Throbbing Gristle 's 'Live at the Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005' Is Out Today On Mute

THROBBING GRISTLE LIVE AT THE VOLKSBÜHNE, BERLIN,  NEW YEAR’S EVE 2005 OUT NOW ON MUTE

Photo Credit: Paul Heartfield

Throbbing Gristle’s Live at the Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005 is now available as a stand-alone release on vinyl, CD and digitally via Mute. Recorded 20 years ago, the 11-track live album was originally available on the recently sold out box set, TG Berlin. The show featured five songs from Part Two: The Endless Not, the band’s first album in 27 years, several years before its release. The set, described by Uncut as “magisterial,” also included “Convincing People,” “Slug Bait,” and of course, “Hamburger Lady,” tracks that had lost none of their potency in the intervening years. In 2004, Throbbing Gristle, Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (1950-2020) and Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson (1955-2010), regrouped and the following six years became a period of renewed creativity for the band. Back in the studio after 20 years, they found group intuition when performing was intact and their ability to break down barriers and forge connections with an audience was more powerful than ever.   TG Berlin and Live at the Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005 are the latest releases in an ongoing collaboration with Mute, compelling documents of Throbbing Gristle performing and recording as a four-piece with a renewed vigour. From the opening beats and serrated electronics of one of their final tracks recorded together, “Scabs & Saws”, it’s clear that TG are not revisiting ground already tread, but bringing two decades of individual experience back into the studio to create a new exploration of sound. The vocals have a different depth, the groove is deeper, and the atmosphere has lost none of its potency. Throbbing Gristle formed in 1975, and for the next six years they fully delivered on punk’s failed promise to explore extreme culture as a way of sabotaging systems of control. During that time, they released crucial records such as The Second Annual Report Of Throbbing Gristle (1977), D.O.A The Third And Final Report Of Throbbing Gristle (1978), and 20 Jazz Funk Greats (1979) and were infamously named “wreckers of civilisation” by the Conservative MP Nicholas Fairbairn in 1976. From 2004, they embarked on a series of live performances, including Coachella and Primavera festivals, Tate Modern, and Heaven, and returned to the studio to produce several albums including TG Now (2004), and Part Two: The Endless Not (2007), as well as a 3-day “studio installation” at the ICA before disbanding in 2010. Their impact on music, culture and the arts has been immeasurable, and is still felt today across music, film, theatre, and fine art. Throbbing Gristle: Chris Carter: Rhythms, Loops, Synth Cosey Fanni Tutti: Guitar, Cornet, Melodica, Sampler Genesis P-Orridge: Vocals, Violin, Bass Peter Christopherson: Sampler, Persephone keyboard Live at the Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005 is out now on Mute. Purchase or stream it HERE.

Live at the Volksbühne Berlin, New Year’s Eve 2005 track listing:   1. Trumpet Herald  2. Convincing People 3. Splitting Sky  4. Slug Bait  5. Rabbit Snare 6. Almost A Kiss 7. Greasy Poo  8. Endless Not  9. Vow of Silence 10. PA Destroyer 11. Hamburger Lady purchase or stream HERE.    CONNECT WITH THROBBING GRISTLE: WEB | TWITTER | BLUESKY  CONNECT WITH MUTE:  FACEBOOK | BLUESKY | TWITTER | INSTAGRAM | TIK TOK | WEB

American EBM virtuosos YOUTH CODE release ‘Yours, With Malice’

American EBM virtuosos YOUTH CODE release
Yours, With Malice EP

Their first musical output in 4+ years is out today—  stream/share focus track "I'm Sorry"

See YOUTH CODE in NYC [sold out] 5/23, CHI [tix] 5/24, L.A. [sold out] 6/7

"Not for the faint hearted or easily harshed..." - Consequence

"...a hard-hitting reminder of Youth Code's mesh of intricacy and intensity." - Knotfest

"the California EBM duo are carrying on the only way they know how: violently and as pissed off as ever" - Revolver

"Industrial darlings Youth Code are back and they are not fucking around." - VICE

Photo credit Atiba Jefferson 

American EBM virtuosos Youth Code have returned with their first musical output in four years: Yours, With Malice, officially released today on Sumerian Records.

Nothing hits harder than life, as they say, and the series of bloody-knuckle bouts to get to the release of Yours, With Malice led to some deep introspection by Youth Code regarding who they are, what they’ve accomplished and their next steps. These last few years of self-reflection found Youth Code stewing in a simmering cauldron of bile and vitriol as Yours, With Malice is clearly their most intricate, well-crafted and blood-thirsty release to date.  

