Mignon's new album “Toys Tantrum” will be released on 9 February 2018. The album will be available at record shops in the USA, the Netherlands, Germany, UK and on all digital platforms. You can pre-order “Toys Tantrum” from Mignon's online shop: http://mignonmusic.bigcartel.com/. Special coloured blue vinyl is available at the shop and shows.

3DFLY, featuring Dirk Da Davo (The Neon Judgement/Neon Electronics) releases EP!
3DFLY is a one-off project of Dirk Da Davo (known from his New Wave past with The Neon Judgement) and Make Makena, who shared productions and stages with, amongst others, The The, Screaming Trees, Bootsy Collins and many more. They met a few years ago, there was a spark and they decided that when the right time came they would start a musical adventure together... and the time came. They decided to call their project “3DFLY”.
3DFLY fuses groovy basslines with stunning beats and rebellious lyrics that are not pulling any punches. Keep an eye on 3DFLY!
A remarkable meeting of two musicians.
Release date: 12th February 2018
3DFLY EP (Tracklist)
1. Avalanche
2. How Much More
3. Money Back
4. Madness
Below you can watch the video of Avalanche!

The Arch announces new album concept and will release one brand new song every month of 2018!
In 2016, The Arch released Fates, some say one of their best albums so far!
The band played the biggest festivals like M’era Luna, Wfest, Young & Cold festival in Augsburg and headline shows in Paris, London and Cologne. They also joined Skinny Puppy and Clan of Xymox in den Haag and Oberhausen.
"We didn’t stop making music”. We had so many ideas and songs that we wanted to make a successor for Fates.
In December 2018 we will release a new album with 12 new songs but we want to release each song seperately through the year. Every month a new one will be launched on itunes/spotify through Trisol. Each song will be created, mixed and finished before we start other ones. Why? Each song is a world on its own: a different story, atmosphere and sound. We want to have another approach than the usual, when a band goes into the studio with an amount of songs, and finish them as a whole, with the same global sound.
In a way, we start an album without being an album. And also not knowing how it will sound at the end. That makes it a whole different approach. And it makes us curious. It’s like an adventure.
In the end we have 12 songs that are also inspired by the month we are releasing it.
Winter will be different than Autumn. Maybe darker. Maybe warmer. We don’t know. Every song gets special artwork and sleeve so they all look like singles. We are also working on video material to release with every track."
The first song: ‘Blood Crystals’ (release date 02/02/2018)
"After reading ‘The Girl Who Played with Fire’, the second novel in the Millennium series by the Swedish writer, Stieg Larsson, we were inspired to write that song. At the end Lisbeth Salander is buried alive. When you are listening to our song, you got to imagine what is happening, when you’re buried alive yourself and you suddenly realize it. "
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European Tour 2018
09/02/2018 - Matrix Bochum (DE)
23/02/2018 - Magasin 4 Brussels (BE)
12/10/2018 - Autumn Moon Festival (DE)
More tbc

JOACHIM WITT, QNTAL, IN THE NURSERY, RROYCE & MANY OTHERS TO COMPLETE THE AMPHI LINE-UP 2018
XIV. AMPHI FESTIVAL 2018
28. & 29.07.2018 – COLOGNE | TANZBRUNNEN
JOACHIM WITT, QNTAL, IN THE NURSERY & MANY OTHERS
TO COMPLETE THE AMPHI LINE-UP 2018
How could February have had a better start, than with a bunch of new bands being announced for Amphi Festival? The final eight bands for 2018 are here and from the "Beautiful Rider" to the rivet-studded skullcap man, from cultrock to bondagepop we crack the whip for a last time. Please welcome:
JOACHIM WITT
QNTAL + IN THE NURSERY
WHISPERS IN THE SHADOW + PRIEST
ES23 + SCHEUBER + RROYCE
XIV. AMPHI FESTIVAL 2018 COMPLETE LINE-UP!
28. – 29. Juli 2018 DE – Köln | Tanzbrunnen
AND ONE + ASP + OMD + OOMPH! + MONO INC. + AGONOIZE
MIDGE URE + GOETHES ERBEN + SOLAR FAKE + JOACHIM WITT
AESTHETIC PERFECTION + UNZUCHT + NEUROTICFISH + FUNKER VOGT
[:SITD:] + ASSEMBLAGE 23 + GRENDEL + QNTAL + IN THE NURSERY
GIRLS UNDER GLASS + [X]-RX + SHE PAST AWAY + LEBANON HANOVER
MAD SIN + THE CREEPSHOW + CENTHRON + GRAUSAME TÖCHTER
HELDMASCHINE + PERSEPHONE + KIEW + SOVIET SOVIET
WHISPERS IN THE SHADOW + A PROJECTION + CORDE OBLIQUE
PRIEST + FUTURE LIED TO US + ES23 + INTENT:OUTTAKE
SCHEUBER + SYNTHATTACK + RROYCE + LA SCALTRA
Info: www.amphi-festival.de or www.facebook.com/amphifestival
Original tickets: exclusively available at www.amphi-shop.de (worldwide shipping)

Today, exactly 39 years ago, John Peel broadcast the first Peel Sessions, performed by Joy Division
Today, exactly 39 years ago John Peel broadcast the first Peel Sessions, a studio live session performed and recorded by Joy Division at the BBC Maida Vale studios in London on January 31st, 1979.
Below the setlist of this recording & broadcast session.
Exercise One
Insight
She's Lost Control
Transmission
At the time of broadcasting, all performed songs were previously unreleased.
Later that same year, on 10th December, John Peel broadcast a second recording session by Joy Division
7 years later, in 1986, the first 'The Peel Sessions' EP, was released by Strange Fruit Records. The version of Transmission featured on this EP is one of the few recordings available where both Ian Curtis and Bernard Sumner played guitars at the same time.
The EP spent thirteen weeks on the UK Indie Chart, peaking at number 4.
The release of a second volume of the Joy Division Peel Sessions would follow in 1987.
Below you can listen to the original repeat tranmission broadcasted by John Peel on 5th April.