Subkult (Trollhättan, Sweden) is the latest festival to cancel and point the visitors to 2021 instead – they announced this today. The majority of all summer festivals are cancelled due to the corona pandemic but some, like Leipzig’s huge Wave Gotik Treffen apparently hasn’t given up yet. [more...]
We have updated our Spotify playlist with new tracks from Youth Code, synthpop pioneers White Door, Squarepusher, Kelly Lee Owens, Die Krupps/Jyrki 69 covering Neon Judgement’s “Chinese Black”, Porn remixed by Combichrist and the post-punk band Jupe Jupe.
The past few weeks we have reviewed The White Door, Pouppée Fabrikk, Squarepusher (EP), The Orb, Octolab, The Birthday Massacre and Roya. Head over to Music reviews.
Karin Dreijer (The Knife, Fever Ray) has been inducted into the Swedish Music Hall of Fame. [more...]
Julian Brandt has a prolific musical past as a solo artist and in pop bands like Bobby and Lustans Lakejer and Marina Schiptjenko hardly needs an introduction as her contribution to the synthpop scene has been evident since the early eighties. As Julian & Marina the two have created lush electropop with bossanova influences for almost ten years now. We had a brief chat with Julian in connection to their new album “For Beautiful People Only” about their sound, a new Lustans Lakejer album and a possible Bobby reunion. [more...]
Judging from the comments about “Ten Grand Goldie”, Einstürzende Neubauten have hit the right spot with their “comeback” single. This rhythmic and fascinating avant-garde pop track is the first taste from the Germans’ first proper studio album in 12 years. [more...]
Stefan Grossmann and his cohorts have just released a brand new Absurd Minds album. Aptly named “Sapta” (means “Seven” in sanskrit), the twelve track electropop effort was released April 3rd. [more...]
Apoptygma Berzerk have just released a digital B-sides and rarities compilation, out of the blue. [more...]
