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July 2009
Trent Reznor honored by the U.S. Government for successful fundraising for Eric De La Cruz
Neuroactive goes for the 'Antidote' approach
Reprint for The Normal's 'T.V.O.D./Warm Leatherette' single
ShareThis via Side-Line
Side-Line presents free Moonlight Festival
Rotersand returns with 'War On Error' MCD on Trisol
Pirate Bay to be sold for $7.7 Million to Swedish software firm Global Gaming Factory X
Perfidious Words returns with 'Feel Like Me' CD+DVD

June 2009
Növö release 'Architecture & Severity' album
Black Lung goes US-Army friendly with 'Full Spectrum Dominance'
Pigface return with '6'
Sexshop for Schyzzo.Com
Janosch Moldau releases clubby remix-ep 'Clear. One with the sinner. Remixed'
Former The Orb member Andy Hughes dies
Microsoft lets you download a free Psy'Aviah MP3
European release date for We Got This Far's 'Blunt Force Volume' set
Marilyn Manson continues his promo talk: 'My walls were covered with cocaine bags nailed to the wall'
Stone Roses to release five singles this year
Peter Ulrich (ex Dead Can Dance) and Sara Wendt launch 'Hanging Man' single
Psyche frontman cancels Toronto concert and is to undergo open heart surgery
Angelspit to release remix album 'Black kingdom red kingdom'
Interesting audio interview with Vince Clarke (Depeche Mode, Erasure, Yazoo)
Out now, Haujobb's 'Homes & Gardens 2.0': remastered and reissued on 2CD
Chinese Theatre cease all band activity
The 7th Theatre of Tragedy album has a title: 'Forever is the world'
Air to release 5th album 'Love 2'
Side-Line Magazine closes forum with immediate effect !
Nachtmahr returns with 'Alle Lust will Ewigkeit'
Leaether Strip completes soundtrack for 'Dark Passages' movie
A-ha returns to synthpop with new album 'Foot of the Mountain'
Dependent reboots the 'Septic' series with volume 8
Pouppée Fabrikk reunites after 7 years of silence
Komor Kommando goes Japanese with special digipak edition 'Das EP' release
Antony and the Johnsons to release cover Beyonce's 'Crazy in Love'
Camouflage sees 'Spice Crackers' re-released with bonus disc
Mesh announce new single, new album and new tour
A viable download model in the making ? Virgin Media to offer unlimited Universal Music MP3 Downloads
Last-ever US show for Nine Inch Nails
New Order members form new band - without Peter Hook
S.P.O.C.K. member launches first album for Biomekkanik solo project
'We are deaf' say Xotox and Detune-x
Side-Line wants its vanity Url - sign up now !
Cycloneb returns with 'Evil' album on Advoxya
A different Drum label boss publishes thriller
Smashing Pumpkins hire 19-year-old Mike Byrne to replace Jimmy Chamberlin?
Warp Records celebrates 20th anniversary with mega 'Warp20 (Box Set)'
Industrial music on eBay - new listings, including labels
16volt release entire (7 album) back catalog for free
Twitter drama with Nine Inch Nails
Front Line Assembly postpones tour due to the delay of the album release
New 'Peace' single Depeche Mode ready for pre-order on iTunes
SNOG remix album 'Thirteen Remakes For The Rapture' out now
Short video for Black Tape For A Blue Girl's 'Marmalade Cat'
Mulphia's 3rd album 'Wartorn' out now via Advoxya Records
Depeche Mode and Dave Gahan return en grandeur in Leipzig
Snap! sued by Jocelyn Brown over hitsong 'The Power'
VNV Nation to launch 'Of Faith, Power, and Glory' - interview the band !
Marilyn Manson cries after being denied drugs
Vox Populi! collection 'Mystic Entertainment' out on Infrastition
Placebo boxset out now - new album 'Battle For The Sun'
Ex-Malochia members return as Contrast to release 'Antidote' CD
Sara Noxx to release 'In(t)oxxication' CD and split MCD 'Superior Love' in 2 formats
Apoptygma Berzerk sign to Columbia Records and release new single
K-Bereit prepares 'Distort Neural Unit'
Trent Reznor says Marilyn Manson has 'become a dopey clown'
Dismantled tours with Combichrist in North America - releases 'Standard Issue V2.0' digitally
Portion Control presents 'Crop' 2CD on Sigsaly Transmissions Media
Side-Line publishes exclusive comeback interview with Dependent labelboss Stefan Herwig
Alfa Matrix announces new releases via iTunes
Morrissey resumes world tour

May 2009
5 re-releases for Unheilig
Pandora's Black Book to release 'Black Brothel' on Tympanik Audio
Free best of from Action Directe, 'Under The Pavement, The Beach'
SPV initiates insolvency proceedings
Depeche Mode cancels Pinkpop, London, Hamburg, Dusseldorf and (1st) Leipzig dates - it's official
David Bowie's son Duncan Jones directs new sci-fi movie 'Moon'
GriffonVox to launch 'She's lost control'
Re-release for classic EBM release by Shift: 'Electrofixx'
Nine Inch Nails fan fundraise huge success
Morrissey cancels more gigs
Mara's Torment 'Across for show...' album re-released
Snowy Red frontman Micky Mike dies, aged 52
Front 242 members perform an Art & Strategy concert in Mons (Belgium)
Dependent releases Haujobb 'Homes & Gardens 2.0' as limited edition and swaps downloads with .wavs
A-ha releases 'Foot of the mountain' as download single only - except in Germany
Side-Line changes layout, IE troubles solved - update
Meet Nine Inch Nails backstage and help out Eric De La Cruz with a heart transplant
Erasure's 1988 album 'The Innocents' to get special 21st Anniversary remastered edition
Depeche Mode cancel 3 more concerts, London gig jeopardized as well?
Marilyn Manson to meet fans in London - and you can still be one of them !
MDM win award at Niagara Music Awards 2009
CatwalkTrash launches self titled debut album
1st independent Bodybeats Festival with The Neon Judgement, The Wheahermen, A Split Second, ...
