Browse Fredrik Wik’s gallery with 66 pictures (some of them with comments) from the unique Kalabalik på Tyrolen festival outside Alvesta, Sweden. Rummelsnuff, Keluar, She Past Away, Popsimonova, Berndsen and Planet were just some of the live acts. Kalabalik på Tyrolen is something of a family gathering with a fine list of small and up-and-coming artists from genres like electropop, darkwave and minimal wave, positively many of them with female members. [more...]

Helen Marnie from Ladytron continues on her solo path. She has left her debut album “Crystal World” behind her and is now working on the 2015 follow-up. The first taste is new single “Wolves”. Listen below. [more...]

Kraftwerk take their “The Catalogue 12345678″ 3D live concept to The Netherlands. [more...]

American industrial pop act Aesthetic Perfection was the finale act at the sold-out Electronic Summer festival in Gothenburg last Saturday. They put on an energetic and physical show. What few in the audience realized was that the band was injured. [more...]

The past few days we have reviewed Simi Nah, Blastromen, Daily Planet, Tres and Pelotone (pic above). The 2 latter are the latest releases from Dödsdans Records. Head over to Music reviews.

Sebastian Hess met up with icon Jimmy Somerville backstage at the Rewind Festival in Henley outside London. Jimmy Somerville first became famous in Bronski Beat in the early 80:s, then he went on to start The Communards and has also released several solo albums. In early 2015 his new disco album will be released. [more...]

Mute Records has just signed a worldwide deal with New Order and will release their next album. [more...]

A goth home makeover is the theme for the new commercial from home improvement chain Hornbach. Watch it after the jump. [more...]

The popular Malmö synthpop, EBM and goth festival Electrixmas returns on December 13 2014, after being cancelled last year. [more...]

Release Magazine guest writer Sebastian Hess went to the Rewind Festival in Henley outside London to revel in 80:s pop music and to have a chat with icon Jimmy Somerville. Read about the meeting with Jimmy in an upcoming article.

Rewind Festival has become a big part of the UK festival Summer with 3 huge events attracting over 100 000 people in total. The concept is full on 80:s with bright colours all over and artists who will bring back memories of your youth in a flash. The line-up this year included a lot of artists with their roots in electronic music like Marc Almond, Holly Johnson, A Flock of Seagulls, Thompson Twins (well, Tom Bailey from Thompson Twins at least.) and Jimmy Somerville.

Sebastian put on one pink glove and dove in. [more...]