Reconverb – Airport Oxygen Bar (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Dream-Pop, Cold-Wave, Shoegaze. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Reconverb is a Danish solo-project driven by Helge Vammen. After an instrumental...
Year: 2021
Ohne Nomen – Nightflower (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Electro-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Ohne Nomen is an Italian project driven by Fra ‘AngeNoir’ Marlat and Filippo...
Glasgow-born, Toronto-based synthwave artist Michael Oakley launches new single ‘Is There Anybody Out There’
(Photo by Jon Simo) Something for the synthwave fans out there. Glasgow-born, Toronto-based Synthwave artist Michael Oakley has a new...
Paul Kendall releases ‘Boundary Macro’ after lockdown induced creative paralysis – an interview
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange/press release penned by Mat Smith) Boundary Macro is the fifth solo album from...
Grey Gallows – Garden Of Lies (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Greek duo Grey Gallows have already released a number of albums, and now...
Mark E Moon – Old Blood (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Gothic. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Hailing from the Isle Of Man, Mark Sayle and Phil Reynolds strike...
Echoberyl launches first EP from new album – check the video for ‘Salomé (Suffer Me)’
Echoberyl is an electronic/darkwave duo from Paris. Last Friday they released the first EP "Salomé (Suffer Me)" from their upcoming...
Erasure postpones european leg of ‘The Neon Tour’ until May 2022
(Photo by Phil Sharp) Erasure have just announced that they have made the decision to move the shows from October...
Cirque D’Ess – Black Synthetic And Dense (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Ritual, Trance, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Set up in 2017 by the Italian duo Martina Ssam -...
Cerulean Veins – Blue (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Rock-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: Cerulean Veins is an American duo set up by married couple Dustin...
Camlann – Circa 1983 (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Cold-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Camlann is an Indonesian trio driven by Ony Godfrey (vocals & guitar),...
Stahlnebel & Black Selket – The Darkest Hour (Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Industrial-Rave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Never change a winning team! The duo Stahlnebel – Black Selket strikes back...
Elz and the Cult check in with maxi-single ‘Fire Meets Fire/Discipline’ – check out the video for ‘Fire Meets Fire’
Out today via the US label Black Pill Red Pill is the newest maxi-single from the Turkish act Elz and...
Alaskan dark punk/death rock duo Cliff And Ivy unleash new 4-song EP ‘Bring Us The Night’
Out now is the new EP by Alaskan dark punk/death rock duo Cliff And Ivy. Their new four song EP...
Reagent – Reagent (Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Metal & Electro, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Filipp Makarenko is hailing from Ukraine and last year released the...
Gunmaker – The Third (Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Metal-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The Hungarian band Gunmaker has been active for a few years and released their...
GW Childs IV and John Fryer debut with ‘Tarrant County’ video
What happens when you mix a Star Wars composer with hybrid country music, and an English producer plus a banjo...
‘Click Interview’ with The Illusion Of Silence: ‘Spirituality’
Italian multi-instrumentalist Luca Bonandini this year released his fourth production to date. He has been always attracted by every kind...
Dawn Of Ashes announce new remix EP, ‘Blood of the Titans’
Los Angeles-based industrial act Dawn Of Ashes have announced a 6-track remix EP based around the band's most popular track,...
Laughter – The Dark Wave (EP – Laughter)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Dark-Electro, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Laughter is a German duo set up in 2002! I can’t remember...
Transmission – Cosmos (Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Minimal-Electro, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Cosmos” is the debut album of the French solo-project Transmission, which is...
Synthpop / futurepop act Mental Discipline launches first EP – ‘Stay At Home Sessions 1’ – in a series of EPs holding live recorded tracks
Out now via SkyQode is the "Stay At Home Sessions 1" EP by Mental Discipline (available on Bandcamp right here)....
The collaborative project Purple Fog Side (darkwave / dream pop) and Piero Delux of Elsehow (Belgian art-pop project) release a brand new single, ‘Shading A Life’
Out now via the fine label SkyQode (and available via Bandcamp too) is "Shading A Life", another single born from...