Re-releases for Deutsch Nepal's 'Tolerance' and 'Erosion'
Deep Sleep release debut album 'Shadow of a Dream'
Suicide Commando to release 'Implements of hell' album on Out Of Line / Metropolis Records
Progress Production signs EBM legends Dupont
Lady Parasyte signs to machineKUNT Records to release 'Abandoned Places' album
June issue Sonic Seducer with 17-track CD / Depeche Mode and Placebo A1 posters
Depeche Mode launches 'iDrum' iPhone App
Die Weisse Rose debutes with 'A Martyrium of White Roses'
Vince Clarke launches official website
Dependent reopens its doors in Summer/Fall 2009 and signs Mesh, Front Line Assembly and more
More details on forthcoming Andy Bell (Erasure) solo album
Clan Of Xymox return with 'Emily' single
Ad·ver·sary returns with a collection of remixes titled 'A Bright Cut Across Velvet Sky'
Biosphere releases 'Wireless - Live at The Arnolfini, Bristol'
Pirate Bay founder asks 'we-never-pay-anything' Pirate Bay users to cough up 2.7 million Euro
Marilyn Manson premieres 'Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon' video
4 More Depeche Mode shows canceled + gig in Athens to be rescheduled for July 2009 or May 2010 + more shows added
Leaether Strip tour only album 'Haervaerk' hits iTunes
Orbital to release greatest hits collection 'Orbital 20'
Become part of the Rename project 'Real Songs for Real People'
In Auroram goes Dead Can Dance on 'When Daylight Fades'
Dave Gahan hospitalised - 2nd concert canceled as well - Depeche Mode tour schedule jeopardised?
Implant working on new digital download only EP 'Violence' + remix contest
U2 release website only 2CD 'U2 Medium, Rare And Remastered', stream 'Magnificent' remixes and unveil new video
Depeche Mode to issue live sets complete 'Tour of The Universe 2009' - Confirmed
Wynardtage continue 'best of/rarities' series with 'The Forgotten Sins II'
Patenbrigade: Wolff launch 'The Enemy Is Listening' single
Frozen Plasma reaches out for a 'Monumentum'
New volume in the ongoing compilation series 'Auteur Labels' : 'Factory Records 1984'
Limited 'Immortal' single for Solitary Experiments
Illuminate releases 'Splitter' retrospective
Nick Cave's rejected script for 'Gladiator 2' leaked online... 1 year ago !
Ianva announces 2nd album, 'Italia: Ultimo Atto'
Echo And The Bunnymen launch 'Ocean Rain' album into space, literally
Dark Dimensions announces 5 all new releases to be released in late May and early June
Obscenity Trial vs. Tino Oac (Söhne Mannheims)
Massive Depeche Mode tribute compilation - OUT NOW
Ex-Morthem Vlade Art member launches In Broken English
BLC Music launches Mordacious' 'Necrolust' album
Komor Kommando (Zombie Girl, ...) launches debut 'Das EP' today + interview on Side-Line
This Morning Call signs to Substream and prepares 'Tides' EP
Human Decay side project mind.area announces debut EP 'thenceforward'
Theatre of Tragedy enters the studio for 7th album
Implant joined by Front 242 and Neon Judgement members on new album 'Implantology'
Nine Inch Nails' iPhone application gets the boot from Apple
A Spell Inside returns with 4th album, 'Loginside'
6comm re-records classic tracks on 'Like Stukas Angels Fall'
Tamtrum on tour to promote upcoming 'Fuck You I'm Drunk / Stronger Than Cats' album
Essence Of Mind back from successful tour with Zeromancer
C/A/T announces new album 'Chaos And Terror', tour with label mates [syndika:zero] and new side project Captive Six

April 2009
Combichrist does a PETA
Wanna remix Depeche Mode's 'Peace' single ? Then pay for it !
Erasure prepare new album
Die Form's 'Noir Magnétique' album available in various formats + some (vintage) videos
Null Factor announces 5th full-length studio release '(in)finite'
[:SITD:] to release new 'Rot' album in Autumn 2009
Available now: 'I Take Pictures: Photographic Pictures' compiles 500 pictures from electronic artists
Ravenland complete new album with collaboration of Moonspell producer and writer
New project for Peter Christopherson (Coil, Throbbing Gristle) and Ivan Pavlov (COH), Soisong
Brand new Depeche Mode documentaries 'The Dark Progression' and 'The Lowdown' to hit the market
Flatline Skyline deliver second album, 'All Sound / No Vision'
Psyche delvers new collection, 'Until The Shadows'
Moby announces details new 'Wait for Me' album
And another online scene store closes its doors
Sonic Youth give away 'The Eternal' album track 'Sacred Trickster'
Pixies reissue back catalogue under 'Minotaur' flag
The Blockheads headline London Electric Ballroom
Indigo Virus launches 'Head Space'
Sadman prepares 2nd album, tentativeley titled '9th and the last life'
Prikosnovenie to release debut solo album Luigi Rubino (Ashram)
Re-release for Tribantura's 'Lack of Sense' MCD
Simple Minds add OMD as special quest to their UK tour
Rozencrantz prepare video for new track 'Chase the Dragon'
Epica returns with live abum 'The Classical Conspiracy' featuring a 40-piece orchestra and a 30-piece choir
nEGAPADRES.3.3. working on no less than 3 new albums
Pirate Bay founders ready for prison ?
