collecting and curating a self-published “Bauhaus Undead” book. [more...]

Photo gallery by Jonas Carlson Almqvist (Release) from Elegant Machinery’s gig in Stockholm on October 7. [more...]

Many readers didn’t even the original release of Deutsche Bank’s high quality, Kraftwerk-esque album “Autopop” back in 2013. On November 10 we’re served a German deluxe re-release, remastered and with remixes of each track on top of the original track list. [more...]