In a post on Facebook Nine Inch Nails bassist (founding member of Jane's Addiction) Eric Avery has announced that he won't be touring with Nine Inch Nails. (...)
For the first time in 15 years, electronica pioneering act Leftfield is recording new material that will be heard for the first time when Leftfield will appear at The Playground Festival the 7th June at Brixton Academy. (...)
Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy has just started the Mr. Moonlight Tour, celebrating 35 years of Bauhaus as we reported earlier. (...)
Google has launched a competitor to Spotify, Deezer, Rdio etc. Yes, the mogul has launched itself on the music streaming market. (...)
Last night I received a mail from the manager from the Luxembourg based act Monophona if I could check his band out. (...)
Zarthas, the self-proclaimed electrorockers from Oulu, Finland are back with their 2nd album entitled 'Spit/Ignite'. (...)
Stepping up is one Pier Michele Bozzetti, aka Miko Mission. Bozzetti began his musical career at a young age, performing in local shows and productions in his hometown of Alessandria. (...)
The much awaited 'The Twin Moons' album put Greece's best dark electro export product Siva Six right back in the spotlight, on dancefloors and on stages across Europe. (...)
2 months after the release of the brand new video for Cynical Existence 'I'm Broken', Sweden's raging act Cynical Existence returns with a brand new single, or rather EP, 'Beholder'. (...)
Dutch dark electro act Schwarzblut has revealed 2 studio reports from the recording of their 3rd album. The yet untitled new album will be out on Alfa Matrix in Spring 2014. (...)
Kissing the Pink were a new wave/dance group from London, England. During their existence the act included contributions from Nick Whitecross, John Hall, George Stewart, Josephine Wells, Pete Barnett, Sylvia Griffin, Steve Cusack, and Simon Aldridge. (...)
On May 4th, Depeche Mode played in Nice, France in front of 9000 French Depeche Mode fans. Our Side-Line photographer Vivi Ball was there and made a bunch of pictures. (...)
Out of the blue, we finally get a brand new Bruderschaft track! Out now via Alfa Matrix is the track 'Falling' which comes as a single edit (the actual album edit will be different). The track is right now available via the label's Bandcamp page and will also soon hit iTunes, Spotify and the rest of the worldwide download stores. (...)
Out via Space Race Records / EKP is the debut album by Nine Seconds, a project formed by Oliver Spring, the vocalist of the Helvetic project Sleepwalk, together with Rene Ebner and Thomas Kowa, the two creators of the German act No Comment. You can expect electro/synthpop of course, what else. (...)
Out soon on DSBP Records is the debut album from the Israeli EBM outfit Your Bunny Rot. 'Error Injection' holds 16 tracks and will be out on June 10th. (...)
Marc Houle today reveals his new band project 'La Folie' ('The madness' in English). La Folie is Marc Houle, Joaquim dos Santos and live member Clelia Cantoro. (...)
The Shortwave Mystery was originally an all-electronic synth duo formed in 1983 and consisting of Greg Scoggin and Scott Campbell from central California. (...)
Out now is the video for 'Decipher Me', the brand new 5-track single for Neutral Lies. The new single announced the band's upcoming album 'Cryptex' which will be out on Mai 27th. (...)
Out in the next week (but available for pre-order on the Alfa Matrix Bandcamp page with an immediate download of the title track) is the brand new 4-track single from Freakangel: 'The Book Of Violence'. (...)
From time to time here on 80sObscurities, I like to feature contemporary artists whose original work is heavily influenced by or alludes to the styles and sounds of that favored decade. So, to close out our column for the week, I've selected something really special that's very near and dear to my heart. (...)
On May 24, 25 and 26 Birmingham will host the Midlands Goth Festival 2013. Side-Line has 3 pairs of weekend tickets to give away - just complete the form below to take part. (...)
Items & Things label boss Marc Houle and Grenoble born techno/electro artist Miss Kittin have been getting busy in the studio with the new EP 'Where Is Kittin' for which a brand new video teaser has been revealed now - you can watch it below. (...)
New Romantic act Visage returns with a new album 'Hearts And Knives' due for release in May 2013. The first single taken from the album will be 'Shameless Fashion' and you can listen to it below. (...)
T.T.L. (ThroughTheLens), the side project of Italian New-Wave artist Tying Tiffany and producer/composer Lorenzo Montana who is known for his collaborations with Pete Namlook (RIP), have created the new trailer-soundtrack, called 'Beyond Fire', for the upcoming second Hunger Games movie called 'Catching Fire'. (...)
The 500 copies of the Nitzer Ebb double-vinyl 'Live in Hamburg' were sold out in no time, so there will be another 501 copies of the double-vinyl, but not like the first edition. (...)
