Mute Records

A certain Ratio‘s ACR:EPR will be out in August and you can get it on exclusive transparent amber vinyl in the BrooklynVegan shop.

There are also new Sonos Radio HD show with Portishead's Geoff Barrow, Cerys Matthews (Catatonia), and more.

This week in the Basement: The Bevis Frond, a reissue of Silicon Teens' ’Music for Parties,’ Saul from Fat White Family sings ’Karaoke for One,’ plus Dutch band Lewsberg, Kevin Hairs and more.

A documentary on the making of the album will screen at the Montclair Film Festival this weekend, and Lee will be there to play a few songs and give a Q&A on Saturday.

details of a NYC new album listening party are also below... New Order's Music Complete is out September 25 and it marks a number of firsts...

"Remixes Vol. 1" is a new compilation with "contributions, unreleased mixes by LA experimentalists The Acid, New York's Rioux and an exclusive mix from Nicholas Taylor of Gray (Basquiat's no-wave project)...

Two '80s synthpop pioneers are teaming up for a one-off DJ night in NYC. Vince Clark (Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Erasure) and Mute Records founder Daniel Miller (who also put out music as The Normal and Silicon Teens) will be spinning at Music Hall of Williamsburg on July 3...

Legendary Australian band Crime & the City Solution broke up in 1990 following their fourth album, Paradise Discotheque. While known for their appearance in Wim Wenders' 1987 classic Wings of Desire (video below), the band have been overshadowed by The Birthday Party (many of whom ended up in C&CS), Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and Swell Maps, but they're an important part of the '80s dark-tinged post punk scene and have gained a cult following over the last 20 years...

Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan recently did some moonlighting as the singer on the new Soulsavers album . And night in L.A. at the famed studios of the Capitol Records building, the collaborators came together on the stage for a stunning seven-song set...

As Fad Gadget, music was characterized by a use of synthesizers in conjunction with sounds of found objects, including drills and electric razors...