/Welcome to the Future/139/Livestreams and new release round-up/21-Aug 2020
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 […]
Tag: KMFDM
/Countdown/2010s/Tracks/60-41
Continuing the process of wrapping up the last decade before it disappears too far into the rearview mirror, this is the eighth part of the best tracks of the 2010s. […]
/Countdown/2019/Albums
Onto week three of /Countdown/2019 on amodelofcontrol.com, and this week I’m looking at the best albums of the year. As I’m sure I’ve explained before, I treat the “year” as […]
/Tuesday Ten/384/Tracks of the Month/Sep 2019
We’re nearing the end of the year, which means that I’ve only one, or maybe two, /Tracks of the Month roundups left after this in 2019 (I should clarify – […]
/Welcome to the Future/101/Events, gigs and new release round-up/27-Sep 2019
Friday, the end of another week – so let’s look at things to distract us, either by way of new music or events to consider. This is the usual amodelofcontrol.com […]
/Talk Show Host/057/KMFDM
My association with KMFDM goes way back into the nineties. I own most if not all of their albums in one form or another, I’ve seen them live five or […]
/Welcome to the Future/099/Events, gigs and new release round-up/13-Sep 2019
Friday, the end of another hectic week, and I finally have a weekend of almost total downtime – so let’s look at things to distract us, either by way of […]
/Transmission/015/the a-z of industrial/k/part two
Right then, we’re back in the saddle now, and regular editions of the /transmission podcast will now be released once again – broadly bi-weekly, but that may depend on our […]
/Welcome to the Future/090/Events, gigs and new release round-up/05-Jul 2019
It’s Friday, therefore time for the usual amodelofcontrol.com round-up of new music coming your way this week and soon, as well as a look at the events and gigs in […]
Tuesday Ten: 310: Tracks of the Month (August/September 1997)
A double dose of 1997 this month, after Infest (and of course the writing of Memory of a Festival: 028 that followed it) took up my time at the end […]
Into the Pit: 199: KMFDM – O2 Academy Islington, N1 – 09-September 2017
The past few weeks have, in one of those odd quirks of scheduling, seen three of the big names in industrial and goth music all come through London in a […]
Tuesday Ten: 306: When Worlds Collide
The influence of classical music upon “popular” music is often forgotten, perhaps as the evolution through what became jazz and blues into rock and beyond is a complex one that […]
Welcome to the Future: 008: Music news round-up 18-August 2017
Welcome to the third weekly round-up of new music, forthcoming release announcements, upcoming gigs and clubs, and other things that might be worthy of note within the realm of music […]
But Listen: 154: KMFDM – HELL YEAH
Thirty-three years, twenty albums, countless singles, a few live albums, various re-issues. Various record labels (most notably associated with WaxTrax! and then later Metropolis (North America) and Dependent (Europe)). And, […]
Tuesday Ten: 296: Tracks of the Month (May 2017)
It is, then, the week of another bloody election this week here in the UK, and there has been distinct signs of just how fucked off everyone seems to be […]
Tuesday Ten: 264: Tracks of the Month (June 2016)
These are turbulent times in the UK at least at the moment – with the prospect of choppy waters elsewhere too in 2016 – and it has rather been sapping […]
Tuesday Ten: 263: Tracks of the Month (June 1996)
Part five of my monthly rundown, across this year, of tracks from 1996 that broadly, I still love now.
/Tuesday Ten/222/KMFDM/Thirty Years of The Ultra-Heavy Beat
During 2014, KMFDM turned thirty years old. One of the great survivors of industrial music, their often guitar-heavy take on industrial certainly gained them a wider audience than perhaps they […]
Tuesday Ten: 215: Tracks of the Month (October 2014)
A bit later than usual – Whitby and general life issues rather got in the way – and this of course will be the last new tracks roundup of 2014, […]
Tuesday Ten: 208: Money Money Money
After a mainly awful day at work today, it has been a useful reminder of why, really, I work: money.