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🇺🇦 Side-Line stands with Ukraine - Show your Support Laibach released “WAT” on 8 September 2003 through Mute Records. The album turns 23 this year. Iztok Turk and Laibach produced the record, with Umek co-producing and sharing mixing duties with Turk; Nilesh Patel handled mastering at The Exchange. The track “Anti-Semitism” was separately produced and mixed by Temponauta. “WAT” is an acronym for “We Are Time,” revealed on the title track.

🇺🇦 Side-Line stands with Ukraine - Show your Support Blondie released its third studio album, “Parallel Lines”, on 8 September 1978 through Chrysalis Records. The album turns 48 this year. Mike Chapman produced the record at the Record Plant in New York during June and July 1978, working with the band for the first time after their previous two albums with Richard Gottehrer.

🇺🇦 Side-Line stands with Ukraine - Show your Support Alphaville released its fifth studio album, “Salvation”, in 1997 through Warner/Metropolis. The album turns 29 this year. Wikipedia lists the release date as 1 September 1997, while MusicBrainz records it as 8 September 1997; Side-Line marks the anniversary on the later date. Andy Richards produced the album for Sarm Productions, recording at Eden Studios in London. The album arrived during a difficult period for the band.

🇺🇦 Side-Line stands with Ukraine - Show your Support Clan of Xymox released “Farewell” on 8 September 2003 through Metropolis Records in the US. The album turns 23 this year. A Discogs listing for the same US CD pressing shows a street date of 25 August 2003; Metropolis’s own catalogue and MusicBrainz both confirm 8 September as the release date. Ronny Moorings wrote, recorded and mixed the album, co-producing it with Mojca at The Torture Chamber in Amsterdam.

🇺🇦 Side-Line stands with Ukraine - Show your Support Ultravox, the British new wave and electronic band, released “Systems of Romance” on 8 September 1978 through Island Records. The album turns 48 this year. It was the group’s third studio album, the first credited without the exclamation mark the band had carried since its debut, and the last to feature original singer and lyricist John Foxx.

In the spring, Eric van Wonterghem returned with a new album from his Monolith project—the sonic alter ego he launched nearly thirty years ago. For the first time, he is releasing a Monolith album on his own label. Yama is the Hindu god of death and justice, responsible for administering justice and punishing sinners; this theme inspired the album’s ten tracks, at least in the digital version.

🇺🇦 Side-Line stands with Ukraine - Show your Support Northern Irish composer Hannah Peel will release her original score for “Underland” on CD on 16 October via Rivertones, followed by a world premiere performance of the score at the Barbican on 24 October as part of the “Hannah Peel: In Focus” two-day series. “Underland” is Peel’s score for Robert Petit’s film adaptation of Robert Macfarlane’s book of the same name.

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Side-Line stands with Ukraine - Show your Support Emmobiz Records sold a surprise 77-copy marbled vinyl pressing of Apoptygma Berzerk‘s “Kathy’s Song XXV (Come Lie Next to Me)” on September 7, with the entire run gone within 30 minutes. The marbled 12″ was not part of the original announcement.

🇺🇦 Side-Line stands with Ukraine - Show your Support Irish synthpop project Empire State Human will release a new album, “Opulent,” on CD via ScentAir Records in early 2027. A digital single will arrive ahead of the full album. “Opulent” contains ten tracks written and produced by Aidan Casserly. ScentAir Records is the same label behind Empire State Human’s earlier “Housemuzik” and “ROMO” albums.

🇺🇦 Side-Line stands with Ukraine - Show your Support Tout Debord release “Necrologia”, a 32-track double CD compilation, on Icy Cold Records. The digipak gathers the complete collection of EPs and singles the project released between 2021 and 2026, on labels including Detriti Records, Sierpien Records and Salle d’Attente. Tout Debord is the solo project of Leonid Diaghilev, born in Belarus and based in Paris for several years, who wrote, recorded and mixed every song on “Necrologia” himself.