Interviews

American EBM act Youth Code is continuing their two year-long tour with latest album “Commitment to Complications” with yet a new headliner, in yet a new music scene. After supporting acts as metal band Baroness, post metal act Deafheaven and, for Release readers, well known industrial act Skinny Puppy, Youth Code is back in Europe. This time with the major synthwave act …

Ex-Sneaker Pimps singer Chris Corner’s alter-ego IAMX returns with his dark electronic fusion of music genres. After releasing his eighth album “Alive in a New Light”, Chris Corner has hope in sight after the dark years and his personal battle against clinical depression and chronic insomnia. Messed!Up met up with the brainchild of IAMX before the show in Hamburg and …

The creative melting pot of Bergen has produced loads of internationally successful Norwegian bands over the years such as Röyksopp, Kings of Convenience and recently DJ artist Kygo, and is also the hometown of one of Europe’s best high-energy bands, Kakkmaddafakka. Messed!Up’s journalist meet two of “the Kakks” for an interview just right after they arrived in Hamburg. Axel and …

Celebrating the 30th anniversary of “Mystery Hotel” and way beyond thirty-five years as an artist, Darrin Huss of Canadian poppy darkwavers Psyche summarizes a long-lasting career and promises a new Psyche album in due time. We have written about these Canadian-German veterans several times before and won’t bore you with the basics. Messed!Up met a cheerful Darrin before his show at …

Critically acclaimed Swedish indie pop band Hater is on their first European headliner tour and faces a seventeen date long tour across four weeks in January and February 2018. Messed!Up meet up with Lukas, Caroline, Adam and Måns an hour before Hater’s opening night in a rainy Hamburg to have a talk about melancholic pop, the unexpected breakthrough during 2017 and …

If you’ve been paying attention, you should be as utterly infatuated by London electronic pop duo Empathy Test as I am. Their time-travelling mix of analogue 80:s synthpop and contemporary electropop with bits and pieces of chillwave and dreampop, refined into 22 tracks on two debut albums, makes Empathy Test 2017 an exciting addition to the electronic pop scene. Messed!Up …