Yours, With Malice roars and tramples like an armor-plated, weaponized bulldozer, pulverizing skulls into fine powder, while bubbling sub-bass, bone-snapping snare hits, sizzling hi-hats and rib-rattling kicks bounce off of the floors like spent shells. Sanford Parker’s powerful mix gives the effort a strong shove in the right direction– the subtle but careful ear for melody that connects all the songs, grounds them, and keeps the listener chained to the “repeat” button.  Today, the EP closer "I'm Sorry" arrives to celebrate release date.

Listen / share / playlist "I'm Sorry" on DSP's

While some of the sounds and references on Yours… come from classic 90s influences such as Nine Inch Nails’ classic Broken/Fixed duality, the untouchable middle period Ministry era that spawned The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste, in addition to a plethora of others like Front 242, Cabaret Voltaire, and Portion Control, the core attack has not changed much for the Los Angeles-based duo. 

What has changed is Youth Code’s attention to detail and their hyper focus on execution in songwriting, two things that can only come from the wellspring of knowledge found in a band that has been at it for more than a decade.  The group began in 2012 as a project between partners Ryan George and Sara Taylor, inspired by the classic sounds of New Order, Depeche Mode and the hardcore punk that soundtracked so much of their youth. What emerged was a demo cassette that led to a 7” release on Angry Love, the first band unrelated to the legendary Psychic TV to be released on that label. A self-titled album followed, then 2014’s A Place to Stand EP, and 2016’s Commitment to Complications LP, all while touring with a diverse groups like Chelsea Wolfe, HEALTH, Skinny Puppy, and more, in addition to arena shows with My Chemical Romance and main stage appearances with Nine Inch Nails. Heaps of press accolades followed before the pandemic hit, and now, in 2025, Youth Code return with their magnum opus.

Pick up Yours, With Malice here and here, and see Youth Code live in Brooklyn, Chicago and Los Angeles in the coming weeks:

Youth Code, live:

May 23  Brooklyn, NY - Gold Sounds [sold out]
May 24  Chicago, IL - Sleeping Village [tickets]
Jun. 07  Los Angeles, CA - The Echo [sold out]

Yours, With Malice cover art:

Yours, With Malice track list:

1. No Consequence
2. Wishing Well
3. In Search of Tomorrow
4. Make Sense
5. I'm Sorry

 

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Wolf Alice Announce North American Tour

WOLF ALICE ANNOUNCE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR   NEW ALBUM THE CLEARING OUT AUGUST 29 – PRE-ORDER/ADD/SAVE   NEW SINGLE AND OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO FOR ‘BLOOM BABY BLOOM’ OUT NOW

