First Light - the debut album from Fader, a new band formed by Neil Arthur(Blancmange/Near Future) and Benge (Wrangler/John Foxx And The Maths) - is due out on 23rd June.
Listen to the radio edit of 'I Prefer Solitude' HERE
The music was recorded and mixed at Benge's MemeTune Studios while Arthur recorded his own vocals in his home studio. The resulting album is full of twisted electronic pop songs and haunting atmospherics with lyrics from Arthur that explore internalised, dead-of-night fears to stream-of-conscious visions of city life and evocative descriptions of lost and lonely figures who find themselves out of time and out of place.
Listen to the song 'First Light' HERE

Tracklist:

1 3D Carpets
2 Check The Power
3 I Prefer Solitude
4 Way Out
5 First Light
6 Wonderland
7 Liverpool Brick
8 Guilt, Doubt And Fear
9 Trip To The Coast
10 Winter Garden
11 Laundrette

soundcloud.com/user-852025421/first-light

Our partners from BodyBeats Productions keep on bringing good news to the fans Electronic Body Music and Electronic music in general. This time they have just announced a double bill event featuring two of the most legendary electro-cross-over and EBM bands, who have been around for three decades and are still kicking ass today... DIE KRUPPS + FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY!!!!!

DIE KRUPPS (D) are one of those early pioneers of Electronic and Industrial music who have inspired bands like FRONT 242, NITZER EBB and many more!
With their first and very industrial sounding album ‘Stahlwerksinfonie’ (1981) the clubhit and cult single ‘Wahre Arbeit Wahrer Lohn’ (1981) and the following albums ‘Volle Kraft Voraus’ and ‘Entering The Arena’, Die Krupps laid down the foundation for what became Electronic Body Music or E.B.M...

In 2015, DIE KRUPPS released their fifth studio album ‘V – Metal Machine Music’ and recently they announced their "V 1/2" release is imminent!

FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY is also one of those influential Electro-Industrial pioneer bands but was formed in Canada by Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber after Leeb left Skinny Puppy. Influenced by early electronic and post-industrial acts such as Cabaret Voltaire, Portion Control, Test Department and Severed Heads Front Line Assembly managed to develop its own sound combining these with the elements of EBM (Electronic Body Music). Just like Die Krupps, Front Line Assembly has never disappeared from the (underground) music scene and still strikes back regularly with new, hard hitting albums, releases and concerts!!!
No doubt this is an unique event that is not to be missed!

www.bodybeats.be/en/tickets/25-08-die-krupps-front-line-assembly

After their amazing headlining performance at BIMFEST 2015 and on high demand by both the band and their fans BodyBeats Productions succeeded in bringing them back to Belgium, and this time for an exclusive Belgian 'Best Of' club show at the wonderful and cosy venue De Casino, St-Niklaas, B, on the 25th of May.
Project Pitchfork is a German electro band, founded in 1990 in Hamburg. It is among the most successful and influential representatives of the dark electro genre, which one characterizes decided since the early nineties and led to unprecedented results. The two driving forces behind the band until today Peter Spilles and Dirk Scheuber. Because Peter came from Hamburg, and Dirk came from the new federal Eastern states, Project Pitchfork band are considered first "German-German" band at all.
In November 2016 Project Pitchfork released their 16th studio and critically acclaimed album 'Look up, I'm Down Here'.
Project Pitchfork on Facebook:
Project Pitchfork Official
www.project-pitchfork.eu

Belgian NU-EBM heads The Juggernauts will have the honor to open this night presenting their latest album 'The Juggernauts Are Coming'.
The Juggernauts on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/TheJuggernauts/
www.thejuggernauts.be

25.05 Project Pitchfork + The Juggernauts @ De Casino - St- Niklaas - B (Tickets & Info)
Facebook Event

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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark are excited to announce the new album The Punishment of Luxury and unveil the video for the track La Mitrailleuse!

The album will be released on 1st September. Pre-order now and receive La Mitrailleuse instantly, as well as other tracks as soon as they are released. Online store: http://found.ee/OMD_Store

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark are also heading out on tour in support of the album. Tickets are on sale on Friday and VIP packages are on sale on Wednesday. Dates and ticket details are available on the website: http://www.omd.uk.com/

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Lydia Lunch and Cypress Grove previously unsettled the conventionally calm and respectful world of the cover song.