Darkwave duo Vaselyne (project incl. ex-Clan of Xymox member) drops ‘Waiting To Exhale’ EP
Dutch darkwave duo Vaselyne has just unveiled their new digital maxi-single for the track, "Waiting To Exhale", a ballad. "Waiting...
Industrial act Panic Lift return with ‘Split’, the first in 5 thematically connected EPs, after a three-year hiatus
Out now is "Split",the first in five thematically connected EPs by Newark, New Jersey based industrial act Panic Lift. The...
2021 Is The Year Of Japans Best Entertainment
Japan is the home of innovation and fun. Things like DVDs, Playstations, and video cameras to karaoke have brought people...
Mirror Of Haze – The End Is The Beginning (Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Dream-Pop, Cold-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This is the debut album of the Norwegian formation Mirror Of Haze. Content:...
Marva Von Theo – Afterglow (Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Wave-Pop. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Marva Voulgari and Theo Foinidis are back on track unleashing their second...
Cindergarden – Anthology Vol.1 (Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Wave-Pop, Ethereal-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Cindergarden is the sonic brainchild of Jaymie Valentine. She set up her...
‘The Cure – Radio Broadcast/Live in Germany 1981’ 2CD bootleg gets widespread distribution
Out now is "The Cure - Radio Broadcast/Live in Germany 1981", a double CD which is being distributed about everywhere,...
Erasure’s ’The Neon’ remixed interview: ‘There’s not a lot going on at the moment… perhaps a new release in 2022?’
(By our local correspondent János Janurik) "Hey, Janos, there you go…" It's cool to be in email contact with Vince...
Chemical Waves – Stories From The World Before (Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: After having released last year albums on Unknown Pleasures Records and ScentAir Records,...
Boshaard – Boshaard (Album – Boshaard)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Experimental. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Belgian duo Dominique Vantomme – Toon Bosschaert are experienced musicians who set up...
Gareth Jones returns with second album of electronica project Nous Alpha (together with Christopher Bono)
(Photo by Our Silent Canvas Records) Out now is "A Walk in the Woods", the second album from Nous Alpha...
Liars complete video trilogy with ‘From What The Never Was’
(Photo by McLean Stephenson) Liars have launched their new track, “From What The Never Was”, the latest single from their...
Sea Of Sin – The Remixes II (EP – 7us Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The ongoing pandemic inspired German Synth-Pop duo Sea Of Son to release a bunch...
RNGMNN – False Dawn (Album – Winter-Light)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Ronny Engmann (RNGMNN) strikes back with a new album, which is the German...
Asdean – Время.Пространство.Жизнь (Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Asdean is a Belorussian project originally set up in 2010 as Asdeandare and was...
Found on YouTube: Depeche Mode medley by Drum & Cellos
While the Side-Line office is closed for the next 2 weeks, we keep on posting news of course. And we...
Swedish electro pop duo Datapop returns with second album
Datapop, a Swedish electro pop duo consisting of Anders Wilhelm and Mikael Larsson and bringing Kraftwerk like material, is back...
Adeonesis – Paroxysm (Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Colombian duo Adeonesis last year struck back with their third full length album. Driven...
A.T.Mödell – Music Is For Fun, Motherfuckers! (Album – A.T.Mödell)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Cyber-Metal. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: It took approximately six years for the Spanish act A.T.Mödell to achieve their...
Comando Suzie – Corazón O Plomo (Album – El Genio Equivocado)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Comando Suzie is a Spanish formation set up in 2006 and driven by...
Feu Follet – Beneath The Earth (Album – Blackjack Illuminist Records)
Genre/Influences: Wave-Pop. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: This is the third album released by French artist Alban Blaising aka Feu...
Biggest Belgian alternative music festival Pukkelpop cancels – bands, bookers and subcontractors claim the organizer Chokri Mahassine overplayed his hand
There is a stream of criticism towards the way Pukkelpop organizer Chokri Mahassine has managed his festival in the past...
MIY – Work (Album – MIY)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Metal, Gothic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: MIY is a Luxembourg based band, which originally started as a solo-project...