WATCH | LISTEN ‘BLOOM BABY BLOOM’   PRE-ORDER/ADD/SAVE THE CLEARING (ALBUM) NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES Sep 10 - Atlanta, GA - Buckhead Sep 12 - Washington, DC - 930 Club Sep 15 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer Sep 19 - Brooklyn, NY - Paramount Sep 20 - Boston, MA - House of Blues Sep 22 - Montreal, QB - Beanfield Theatre Sep 23 - Toronto, ON - History Sep 25 - Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall Sep 26 - Chicago, IL - The Vic Sep 27 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue Sep 30 - Austin, TX - Emo's Oct 1 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues Oct 3 - Denver, CO - Ogden Oct 4 - Salt Lake City, UT - Complex Oct 6 - Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo Oct 7 - Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom Oct 8 - Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom Oct 10 - Oakland, CA - Fox Theatre Oct 11 - Pomona, CA - Fox Theatre Oct 13 - Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern     Wolf Alice have shared details of a huge headline tour in celebration of their recently announced fourth studio album The Clearing,due out on August 29. The 20-date North American leg of the tour starts on September 10 in Atlanta, GA, taking the quartet across the east coast, south and mid-west before winding up on the west coast in Los Angeles at The Wiltern. For more information and tickets go to https://www.wolfalice.co.uk   This tour will also be their most ambitious to date, playing the biggest and most coveted stages of their decade-long career, including the O2 Arena in London. Wolf Alice will perform at Radio 1’s Big Weekend and Glastonbury this summer before the mammoth tour of North America, Europe and the UK runs through from mid-September to mid-December 2025.   Announcement of the tour follows the release of vivacious first single ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’ yesterday - accompanied by the iconic Colin Solal Cardo-directed video (watch HERE, listen HERE). The track marked the beginning of an exciting new era for Wolf Alice. A fiercely powerful and fervent introduction to The Clearing, it’s an arresting ode to growth, evolution and expansion in life, music and art. With its rolling bass riff, this first piece of music in three years, is a whip-smart de-testosteroned twist on heavy rock. “I wanted a rock song, to focus on the performance element of a rock song and sing like Axl Rose, but to be singing a song about being a woman,” Ellie Rowsell notes. “I’ve used the guitar as a shield in the past, playing it has perhaps been some way to reject the 'girl singer in band' trope, but I wanted to focus on my voice as a rock instrument so it’s been freeing to put the guitar down and reach a point where I don’t feel like I need to prove that I’m a musician.”   The video for ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’ is a collaboration with noted alt-pop director Colin Solal Cardo, famous for collaborations with Charli XCX, Robyn, Christine & The Queens and Phoenix. The video deconstructs a classic rock performance by drawing on Bob Fosse and All That Jazz, featuring a brilliant performance from Ellie in the middle of a host of dancers choreographed by Emmy Award-winning choreographer Ryan Heffington (Euphoria, Sia, Kenzo + Margaret Qualley). Watch HERE. Written in Seven Sisters, London and recorded in LA with Grammy®-winning, master producer Greg Kurstin last year, The Clearingreveals where Wolf Alice stand sonically in 2025, delivering a supremely confident collection of songs bursting with ambition, ideas and emotion; The Clearing is a truly timeless record. Wolf Alice have come a long way since the North London quartet first emerged in 2013 as a young band holding a mirror up to their own emerging generation. Today, Wolf Alice’s fourth album The Clearing finds them at the peak of their powers, grown into a band of generational importance. While the bruised euphoria of their debut My Love Is Cool, which featured the Grammy-nominated ‘Moaning Lisa Smile’, both captured and perfectly soundtracked the experience of youth first cutting their musical teeth, 2018’s follow up Visions Of A Life cemented their rise with a Mercury Music Prize, before the precious hurt of 2022’s Number 1 album, Blue Weekend and its resultant Brit Award for Best Group.

Photo credit: Rachel Fleminger Hudson

UNITED KINGDOM May 24 - Liverpool, UK - Radio 1’s Big Weekend Jun 29 - Somerset, UK - Glastonbury Festival EUROPE Nov 5 - Stockholm, Sweden, Annexet Nov 6 - Copenhagen, Denmark, KB Hallen Nov 7 - Hamburg, Germany, Georg Elser Halle Nov 9 - Warsaw, Poland, Progresja Nov 10 - Prague, Czech Republic, Lucerna Great Hall Nov 11 - Budapest, Hungary, Barba Negra Red Stage Nov 13 - Milan, Italy - Alcatraz Club Nov 14 - Lyon, Villeurbanne, France - Le Transbordeur Nov 15 - Toulouse, France - Bikini Nov 17 - Cologne, Germany - Palladium Nov 19 - Berlin, Germany - Columbiahalle Nov 20 - Munich, Germany - Tonhalle Nov 21- Luxembourg City, Luxembourg - Den Atelier Nov 23 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - AFAS Live Nov 24 - Brussels, Belgium - Forest National Nov 25 - Paris, France - Le Zénith UNITED KINGDOM/IRELAND Nov 28 - Manchester, England - AO Arena Nov 29 - Birmingham, England - Utilita Arena Dec 1 - Cardiff, Wales - Utilita Arena Dec 3 - London, England - The O2 Dec 5 - Leeds, England - First Direct Arena Dec 7 - Glasgow, Scotland - OVO Hydro Dec 10 - Dublin, Republic of Ireland - 3Arena Pre-save/order/add The Clearing HERE

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Lola Young shares new single + video "One Thing"

