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A couple of weeks ago we reported the news that Katrina - formerly with Katrina & The Waves - would be releasing a new album, 'Hearts, Loves & Babys', on August 28th and would be preceding that release with a new single 'Drive'. More details of those releases is HERE. Now Katrina has revealed the [...]

Gareth Jones, best known as producer and remixer for the likes of Depeche Mode, Erasure, John Foxx, Nick Cave, Interpol and more, has announced the release of his debut solo album. 'Electrogenetic' is a deeply personal album inspired by, and in tribute to, the recent loss of Jones' mother and mother-in-law. “The record is about [...]

The Human League have today announced that they will be celebrating the 40th anniversary of 'Dare' with a special celebratory tour in December 2021 which will see the band perform 'Dare' in its entirety alongside tracks from across their entire catalogue. Support at the shows will come from Altered Images, and the Thompson Twins' Tom [...]

Katrina & The Waves' Katrina Leskanich will release her new album, 'Hearts, Loves & Babys', on August 28th via her own label. The album is available for PRE-ORDER NOW and will be preceded by a single, 'Drive' on July 24th, which is also available to ORDER NOW. ALBUM TRACKLISTING Drive / Who We Are / [...]

Green Gartside has today released a new single featuring covers of songs by English folk singer Anne Briggs. The single is available digitally and on a limited-edition 7" single and features the tracks 'Wishing Well' and 'The Time Has Come'.

Martha & The Muffins were recently challenged by their manager to remake their 1984 track ‘Come Out and Dance’ into a new version appropriate for the current social distancing situation. The new version - 'Stay Home and Dance' - uses lyrics from the original song, updated for the new version and is intended as a [...]

Stephen Emmer (Minny Pops, The Lotus Eaters, The Associates etc) has written, recorded and released a brand new album whilst in lockdown. 'Maison Melody' - which "explores the idea of isolation, family and solitude" - is available for free, as a gift intended to "provide people with music in these uncertain times and to support [...]

Bananarama's Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward will tell their Bananarama story in a joint memoir, 'Really Saying Something - Sara & Keren: Our Story', which will be published by Penguin Books in October. The press release to announce the book promises that the book will see Sara and Keren "opening-up about the challenges of making [...]

T'Pau have released a new single, 'Be Wonderful', on their own Gnatfish Records label, and have made a quirky, funny, upbeat video, filmed while in lockdown, to accompany the release... 'Be Wonderful' is out now to STREAM OR DOWNLOAD.

There are few bands as influential on the sound of the 80s as Kraftwerk, and it is with very heavy hearts that we report the death of one of the band's founding members, Florian Schneider, at the age of 73 after a short battle with cancer. Danke für die Musik. RIP.