Don’t book that Winter trip to the sun yet; you might want to spend your vacation in Düsseldorf. Kraftwerk will play an 8-night residency at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Museum in their hometown on January 11-13 and 16-20. [more...]

Major Records will finally deliver the Nitzer Ebb DVD “Live at Markthalle Hamburg” now in November. [more...]

Helen Marnie from Ladytron has launched her solo career. Her Pledgemusic campaign for her debut (title tba) is still running (at 133% now) and the album produced by Ladytron’s Daniel Hunt is expected in March. [more...]

The new Hocico single “Vile Whispers” was released yesterday and the new album “El Último Minuto (Antes de que Tu Mundo Caiga)” lands on December 7. [more...]

Recoil are on an extensive screening event tour for the new Bluray “A Strange Hour in Budapest”, as you have probably noticed. New dates and also additional screenings on the same date (for instance, there will be 3 screenings in Stockholm on the very same day) have been added. [more...]

Sparks, brothers Ron and Russell Mael, have released 22 albums during the last 40 years. They have always been lurking in my record collection but I have never had the chance to see them live. Until now that is. [more...]

Brian Eno and collborator Peter Chilvers of Generative Music just released an interesting music creation app for the iPad: “Scape”. [more...]

Halloween is usually a time for costumes, candy – and not always very good music. If you’re in London on October 27 check this out. The famous festival Bestival have announced a Halloween spectacular in London on Saturday with acts such as DJ Zinc in attendance, and rave legends Shades of Rhythm playing live.

As expected, Depeche Mode announced their new European tour today on a press conference in Paris. [more...]

From the EIS (Erasure Information Service) newsletter we learn that Erasure will start recording a brand new album in November. No more information regarding a release date or forthcoming tour is announced yet.