Tag: Cabaret Voltaire

New book “Listening to the Music the Machines Make” tells story of synthpop revolution

New book “Listening to the Music the Machines Make” tells story of synthpop revolution

Author Richard Evans delves deeply into “a true golden age of British pop” in his just-published book “Listening to the Music the Machines Make.”

Watch 16-minute trailer for post-punk series based on Simon Reynolds’ “Rip It Up and Start Again”

Watch 16-minute trailer for post-punk series based on Simon Reynolds’ “Rip It Up and Start Again”

Nikolaos Katranis and Russell Craig Richardson are working on a four-part documentary series on post-punk music, based on Simon Reynolds’ book “Rip It Up and Start Again.”

Cabaret Voltaire to release new EP, two drone albums — hear new song ‘Billion Dollar’

Cabaret Voltaire to release new EP, two drone albums — hear new song ‘Billion Dollar’

Electronic music pioneers Cabaret Voltaire — now just co-founder Richard H. Kirk — will follow up their first new studio album in 26 years with a three-song companion EP and two drone albums in the coming months, Mute Records has announced. Hear one of the new songs here.

Cabaret Voltaire premieres ‘What’s Goin’ On’ — 3rd new track off first album in 26 years

Cabaret Voltaire premieres ‘What’s Goin’ On’ — 3rd new track off first album in 26 years

Pioneering electronic music act Cabaret Voltaire — now just co-founder Richard H. Kirk — has debuted a third song off its first new album in 26 years, an eight-song collection called Shadow of Fear that’s due to be released this Friday via Mute Records. Hear the full song right here.

Cabaret Voltaire debuts ‘The Power (Of Their Knowledge)’ off first new album in 26 years

Cabaret Voltaire debuts ‘The Power (Of Their Knowledge)’ off first new album in 26 years

Pioneering electronic music act Cabaret Voltaire — now just co-founder Richard H. Kirk — today premiered the second song off its first new album in 26 years, an eight-song collection called Shadow of Fear that’s due to be released Nov. 20 via Mute Records. Hear the new song “The Power (Of Their Knowledge)” right here.

Cabaret Voltaire returns with first new album in 26 years — hear first single ‘Vasto’

Cabaret Voltaire returns with first new album in 26 years — hear first single ‘Vasto’

Pioneering electronic music act Cabaret Voltaire — now just co-founder Richard H. Kirk — will release its first new album in 26 years this November, an eight-song collection called Shadow of Fear that was born out of Kirk’s return to live performance in 2014. You can hear the first single, “Vasto,” right here.

New releases: The The, Brian Eno and Karl Hyde, X, Steve Wynn, Cabaret Voltaire

New releases: The The, Brian Eno and Karl Hyde, X, Steve Wynn, Cabaret Voltaire

This week’s new releases include the 30th anniversary vinyl reissue of The The’s ‘Soul Mining,’ a second brand-new album from Brian Eno and Karl Hyde, a reissue of X’s ‘More Fun in the New World,’ a collection from Steve Wynn called ‘Sketches in Spain,’ a Blow Monkeys reissue and a Cabaret Voltaire best-of.

New releases: Cabaret Voltaire, Peter Gabriel, Slint, The Gun Club

New releases: Cabaret Voltaire, Peter Gabriel, Slint, The Gun Club

This week’s new release include a brand-new Cabaret Voltaire compilation that spans both periods of the band (‘#7885: Electropunk to Technopop 1978-1985’), plus a new live concert film from Peter Gabriel, a reissue of Slint’s ‘Spiderland’ with bonus documentary, and two live sets from The Gun Club.

New releases: Jesus and Mary Chain, Cabaret Voltaire, Pogues, Daniel Ash, Durutti Column

New releases: Jesus and Mary Chain, Cabaret Voltaire, Pogues, Daniel Ash, Durutti Column

This week’s new releases include an 11LP box set from The Jesus and Mary Chain, 8CD box sets from Cabaret Voltaire and The Pogues, a 3CD box set from Daniel Ash of Bauhaus and Love and Rockets, and a new vinyl reissue of ‘The Return of the Durutti Column.’

New releases: New Model Army, Cabaret Voltaire, Dave Stewart, The Bongos, ABC

New releases: New Model Army, Cabaret Voltaire, Dave Stewart, The Bongos, ABC

This week’s new releases include brand-new studio albums from New Model Army and Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart, a box set of live recordings from Cabaret Voltaire, a “lost” album from The Bongos that was recorded in 1986 but never finished or released, and a reissue of a 1997 album from ABC.

New releases: Grant Hart, Curt Smith, Julian Cope, Cabaret Voltaire, The Birthday Party

New releases: Grant Hart, Curt Smith, Julian Cope, Cabaret Voltaire, The Birthday Party

This week’s new releases include new studio albums from Hüsker Dü’s Grant Hart, Tears For Fears’ Curt Smith and The Teardrop Explodes’ Julian Cope, plus vinyl reissues from Cabaret Voltaire, The Birthday Party and Deacon Blue, a new remix collection from Section 25 and an Icehouse best-of.

Cabaret Voltaire reissuing ‘Red Mecca’ on vinyl; giant box set, new comp on way

Cabaret Voltaire reissuing ‘Red Mecca’ on vinyl; giant box set, new comp on way

Mute Records is embarking on a new series of Cabaret Voltaire releases that will begin this summer with a vinyl reissue of the group’s 1981 album Red Mecca, to be followed this fall by a new box set collecting four early- to mid-’80s albums “alongside bonus CDs and DVDs” and, in early 2014, a new compilation.

New book ‘Assimilate’ billed as ‘first serious study published on industrial music’

New book ‘Assimilate’ billed as ‘first serious study published on industrial music’

With his new book “Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music,” author S. Alexander Reed — a University of Florida music theory professor and frontman of ThouShaltNot — has compiled what is being billed as both the “first serious study published on industrial music” and the “definitive treatment of the genre.”