Gareth Jones interview: ‘Go the whole journey with me and listen to the LP’
(Interview by János Janurik) About a year ago, I had the honour to ask Gareth Jones about his studio work...
Erasure
Listen to 7-track set of Erasure at BBC Radio 2’s ‘Live At Home’ festival
Erasure has performed live on BBC Radio 2's 'Live At Home' festival last week's Monday. That set is now available...
Erasure prepare The Neon Tour – October 2021 dates announced
Erasure, the duo Andy Bell and Vince Clarke, have announced the first dates for their upcoming The Neon Tour to...
Erasure Interview: ‘Music has always been a comfort. I think that’s especially true right now’
(Interview by János Janurik - Photo by Phil Sharp) Erasure is going to release their 18th studio album, ‘The Neon’...
Erasure invites a whole host of LGBTQIA+ stars on new video and single incl. Detox, Manila Luzon, Amanda Lepore & Candis Cayne
(Photo by Phil Sharp) Erasure have just launched the new video for their latest single, "Nerves of Steel", featuring over...
Subject.2 – Love Betrayal Deceit (Album – Electro Shock Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Gary Starky and Sandra Tully are back with their second opus, which just as...
Erasure release new EP feat. remixes of album opener ‘Hey Now (Think I Got a Feeling)’
Erasure today release a new EP featuring remixes of their forthcoming album’s opener, “Hey Now (Think I Got a Feeling)”....
Erasure releases brand new single taken from forthcoming album ‘The Neon’ – check it here
Erasure (Andy Bell and Vince Clarke) have announced details of their 18th studio album, "The Neon", the follow up to...
Erasure featured in Robbie Williams’ coronaoke – it’s for a good cause
I never thought I would be writing about Robbie Williams on Side-Line, but the day has come, for a good...
Erasure’s Andy Bell releases ‘Variance III – The Queereteria Remixes’ feat. Bronski Beat remixes – check a first track
"Variance III - The Queereteria Remixes" is the latest Andy Bell album which presents remixes of some of the tracks...
Erasure announce a brand new remastered & expanded 3CD edition of ‘Chorus’
On February 14th 2020 BMG will release the latest in their series of remastered and expanded Erasure CD reissues with...
Electronica duo Komputer reboot for London show
Komputer, the Mute artists who joined the influential label in 1984 as I Start Counting, are rebooting for a live...
Softwave – Game On (Vinyl Album – Softwave)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Softwave is a Danish duo set up in 2014 by Catrine Christensen and Jerry Olsen. They previously...
New release from Vince Clarke’s VeryRecords by the UK electronic duo Brook – check out a first video
In 2016 Erasure's Vince Clarke founded the Brooklyn based record label VeryRecords, which he describes as being "a very small...
The Normal returns on Mute Records after 40 years of silence… with more silence
Earlier this year, in January to be precise, we posted this article "When an April Fools prank becomes reality: ‘STUMM433’...
Interview with Erasure ‘s Vince Clarke, Mark Saunders and Gareth Jones on re-release ‘Wild!’ LP
(Interview © Janos Janurik) 2019 is a year full of anniversaries and anniversary releases and tours, just think of bands...
PledgeMusic looking for outside investors to keep the boat afloat, co-founder Benji Rogers back on board
Earlier today we posted an article on a botched PledgeMusic campaign by electro act ohGr (ohGr still waiting for almost...
When an April Fools prank becomes reality: ‘STUMM433’ (feat. Laibach, Depeche Mode, …)
Last year we had the idea to create an April Fools prank with a fake compilation with a lot of...
Subject:2 – Forward/Return (CD Album – Electro Shock Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Subject:2 is a new name active at the wider fields of synth-pop music. The English duo Gary...
Erasure announce 30th anniversary deluxe edition of ‘Wild’
Erasure are restarting the series of remastered and expanded album editions that started with "Wonderland", "The Circus" and "The Innocents"....
Yann Tiersen announces brand new album ‘All’ in a production by Gareth Jones – first video available
Out 15 February 2019 is the brand new album 'All', Yann Tiersen’s 10th album release. A first video for the...
Vince Clarke launches VeryRecords sound library with a 50-track free download (but the server can’t always handle the downloads)
Vince Clarke (Yazoo, Depeche Mode, Erasure, ...) has put together a fifty-track download bundle of exclusive digital sounds, each one...
Brand new Yazoo remix for ‘Winter Kills’ to be featured on new vinyl and CD boxset – orders available now
Next month sees the release of a new retrospective Yazoo box: "Four Pieces". Included is a brand new remix of...
Cyber Monday interview: ‘I still label myself as a bit of a bedroom producer’
Out now is “Store Debit”, the second album by the one-man project Cyber Monday, a UK synthpop project incorporating EDM...
Vogon Poetry – Life. The Universe And Everything (CD Album – Audite Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Swedish pop-invaders Roger Tell, Daniel Önnerby and John Andersson are back on track unleashing their third album...
UK synth pop act Cyber Monday launches new album ‘Store Debit’ – also available on USB !
Out now is "Store Debit", the second album by the one-man project Cyber Monday, a UK synthpop project incorporating EDM...
Forces Of Light – Darklights (CD Album WTII Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Forces Of Light is a ‘new’ Italian trio featuring both members of Stars Crusaders plus an extra...
Erasure releases 2 new videos from ‘World Beyond’ – watch the videos here
Erasure have released two videos from "World Beyond", the new album out on March 9 on Mute. The videos are...
Erasure cancels shows due to illness Andy Bell
After having to cancel their concert at The Olympia in Dublin 2 days ago, Erasure have also canceled their show...
Metroland remixes Erasure for deluxe 2CD version ‘World Be Gone’ – limited to just 500 copies
Out on December 21st is a Greek expanded edition of the recent Erasure album "World Be Gone" with 6 exclusive...