Babel 17 returns with 'The Ice Wall' on Infrastition and re-releases 'Shades'
Ultima Bleep returns with 'The vril rmx part one' EP
Fang Bomb releases Ronnie Sundin's 'Seven year silence' album
Depeche Mode has lost several demos, including the one for 'Personal Jesus' - exclusive
Lacrimosa cancels vinyl format new 'Sehnsucht' album
Enfant Terrible joins up with Dutch radio and television broadcaster VPRO for special 80's releases of Luc Van Acker and Kaa Antilope
Remix contest from Emmon and Wonderland Records
Depeche Mode - 'Sounds of the universe' order page
Zeitgeist Zero's second album 'Dead To The World' out now
Laibach side-project Volkswagner premieres in Ljubljana on the 18th of April 2009 + major exhibition in Poland
Venus Fly Trap release best of 'Metamorphosis-best of 1987-2007'
Action Directe reform and release teaser material for free
The Eastern Front prepares 3 full-length albums to be released in late Spring 2009
Nine Inch Nails 'The Day The World Went Away' in Terminator 'Salvation' trailer
'Kinetik Festival Volume 2' 2CD set out now
Russian dark electro / futurepop project D.J.GOLUBb releases 'Generation of Bastards' album for free
Massive news update from the Black Rain label group
Animal rights group Peta wants Pet Shop Boys to change name
Interlace returns with extremely limited 'Nemesis' single
13th Planet Records to release Prong remix CD 'Power of The Damn MiXXXer' incl. remix by Nitzer Ebb
Leaether Strip on double date in USA including a show with Ayria
Scottish Depeche Mode act Analog Angel sign to Rage In Eden Records
Sigur Rós side-project Riceboy Sleeps finally to see album released
The Neon Judgement 'smacks' a new album after 11 years of studio silence - explicit video content
Curve's Dean Garcia goes for SPC ECO
New album Nitzer Ebb on hold due to 'financial troubles'
Trail Of Tears back from the dead with 'Bloodstained Endurance'
Rupesh Cartel back with 3rd album 'Anchor Baby'
'Today is Your Lucky Day' with The Mobile Homes
Punish Yourself side-project '1969 Was Fine' presents debut album '1969 Was Fine... But 666 is alright'
Marilyn Manson to headline with 'The High End of Low' summer tour
Tamtrum come back with 'Fuck You I'm Drunk / Stronger Than Cats' album + have bonus disc reinterpretated by Claus Larsen
Dependent Digital re-releases Haujobb's 'Homes & Gardens 2.0' and single
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult returns with new album 'Death Threat'
Seize returns after 5 years of silence with 'Constant Fight'
Spiralchords sign We Got This Far
VTG releases music video and latest electro-rock album 'Love is Letting Go' for free
Red Flag releases new single 'Run'
Peter Kruder to release 'Visions Ltd' EP on DJ Hell's International Deejay Gigolo Records
Rebentisch release new album 'Herz zerrissen'
Out of Line presents 'Electrostorm' compilation CD
Side-Line exclusive: The Sisters Of Mercy to lend out Doktor Avalanche to The Smashing Pumpkins
Implant invites several pioneering electronic music singers on 'Implantology'
Side-Line twitters on daily basis to over 600 people

March 2009
Scandinavia's premier electronic music event for the 10th and last time
Cabaret Voltaire delivers 'Kora!Kora!Kora! Cabaret Voltaire Versions'
French composer Maurice Jarre dies
Out now, the new Leaether Strip album 'Aengelmaker'
Killing Joke's 'The Gathering 2008' 4CD-Box soon out on Killing Joke Records
Vision Talk debut with 'Dirty Italo Disco'
Brand new UK club night launches: ::Purefuckingindustrial::
Spandau Ballet reunion tour announced
Re-release Xandria's 'Ravenheart' album on Artoffact
A-Ha announce arena tour
'No Talking Heads reunion' says David Byrne
Ex-Obsc(y)re singer returns with new project Wintry and debut album 'Atmosphere Around Us'
Infest 2009 is off
Patenbrigade: Wolff offers free download of new single 'Fein hoert mit!'
Ex-Kraftwerk member Wolfgang Flür on Empire State Human's 'Audio Gothic' album
New electro-pop 'electropop.2' compilation to be released by Conzoom Records
23db Records adds T.H.D. to their roster
Noyce TM return with 'Un:welt' on In-D-Records
Smashing Pumpkins' drummer Jimmy Chamberlin leaves band
Boytronic start recordings follow-up to 'Dependence'
Boredomproduct compiles on 'Auto-Reverse'
Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction release free split EP 'Ninja 2009 tour sampler'
Human League founder-member Martyn Ware to explore the future of sound at London show
Frozen Plasma announces new 'Earthling' MCD
Rammstein complete new album
John Squire says 'NO' on Stone Roses reunion via artwork
Sonic Seducer announces content April issue + 2 CDs + Middle Ages special
'Two' joins Miss Kittin and the Hacker for a second time
Welle: Erdball 'Operation Zeitsturm' DVD postponed to June
Placebo announces details 'Battle For The Sun' album
Spiritualized to play 'Ladies And Gentlemen...' live
Schwarzblut to release 5-track debut EP 'Sehlenwolf'
TET feat. PNE video clip and free download single released
Ian Brown denies Stone Roses reunion reports
Combichrist returns with 'Heat EP: All pain is beat'
Rustblade to release 'A tribute to Pier Paolo Pasolini - Songs for a child'
[:SITD:] back in studio working on new album
Alfa Matrix releases massive Depeche Mode tribute compilation
No more Sisters Of Mercy 'Merciful Release' 3CD sets?
Trent Reznor twitters that Chris Cornell embarrassed himself, Chris Cornell responds
Komor Kommando hits hard with 'Das EP'
Von Thronstahl to release 'Germanium Metallicum' album
Jesus on Extasy issues statement about band status
Elegant Machinery's Richard Jomshof speaks out on being a member of the Sverigedemokraterna
Anni Hogan showcases debut double album 'Kickabye' featuring exclusive Nick Cave track
Nordvargr releases with 'Evolution' his last album ever
Sieben's newest album 'As they should sound' brings the best of Sieben in its bare necessities
Smiths' 'Singles Box' almost sold out
Karjalan Sissit launches 'F**king Wh**e Society'
Nine Inch Nails offers 'Toothful Voodooland' live DVD
A Different Drum releases new singles from Saudade, Disreflect and Rename
The Durutti Column returns with 'Love in time of recession'
Lacrimosa announces new album 'Sehnsucht'
DEVO to perform 1978 debut album 'Q. are we not men, are we DEVO?' in London
Garden Of Delight announces details 'Last Concert' 2CD/DVD
Splatterpunk launches 'Channel 83'
Erasure's Andy Bell: 'We are not very trendy in the eyes of many music fans'
Mindless Faith release 'Darkhall' video
Psyche releases 'Noche Oscura - Live In Mexico' live CD
Former In Memoria singer returns with new project Soul Stalker and album 'A Way Out' - update
Front 242 starts online sales double vinyl album versions of 'Moments 1'
Mute to release 'Das Beste Von DAF – 20 Lieder der Deutsch Amerikanischen Freundschaft'
Former Clock DVA collaborator launches Kibuka project
Noblesse Oblige goes 'faconnable'
Wilt releases 'Undercurrent/Floodplain' album for free
Death In June compiled on 'Lession 1: Misanthropy'
The Psychic Force and PP? resurface
The Pirate Bay sponsored by right-wing extremists
Color Theory named Grand Prize Winner in John Lennon Songwriting Contest
The Birthday Massacre to release live CD/DVD 'Show and Tell'
Robert Smith (The Cure) gives Radiohead the extra 1 finger salute for their 'free mantra'
Essence Of Mind launches 'Watch out' EP ready for Zeromancer tour
Bono feels hurt after being caught in a Dutch tax act - U2 prepares an extra album
Sparks to release 'Lighten Up, Morrissey' limited edition single
Alfa Matrix signs no less than 5 new bands
Pre-order your Depeche Mode deluxe boxset edition 'Sounds Of The Universe' right now !