On July 15th, Pet Shop Boys return with their new studio album 'Electric', the first to appear on their own label x2 (through Kobalt Label Services). (...)
Dutch people are notorious for going dutch (hence the proverb) , and it's no surprise to us that a new Chrome extension, Downloadify, that lets Spotify users permanently download any song available from the streaming music service was a Dutch invention. (...)
Here’s another textbook 80sObscurities artist for my loyal listeners today. It’s italo disco dance act Art Fine, aka Rush Blakemann and Fabrice Belli. (...)
Six years after 'Krataia Asterope' (2007) and many live performances in Europe, the Greek act Daemonia Nymphe (the duo Spyros Giasafakis & Evi Stergiou) are back with their new album 'Psychostasia'. (...)
After the delicious Lightshifters song 'Luminous', Norwegian songwriter and vocalist Phoenix (aka Marthe Borge-Lunde Pfirrmann) is back with yet another release that will make you lust for more. (...)
Out now on Echozone is the new The Arch EP, 'Beating the Balance'. The EP contains 4 new tracks and 3 remixes by Absolute Body control, Attrition and Tommy Rombouts. (...)
As we reported earlier on, Vince Clarke, Moyet's ex partner in crime in Yazoo, told us that he was 'positively surprised' by Moyet's newest work. And so are we. This new album should please Yazoo fans too. (...)
Out now (well, since March actually) is the third album by Polish electro-industrial act Controlled Collapse. (...)
French house music DJ and producer Cedric Gervais has teamed with Howard Jones to create a brand new dance floor version of the synthpop icon's smash hit 'Things Can Only Get Better'. (...)
Out now is Shatoo's new single and video 'Nothing That I Wouldn't Do'. The single counts 6 tracks including remixes by Angst Pop, Technomancer and more and was mastered by Yello's Carlos Perón. (...)
Welcome back to another week of 80sObscurities. Today’s tip is London’s The House of Love. The band was formed in 1986 by singer/songwriter and guitarist Guy Chadwick and drummer Pete Evans, the two of whom recruited the rest of the members through an ad in music magazine Melody Maker. (...)
Out now is the new video for Editors' single 'A Ton Of Love' taken from the band's next album 'The weight of your love' out on July 1st. (...)
Today I went to see the biggest one: El Chopo after I got tipped by Side-Line reader Leydi N Villegas that I'd be surprised to see what was available there. (...)
The album will be the first for the band since 'People As Prey' which was released in 1999, that's 14 years ago. (...)
The new Glis 4-track single 'Seconds' has just reached all download portals worldwide. Earlier this year Glis returned with a new album, 'Phoenix' bringing in a main course of nostalgic indie-darkwave sound. (...)
Out now is the brand new I:Scintilla EP 'Marlow 2'. The EP is the follow-up to 'Marlow 1' and is only available as a digital release. (...)
The Minimal Wave label informs that Martin Lloyd, legendary synthesist behind Oppenheimer Analysis, passed away this morning due to liver failure. (...)
Today’s 80sObscurities selection is another ultimate underground act from Italy, Bologna’s Cold Phoenix. (...)
Earlier this month we reported that Siouxsie was to play live again after a 5-year hiatus, more precisely at the Yoko Ono-curated Meltdown festival at London's Southbank Centre (between June 14 and June 23). (...)
Amphi Festival, which takes place on 20 and 21 July, has completed its line-up. Playing are bands like VNV Nation, Fields Of The Nephilim, Alien Sex Fiend, Agonoize, Suicide Commando, Diary Of Dreams, OOMPH!, Atari Teenage Riot, De/Vision, Die Form, Santa Hates You, Welle Erdball, Faun, Rome, and so on (see the picture above). The last artist confirmed is Wesselsky (new solo-project of the singer Alexander Wesselsky of Eisbrecher). (...)
The Rome, Italy based cyberpunk-rockers from Dope Stars Inc. have announced their 'Ultrawired Generation' 2013 North American tour with special guests The Rabid Whole, in support of the groups full-length album 'Ultrawired' which is available now for free download. (...)
'Celestia', Erik Wøllo's third digital-only EP is out now on Projekt. It is available to you a week ahead of the street date on Bandcamp. (...)
Welcome to another week of 80sObscurities, friends. It’s a damp and dreary day in New York City, so I’ve opted for something of a suitable soundtrack for our selected showcase. Cranes were formed in Portsmouth, England in 1989 by multi-instrumentalist Jim Shaw and his captivating, quirky sister, Alison. (...)
Last Friday Vince Clarke (Erasure, Yazoo, ex-Depeche Mode) was in Mexico City to do a DJ set at the Pasagüero club. Earlier that day he had also engaged into a Q&A at the SAE Institute on production (although most questions there revealed to be more fanlike as you can read in our live Twitter reporting). (...)