Boytronic – Jewel (CD Album – Oblivion/SPV)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Eleven years after their last album (cf. “Dependence”) German synth-pop formation Boytronic are finally awakening from a...
Legendary label Mute Records visually documented in hardback book ‘Mute: A Visual Document’ incl. Depeche Mode, Erasure, …
Mute and Thames & Hudson have announced details of "Mute: A Visual Document", a 320-page hardback book, available November 28,...
After The Rain – The Other Side Of The Crown + Kings Without A Crown (DCD Album – Scentair Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: After The Rain is a Spanish electro-pop trio hailing from Madrid. I discovered the band by the...
Kaos! – Never Ever Me (CD Single – Shortlist Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Stockholm based duo Eva Kaxe - Kristian Oscarsson are back on track unleashing a new single. The...
Deadbeat – Reflektioner (CD Album – Deadbeat)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Deadbeat is a Swedish synth-pop project driven by the creative spirit of Magnus Norr. “Reflektioner” is my...
Erasure exclusive – listen to unreleased B-side ‘I Need You Now’ + remix of ‘World Be Gone’
Erasure is to release their new single, “World Be Gone”, on July 28. The digital EP will feature remixes of...
Interview – Erasure still believe in love – Andy and Vince talk about their new album ‘World Be Gone’
2 days after the free EP "50 Shades of Gay" by Junksista to celebrate the international day against homophobia and...
Proxies – Groovin’Over Beirut (CD Album – Anna Logue Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop & new-wave. Background/Info: Anna Logue Records takes us back in time to Greece. Proxies was originally set up...
Erasure shares remix of ‘Love You To The Sky’ – listen here
Erasure (the duo consisting of Andy Bell and Vince Clarke) have shared the Adam Turner remix of “Love You To...
Parralox – Subculture (CD Album – Conzoom Records/Subterrane Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, dance-pop. Background/Info: Parralox is a prolific band animated by the creative spirit of John von Ahlen. “Subculture” is...
Erasure to release 17th studio album ‘World Be Gone’ in May on cassette, vinyl and CD
Andy Bell and Vince Clarke aka Erasure will release their 17th studio album, "World Be Gone", on 19 May 2017...
Erasure on tour with Robbie Williams next Summer + finishing new album
Vince Clarke and Andy Bell will join Robbie Williams on a tour starting in the UK on June 2. The...
State Of The Nation – Departed (Digital EP – State Of The Nation)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: State Of The Nation is a new Swedish formation featuring Erotic Elk members Tomas Gustafsson and...
‘Click Interview’ with Nature Of Wires / CountessM: “Cyber Rendezvous”
Nature Of Wires is Gary Watts and Maren Northway (aka CountessM). They deal with electro-pop music mixing good-old vintage elements...
Armageddon Dildos’ Dirk Krause and Aidan Casserly (Empire State Human, KuBO) team up for new Ferrochrome project – listen to 3 songs already
Dirk Krause (Armageddon Dildos, DKDENT & Retro Adapter) and Aidan Casserly (Empire State Human, KuBO) have teamed up, to form...
Gareth Jones and Nick Hook unite as Spiritual Friendship project – an interview: ‘I think the rough demos were the trillions of hours both of us have been working our whole lives.’
Spiritual Friendship is a brand new project uniting the talents of Gareth Jones (Depeche Mode, Erasure, Indochine, Einstürzende Neubauten, ...)...
Vince Clarke (Erasure) launches project together with Paul Hartnoll (Orbital) – first single expected in June
"Better Have A Drink To Think" is the first single from Erasure's Vince Clarke and Orbital's Paul Hartnoll. The duo...
Erasure gets a special Greek 2CD edition of their ‘The violet flame’ album with bonus tracks – 500 copies only, order now
Erasure's 16th album "The violet flame" was originally released in the UK on Mute Records, in a version holding 10...
Vaylon – The Uninvited Feeling (CD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Synth-pop lovers must have heard of Vaylon. This Dannish trio has released an impressive amount of productions...
Andy Bell (Erasure) releases ‘True Original’ single with Dave Audé
In 2014 Andy Bell and Dave Audé joined up to release "Aftermath (Here We Go)". The Andy Bell and Dave...
Suicidal Romance back catalogue reissued via Alfa Matrix Bandcamp page – immediate downloads available
Since their inception in 2006, the Suicidal Romance duo Dmitry Darling (frontman of Freakangel fame) and female vocalist Viktoria Seimar...
I Dream Of Wires (DVD Film/Documentary – Monoduo Films)
Genre/Influences: DVD documentary about history of modular synthesizers. Content: We’re not used to review DVDs and more especially when it...
Vogon Poetry – The Prefect Stories (CD Album – ScentAir)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, electro-wave. Content: The last year debut full length (cf. “Don’t Panic”) by Vogon Poetry showed an interesting and...
Reissue for ‘I Dream Of Wires’ DVD (feat. Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor, Daniel Miller, Erasure’s Vince Clarke, …) and 2CD
Out in October is a reissue of the 2014 DVD "I Dream Of Wires", a documentary about the rise, fall...
Erasure preparing 30th anniversary 3CD compilation and reissue of ‘Sometimes’
In October Erasure will release a brand new version of "Sometimes" via Mute Records. The new version comes in a...
Jean-Michel Jarre joins Erasure’s Vince Clarke on ‘Automatic’
Electronic, ambient, and new-age pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre has announced a collaboration with Erasure's Vince Clarke on his upcoming 14th studio...
Erasure’s Andy Bell goes on South American solo tour in August
Erasure frontman Andy Bell will be heading to South America in August to play a run of solo shows. Shows...