Pet Shop Boys video for 'Love Etc.' released on YouTube

February 2009
Martin Hall and Leaether Strip record collaboration track 'Heart Laid Bare'
Nick Cave re-releases 'From Her To Eternity', 'The Firstborn Is Dead', 'Kicking Against The Pricks' and 'Your Funeral... My Trial' as double-disc collectors
Duran Duran and Mark Ronson record live version of 'A View to A Kill' together exclusively for War Child 'Heroes'
Lowe goes Universal and on tour
March release for Left Spine Down's 'Voltage 2.3: Remixed and Revisited'
Taliesin Orchestra pays 'A Tribute To The Hits Of Enya'
Ex-Smashing Pumpkins' James Iha announces details debut album Tinted Windows
Sonic Seducer 03/09 + 16-track CD + 10 Stickers + 2 A2-Posters
The Cure cover album 'Pictures Of You' free with this week's NME
CORRECTION: Al Jourgensen and Jello Biafra join up for new Lard album
Collaboration project for Peter Ulrich (ex-Dead Can Dance)
Suicide Commando reveals name new album: 'Implements of hell'
Front 242 to release limited vinyl release of 'Moments' during sold out concert in Belgium
Das Ich reissue 'Die Propheten'
Leaether Strip covers Depeche Mode and Lili Marleen on new album 'Aengelmaker'
Al Jourgensen and Jello Biafra join up for new Lard album
Massiv In Mensch 'Hands On Massiv' out on CD via Advoxya rec
Punto Omega album 'Noche Oscura del Alma' out on Vendetta Music for North America market
Deluxe boxset Depeche Mode 'Sounds of the universe' announced
Chrom Records back alive and releases new Helium Vola album 'Für Euch, die Ihr liebt'
Zeromancer choose support act for 'Sinners International' tour : Essence Of Mind
New CTRL album 'Lost in Static' on Diffusion Records
Mortiis drops mask and returns with 'The Great Deceiver'
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'Audio Gothic' video for Empire State Human
Com.pulsion strike back with 'Made in China'
Wrong cover art for 'Wrong' Depeche Mode single ?
3 new releases on the Eastern Front
Primal Scream and Miss Kitten cover Suicide's 'Diamonds, Fur Coat, Champagne'
The Stone Roses' debut to be re-released as boxset in June
Erasure's Andy Bell selling bread in south coast town of Hastings
O Paradis launches 'Pequeñas Canciones de Amor' including Bob Dylan cover
D'Agostino / Foxx / Jansen finally release 'A Secret Life'
A Different Drum presents 'A Different Mix Volume 6'
Project Pitchfork on sell out accusations in Side-Line interview
William Orbit returns with 'My Oracle Lives Uptown'
Tenek to launch new single 'Submission'
Simple Minds to release 15th studio album 'Graffiti Soul' in May
More details on VNV Nation's 'Reformation' release
Billie Ray Martin launches The Crackdown Project feat. Märtini Brös and Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire)
Skink releases 'Live at the Global Cafe'
Ex-Hooverphonic singer Geike Arnaert completes ultimate wish cancer patient
3 formats forthcoming Depeche Mode album 'Sound Of the universe'
The Blockheads to release comeback album 'Staring Down The Barrel' via EMI
April release for Skold vs. KMFDM
Christian Death sees re-issue of landmark album 'Catastrophe Ballet' with bonus track
Funker Vogt goes into 'Warzone K17' in April
Kommando XY debutes with 'Welcome To Gestrikland'
John Foxx goes instrumental on 'My Lost City'
DJ Hell releases 'The Angst' to announce new album 'Teufelswerk'
Void Kampf Joins Sigsaly Transmissions
Sensor to release 'Naked' on Intuition
Extra picture vinyl disc for Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio's 'Onani' album
Brand new Depeche Mode single 'Wrong' spread allover the net ?
New Dismantled album in the making says Gary Zon
Dope Stars Inc. to release 'Criminal Intents/Morning Star' double EP
Specimen's 'Alive at the batcave' live album on Metropolis
Previously unreleased Bel Canto track to appear on Norwegian rarities double CD compilation 'Maskindans: Norsk synth 1980-1988'
Gun Records closes doors
The Cramps' frontman Lux Interior dies in hospital
Marilyn Manson names new album 'The High End Of Low'
Infrastition to release back catalog french new wave cult act Martin Dupont
Supreme Court's 'Keep Calm + Carry on' released on Cop Int'l and Infacted
Throbbing Gristle announces first US performances in 28 years
Patenbrigade Wolff announces 'Stalinallee' single
Tympanik Audio to release Stendeck album 'Sonnambula'
Re-release for Resistance' 'Between Two Lights' album on CD
Portion Control signs to Sigsaly Transmissions and prepares new album 'Witness'
First 2 Leaether Strip comeback live shows sold out
BoZo PoRNo CiRcuS returns after 5 years of silence
Art Of Infinity re-release debut album 'New Horizon' on Prudence/Rough Trade
Millimetric releases debut album 'Expériences Modernes' on M-tronic
New Uberbyte album 'DOS' scheduled for March release on Crunch pod
Oil 10 to release best-of compilation 'Retrofuture'

January 2009
In stock now - 4th volume 'Endzeit Bunkertracks' 4CD boxset !
