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 the future, and finally nods to any other notable news that affects artists and music that I cover here.

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New and Upcoming Releases this week

There’s a heck of a set of new albums out this week.

Swiss industrial legends – and one of the best live bands I’ve ever seen – The Young Gods return with their first album of new material since 2010, DATA MIRAGE TANGRAM. It’s the Young Gods alright, but there are some interesting changes in direction along the way. Teeth of the Sea release the much-anticipated WRAITH, which on the first couple of listens is potentially their best album yet. At points it is certainly the loudest.

London post-punkers Desperate Journalist release their third album In Search of the Miraculous today, too, and from the singles (I’ll be buying the album later today) it looks like a bigger audience is on the cards as they sound all the better and sharper. Finally, OHM return as OHMelectronic, and their new self-titled album has them baring their teeth. The album was reviewed in full on But Listen: 159 earlier this week.

A new PIG Remix album is on the way Stripped & Whipped, out 22-March, while Gesaffelstein releases that long-awaited new album on 08-March.

Newly signed to Artoffact are the Dutch band GOLD, and their staggering new single He Is Not can be heard here, while the new album Why Aren’t You Laughing? is released on 05-April.

While as we’d expected, perhaps, a full Stereolab reissue series and tour is coming.

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Upcoming Club Nights and Events

23-Feb: Bunker 13 at Eiger Studios, Leeds
23-Feb: Spellbound at The Mulberry Bar and Venue, Sheffield
09-Mar: Projekt Nemesis – ESA / Tapewyrm / Pandemonium Live at Wharf Chambers, Leeds
23-Mar: The Light Pours Out of Me V at Orleans, N4
05-Apr: Exit the Grey XI and Dark Disco #32 at Nightclub Kolis, NW1

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Upcoming Gigs

23-Feb: Byronic Sex & Exile Live at Wharf Chambers, Leeds
01-Mar: Laibach Live at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, W12
02-Mar: Renaissance Alternative Music Festival – 8th Edition at Electrowerkz, N1
16-Mar: Senser Live at Hoodoo’s, Croydon
17-Mar: Nosferatu + Children on Stun Live at 100 Club, W1
21-Mar: Pist.On Live at O2 Academy Islington
22-Mar: Siglo XX Live at The 100 Club, W1
22-Mar: Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard Live at The Lexington, N1
23-Mar: The Young Gods Live at O2 Academy Islington, N1
23-Mar: BEAT:CANCER Reading feat Petrol Hoers, Bitman and guests/victims Live at The Facebar, Reading
26-Mar: TheZineUK is 5! with Deux Furieuses, The Rezner, Peggy From Earth Live at The Monarch, NW1
28-Mar: Foxcunt + Blocked Toilet Live at The Gunners, N5
29-Mar: Ventenner & Cold In Berlin Live at Thousand Island, N5
05-Apr: Desperate Journalist Live at The Garage, N5
06-Apr: The Last Cry, Kadeadkas, Psychoformalina, Future Daughters Live at Electrowerkz, N1
09-Apr: Author & Punisher, Lingua Ignota, Riotmiloo Live at Electrowerkz, N1
14-Apr: Aesthetic Perfection with Priest and Amelia Arsenic Live at O2 Academy Islington, N1
02-May: Terrorvision Live at Islington Assembly Hall, N1
03-May: Sacrosanct Presents – The Rope – Siberia plus support Live at The Face Bar, Reading
08-May: dEUS Live at Electric Ballroom, NW1
14-May: Samael Live at Underworld, NW1
16-May: Swervedriver Live at O2 Academy Islington, N1
31-May: Red Sun Revival and Burning Gates Live at Hope and Anchor, N1
01-Jun: She Past Away Live at The Dome, NW5
15-Jun: AT:10 – Celebrating 10 Years of AnalogueTrash at The Bread Shed, Manchester
20-Jul: Neurosis and Godflesh Live at The Forum, NW5
03-Aug: The Mirimar Disaster Live at The Hubs, Sheffield
23-25-Aug: INFEST 2019 at University of Bradford, Bradford
20/21-Sep: The Sisters of Mercy Live at The Roundhouse, NW1
17-Oct: Electric Wizard Live at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire W12
09-Nov: BEAT:CANCER Festival 2.0 with Promenade Cinema Live at Electrowerkz, N1

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Other Music News

A worthwhile read – Why are women underrepresented in music – look to the Ryan Adams story.

A quite astonishing tour in the US is of Ministry doing Wax Trax! Era material, Cold Cave, and a showing of the new Wax Trax! film Industrial Accident. I can only hope they bring that to the UK…

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amodelofcontrol.com content in the past two weeks

Tuesday Ten: 359: Touch Me I’m Sick
Songs about illness
Talk Show Host: 051: OHMElectronic
I catch up with the Vancouver band on the eve of the release of their new album
But Listen: 159: Vancouver Industrial
Opinions on the new Front Line Assembly and OHMElectronic albums
Tuesday Ten: 358: Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word
Songs about saying sorry