Electro / minimal synth solo artist Roya has self-released her first EP – Trax via Bandcamp. Earlier this year the Stockholm-based Roya launched her two-track single Centrum which was featured on an episode of Elektroniskt i P2 radio program and was chosen as Gaffa Sverige’s Week’s Best. Roya originally from the US has lived in Stockholm since 2010. Her past music projects… Read more →
Italian label Avant! Records is set to release the debut album from The Agnes Circle on vinyl, cd and digital download. Drawing on elements of English post-punk and French cold wave, Some Vague Desire will be released November 16th. The London-based post-punk duo of Rachael Redfern and Florian Voytek work on their 2015 EP Modern Idea has paved the way for their first album that… Read more →
This past week Do What Thou Wilt Records released Expressionism Noir — a huge 2 1/2 hour 38-track compilation featuring darkwave / coldwave / minimal synthwave bands representing expressionism, noir, movies, and art via their music. Get this digital compilation album on Bandcamp — Expressionism Noir is available at name-your-price. Expressionism Noir by Do What Thou Wilt Records Expressionism Noir tracklist: 01. Double Echo – Fiction 02.… Read more →
She Past Away have announced new tour dates with a Berlin show in November 2016 and twelve more shows throughout Europe in 2017. The band recently posted a new video for “Katarsis” from their second full-length album Narin Yalnızlık (available on Fabrika Records). 05.11.2016 D-Berlin, Bi Nuu 20.01.2017 F- Paris, Petit Bain 21.01.2017 D- Heidelberg, Halle 02 17.03.2017 D-Stuttgart, Club Cann 18.03.2017 D-Munich,… Read more →
EBM veterans The Psychic Force return with a new full length album Welcome To ScarCity to be released on the Alfa Matrix label in January 2017. The German duo of Michelle Christiansen and Jörg Charnowski present a preview of the new album with three tracks: “Twilight Zone MMXVI”, “Accelerate”, and “Blowback”. Welcome To ScarCity will be released in a limited deluxe carton box edition… Read more →
Renato Malizia’s São Paulo, Brazil based music publication The Blog That Celebrates Itself has released The Darkside of TBTCI, a new darkwave / post-punk compilation curated by Diego Oliveira (Cubüs) via Bandcamp featuring tracks by Forever Grey, Box and the twins, PAAR, Hante.., Partial Objects, Wonder Dark, Paradox Obscur, Choreography, Kriistal Ann, Cubüs, Brutalist Architecture in the Sun, Balvanera, and IAMTHESHADOW. Don’t miss out on… Read more →
The Danish post-punk / coldwave bands MOTH and Kold Front have a split 12″ collection available via Bandcamp this week. The release marks the end for MOTH — earlier this year the 4-piece group from Copenhagen announced they were dismantling their band which was founded in 2012. Inspired by the darker acts of the European post-punk/wave scene in the early eighties, MOTH plays their final mini-tour along with Kold Front: October… Read more →
Depeche Mode held a special press event in Milan, Italy today and announced Spirit — the name of their new album to be released early next year worldwide on Columbia Records. The band has spent the last few years in Santa Barbara and New York working with British producer/musician James Ford on new material which they describe as “very exciting, uplifting and thought… Read more →
The Post Punk & Dark Wave band Cold I formed in Athens, Greece has released their debut album Wicked Wind via Bandcamp. Not to be missed, the new album available as a digital name-your-price download, features 8-tracks celebrating a dark music style combining elements of post-punk and gothic rock — the release is also be available in a limited edition vinyl pressing. ΚΑΚΟΣ ΑΝΕΜΟΣ… Read more →
Depeche Mode have asked fans to join them at depechemode.com on October 11 at 1pm CET for a special announcement live from Milan, Italy about their upcoming 2017 tour. However this Saturday at 1pm in France tickets became available for the concert in Lille on May 29, 2017 via Ticketmaster France. The sale ran for nearly two hours before being closed in the… Read more →