Help Color Theory catch a big break
U2 to rescue London's Olympic Studios
Depeche Mode announce tracklist 'Sounds Of The Universe' album
Infrastition re-releases two Little Nemo albums
Red Flag Signs To Sigsaly Transmissions
V2A return with 'Mechanized Infantry' on Biohazzard Records
Sonic Seducer releases 2008 retrospective DVD
Spectraliquid Records launches A Wake A Week's 'Little Black Cloud' album
Proyecto Crisis to release 'Made in Chile'
Aesthetic Perfection release first video, 'The Great Depression'
Experimental and ambient electronica label Far Away Records announces new releases
Double vinyl for Lauri Saine album 'Break A Pattern'
Apoptygma Berzerk interview online - 'I never thought Apoptygma Berzerk was an industrial band'
Belgian goth Kim De Gelder kills 2 babies and 1 nurse, wounds 12 more in kindergarten
Leichtmatrose launches 'Sexi ist tot'
'Identity' behind The Crystalline Effect known
Noisuf-X sees 'Voodoo Ritual' album released as limited digipak
Neurobash to release 'Antitype' EP
Spiral Of Silence works on new album + try-out gig
iTunes finally fixes corrupt version Ayria download 'Hearts for bullets'
Re-release for Aghast's 'Hexerei im Zwielicht der Finsternis'
The Pussybats present their 'Famous last Songs'
Assemblage 23 releases 2nd volume 'Early, rare, and unreleased'
The Brotherhood Of Pagans return with new album 'Only Once'
In The Nursery release 'Music To Make Movies To' exclusively via own webstore
Side-Line presents: Beyond The Veil VI
Toxic Sonic splits up
Infacted Recordings welcomes Second Disease
Mona Mur and En Esch release collaborative album!
More re-releases for Wumpscut
Leaether Strip launches digital download only 'Diaegnosis' EP
Das Shadow launch new teaser for upcoming 'Slew' release
Digital download release Psyche's 'Disorder' album with extra remixes, live tracks, The Cure cover and more
Anima Virus to release 'End of the Eden' on Decadance Records
YouTube bans Psy'Aviah's 'Moments feat. Suzi Q. Smith' videoclip for being too erotic
New Depeche Mode album 'Sound of the universe' out on April 20th / 21st
Viktim announces addition of new keyboard and guitar player
Pilori release final album 'Until The Day Dawn' and splits up
Tympanik Audio release volume 2 in 'Emerging Organisms' compilation series
Black Tape For A Blue Girl in the studio with The Dresden Dolls' Brian Viglione
Remix contest for ex-Kraftwerk member Wolfgang Flur / Empire State Human collaboration
Post Death Soundtrack covers Dead can Dance song 'Anywhere Out of the World' - download for free
Gifts In Secret covers The Cure on digital download EP 'All This Love EP'
March release for 10th studio album Pet Shop Boys, 'Yes' featuring Johnny Marr + PSB penned song 'The Loving Kind' for Girls Aloud out now
Ionic Vision does a Luna Twist
Kobold returns with digital dowload EP 'Blowback'
Free 13-track ebm / industrial compilation 'Vade Retro Machina'
Bel Canto's Anneli Drecker on Röyksopp's Spring 2009 album 'Junior'
Ticketsales first Leaether Strip show in Denmark in over a decade starts today !
Nitzer Ebb joins up with Iron Maiden on UCNX's 'Run Your Body'
Massiv in Mensch return with 'Hands on Massiv: The Remixes'
VNV Nation about to finish work on 'Reformation' album
eMusic gaining in popularity in alternative scene - get 25 free downloads
Jesus and the Gurus return with 'Blood, sweat and tears'
Live album Attrition, 'Kill the Buddha!'
Nine Inch Nails give away free download... that almost nobody will download
Morrissey previews new single 'I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris' online
Terra Gotha stops organising concerts, festivals and Dance Macabre dance parties
Studio News from Mesh + remix for OBK's 'Siempre Tu'
Marilyn Manson wants Dita Von Teese and Trent Reznor (NIN) in court
Actus offers exclusive track on MySpace
Florian Schneider leaves Kraftwerk
Genre Peak's Martin Birke forms atmospheric ambient act MicroSphere
Sex Pistols under Irish investigation
Modern Cubism releases live album 'Live Complaints'
Apple dumps DRM but majors force new pricing
The Cruxshadows to perform on the 2009 Gothic Cruise
1st Lycia live show in 10 years
Orange Sector start work on 'Mindfuck' album
The new scam: booking fake Depeche Mode shows
Novakill complete new album 'I hate God'
NCIS soundtrack features Collide track and new Nitzer Ebb song
Electro Synthetic Rebellion releases 'Post Industrial' album featuring Depeche Mode cover
30GB Zunes fail simultaneously at 12AM, December 31st
Side-Line announces results 2008 voting best magazine and best label
Fire destroys Unter Null studio and new album

December 2008
First Leæther Strip concert since 1992 is now official
:Wumpscut: releases 'Fuckit' trailer on YouTube and prepares for 'Bunkertor 7 re-sample edition' release
US Music industry stops suing illegal downloaders - ISPs take over role of watchdog
Digital Factor returns to roots with 8th album 'Look back to go forward'
Infacted Recordings to start releasing backcatalogue Orange Sector and more digitally
Band and music t shirts for everyone on Wear Your Beer !
Lexsine signs to Sector 9 Studios and releases 'Ecos' MP3 single
Lost album 'On The Screen' by Linear Movement (A Split-Second, ...) finally sees the light of day
Sturmpercht releases anthology 'A wilde Zeit'
Cellmod returns with MP3 single 'Trail Effect'
Project Pitchfork to release 'Dream, Tiresias!' in February 2009
Sebastian Komor launches industrial metal act Melt
Billie Ray Martin teams up with the Märtini Brös for new album and records Cabaret Voltaire covers
Kirlian Camera release 'Shadow Mission HELD V' album in two limited editions
Merry Christmas from Side-Line with Wallace and Gromit !
Leaves' Eyes finally releases 'En Saga I Belgia' live DVD in February 2009
machineKUNT Records signs Cindergarden
Free track from Röyksopp available for download
Fading Colours releases megamix to announce new album '(I had to) Come'
Post Death Soundtrack to film 'Euchreist' video later this month
DAC announces year results
Acylum joins Alfa Matrix
The Chronologic debut with digital EP
Legion Within offer free download 'Mouth Of Madness' title track
Vision Talk (feat. Chinese Theatre members) offers free Christmas MCD - download it now !
