The Belgian band Organic has just released its first single, "Waves Are Running", a postpunk jewel that reminds us of The Sound, Cabaret Voltaire and Interpol. You can download it for free in mp3 format on soundcloud here. It's the first release off their upcoming album called "Fist, Food and Fury", due in the summer. Pro memorie, Organic is the project of Joris Oster, bassist in Yel and in Silver Riot, and Raphaël Haubourdin, composer and singer of Graceland. Check the review of their concert at the FantastiqueNight here.
Wave Gotik Treffen added some new names : GENETIKS (D) , IN SLAUGHTER NATIVES (S) , THE INVINCIBLE SPIRIT (D) , RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY (GB) , CORONATUS (D) , SIXTH JUNE (SRB) , JORDAN REYNE (NZ) , EMPUSAE (B)
The list so far:
Accessory (D) - Ain Soph (I) - Arise-X (D) - Aura Noctis (E) - Autodafeh (S) - Binary Park (GB) - Black Light Ascension (GB) - Blitzmaschine (D) - Christopher Anton (USA) - Combichrist (N) - Controlled Collapse (PL) - Coronatus (D) - Cylix (GR) - Dogma (ARM) - Dr. Geek And The Freakshow (D) - Dreadful Shadows (D) - Dreams Divide (GB) - Eden Weint Im Grab (D) - Eisbrecher (D) - Element (USA) - Empusae (B) - Escalator (H) - Evi Vine (GB) - Fliehende Stürme (D) - Freakangel (EST) - Galerie Schallschutz (D) - Genetiks (D) - Global Citizen (GB) - Grendel (NL) - Hekate (D) 20jähriges Jubiläum mit Überraschungsgästen - Illuminate (D) - Imperial Vengeance (GB) - In Slaughter Natives (S) - Jännerwein (A) - Jordan Reyne (NZ) - Klutae (DK) - Larva (E) - Les Jumeaux Discordants (I) - Les Yeux Sans Visage (CH) -Love Is Colder Than Death (D) - Luftwaffe (USA) - Melotron (D) - Mesh (GB) - Mignon (D) - Minamata (F) - Mueran Humanos (RA) - Musk Ox (CDN) - Oniric (I) - Opera Multi Steel (F) - Press Gang Metropol (vormals Corpus Delicti) (F) - Projekt Mensch (D) Weltpremiere -Red Lorry Yellow Lorry (GB) - Rhombus (GB) - Romina Salvadori (I) - Schöngeist (D) - Sixth June (SRB) - Spiral 69 (I) - Steven Severin (GB) präsentiert Carl Theodor Dreyers "Vampyr" - Subheim (GR) - Synapscape (D) - Terrolokaust (E) - The Crimson Ghosts (D) - The Eden House (GB) - The Fright (D) - The House Of Usher (D) - The Invincible Spirit (D) - The Names (B) - Thorofon (D) - Traumtaenzer (D) - Unto Ashes (USA) - Wardruna (N) - Wieloryb (PL)
Finally the line up of the second Nordstern Festivals is complete!
The organizers from the Nordstern Festival try to stick to the idea of presenting bands that you can only rarely see at the big festivals:
The Belgian EBM combo THE JUGGERNAUTS is just such a band. They formed in late 2010 and their first song „Phoenix“ was released in July 2011 as part of the „Awake The Machines 7“ sampler released by Out Of Line.
The JUGGERNAUTS have the honour to opene on Friday at the Markthalle.
With 18 bands on 2 days and in 2 two venues, a Kick Off - and an Aftershow Party the nordstern festival team is going to offer you a superb program in beautiful Hamburg.
