Visceral electronic artist Blue Stahli has released a new single titled ‘Never Dance Again’. While still in keeping with his tradition of crafting cinematic electro-rock epics, this latest single is touted as a musical love letter to the 80s with a jarring thematic sting in the tail. As a result this latest track oozes sweepingsynths and veers into the disco camp of acts like the Scissor Sisters whilst taking the track into hilarious lyrical territory[...]

It’s hard for me to write about futurepop because it’s not often that I find a synth pop band that resonates with me. This album is supposed to have a “constantly shifting, idiosyncratic neo-retro aesthetic” which admittedly, although I could break down all those words, still does not mean much to me. With that being said, this album really started to click with me about halfway through on ‘No One,’ where the symphonic approach, rhythmic synths and a steel guitar combine[...]

The double a-side ‘Straight To Video’/'Marlborough Road’ marks not only just the latest release from Jonny Cola & The A-Grades, but also the acts first new material following frontman Jonny’s life-saving kidney transplant. Arriving as a testament to the passion and dedication of the London glam-pop quintet, the two track offering is available to own as both a limited edition 7″ and an audio download[...]

KMFDM have come roaring back with their eighteenth album ‘KUNST’. Sure, they hadn’t really gone anywhere – I rather enjoyed ‘WTF?!’ – but this album packs so much more punch than the KMFDM’s other recent albums, ‘WTF?!’ included. It seems as if Sascha “Kap’n K” Konietzko really took the reins on this album, and it feels great. Sure, on some levels KMFDM is doing more of the same, but that is awesome for fans of the band or for fans of the now-scarce industrial metal genre[...]

I’d never heard of Tweaker before this album and man have I been missing out. I’ve always been a fan of pre-‘With Teeth’ Nine Inch Nails, so when I looked into Tweaker I was excited to find that Chris Vrenna, NIN’s drummer for the first 8 years, was the man helming the project. As you might expect, the percussion is phenomenal throughout the album, functioning as the driving force behind every track[...]

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is an epic that threatens to match, if not exceed the scale of Peter Jackson’s Lord Of The Rings movie trilogy. Though this is undoubtedly an amazing film in it’s own right, the looming spectre of these adaptations is almost inescapable, with returning stars, like Ian Holm as an aged Bilbo and Elijah Wood’s Frodo making modest appearances[...]

Matt Fanale has been tearing up the industrial scene for a decade, but his presence seems timeless, as if he’s always been around. It’s his raw and unforgettable ingenuity that has made his music so prevalent. His new album, ‘The Man Who Couldn’t Stop’, definitely sticks out among his albums as his most diverse and innovative album to date. All of the Caustic elements of the past are still here[...]

This latest record takes the lessons learned on ‘Walking With Strangers’ and ‘Pins And Needles’ to pack all the aggressive instrumental weight of tracks like ‘Blue’ and the gentler ‘In The Dark’ into an album that keeps up the perky chimes and ambient synth that have hitherto characterised the band. With a sound as distinctive as The Birthday Massacre there’s only so many places to take their work[...]