The Cure perform MySpace Secret Show in LA
Portishead announce 4th album plans
Morrissey reveals tracklisting 'Years Of Refusal' - Smiths reunion rumours trashed by Johnny Marr
Free De/Vision remix of 'Noob' track 'Life is suffering' by People Theatre available
Nine Inch Nails to split up
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio releases new 'O N A N I [Practice makes Perfect]' album in 3 formats
Smashing Pumpkins will only release singles but no new albums in the future
Interface and The Azoic work on new material
New Apoptygma Berzerk single 'Apollo (Live on Your TV)' not welcomed by dark electro scene
Erasure fanclub to offer exclusive 4-track MP3 digital download with 'Total Pop! The First 40 Hits Deluxe' Box-set
Plasmodium to release 'Paradise under fire' debut album early 2009
Exclusive: Reduction vouchers for every BIMfest festival goer
Depeche Mode complete new album, (unofficially) enter Second Life and get (over)sampled by Hilary Duff
W.A.S.T.E. launches 'A Silent Mantra Of Rage' in March 2009 on Vendetta Music
Dismantled releases 'Standard Issue V2' for North America only as download
The Mission present 'The Final Chapter' 3 disc set CD/DVD
Cabaret Voltaire returns on Shiva Records with 'Kora!Kora!Kora! Cabaret Voltaire versions' and with new live shows
Side-Line presents: Electronic pioneers Click Click play two live shows in Germany in January 2009
Apoptygma Berzerk premiere 'Apollo (Live on Your TV)' video on MySpace
Members Italian goth act Soul Cry stab guitarist for playing badly + video
Junkie XL remix Madonna track nominated for Grammy Award
Dope Stars Inc. side project Epocate releases debut album 'Chronicles Of A Dying Era' on Metropolis
Coph Nia release cover MCD 'Qliphothic Phantasmagoria'
Toronto's Savage Garden Nightclub is closing its doors
Nickelback announce full 30 date US tour in support of 'Dark Horse' album
Advanced Synergy records offers remix contest for new Isis Signum single
Broken Fabiola to release 'Severed' CD
Live compilation '12th Elektrisch Festival' on Black Rain
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Joy Division 'Leigh Rock Festival 1979' out on vinyl
Hungry Lucy re-release 'Glo' album
IKON releases new EP 'Amongst the Runes'
Tracklist 4th volume 'Endzeit Bunkertracks' 4CD boxset revealed
Erasure informs about stopping manufacturing singles back catalogue
Metropolis to release rarities album Seabound, 'When black beats blue (Rarities)'
Inline.SeX.Terror complete second studio album 'Distorted Life'
Free Xmas Recoil download - out now
Album Highlight: Die Form 'Best Of XXX' (3-cd-box Out Of Line)
Kommando XY release 'Welcome to Gestrikland'
Rajna returns with 'Duality' album on Holy Records
Sagittarius offers free download 'Fragmente II' + bonus song
Mediavolo returns with 3rd album 'Unaltered Empire'
Die Krupps have classic album 'Volle Kraft Voraus' remixed into 'Volle Kraft Null Acht'
Wynardtage returns with 4th album 'The Grey Line'
Bad Sector issues second chapter anthology: 'Storage Disk 2'
Juno soundtrack re-released with bonus disc
10 years Equinoxe/5 years E-noxe anniversary compilation 'Keep the Fire Burning'
Revolting Cocks aim for February 2009 release for 'Sex-O Olympic-O'
Zeromancer signs to Trisol and prepares for 'Sinners International' album release
Folkstorm release the forgotten tapes on Old Europa Cafe
2 re-releases from Death In June on Nerus
Cabaret presents two more songs from upcoming album 'Somewhere In Between'
Your chance to join Leaether Strip on stage !
Advoxya Records welcomes Larva
Alien Sex Fiend announce 'R.I.P. - A 12" Collection' Double CD
Leipzig welcomes PlanetMyerDay 7 in January 2009
Vinyl market in crisis - German distributor Neuton to announce insolvency
Side-Line interviews Mirror on Dave Gahan collaboration and more
Mantus returns with brand new album 'Requiem' after 5 years of studio silence
Strange Attractor 'Mettle' album features Bauhaus, Wire, Coil and Tuxedomoon members

November 2008
Depeche Mode collaborators start up new project Das Shadow
Justice fake DJ set - (false) panic in technoland
Checklined: Foretaste - 'Terrorist TV' (cd Boredom Product)
Simple Minds embark on '30th Anniversary Tour' performing 'New Gold Dream' in its entirety
Winterkälte departs on 'Do not vote for industry' tour in US and Canada
Brian Botkiller records 'Welcome to postwar USA' with En Esch (Slick Idiot / ex-KMFDM)
Blind Faith And Envy return with 3rd studio album 'Media Motel'
Recoil music on the new video game 'Need for speed - undercover'
Psy'Aviah plays in a banner
Erasure frontman Andy Bell featured on new Cindy Lauper's 'True Colors Live 2008' EP
Orbital reform for Big Chill 2009
Leaether Strip announces live plans for 2009
Court rules against Kraftwerk in sampling case
Cold Meat Industry presents new album 'Souyuan' by Atrium Carceri
