We keep going amid the lockdown. There are new releases, and still, new music coming through, and buying music right now is the only way we can help. The events listing is still being updated, but obviously, an awful lot is being postponed, cancelled or changed right now.

/transmission – the amodelofcontrol.com podcast – has returned, continuing the run through of the a-z of industrial, with all episodes thus far are here. The latest episode is /transmission/022, which continues with the letter N. /transmission/023 will follow soon.

You can also get it via RSS, on iTunes, on Stitcher, and is also now available on the Google Podcasts App (search “amodelofcontrol”) and Spotify too.

If you want to submit anything to be included here? E-mail me (You know what to do with that to make it work, right?), comment/message on Facebook at the amodelofcontrol.com page, and over on Twitter (@amodelofcontrol).

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/This Week/New Releases

A good set of new releases this week. Nadine Shah’s fourth album, Kitchen Sink, is an impressively sharp album from someone that deserves a vastly bigger audience, while new on the scene are post-metal/jazz/fuck-knows-what-else band Asian Death Crustacean, whose debut album Baikal is really great.

In more electronic sounds, System Syn return with Once Upon a Second Act, Wetware release Flail, and earlier this week saw the return of Broken Fabiola, With Thoughts of Empty Echos, She Turned.

There have been a whole host of new singles this past week, too. Led by ∆AIMON, whose new single is IN FIRE AND BLOOD, with an exceptional take on Ministry’s Scarecrow on the b-side. Public Enemy released their best single in an age last week – State of the Union (STFU) – while also released have been FIRES’ We’re Breathing, Johnny, the new single from Dissonance, Precipice, and finally lantern from silver walks.

/This Week/Upcoming Releases

Swiss electronic veterans Yello are back on 28-Aug with POINT, and the new single Waba Duba has a gloriously strange video, too, with Dieter Meier and Boris Blank looking as impossibly cool as ever. The prolific US group Uniform release their latest album Shame on 11-Sep, too.

A notable re-release comes on 25-Sep, with the long-rumoured Sign “O” The Times re-issue. Long my favourite Prince album, the 8CD or 13LP (!!) edition contains no less than 63 unreleased tracks and two full live shows. Needless to say, this will be an essential purchase. As will the vinyl re-issue of PJ Harvey’s Rid of Me, out on 21-Aug…

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/Upcoming/Gigs/Club Nights/Events

Obviously things have rather changed right now, and I’m updating events as they are postponed or cancelled, and also including relevant Livestreams as they are announced.

This weekly listing has now seen a significant overhaul, and has moved over to a Shareable calendar format that is embedded below. You can add it to your own calendar views if you wish (GCal link, iCal link), and then you will get dynamic updates as I get them. Otherwise see the embedded calendar below.

If you have updates, relevant events for me, or want to tell me about something else, use the contact details above.

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/amodelofcontrol.com/next week

Look out for /Tuesday Ten/415, and the much delayed (promise!) /But Listen/165 (this will cover the new album from Empathy Test, continually delayed due to a busy few weeks at work – it is partly written!), and hopefully the first in the next tranche of interviews in the /Talk Show Host series.

There are a number of Livestreams hosted by /amodelofcontrol.com coming up, too. Tonight is /Rivet/007. Next Thursday I am doing /TheKindaMzkYouLike/001, which will be digging into the alternative Alternative, mainly of the nineties but also of the decades around it too.

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/amodelofcontrol.com/recent content

DJ/Stormblast/132
My old extreme metal night returned as a livestream
/Countdown/2010s/Tracks/20-01
The final part of the best tracks of the decade countdown
/Tuesday Ten/414/Senses Working Overtime/Touch
A long-planned series on the senses continues
/Countdown/2010s/Tracks/40-21
The penultimate part of the best tracks of the decade countdown
/Countdown/2010s/Tracks/60-41
The eighth part of the best tracks of the decade countdown
/Tuesday Ten/413/Senses Working Overtime/Sound
A long-planned series on the senses continues
/Countdown/2010s/Tracks/80-61
The seventh part of the best tracks of the decade countdown
/transmission/022/the a-z of industrial/n/part two
The podcast reaches the second part of the letter N
/Countdown/2010s/Tracks/100-81
The sixth part of the best tracks of the decade countdown
/Tuesday Ten/412/Senses Working Overtime/Smell
A long-planned series on the senses continues
/Countdown/2010s/Tracks/120-101
The fifth part of the best tracks of the decade countdown
/But Listen/164the return of Brainclaw
I assess the first Brainclaw album in many years
/Repeater/004/True Colours
Race and our scene
/Countdown/2010s/Tracks/140-121
The fourth part of the best tracks of the decade countdown
/Tuesday Ten/411/Tracks of the Month/May-20
The best tracks of the past month
/Countdown/2010s/Tracks/160-141
The third part of the best tracks of the decade countdown
/DJ/Rivet/006
Rivet returns as a livestream
/DJ/Stormblast/131
My old extreme metal night returned as a livestream
/Countdown/2010s/Tracks/180-161
The second part of the best tracks of the decade countdown
/Talk Show Host/063/Consolidated
I talk to Adam Sherburne of Consolidated upon their unexpected return
/Tuesday Ten/410/Senses Working Overtime/Taste
A long-planned series on the senses begins at last
/Countdown/2010s/Tracks/200-181
I begin the best tracks of the decade countdown