This October, Cranes will be releasing a new, self-titled album and embarking on a European tour. “Cranes” comes out on 10/13 in Europe, with the tour kicking off in Paris the following day. A full list of dates can be found on the official Cranes website. Vocalist Alison Shaw is also featured on “Other Electricities,” the debut album from Dokkemand. For more info on that project, check out dokkemand.no.
Clint Mansell (Pop Will Eat Itself) has teamed up once again with director Darren Aronofsky to provide music for the new film “The Wrestler.” The movie, which stars Mickey Rourke, recently won the Best Picture ‘Golden Lion’ Award at the Venice Film Festival. Mansell had previously scored Aronofsky’s “The Fountain,” “Requiem for a Dream” and “Pi.”
Legendary Slovenian industrial band Laibach will be returning this fall for their first US tour since 2004. The dates are:
09.22.08 Seattle, WA Showbox @ The Market
09.23.08 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom
09.25.08 San Francisco, CA Independent
09.26.08 Los Angeles, CA Key Club
09.28.08 Tijuana, Mexico El Foro
09.30.08 New York, NY Fillmore
For more info on Laibach and their other recent projects (which include LAIBACHKUNSTDERFUGE – “the laibachian interpretation of Johann Sebastian Bach’s work The Art of Fugue (Die Kunst der Fuge)”), check out their website at : www.laibach.nsk.si.
One of the more pleasant musical surprises of last year was the release of new material from Information Society, the electronic pop group best known for the 1988 dance club hit “What’s On Your Mind? (Pure Energy).” Though the “Oscillator” EP and “Synthesizer” full-length featured newcomer Christopher Christopher Anton on most of the lead vocals, original members Paul Robb and James Cassidy maintained the essence of classic Information Society while giving it a modern edge. In an email interview, Robb discussed reasons for the band’s return, clarified that original vocalist Kurt Harland IS very much part of the current line-up, and more.
Due to excessive spamming on the interactive areas, my karaokeforever.com site has been taken off-line. I’m not sure when, but it WILL be back in some form. In the meantime, please take a look at my main site, Chaos Control Digizine. It features an EXTENSIVE collection of interviews with bands and musicians, focusing on (but not limited to) electronic, dance, and gothic styles.
Click here to see the full list of interviews.
Thanks for the support!
Foetus (aka J.G. Thirlwell) is back with a new CD/DVD set entitled LOVE.
“LOVE is a sweeping dramatic epic drenched in harpsichord and orchestras with jarring left turns, bombast and seduction. It features duet with Jennifer Charles of Elysian Fields and an appearance by the amazing Pamelia Kurstin, the world’s foremost thereminist!
“It also comes with a DVD containing 3 videos from LOVE including Blessed Evening directed by Karen O (YeahYeahYeahs) with director of photography Spike Jonze, and (not adam) directed by Jeremy Solterbeck, with trailers of the J.G. Thirlwell-scored Venture Brothers (currently airing on Adult Swim/Cartoon Network), as well as classic early live footage, the Rotoskop video Mary Magdalene featuring JGT, a video meditation on the song How to Vibrate by Kurt Ralske, never before seen footage from upcoming J.G. Thirlwell documentary and much much more! and lets not forget the deluxe 12 page booklet!”
The new release is available from the Foetus online shop at www.foetus.org. It’s priced at $14.00 plus/postage handling, and comes with a free sticker.
• Click to read a 2002 interview we did with Thirlwell
• Official Foetus website