Below you can find all relevant festival information:
Line Up:
Markthalle (Big Hall), Friday, 13.07.2012:
DIVE
NACHTMAHR
HAUJOBB
:SITD:
BLIND PASSENGER
THE JUGGERNAUTS
Markthalle (Marx), Friday, 13.07.2012:
EISENFUNK
LIGHTS OF EUPHORIA
MONOLITH
X-RX
NEUROTIC MASS MOVEMENT (Winner of the Newcomer contest)
MOON.74 (Winner of the Newcomer contest)
Stadtpark, Saturday, 14.07.2012:
APOPTYGMA BERZERK
PROJECT PITCHFORK
MESH
NORTHERN LITE
SOLITARY EXPERIMENTS
THE EXPLODING BOY!
Ticketys, news and more information concerning the festival can also be found at:
Tickets also allow you to use public transport in Hamburg (HVV) free of charge.
EMI are excited to announce the release of a 40th anniversary edition of David Bowie’s truly groundbreaking and hugely influential album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars.
Originally released through RCA Victor on 6th June 1972, Ziggy Stardust was David Bowie’s fifth album, co-produced by Bowie and Ken Scott. Incredibly, the album was written whilst Bowie was recording 1971’s Hunky Dory album, with recording beginning a couple of months before that album’s release. It was recorded at Trident Studios, London between 8th November 1971 and 4th February 1972, with the line up: Mick Ronson (guitar, piano, backing vocals, string arrangements), Trevor Bolder (bass), Mick Woodmansey (drums), Rick Wakeman (keyboards) and backing vocals on ‘It Ain’t Easy’ by Dana Gillespie. As well as performing vocals, Bowie also played acoustic guitar, saxophone and harpsichord on the album and was involved in the arrangements too.
The album eventually peaked at #5 on the UK Album Chart on 22nd July having entered the chart at #15 on 1st July. Key to the album’s rise in the UK were the two TV performances of “Starman” on Granada TV’s Lift Off With Ayshea and nationally on the BBC’s Top Of The Pops. The album’s influence is immeasurable – it converted legions of fans, becoming the zeitgeist and a major influence on the next generation, particular those who were involved in the punk movement – musicians, artists, designers – and the subsequent re-birth of rock and pop.
Famously Bowie killed Ziggy at his peak at London’s Hammersmith Odeon, on July 3rd, 1973, though Ziggy Stardust’s influence was to redefine popular culture forever: pop music was never the same again.
This 40th anniversary edition has been remastered by original Trident Studios engineer Ray Staff (at London’s Air Studios). It will be available on CD and a special, limited edition format of vinyl featuring the new 2012 remaster with a 5.1 mix and high resolution audio on DVD – the DVD features previously unreleased 5.1 and stereo bonus 2003 Ken Scott mixes of Moonage Daydream (instrumental), The Supermen, Velvet Goldmine and Sweet Head.
Mannequin and Sacred Bones are honoured to join their forces to offer you one of the best UK New Wave reissue from the 80's. UV PØP were an early 80’s post-punk group from the South Yorkshire region of England. Their sound was regionally bleak and they used staccato, angular guitars lines, with vocals ranged from spoken repeated mantras to whispered and shouted political poetics. An excerpt from the album’s liner notes penned by JP Shea helps explain the political climate during which this album was recorded: “In the 1980s there was nothing to smile about; nothing to smile for.
The person whom some called wrongly the iron lady brought vengeful spiteful selfishness and a narrow-minded out- look into all our lives. Instead of love and respect there was: a three-day week, Miners strike, and The Falklands War. The sound of UV PØP has always been a sophisticated blend of sadness; with morose North Country sense and a humorous confrontational sensibility.
So, you might ask why ‘No Songs Tomorrow’? There is the answer. UV PØP and John White were as certain as anybody there was a strong possibility there might not be anything left with which to make a tomorrow….The fight back, the resistance came in the miners’ strike, on the streets of north Ireland and in the sovereignty of popular culture. And, there was plenty of that in Yorkshire and particularly in the southernmost parts of that region. Working class poets had not all died with the Victorians.
The Rough Trade charts for one week in 1982 tell a very interesting story. Alongside acts of the caliber of Sisters of Mercy, Robert Wyatt, Sex Gang Children and Virgin Prunes are UV PØP, their place well-earned.”