For those who weren't present at the Vince Clarke Q&A at the SAE Institute in Mexico City on production, we added below all the tweets that were sent out during the session. (...)
Out on YouTube is the trailer for the new DI*OVE album 'DI*ode'. Out on June 21st on the sweet Italian label EKP, this new release from the Belgians Eric Manchiniste and Lukk aims at the electro/EBM crowd. (...)
Brian O'Malley (PolyDROID) and Aidan Casserly (The Wazp, Empire State Human) have started a new project called KUBO. Their debut single 'I Dream Electric' will be out on the UK based minimal wave label Vocoder Tapes. (...)
Out on Out Of Line will be two new Dirk Ivens related releases. The first is the black vinyl 'Eat your Heart out' which is actually a re-release of the white vinyl edition of The Klinik's first new album in 22 years. The release is limited to 150 copies. (...)
Not only is it time for another 80sObscurities selection, but it’s also the last day of the work week before another glorious weekend, so my spirits are HIGH this morning. (...)
The Human League have pulled out of the forthcoming The Regeneration Tour aka North America’s premier '80s tour which was going to see The Human League touring the US together with Howard Jones, Andy Bell and Information Society. (...)
Here's something for the more eclectic minds out there. Zone 30 Records has released the new CD 'Miles of Perón' from Carlos Perón as a Limited CD Edition (300 Copies). (...)
Former Bad Seed and PJ Harvey collaborator Mick Harvey returns to the UK and Europe for a series of dates, including an album launch show at Lexington, London on 5 May with Duke Garwood announced as support. (...)
The other day, Scottish promoter and DJ extraordinaire Barry Douglas publicly called my taste in 80s music… I believe the word was “dodgy.” I have a feeling today’s 80sObscurities selection will do little to refute this accusation. (...)
The new Noblesse Oblige (Valerie Renay, Sebastian Lee Philipp) videoclip for the single 'Runaway' is available now on YouTube. (...)
Tolchock has a new single available from their upcoming album (with the working title 'Elements of rage'). (...)
Out on May 17 is the brand new NordarR album 'Hass'. NordarR is the duo consisting of André S. and Chris Dupont and on their newest album they bring 12 new songs. (...)
Die Rostigen Loeffel had the pleasure to work with Miss Diamanda Galas. She performed some improvised screaming on the track 'The ant queen' which turned out to be one of the band's most extreme songs so they say. (...)
Believe it or not, it’s mid-week already at 80sObscurities and just as I’ve started to settle back in here at home, I’m off on the road again…this time to Hotlanta for business. (...)
On April 25th and 26th Vince Clarke will be doing 2 special DJ events in Mexico. For those attending the set in Mexico City, there will also be a musical production Q&A session planned in the SAE Institute Mexico City on the same day. (...)
'Dresden', the forthcoming second single from Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark's recently released 'English Electric' album has been given the remix treatment by John Foxx. (...)
Out today is the brand new video from Jode, 'Heartstarter'. This is the second single from Jode and was produced and mixed by Christoffer Berg (Depeche Mode, The Knife, Fever Ray). (...)
Yesterday, I received another one of those kinds of emails about 80sObscurities that inspires me to persist in my personal endeavor to resurrect the music from the decade I love. (...)
While Mexico is a notorious difficult market for music (as far as sales is concerned), another market has never been doing so well as now: the bootleg market, more precisely the sale of illegal merchandise of bands. (...)
Out now is the new MOON.74 video 'How I Feel' (watch it below). After the debut album 'Newborn' and the following strictly limited edition remix album 'Reborn' the new single 'How I Feel' will be released on May 10, 2013 via Infacted Recordings. (...)
There has never been a Haujobb album released on vinyl, at least until now. Artoffact Records, under exclusive license from Basic Unit Productions presents Haujobb's successful 2011 release 'New World March' on high-quality 2LP translucent vinyl. (...)
The Finnish act HIM is offering their upcoming album 'Tears on Tape' for streaming on their Facebook page. (...)
A-ha's Magne Furuholmen will be composing the original score as well as supervise the recordings of other music for the upcoming film 'Beatles' produced by Norwegian production company Storm Rosenberg. (...)
We’ll kick off 80sObscurities return today, however, with another limited release italo disco entry: 1983’s “On and On”, the only single issued by the project Decadance. As is typical of the genre, primary songwriting credit for this act goes to a pair of producers, in this case Franco Rago and Gigi Farina. (...)
Just minutes before The Cure was to take the stage at the Foro Sol stadium in Mexico City last night, the area was hit by quite a heave earthquake. The stadium was filled with 40.000 people and although Mexicans are not exactly virgins when it comes to earthquakes a large portion of the public started panicking. (...)