Lydia Lunch and Cypress Grove previously unsettled the conventionally calm and respectful world of the cover song with a number of fractured productions. As you might expect the choice of songs on this collection is a disconcerting array of material ranging from the hugely popular to the wildly obscure; from Jon Bon Jovi to Nashville troubadour Aaron Lee Tasjan, Doors and many others.

Lydia Lunch is both a prodigious collaborator (Nick Cave, Sonic Youth, Rowland S. Howard et al) and a remarkable interpreter of other people’s work. It may therefore come as a surprise to learn that “Under The Covers” is her first album to consist entirely of songs by other artists.

This album also marks her third collaborative effort with British guitarist Cypress Grove, building on the success of their previous albums, “A Fistful Of Desert Blues” and “Twin Horses”. Grove is also something of a serial collaborator, having worked with Nick Cave, Mark Lanegan and Jeffrey Lee Pierce, to name but a few.

Lunch and Grove have previously unsettled the conventionally calm and respectful world of the cover song with a number of fractured productions. These include a controversial take on The Eagles frequently reviled ’70s anthem “Hotel California”. Their version of the song so dramatically realigned the central narrative of the song that many listeners were forced to rethink their hostility towards the original composition. Lydia Lunch is a self-confessed contrarian who delights in reinterpreting the songs people (including herself) love to hate.

As you might expect, the choice of songs on this collection is a disconcerting array of material ranging from the hugely popular to the wildly obscure; from the bombast of hair rocker Jon Bon Jovi to the introspection of emerging Nashville troubadour Aaron Lee Tasjan. The roster also includes a harrowing reworking of Bobbie Gentry’s Southern Gothic classic “Ode To Billie Joe” – a thematically obscure tale of love, death, abortion and suicide.

In a typically oblique move, Lunch also decided to cover one of her own compositions. “Won’t Leave You Alone” is a song she co-wrote with James Johnston (Gallon Drunk/ PJ Harvey/ Bad Seeds). Here we see the song mutate from blues rock prophecy to haunting folk lament.

Whether it be original songs penned together or the masterful interpretation of classic material on “Under the Covers”, Lydia Lunch and Cypress Grove continue to delight with the warped beauty of their unconventional coupling.

TRACKING LIST

1- Ode to Billie Joe
(Bobbie Gentry)
Lydia Lunch – Vocals
Cypress Grove – Guitars, Bass, Keyboards
Mick Cozens – Harmonica

2 – Breakdown
(Tom Petty)
Lydia Lunch – Vocals
Cypress Grove – Guitars, Bass
Suzie Stapleton – Vocals

3 – A Thousand Miles Of Bad Road
(Aaron Lee Tasjan)
Lydia Lunch – Vocals
Cypress Grove – Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Vocals

4 – Blaze Of Glory
(John Bon Jovi)
Lydia Lunch – Vocals
Cypress Grove – Guitars
Mick Cozens – Guitars, Bass, Harmonica

5 – Red, White And Pink Slip Blues
(Mark Stephen Jones/Bud Tower)
Lydia Lunch – Vocals
Cypress Grove – Guitars, Bass, Vocals
Suzie Stapleton – Vocals
Danilo Menna – Drums

6 – Midnight Rider
(Gregg Allman/Robert Payne)
Lydia Lunch – Vocals
Cypress Grove – Guitars, Bass
Mick Cozens – Guitars
Suzie Stapleton – Vocals

7 – The Spy
(Jim Morrison)
Lydia Lunch – Vocals
Cypress Grove – Guitars
Mick Cozens – Guitars, Bass

8 – I Want You
(Elvis Costello)
Lydia Lunch – Vocals
Cypress Grove – Guitars, Vocals
Mick Cozens – Guitars, Bass

9 – Won’t Leave You Alone
(Lydia Lunch/James Johnston)
Lydia Lunch – Vocals
Cypress Grove – Guitars, Vocals
Mick Cozens – Harmonica

10 – Do It Again
(Walter Becker/Donald Fagen)
Lydia Lunch – Vocals
Cypress Grove – Guitars, Bass
Mick Cozens – Guitars, Keyboards, Harmonica

11 – Low
(David Lowery/Johnny Hickman/Davey Faragher)
Lydia Lunch – Vocals
Cypress Grove – Guitars, Keyboard, Bass
Mick Cozens – Guitars
Suzie Stapleton – Vocal

www.lydia-lunch.net