Nattskiftet – Stämplar In (Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Nattskiftet is a Swedish formation set up in 2015. The band consists of Anna...
Sevit – On The Edge Of A Darker Place (Album – Inclub Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Sevit is an American formation, which last year released its debut album....
Sweden’s Vogon Poetry return with brand new single: ‘Atomic Skies’
"Atomic Skies" is the brand new single by the Swedish electropop act Vogon Poetry released via Audite records. This time...
‘Click Interview’ with Synta[XE]rror: “We Do Not Create Music For A Specific Recipient”
Syntarror is a Polish project driven by Artur ‘Blacha’ Błaszczyk and Bartosz ‘Kostia’ Jakubicki. The name of the project was...
Oslo Synth Band ‘Stress’ EP out now – screaming beats to battle the summer heat
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange) Oslo Synth Band from Norway have been quiet for a time now, but...
Out today is Clan of Xymox’ newest album ‘Limbo’ – check it out
Exactly a year after "Spider On The Wall", goth rock band Clan of Xymox returns with a new album' "Limbo"....
No Trust In Dawn – Lost And Apart (Album – Alice In… / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Gothic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Four years after their promising and totally accomplished debut album “As We Fall”,...
Mechanical Moth – Mirrors (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Electro-Pop, Wave-Pop. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: “Mirrors” is the seventh full length album by German formation Mechanical Moth....
Grausame Töchter – Zyklus (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Punk, Industrial-Pop, Cabaret. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: Grausame Töchter, which means ‘Cruel Daughter’ is back unleashing the sixth album...
‘Click’ Interview’ with Heligoland: ‘Heligoland Has Always Had A Strong Intuitive And Instinctive Approach’
Heligoland is an Australian formation, which is already active for numerous years now. The band went through numerous line-up changes...
Sweden’s electronic act Maschine Brennt returns with new single: “Europe”
A few weeks ago we informed you that a (former) member of Sweden’s Systema The Affliction and Cultivated Bimbo, Joacim...
Valhall release new single ‘Slithering’
Out now is the newest single from the Swedish witchhouse and darkwave duo Valhall, "Slithering", it's the second single taken...
Will crypto payments ever become mainstream in the music industry?
Comparable to the development of the world wide web (Internet), the blockchain technology that includes cryptocurrency has some goodies for...
‘Never trust a white man’, the all new Pankow album is finally about to arrive after lots of delay – check a first teaser
Originally planned for a July 17 release to coincide with Record Store Day, but now postponed for a few weeks...
New wave/post-punk artist Jason Priest debuts with ‘Jason Priest Is Missing’
Out via the brand new label Midnight Mannequin Records (based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and run by Adam Black) is the...
Brooklyn, New York based goth/darkwave act Abbey Death return with all new single on July 27: ‘Death is for the Living’
Projekt Records is gearing up to release a name-your-price single from the Brooklyn, New York based goth/darkwave act Abbey Death...
Nordic pagan electronics via Golden Tears’ debut EP ‘Yggdrasil’ – Golden Tears is the all new project by Maytea Cruz (Lethargy, Aruna May)
Maytea Cruz, singer of the defunct idm electro act Lethargy, is back with an all new project: Golden Tears. Out...
(Ex-)Members from Kraftwerk, Portishead, Devo, etc. pay respect to electronic music and krautrock pioneer Dieter Moebius in Moebius Strips audio installation by Tim Story
(Photo by Irene Moebius - Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius in 2008) Moebius Strips is an audio installation by Tim...
Retro-futurist homage to Wendy Carlos on new Jean-Marc Lederman album ‘The Bad-Tempered Synthesizer’ with sleeve notes by Daniel Miller (Mute Records)
Jean-Marc Lederman has recorded a retro-futurist homage to an iconic 1969 album by Wendy Carlos: "The Bad-Tempered Synthesizer". The physical...
Laura Carbone launches ‘Nightride’ single & video shot live at the Rockpalast in 2019
Out now is Laura Carbone’s newest single “Nightride” which was recorded live at the Rockpalast in 2019. This live single...
