Side-Line introduces ARS – listen now to ‘Commitment’ (Face The Beat profile series)
The 4th track on our free download compilation "Face The Beat: Session 4" (featuring 92 tracks) is by ARS. The...
Depeche Mode
Model Depose – Splitting Light (CD Album – Dark Tunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, indie-pop. Background/Info: Model depose is a band from The Netherlands I discovered a few years ago now when...
Finnish industrial act Protectorate to release self-titled album in a few weeks – listen to an album trailer
EK Product has announced the imminent release of the self-titled album by the Finnish electro-industrial/dark electro act Protectorate . The...
IAMX announces new double EP ‘Everything is Burning (Metanoia Addendum)’ – listen to first new track
Expected to be released soon - but already available here - is IAMX’s newest double EP "Everything is Burning (Metanoia Addendum)". On part...
Apoptygma Berzerk: Exit Popularity Contest – reinvention by going back to the roots
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange, w/inputs from John-Erik Bye Johansen. Photos by Tarjei Krogh and Jan Ronald Stange)...
Depeche Mode play ‘Spirit’ album teaser single during press event in Milan, Italy
Today Depeche Mode held a press conference in Milan to announce a new tour. The band looked very nervous and...
The Mission – Another Fall From Grace (CD Album – Eyes Wide Shut Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Gothic-rock. Background/Info: Wayne Hussey and Craig Adams (both ex-Sisters Of Mercy) set up The Mission in 1985. They rapidly...
Depeche Mode to announce tour dates and new album on October 11
As some might have noticed, there's a countdown which has been placed on the Depeche Mode website. Although not officially...
Order your copy of Depeche Mode’s ‘Video Singles Collection’ 3DVD set video anthology right now + more releases coming up
Out on on November 11, 2016 via SONY Music Entertainment - and already available for ordering right here - is be...
I, Synthesist – Circus Ride To Venus (Digital EP – I, Synthesist)
Genre/Influences: Experimental electro-pop, glitch-pop. Background/Info: Chris Ianuzzi is already active under I, Synthesist for several years now. He released a...
Martin Gore (Depeche Mode) featured on new The Mission album ‘Another fall from grace’ – order now on 2CD+DVD and 2LP
Out on a few weeks is "Another Fall From Grace", a brand new The Mission album. It was produced by...
‘Click Interview’ with Horskh: ‘We Want To Exchange A Strong And Powerful Energy With The Audience’
Horskh is a French duo hailing from Besançon. I discovered this band by their dynamic and merciless EP “Dawn”, which...
Kromak releases new 5-track EP including a cover of Depeche Mode’s ‘Sister Of Night’ in 2 different versions
Out now via SkyQode (Bandcamp, iTunes, Spotify) is the 5-track EP "In the Voice of Others" by Kromak, a side-project...
New Norwegian electronica project KIST releases debut album ‘Musickist’
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange) The Norwegian electronica project KIST is the collaboration between the producer Isak Rypdal...
Here’s how the Paul Kendall boxset ‘From The Penman Press’ looks like!
On the first of October 2011, Paul Kendall released "Angleterror" as a digital release via the Cat Werk Imprint. The...
David Gahan (Depeche Mode) records David Bowie cover for charity together with Mark Lanegan (The Screaming Trees), Martyn LeNoble and Christian Eigner
Martyn LeNoble & Christian Eigner will release a cover of David Bowie and Giorgio Moroder’s "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)”...
Sølve – The Negative (CD Album – Audiotrauma)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, electro-industrial, ambient. Background/Info: Behind this project is hiding Brant Showers who’s mainly renowned for his involvement in ∆Aimon....
That’s how Depeche Mode left the studio after recording there for 6 weeks
The instagram account of the Santa Barbara Sound Design studio revealed a photo showing how Depeche Mode left the studio...
A★I – Le Chant Du Cygne Noir (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-pop. Background/Info: My first feeling was that this band was the logical new project of Pedro Peñas Robles after...
‘Click Interview’ with nTTx: ‘It Boils Down To Thinking Of Some Altered Reality Where A Great Song Was Done In This Genre, And How That Would Play Out’
nTTx is a Canadian solo-project set up by Gord Clement. This artist got previously involved as singer into the promising...
Depeche Mode in the studio in Santa Barbara recording a new album – here’s the proof
(Photos by Johan Vanderhoeven) Side-Line reader Johan Vanderhoeven is in Santa Barbara, California right now, and he posted a picture...
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, ...)...
Lights Of Euphoria – Traumatized (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Background/Info: Twelve years have passed since the “Gegen Den Strom”-album (2004) released on Accession Records. We got...
Paul Kendall (Recoil, Nitzer Ebb, Depeche Mode, …) shows us his 10 favourite studio tools (Part 1)
Especially for the gear sluts out there, we have asked renown sound engineer, producer, mixer and composer Paul Kendall to...
Soulimage – Generator (CD EP – Soulimage-Music/Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Electro-rock & pop. Background/Info: Robert Eberl set up Soulimage in 2005. The band originally deals with electro-pop music, but...
Alphamay – Twisted Lines (CD Album – Timezone Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Alphamay is a German duo dealing with electro-pop which has released their debut album “Twisted Lines”...
Did you know this? Special extremely limited Depeche Mode T-shirt to celebrate Dave Gahan’s release from custody back in 1993
Here's a rare item which Dennis Burmeister (writer of the must-have luxurious edited Depeche Mode book "Depeche Mode : Monument...
Emmo.biz Records prepare special mega-limited Nitzer Ebb digipak edition box limited to just 77 copies
Out in 2 weeks from now, is a special re-release of Nitzer Ebb's last album "Industrial complex". The re-release comes...
Sadman – The Big Cut (CD Album – Memento Materia)
Genre/Influences: Dream-pop, cinematographic-pop, indie-pop. Background/Info: Sadman is a band I immediately felt in love with since their debut album “Cold...
Marsheaux’ tribute of Depeche Mode’s ‘A Broken Frame’ album now available for ordering as a 2CD with 12 bonus tracks
Out in a couple of weeks - and available here - is a double CD version of Marsheaux' tribute of Depeche...
Babylonia announces tourdates for Italy + new video for ‘Embrace Me’
Babylonia is doing 3 dates in Italy in February and April in Italy to promote the band's most recent output...
Leaether Strip – “I hate all this gear snobbery!” – Tech-Talk with DJ Wildhoney
The Danish EBM/Industrial project Leaether Strip was founded in 1988 by Claus Larsen. Leaether Strip will tour North-America in March/April...
Martin Gore reveals that work on a new Depeche Mode album starts in April
In RobCast, a weekly podcast by Rob Bella, Depeche Mode's Martin Gore has announced that Depeche Mode will 'probably' start...