The New Dress featuring Johan Kinde (Lustans Lakejer), Mårten Kellerman (Statemachine), Emma Nylén (Emmon, Paris) and Annika Mellin (Paris) will perform “Songs of Faith and Devotion” live, in full, in the All Saints Church in Stockholm on October 25. [more...]

The new release dates for VNV Nation’s “Transnational” album are: October 11 (Europe), 18 (vinyl) and November 19 (North America).

The next Pet Shop Boys single will be “Thursday”, featuring rapper Example (November 4).

Watch the video, shot in Shanghai below. [more...]

And One mastermind Steve Naghavi broke one of his legs on September 24 and is currently hospitalized. The first 4 concerts of the new German tour have been moved to March and April 2014 and more might follow if Steve’s does not recover fast.

Click here to listen to Moby’s new album which is called “Innocents” (just like the classic Erasure album obviously). It’s out next week. Click the more-link to see the rather scary (for Moby) cover. [more...]

New York label Minimal Wave will reissue “Irene & Mavis” on November 5. This is the 1980 debut EP from UK veterans Blancmange, recorded in 1979. The EP is remastered and will come as a limited edition 10″.

VNV Nation has just published a Soundcloud “Transnational” preview (link below), after giving away the song “Retaliate” the other day (also below). The release date is October 4 in Europe. A US release date has yet to be announced. Review in progress. [more...]

Electronic Summer took place August 29-31 in Gothenburg with bands like DAF, Tyske Ludder, Apoptygma Berzerk, S.P.O.C.K and Spark! on stage. Most bands exceeded the expectations and the festival as a whole a great success. As a media partner for Electronic Summer, we asked co-organiser Sebastian Hess a few questions afterwards. We also give you some live pics from our photographers. [more...]

Sonar just announced that Stockholm will be added to its list of festival cities. The venue will be Münchenbryggeriet, previously home of EBM festival Tinitus where Front 242, Klinik, And One and many more have performed. The dates are February 14-15.

The first DVD from German industrial and dark pop act In Strict Confidence is out now. “Panorama” holds 14 clips including “Morpheus”, “Tiefer”, “Engelstaub”, “Forbidden Fruit” and unreleased videos. Visual imagery and videos have always been a priority for the band. Watch the video trailer below. [more...]