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Vince Clarke To Release Debut Solo Album “Songs of Silence” — Watch Video for “The Lamentations of Jeremiah”

“The infinite shades of sounds you can create with just the tiniest tweak of a knob or slider continues to fascinate me.” – Vince Clarke Electronic music legend Vince Clarke…

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Suicide to Release 35th Anniversary Edition of “A Way of Life” — Listen to their Cover of “Born in the USA”

The ever-morphing, evolving entity known as Suicide first sprang forth from the primordial soup of musical creativity in the early 1970s, before re-emerging, phoenix-like, at the very epicenter of the…

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Manchester Post-Punk Legends A Certain Ratio Pay Tribute to Basquiat with “SAMO” from New Album “1982”

During the early 1980s, Manchester post-punk legends A Certain Ratio spent some time in New York City, immersed in an artistic environment with a pile of massive luminaries, who would…

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Madchester Heroes Inspiral Carpets Announce Complete Singles Compilation

The Madchester sound hit the mainstream out of the Manchester indie crowd in the late 80s. Sometimes referred to as indie rave, its artists merged indie music with elements of…

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Nitzer Ebb Announce 2021 Tour Dates with Full Original Lineup

Pioneering industrial EBM act Nitzer Ebb, who reformed with their original lineup in 2019, have announced a new series of North American tour dates hitting a slew of major cities throughout the…

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Belgian Synth Pioneers Telex Unveil New Video for “Moskow Diskow” Ahead of New Compilation on Mute

Get your calendars ready for the 30th April: Mute Records announces a new partnership with classic Belgian synth-pop trio Telex. A brand new 14-track compilation album, aptly titled This Is…

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Reissues

Depeche Mode’s “Songs of Faith And Devotion

On March 22nd, 1993, Depeche Mode released their masterpiece Songs of Faith and Devotion. This is the album that almost broke up the band. The intense one-and-a-half-hour journey into the…

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Revisiting The Prophetic Lyrics of Frank Tovey and Fad Gadget

Quarantine, the rise of fascism, and the relentless news cycle has everyone caught in a hellish loop of anxious doomscrolling. As we greedily lap up salacious headlines and news clips…

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News

Electropunk and EBM Pioneer Gabi Delgado-López of D.A.F. Dead At 61

Gabi Delgado-López, best known as cofounder of proto-EBM and electropunk outfit Deutsch-Americanische Freundschaft (D.A.F.) has died at 61. Fellow DAF member Robert Görl confirmed the news in a Facebook post,…

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Mute Re-Releases Rowland S. Howard’s “Teenage Snuff Film” and “Pop Crimes”

One of the seminal figures of Australia’s post-punk movement, Rowland S. Howard put his melancholic, atmosphere-soaked stamp on Young Charlatans, then played alongside Nick Cave and Mick Harvey in The…

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