Electronic pioneers Click Click announce two live shows in Germany
2007 debut album 'New Romantic Industry' by Halo Effect now availabe for free download
Zentriert ins Antlitz say '...NO' to Tympanik Audio
Free Xmas Recoil download - release date December 8th
Depeche Mode present birth first song in 3 video postings - update
Heaven 17 release new album 'Naked as Advertised - Versions '08'
Nitzer Ebb to join SPV roster
Special Side-Line deal for Conzoom Records compilation 'Electropop.1'
Janosch Moldau releases second album Motel Songs
MoMT Records celebrates 5 years with (free) 'Carry on Loving' compilation
Combichrist announces 'Today we are all demons' CD
Patenbrigade: Wolff EP 'Stalinalle' ready for release + free track
Listen to the new Guns N' Roses album 'Chinese Democracy' for free
New LCD Soundsystem album on the way
Lostprophets drummer Ilan Rubin joins Nine Inch Nails
Camouflage to release 'Live in Dresden' 2DVD/CD
Mythical Records to release 'Odyssey of Rapture vol. 1' compilation
6 disc boxset 'Cinemascope' for John Foxx
Vive La Fête to release best of CD '10 Ans de fête'
Ionic Vision interview online and collaboration plans with Orange Sector
Orphyx compiled on 'Teletai' 2CD
Color Theory to release 7th album, 'The Thought Chapter'
Illegal downloads 'Anchor Baby' CD no longer possible says Rupesh Cartel
Ashbury Heights splits up
Side-Line talks with Turnbull A.C's
Blixa Bargeld's 'The Execution of Precious Memories' to debut in the US
Kajagoogoo reforms, new album in the making
Heyaeb announces new album 'Close To Dawn'
First new tracks from Noir Désir since Cantat murder case
Plague Sequence release new single 'Novamancer'
The Mobile Homes return with new album and release 'I'm Phoning a Friend, and He Says That' single
Free Leaether Strip track 'Cast away 09 (Twenty mix)' to celebrate 20th anniversary Leaether Strip
Antony & the Johnsons unveil details new album 'The Crying Light'
Peter Gabriel launches 'free' music service We7.com - MySpace goes for iPod rival
New Smiths compilation 'The Sound Of The Smiths' remastered By Johnny Marr
The Prodigy collaborate with Dave Grohl
Danse Macabre announces the signings of Kadaver Acht, Volkmar, ForeSin and Without Recognation
3 vynils of Un Departement gathered on one CD 'Les III Vinyles'
Erasure to release 'Total Pop! The First 40 Hits'
Sandblasting returns with 'DNA Mutation'
Neon compilation 'Memories: 1980-1986' out on Intuition Records
The-Pulsar releases 'Never' on Advoxya
Side-Line interviewed The Sisters Of Mercy
Depeche Mode singer Dave Gahan invites himself as singer on 'Visitor' from Fryars debut 'Dark Young Hearts'
UX is back after 12 years of silence
Seelenzorn release free web-EP 'Keine Angst'
T.Raumschmiere returns with 'I Tank U'
Checklined: Project Blue - Duality (Mcd Urbcom Music)
L'Ame Immortelle releases 'Jenseits der Schatten' live DVD/CD set
Crunch Pod welcomes Prometheus Burning to their label roster
Psy'Aviah presents first video 'Moments'
Philosopher's Point release second album 'Sucht!' on Prussia
Black Rain news round-up from Jabberwock and Der Blaue Reiter
Goldfrapp releases 'Seventh Tree' in tour edition with bonus DVD
Double CD 'Música y electrónica' for Most Significant Beat aka M.S.B.
Rein[Forced] frontman speaks out against cancer
Deine Lakaien play exclusive acoustic set in Peking for 20th anniversary Goethe Institut China
Faithless release 'Live in Moscow' DVD
Standeg release limited edition 'Ultra high tech violet'
3 re-releases for Esplendor Geometrico: 'Veritatis Splendor', 'Balearic Rhythms' and 'Polyglophone'
Live album for Hocico: 'Tora! Tora! Tora! (Live in Japan)'
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Diverje releases remix album 'Unleashed'
Holeg Spies and Yasushi Yamazaki aka Osho join up for road-movie soundtrack 'Holeg Spies & Yasushi Yamazaki'

October 2008
Vinyl 180 launches vinyl productline for Dead Can Dance, Bauhaus and the Cocteau Twins
Autodafeh to release debut album 'Hunt for Glory' on Sigsaly Transmissions
The Dielectric release 'Flicker of a eye' EP
Björk releases digital only single 'Nattura'
The Cure's Robert Smith allows The Cure music to be used in US advertising in order to pay back the control on back catalogue
Kirlian Camera announces release schedule for early 2009: 'Shadow Mission: Held V' CD/vinyl and 'Odyssey Europa' 4CD boxset
Cesium_137's 'Advanced Decay' album and 'The Fall' single re-released On Metropolis Records
December 1st release for Elegant Machinery album 'A Soft Exchange'
Amduscia returns with 'Madness in Abyss'
Compensation pending for lip butchery Pete Burns (Dead Or Alive)
'Sin-Tech' compilation featuring exclusive tracks from Kirlian Camera, ...
Ultravox reunion in the making ?
5th installment 'Saw' soundtrack series packed with scene bands
The Smiths to reunite ? Not really...
