Midgardsblot 2024: Viking metal festival with a touch of synth and goth too
The Midgardsblot festival, held at Borrehaugene (old viking grave mounds), outside the city of Horten, Norway, is mostly known for hosting acts within the...
Bel Canto
Bel Canto releases new single this Friday: ‘Grass Mint Crisp’
On Saturday we announced that the Norwegian cult band Bel Canto would release an all new album on April 26th,...
Bel Canto announces brand new album, ‘Radiant Green’, 22 years after previous studio album
Update: Geir Jenssen has co-written two of the tracks on "Radiant Green". (Photo by Knut Åserud) Good news from Norway...
Massive Norwegian 80’s electro wave single compilation being crowdfunded
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange) The Norwegian Album Classics on CD project started out hoping to release album...
Bel Canto working on new album with young Norwegian producer Matias Tellez
In June we informed you that the Norwegian electropop / dark pop act Bel Canto was working on the follow-up...
Norwegian act Bel Canto confirms new album plans – unnamed producer on board
Two weeks ago we informed you that the Norwegian electropop / dark pop act Bel Canto had left a rather...
Is the Norwegian act Bel Canto planning to release a new album?
The Norwegian electropop / dark pop act Bel Canto has left a rather cryptic message on their Facebook page saying...
Crammed Discs unlocks SSR vaults and plans digital reissues of 250 rare tracks incl. Bleep, The Gruesome Twosome, … – first EP out now
As the Belgian, Brussels based, Crammed Discs label turns 42 this year, they are taking this opportunity to focus the...
Pop post-punk infested duo Sky Creature prepping double EP ‘Bear Mountain’/’Childworld’
Here's a nice discovery, Sky Creature, which is the duo consisting of Majel Connery (synths/vocals) and Matt Walsh (guitar). The...
Dark pop act Miss FD releases new 3-track EP ‘As Above, So Below’ – And it’s a good one !
(Photo by MWC / Art retouch by Eugene Noir) Fort Lauderdale, FL based electro gothic act Miss FD has released...
The 10 best synthpop / electropop albums of all times (and 5 more)
Electropop is a hybrid music genre combining elements of electronic and pop genres. During the late 1970s bands such as...
30 Years Of Journalism – Celebration Interview with Bernard Van Isacker (Side-Line & Alfa Matrix): ‘Consider Us As An Incubator For Talents’
Back in 1991 I started writing my first reviews for Side-Line magazine. I would have never thought to go on...
Crammed Discs’ legendary composers series will be reactivated in 2021
Based in Brussels, Belgium, the Belgian cult label Crammed was founded in 1980 by Marc Hollander of Aksak Maboul and...
24 years after its initial release Warner Music releases Bel Canto’s ‘Rumour (Master at Work Mixes)’ EP on Spotify
(Photo by Bel Canto) In 1996 Bel Canto's then record label American record label Lava (started the year before as...
Ljungblut: “Villa Carlotta 5959” premiere – stream it here two days before release
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange / Ljungblut & Karisma Records press release) The sixth album from Ljungblut are...
Bel Canto offer a glimpse of what to expect during their 21 September concert in Oslo – watch the video
On September 21st, the Norwegian dark pop act Bel Canto will be playing the Sentrum Scene concert club in Oslo....
Bel Canto live review and Anneli Drecker interview
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange) After walking through the pouring rain towards Tøyenparken and the opening day of the...
Bel Canto live in Norway yesterday at Øyafestivalen 2017 – watch the complete concert again right here!
Yesterday, August 10, the Norwegian electropop act Bel Canto played live at the completely sold out Øyafestivalen 2017 in Oslo's...
Celluloide – L’Amour Est Géométrique (CD Album – BOREDOM Product)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Content: Last year Celluloide released their album “Art Plastique”, which already featured a few outstanding electro-pop songs with...
