Goth/rock duo Abbey Death has announced dates for an October tour of the U.S. with Kamikaze Kupcakes. The Death & Kupcakes Tour begins on October 13 in Providence, RI and continues until October 21 in Harrisburg, PA, with stops including Je…

  The death of any celebrated musician is always a sad event, but almost especially so when the artist has taken their own life; such was the case on March 4, 2019 when it was announced that Keith Flint – the dynamic frontman for revered ele…

  Long heralded for his innovations in remixing and music production, as well as being one of the leading pioneers in dub music, Lee “Scratch” Perry has announced a companion album to his critically acclaimed Rainford, released in May …

(Photos and text by our UK correspondent Simon Helm) Original posters from The Factory club, along with the first steps of the label that housed Joy Division, New Order and Section 25, are being shown by Chelsea Space in Pimlico. Part of London Design Week, the show coincides with the release of special box sets celebrating the influential label. Called “Use Hearing Protection FAC 1 – 50 / 40″ and curated by Jon Savage and Mat Bancroft, the show covers the period between 1978 and 1982. Among the exhibits are original sketches by Peter Saville, Factory Records letterhead, an invoice for a Joy Division performance, the original Factory Sampler record, and covers from releases by many Factory artists. It provides a concise overview of the origins of the label, which took shape in the immediate aftermath of punk. The start The entrance to the show features Situationist material from the heady days of May 1968 that influenced Tony Wilson. The first item that captures attention, though, is a copy of the original poster from the poorly attended Sex Pistols show at Manchester’s Lesser Free Trade Hall. That 1976 performance inspired the legend that, although poorly attended, most of the attendees started […]

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(Picture by Xavier Marquis) The classic The Cassandra Complex album “Grenade” from 1986 is once again available. Over 30 years after making their debut, the legendary industrial post-punk band have finally rereleased their classic self-produced first album in a newly remastered version for streaming services. The Cassandra Complex are based around the nucleus of principal songwriters Rodney Orpheus (vocals, computer) and Andy Booth (guitar, keyboards), with the addition on this album of John Marchini (bass, saxophone), Keith Langley (percussion) and Jez Willis (bass, keyboards) who would later go on to form Utah Saints. “I had started off listening to a bunch of early 70s synth rock stuff , like Kraftwerk, Hawkwind, Suicide, Can, and Bowie’s Berlin albums, then got into early industrial acts like TG and Cabaret Voltaire, and combined that with punk influences we loved like Buzzcocks, Joy Division, and Gang of Four,” says Orpheus, the Northern Ireland-born singer of the band. “We ended up with something that was a synthesis of all of those disparate elements into something that was quite unlike anything else around at the time, especially on the UK scene.” Listen to “Grenade” on Spotify Small label, big sales Despite getting little reaction in their […]

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  Before becoming one of the most revered and celebrated movie score composers, Graeme Revell was known for co-founding and fronting the darkly experimental industrial act SPK until the band’s dissolution in 1988. Now, the Cold Spring imprin…

  In a special announcement via Rolling Stone, MINISTRY will be releasing a fully authorized visual document of the band’s history, authored by Aaron Tanner, titled MINISTRY: Prescripture. Containing over 200 pages of rare and never-before-s…

Coitus Interruptus Productions in association with Auricle Media are currently working on a very special non-for-profit tribute album for the prolific Legendary Pink Dots and Tear Garden. In the last 40 years Legendary Pink Dots released well over 30 different albums touching on various styles and genres. Also the Tear Garden have left their mark on a multitude of electronic musicians over the last 30+ years. Tear Garden was initially formed by Edward Ka-Spel of The Legendary Pink Dots and cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy in 1985. The duo released 7 heavily influential mind bending albums and many other collections and singles. This special tribute compilation is titled “Love Notes to a Velvet Apocalypse” and will feature a wide range of various artists and genres from around the world, such as post-punk, industrial, ambient and experimental. It’s not the first time that Coitus Interruptus Productions has gone into tribute modus. The label released 3 tribute compilations already for artists such as Fad Gadget (released through Cleopatra Records), Cabaret Voltaire (released through Metropolis Records) and Klinik/Dive and ABC (released through Coitus Interruptus Productions). Auricle Media has been behind several large scale industrial music compilations as well, and is currently the marketing […]

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“Tempted By The Sound Of Violence” is a brand new video and single from The Mystic Underground, a band which has been featured quite a lot on Side-Line since the magazine went online in 1997. The track was written especially as “…