Psyche re-release 'The Sundial (Spring Leaves To Fall)' on upcoming Equinoxe label compilation
New Leaves' Eyes and Atrocity present new drummer Seven Antonopolous
Empire State Human add Wolfgang Flur (Kraftwerk) track on MySpace
Snowy Red frontman facing painful times
Seabound and De/Vision announce joined US tour
Click Click singles compilation finally available
Clint Eastwood picks out In The Nursery for film trailer 'Gran Torino'
Live album 'Live at La nuit des fées 2007' for Collection D'Arnell Andréa
2 gigs for Plastic Noise Experience
Dido returns with 3rd album 'Safe Trip Home'
'Lost' Madonna recordings posted onlinedo
Dead Marilyn Manson band member Gidget Gein appears in new film
Maple Bee presents 3rd album 'Home'
3 more re-releases of Marc Almond classics on Some Bizarre
Projekt announces 2009 release plans
Fictional book on A-ha member Paul Waaktaar released in English
The Plastic Noise Experience launches 'Reiz und Reaction' album and releases lost Sonic Unit recordings
DJ Rexx Arkana Resurrects Twitch Radio
Ambassador 21 presents 'Monsters, victims, and witnesses' DVD
Criminal Asylum return after 8 years of silence
Classic Leaether Strip album 'Science for the satanic citizen' re-released as 2CD boxset in 'Retention' series
Gitane Demone presents 'Life After Death' 3 disc digipak
VNV Nation and Glis on 2 exclusive dates in Southern California
Massiv in Mensch return with 'Meanwhile back in the jungle'
Iambia releases new album 'Provocateur'
Ataraxia release 'Oil on Canvas' hardcover book and digipack CD
Sector 9 Studios open new online digital store
Alfa Matrix celebrate 7 years with massive 'Re:Connected 3.0' 2CD and DVD compilation boxset
Psychic TV / PTV3 to release 'Mr. Alien Brain vs The Skinwalkers'
Classic 1998 Muslimgauze release 'Mullah Said' reissued
Hooverphonic front woman Geike Arnaert quits band
Ex-Marilyn Manson band member Gidget Gein found dead
American Memory Project on tour with Ohgr in US and Canada
Experiment Haywire releases 'Annihilation Chic'
Thomen Stauch (ex-Blind Guardian) joins forces with Seelenzorn
Two limited Der Blutharsch releases: Reutoff vs Der Blutharsch 'Kreuzung Drei' CD / Der Blutharsch vs Our Survival Depends On Us 7"
Burikusu!!! 'Year 2080' remix contest
Nadia Sohaei presents solo album 'Talking to myself' - update
Siva Six prepare November release for re-release 'Rise New Flesh (Flesh and will resurrected)' debut album as 2CD
The Sisters Of Mercy back on tour, no new album in sight
Caustic Records presents 'My dear freaks II'
Thomas Kroll back into Funker Vogt + announcement 'Warzone K17 - Live in Berlin' live DVD/2CD
Gothminister announces previews 'Happiness in darkness' album + cancel 2009 tour wih Tiamat
New 'Inside/Outside' album for Robert Marlow with extra production and remix work by Vince Clarke (Erasure)
Killing Joke classic live album 'The Original Unperverted Pantomine' reissued
ASP to release 2CD live album 'Akoasma–Horror Vacui Live'
Latexxx Teens present 'Death Club Entertainment' album on Decadance
Melotron cancel and postpone USA tour
Depeche Mode announce 'Tour of the Universe 2009' + new album snippets
German rapper 'Bushido' steals from American Gothic group Nox Arcana
Rare London show for Can founder Irmin Schmidt and Kumo
Side-Line presents presents : Noisuf X / Fabrik C / Becumin / Toxikka live in Athens (GR)
Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan contribution to Mirror album 'Mirror' out now
P.N.E. (Plastic Noise Experience) and Leaether Strip re-record Bronski Beat hit 'Smalltown Boy'
Telex member Marc Moulin dies at age 66
Free FRONT 242 release downloaded over 50.000 times
Eskil Simonsson (Covenant) brings mini Covenant live set in Tokyo, Japan
Psy'Aviah creates music with... you !
Obszon Geschopf returns from the dead
Bruderschaft returns !
New Art Of Infinity album 'Endless Future' out now
Enfant Terrible launches 7 inch EP's for Nosztalgia Direktiva ('Untitled') and Adolf Filter ('The Other Hand On The Knob')
Ostia side project Friends of Alice Ivy launches 'Hereafter Moth' EP

September 2008
Early Nitzer Ebb video material surfaces
Hardwire releases 'Konflict'
Dark Territory return with 'Schmerztanz' single
New solo-album Alexander Veljanov (Deine Lakaien), 'Porta Macedonia', released in 3 different formats
Free download from Krystal System + 'Underground' debut album on Alfa Matrix
Extreme Women in the Dark Future
Digital single for Bobby's 'So Many Scars' and for Sadman's 'Help'
Das Ich release 'Kannibale' EP as limited 'Schlachtplatte' EP version
Star Industry to release live album 'Black Angel White Devil' + remastered version sold out debut album 'Iron Dust Crush'
Live 2CD/DVD 'Rheingold' for Klaus Schulze / Lisa Gerrard project
Madre Del Vizio to release best of 'Un mondo dove...'
Side-Line presents: Front 242 live at Hop N' Roll on Friday 26 September, 2008
Back catalogue release 'Polaroïd/Roman/Photo' for French avant garde synthpop pioneer Ruth
Cult album Paul Roland, 'Danse Macabre & Burnt Orchids', reissued + new album 'Nevermore'
Wumpscut linked to Finish Matti Saari murdercase in Kauhajoki (Finland)
Faderhead returns with "F3"
Funhouse EP 'Don't Wanna Know Me' available for free
Clair Obscur sees reissue 'Antigone / Dédale' and 'The Pilgrim's Progress' material
D.Stop reveals past with 'Nouvelles du front / Images du front' release on Infrastition
2 live videos from Empire State Human live at Retrofest 2008
Limited 2CD edition The Chemical Brothers' 'Brotherhood' out now
Cabaret completes new album, 'Somewhere In Between'
Opéra Multi Steel compiled on 'Parachèvement de l'Esquisse' double disc set
The Last Hour joins Intuition Records
Free download album 'With a Single Step' for Pulse State
Submissions open for 4th volume 'Endzeit Bunkertracks' on Alfa Matrix
A-ha member teams up with Coldplay and Mew members for new band, The Apparatjik, and album
Smashing Pumpkins release their first live DVD, 'If All Goes Wrong'
Sports Ticket exchange service Viagogo, a legal way to sell and purchase your cricket and rugby tickets
Side-Line presents: Belgian Independant Music Festival 2008
Juno Reactor brings Japanese rock legend Sugizo (ex-Luna Sea) to North America for first US tour in 7 years
This Morn' Omina returns with 'Inferno' on Spectre
Recoil website relaunches with extra content
4th Wynardtage album 'The Grey Line' out by the end of November
FGFC820 returns with 2nd album, 'Law & Ordnance'
2 new albums on Recycling Records
Pink Floyd founder Richard Wright dies at 65
Re-release for Kid Montana material on 'Temperamental + Singles' double CD album
Ah Cama-Sotz returns with 'Declaration of innocence'
Debut Keller Kinder music video available on YouTube
Collide release 'Two Headed Monster'
Ryuichi Sakamoto goes on Greenland expedition
Refuse To Die releases 'Collection Of Agnostic Flies' on The Eastern Front label
Raison D'être releases live album 'The Luminous Experience' on Cold Meat Industry
Swarf prepare 2nd album
Hypnoskull returns with 'Industrial owes us money'
Celldweller to release 'Soundtrack For The Voices In My Head Vol 01'
November release for new The Untoten album‚ 'Die heXe'
New Godhead album 'At the Edge of the World' out in October
Re-release for Ain Soph's 'Oktober' album on Old Europa Cafe with bonus disc
New (remix)album for The Azoic
Musician and producer Hector Zazou dies at 60