The Belgian electro duo Implant will be back with 'The Productive Citizen', their 9th album to date, on May 17. For the occasion the band released a first video, titled 'C.C.C.P.C.C.T.V.' taken from the new album. (...)
Erasure are working on a Christmas album which should be due out this winter. The band is currently recording in Vince Clarke's studio which is based in Brooklyn, New York. (...)
BAS Productions have a surprise lined up for those who are packing up for Depeche Mode's epoch-making two concerts in London's O2 Arena this coming May (28-29). Namely, three days of entertainment with a Basildon scent. (...)
Dominion (aka Andrew Szava-Kovats) was one of the pioneer 1980s electronic music acts from the USA. The band now signed to Wave Records to release its first new recording in 12 years. (...)
Out on May 17 is the brand new Kirlian Camera album 'Black Summer Choirs'. The album will also be released as a special edition box set, limited to 1000 copies. (...)
Yesterday English graphic designer Storm Thorgerson died, aged 69, after suffering from cancer. What Anton Corbijn means for U2 and Depeche Mode, that was what Thorgerson was for Pink Floyd. (...)
While the dubstep inspired 'Airmech' left the hardcore Front Line Assembly fans moaning and the more eclectic ones cheering, Front Line Assembly has already completed the follow-up. (...)
Out in June 2013 is the Rustblade label debut of Velvet Condom. On 'Vanity and Revolt' the French-Berliner duo brings cold minimal synth wave (you can listen to a teaser below) with elements of postpunk and shoegaze. (...)
In the early 1980s, shortly after the breakup of Throbbing Gristle, Boyd Rice went to London to record a one-off studio session with Jeff Rushton and Peter Christopherson, who had recently started releasing records as Coil. (...)
May 21st sees the release of the new Solitary Experiments MCD 'Trial and Error'. (...)
Out on May 24 is the Welle:Erdball jubilee box '20 Jahre'. This Box set is limited to 3.000 units and comes in a velvet box with silver embossment. (...)
The Desire label announces us 'Venus Bar', the debut release by French newcomer AV aka Adrien Virot. (...)
Belgian industrial label Alfa Matrix has launched the pre-sales for 'The Dirt', the new album by Swedish EKM (Elektronisk Kroppsmusik) legends Pouppée Fabrikk and their first LP in over a decade. (...)
Good news from the Spotify HQ. The Swedish company has just announced that they have landed in Mexico, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Iceland and Asia (Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore). The service is now active in 28 countries. (...)
It now was revealed that Fabre had tarantulas walking through a field with razor blades at an exhibition in Eupen (BE) in November last year. (...)
The fine Italian label EK Product announce us the forthcoming release of 'Overdose', the new album by Liquid G. aka Peter VB. (...)
We just received the brand new single from the Swedish band Jode. Their next single 'Heartstarter' is set for release on April 26, and was again produced/mixed by Christoffer Berg (Depeche Mode, The Knife, Massive Attack). (...)
German label VUZ Records has lined up a few new releases for April. First out is Fatal Casualties' 'Slippery EP', a track taken from their debut release 'Paria'. (...)
Up and coming Industrial-Metal artist Vein Collector has announced that they have signed to Beyond Therapy Records. Beyond Therapy Records is owned by Ben V from the Ludovico Technique and is the home of such artists as Frontal Boundary, MyParasite, and Finite Automata. (...)
Here's one from the old days when industrial music as you know it had yet to be invented. You probably remember that David Lynch SF debacle 'Dune' from 1984? (...)
Deftones bassist Chi Cheng died early Saturday morning. He was only 42 and has been in a semi-conscious state since a 2008 car accident. (...)
We have another player who will enter the music discovery market: Twitter via an own music app. Not all that surprising since it acquired music discovery service We Are Hunted a while ago. (...)
Out now is the photo book for the 5th edition of the festival that took place earlier this year. The book consists of over 70 pages covering all 28 bands that performed this year: Projekt F, Adversary, Orphx, Nachtmahr, Combichrist, E-Craft, Cenotype, Shiv-R, Klangstabil, Hypr, Grendel, Haujobb, Panzer AG, Heimataerde, Aliceffekt, End.User, C-Lekktor, FGFC820, Noisex, Hocico, Iszoloscope, Nitronoise, The Gothsicles, Miss Construction, SITD, Beborn Beton, Blutengel, S.P.O.C.K. (...)
Good morning, dreamers. It’s time for our final 80sObscurities selection of the week and the last before 80sObs goes off the air for ten days whilst your humble host rapes and pillages Europe. (...)
Out on April 15 on 180g vinyl and download via the UK based Kokeshi label is the delicious Compa double A side record. The release holds two tracks. (...)
It took cult industrial, esoteric darkwave act Ordo Equitum Solis not less than 13 years, to work on an all new album. (...)