LOLA YOUNG TEASES NEXT MUSICAL ERA WITH NEW SINGLE + VIDEO CHECK OUT “ONE THING” NOW

Lola Young by Lily West & Eliana Shymansky “One Thing”  LISTEN: https://lolayoung.lnk.to/onething WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV9SOv_Y61s What the press is saying about Lola Young:  “Young’s acrobatically tortured, increasingly raspy voice defines her” The New York Times “alt-pop heroine primed to make it even bigger this year” Rolling Stone “a rock sound and bolder lyrics that deal with the chaos of life” Billboard “unreal vocals and give-no-fucks attitude” HommeGirls Magazine (May 16, 2025) - American Music Award, three time Ivor Novello and Brit-nominated South London singer / songwriter Lola Young shares her new single “One Thing,” today. Anchored by fluttery guitar melodies and a head-bobbing dub groove, “One Thing” showcases Lola’s provocative gift for spoken word and tremendous vocal ability. Speaking about her new song, Lola shares, “It’s a song that on first listen sounds like I’m talking about one thing. Sex. Which I am, of course. However sex in itself is never about one thing.” Accompanied by a music video captured by revered director Dave Meyers (Little Simz, SZA, Sabrina Carpenter), the cleverly-cut visual brings Lola’s much-adored tongue in cheek humour to life on screen. Lola shares, “I wanted to make a song and music video that is thought-provoking and highlights sex being both a fun and light thing, not always meaningful, as well as showing how gender roles can be reversed.” Built around different scenarios; a first date, an all-girls class room, remaining undefeated in a boxing ring with ex-lovers and Lola making out with herself for good measure, “One Thing” ushers a new era for the South London artist.  Boasting over 1 billion all-time streams globally across her catalogue of releases, Lola Young continues to achieve tremendous success. Her platinum-certified #1 single “Messy,” which The New York Times described as “one of the most legitimately viral and popular songs of 2025” from her acclaimed 2024 album, This Wasn’t Meant For You Anyway, recently hit #1 on the Billboard Pop Airplay chart, #1 at Hot Adult Contemporary, #1 on the Alternative Rock Billboard chart as well as reaching the upper regions of the Billboard Hot 100. Lola Young is the first female artist to have a debut single go #1 at both Pop and Alternative since Lorde’s “Royals.” “Messy” also held the top spot in the UK for four consecutive weeks, making Lola one of only two British female artists to reach #1 in the UK Singles Chart within the last year.  Last month, Lola made her debut performance at the iconic Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, where she premiered “One Thing,” and was nominated for an American Music Award for Social Song of the Year for “Messy.” Additionally, Lola has been nominated for 3 Ivor Novello awards (Best Album: This Wasn’t Meant For You Anyway, Best Song Musically and Lyrically: “Messy” & Rising Star Award), following her “Best Pop Act” nomination at this year’s BRIT Awards. Lola was also named as a Future 25 artist with Rolling Stone, performed her track “Conceited” on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, spoke with NPR about her breakout and sat with The Los Angeles Times to discuss her rise and debut Coachella performance.  Lola has since collaborated with Tyler, The Creator (“Like Him”), and Lil Yachty (“Charlie”) and continues to make a global impact with her music and compelling personality. She will open for Billie Eilish in Paris during her Hit Me Hard and Soft headline tour before an exciting Summer festival run including Glastonbury and All Things Go in New York and Washington, D.C.   Check out “One Thing” above, see full live dates below and stay tuned for more from Lola Young coming soon.  Upcoming Live Dates  * = headline show 5/25 - BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend @ Liverpool, UK   6/4 - La Madeleine @ Brussels, Belgium *   6/5 - Georg-Elser-Halle @ Hamburg, Germany *   6/10 - Accor Arena @ Paris, France [Billie Eilish Support]   6/11 - Accor Arena @ Paris, France [Billie Eilish Support]   6/15 - Capital FM Summertime Ball @ London, UK   6/17 - Meltdown Festival @ London, UK   6/27 - Glastonbury @ Somerset, UK   7/3 - Open’er Festival @ Poland   7/4 - Rock Werchter @ Werchter, Belgium   7/5 - Roskilde Festival @ Roskilde, Denmark   7/17 - Gurtenfestival @ Bern, Switzerland   7/18 - Lollapalooza Paris @ Paris, France   8/7 - Øya Festival @ Oslo, Norway   8/9 - Way Out West Festival @ Gothenburg, Sweden   8/10 - Flow Festival @ Helsinki, Finland   8/14 - Paredes De Coura @ Paredes de Coura, Portugal   8/16 - MS Dockville @ Hamburg, Germany   8/17 - Lowlands Festival @ Biddinghuizen, The Netherlands   9/27 - All Things Go Festival @ Forest Hills, New York   9/28 - All Things Go Festival @ Columbia, MD

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