“In 2016, the world has lost too many great artists – creators of unique moments for eternity! With their art I grew up, their greatness, their megalomania, their uniqueness, their entire work has shaped my childhood and youth and was…
Having returned after a lengthy absence with the Void album, electro act Dissonance has unveiled a music video for the track “Drive,” from the upcoming album Break Myself. Co-written by vocalist Cat Hall and Chrys Anthem Wozniak, and mixed by Jim Marcus (GoFight, Die Warzau, Pigface), “Drive” marks the first official music video by Dissonance, […]
KMFDM
Category: Industrial / Rock
Album: HELL YEAH
Blurb: Offering up some of the Ultra Heavy Beat’s most vibrant and varied songs yet, KMFDM is still running, even after 33 years, at full speed ahead with a nuanced album sure to have audiences shouting its name with each listen!
Sascha “Käpt’n K” Konietzko has led KMFDM through more than […]
W.O.R.M.
Category: Industrial / Rock / Post-Punk
Album: The Unconquerable
Blurb: With a cleaner recording and mastering job, W.O.R.M.’s second album offers up a set of socially and politically charged anthems for troubling times, rallying audiences to a righteous path.
Drawing on the tradition of post-punk and early industrial/rock, Chicago’s World Organization of the Righteous Movement – a.k.a. W.O.R.M. […]
The Mission
Category: Goth / Post-Punk / Rock
Album: Another Fall from Grace
Blurb: For the band’s 30th anniversary, these longtime goth/rockers return to the sound that The Mission is known for and puts forth one of their best albums to date.
Normally, when a band has been around for long time and is still putting out albums, those […]
Here’s something for those Factory Records fans who want to collect everything related to the label and its personnel. “1965-1980” and the mini-album “In Dub”, 2 classic releases by the punk-dub rhythm act Basement 5, finally see a reissue. The “1965-1980” album takes its title from the year frontman Dennis Morris (legendary photographer of Bob Marley and the Sex Pistols) arrived from Jamaica to its recording in 1980. Having secured the services of Factory Records renowned in-house producer, Martin Hannett (Joy Division) things looked good. However, the original drummer walked out on the first day of recording and was immediately replaced by the Blockheads Charlie Charles who went to finish the sessions. In the spirit of the day things didn’t last, underlying tension saw the band implode whilst touring through Europe. The final incarnation of the band lasted a mere eighteen months. The “1965-1980” sessions also yielded dub versions of several of the main tracks and were later on released as “In Dub”. The re-issue comes on vinyl and can be ordered right here. Basement 5 formed in London in 1978. Their first vocalist was Winston Fergus, then Don Letts. One of their early performances was a support for Public […]
Australian electronica/punk act Liars aka the project of Angus Andrew, is back with the first excerpts of the project’s upcoming 8th album “TFCF” (out later in August). The album will be out on CD, vinyl and MP3 and can be purchased right now. Following an amicable parting of ways with Aaron Hemphill, Angus Andrew decamped to his native Australia to create an album that has a lot of electronics on it. Not surprising as Liars have, as a matter of course, sounded radically different with each album, pursuing new concepts. The album will again be released via Mute Records. Listen to the excerpts below:
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange) After walking through the pouring rain towards Tøyenparken and the opening day of the 2017 edition of the Øyafestivalen in Oslo, Norway, my friends and I quickly took shelter in the big tent stage called Sirkus, waiting for our first act of the evening, Bel Canto from Tromsø. As were 5000 others too, all unusually early in place for a festival concert, a point also made by singer Anneli Drecker: “Lucky for us it’s raining this much – we brought the weather from Northern Norway!”. It was indeed THE rainiest day in Oslo so far this year! The set was about 50 minutes long with a good mix of songs from all their albums, and many songs in new or updated arrangements too, even totally acoustic like ‘Spiderdust’ (which some may have heard live before). Most surprising was probably ‘Rush’ with Anneli’s throat singing as a new element! Ending the set with ‘Unicorn’ was the perfect closer, sending the audience away to the rest of the evening on a musical high. Songs played at Øyafestivalen: White-Out Conditions / Dewy Fields / Birds of Passage / Shimmering, Warm & Bright / Paradise / Rush / […]
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange) After walking through the pouring rain towards Tøyenparken and the opening day of the 2017 edition of the Øyafestivalen in Oslo, Norway, my friends and I quickly took shelter in the big tent stage called Sirkus, waiting for our first act of the evening, Bel Canto from Tromsø. As were 5000 others too, all unusually early in place for a festival concert, a point also made by singer Anneli Drecker: “Lucky for us it’s raining this much – we brought the weather from Northern Norway!”. It was indeed THE rainiest day in Oslo so far this year! The set was about 50 minutes long with a good mix of songs from all their albums, and many songs in new or updated arrangements too, even totally acoustic like ‘Spiderdust’ (which some may have heard live before). Most surprising was probably ‘Rush’ with Anneli’s throat singing as a new element! Ending the set with ‘Unicorn’ was the perfect closer, sending the audience away to the rest of the evening on a musical high. Songs played at Øyafestivalen: White-Out Conditions / Dewy Fields / Birds of Passage / Shimmering, Warm & Bright / Paradise / Rush / […]
‘Get the Balance Right!’ EP is finally confirmed. Marsheaux re-recorded “Get the Balance Right” exclusively for their Hansa Studios appearance last month.
Due to public demand, and with ‘just’ 2 years of delay to originally announced release date, the EP is now unleashed to a wider public. The EP contains two versions of Depeche Mode’s 1983 single, including the instrumental B-Side ‘The Great Outdoors!’ plus two previously unreleased versions of ‘Now this is Fun’: a Live-version recorded in Sweden and in addition it also contains a new ‘The Eagle has landed’-Version of ‘Now this is Fun’, featuring the vocals of Marsheaux.