New album from Devo
The comeback album from cult band Devo can be expected in one month. The title is “Something for Everybody” and the UK release date is June 14 followed by the North American release on June 15. This is the first album release from Devo in 20 years.
– 30 years ago, people said that we were cynical, that we had a bad attitude, says Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh. But now, when you ask people if de-evolution is real, they understand that there was something to what we were saying. It’s not the kind of thing you want to see proven right, but it does make it easier to talk about.
Devo 2010 has the classic line-up: Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh, Gerald and Bob Casale – joined by drummer Josh Freese (Nine Inch Nails).
– The world is in sync with Devo, says Gerald Casale. We’re not the guys who freak people out and scare them – we’re like the house band on the Titanic, entertaining everybody as we go down.
Rare stuff from Vince Clarke at Soundcloud
If your into electronic music this should interest you.
“One Day” (Extension) – Vince Clarke/Paul Quinn by Vince Clarke Rarities
Note: The songs are available to download so maybe you should.
Here is for example one of my old favorites, I do actually still have it on a vinyl single 
Lots of obscure Vince Clarke tracks in the Vince Clark Rarities Soundcloud account, including rare tracks from Depeche Mode, Yaz/Yazoo & Erasure. Not sure if this is official or not – so Vince Clarke fans may want to check this out sooner. rather than later.
Kinetik Festival takes place May 12-16 in Montreal
Montreal, Canada’s Kinetik Festival is scheduled to begin in less than two weeks. Starting May 12 and held at the refurbished factory turned performance venue Usine C, the festival features five days of electro/industrial, power noise and more, with performances by such artists as Fixmer/McCarthy, Chemlab, Leaether Strip, Combichrist, Komor Kommando, Terrorfakt, Hocico, Rotersand, Covenant and more.
Visit the links for a complete schedule, ticketing information and more.
Thermostatic shuts down
Swedish synthpop band Thermostatic has just announced that “after nearly seven years of making music together they’ve decided to turn the engines off” and that “it is time to move on, but they’re not sorry and hope that none of you out there are either”.
The previously announced gig in Gothenburg on May 1 will be the last and the band invites everyone to take part in the set list construction.
Club The Station hosts the release party for the Twice a Man album the same night in the same city.
Great new 1950s album from Steelberry Clones
Listen and download the new album from Steelberry Clones
Chopping up and being brutal on those old classic 50’s songs this is a new take on electrofying
So if you enjoy synthpop, bit tunes, 8bit, and electro you will love these up tempo songs
Not since Silicon Teens in the mid 80’s any serious attempts has been made to electrify the old classics. Telex made a Rock around the clock version as well, but the 1950’s library is far larger than that. The foundations of rock music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, and quickly spread to much of the rest of the world. Its immediate origins lay in a mixing together of various popular musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues, gospel music, and country and western. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, and is credited with first using the phrase “rock and roll” to describe the music.
There is much debate as to what should be considered the first rock and roll record. One leading contender is “Rocket 88” by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats, recorded by Sam Phillips for Sun Records in 1951. Four years later, Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the Clock” (1955) became the first rock and roll song to top Billboard magazine’s main sales and airplay charts, and opened the door worldwide for this new wave of popular culture.
Welle Erdball are back
Welle:Erdball release movie and soundtrack
Synthpop nostalgica
A friend at work tipped me of this synthpop nostalgica BBC feature
It’s called Synth Britannia and covers like 9 youtube episodes and is a good history lesson on the golden synth years – 80’s
First episode here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeVRYPjcVXg
This is a must see for all synth fans
Cheers
Electric Independence feat Vince Clarke
Vince Clarke is a man synonymous with synth pop and a legend in the history of electronic music. He’s famous for founding three of the most popular and lasting musical acts in history: Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Erasure. But his distinct sonic output depends upon another feat: he has spent the last 30 years amassing one of the world’s most impressive collections of rare, ‘holy grail’ analogue synthesizers.
In 2004, Clarke left England for the unsynthesized woods of Maine, where he constructed a temple for these monolithic machines he calls ‘The Cabin,”. and began branching out into (gasp!) software synths too. Recently Motherboard made a pilgrimage to Clarke’s purpose-built digital/analogue studio to meet the musical titan, hear the story of his musical journey, learn how to make the perfect pop song, and get a little demonstration of one of his signature moves: building a drum pattern from a wall of modular synths. To Clarke, music is still magic even now, an alchemy in which he gets to make “something from nothing.
Vince Clarke & Andy Bell On The New Erasure Album
Vince Clarke and Andy Bell filmed in London during the March 2010 writing sessions for their fourteenth Erasure studio album.
Although I am not sure we need another Erasure album….
The Girl and the Robot
The Girl and the Robot, a new electro-pop duo featuring Deadbeat of Second Unit and Plastique of Welle:Erdball, will release their debut EP, Whole/Flowers, February 5 on the Trisol label. The EP features bonus remixes from Die Perlen and Javelynn Fate, the current project of former Ashbury Heights vocalist Yasmine Uhlin. To hear previews from Whole/Flowers, visit The Girl and the Robot’s MySpace page.
Nice picture by the way, need say no more, can´t wait to see them (her) live
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