This coming Saturday, Houston concert organizers The New Beat and Past Present Productions will bring electronic-music legends Front 242 to play a concert at Numbers, the Belgian band’s first show in ...

As keyboardist for the celebrated electronic group Front 242, Patrick Codenys is no stranger to unknown territory. For instance, when the band plays the inaugural show at the Ground, a new midsize ...

"It is with a heavy mix of emotion that we close this great adventure, some 40 years in the making," say Patrick, Richard and Lean Juc, the bands core members. "We realize that ending our journey at ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. After an incredible 40-plus-year run on the road, Belgian EBM act Front 242 are ...

Twenty-two years is a long time for fans of a band to wait for a concert, and judging by the huge crowd that showed up for Saturday night’s Front 242 show at Numbers, the legendary EBM group still has ...

Front 242 is rivethead royalty, and part of the Belgian electronic group’s success can be traced to Chicago. Local cult record store Wax Trax! was founded in the mid 70s and grew into a behemoth ...

Belgian EBM icons Front 242 created some of the best dancefloor-fillers during the early-1990s resurgence of industrial music. Earworms like “Headhunter” would get stuck in your head for days. The ...

…a few seconds of quiet, cheers and Patrick Codenys took the stage. He played a minute of beatless music and then Jean Luc DeMeyer and Richard23 ran on stage. What happened next thrilled me. It was ...

Front 242, the Belgian industrial/EBM icons, are calling it a day, at least from touring, having announced what they say are their final live dates. They write: Today, we reach out to you, our fans, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – It’s been a hot minute since I’ve witnessed a Front 242 show. More like 16,387,200 minutes, give or take. Last time, they were sandwiched into the third installment of Lollapalooza ...

The Belgian group Front 242 has been around since the early '80s. Front 242 essentially pioneered the harsh, spare subgenre known as electronic body music, or just EBM. They were a big influence on ...

Emerging in late 1970s Europe, EBM (Electronic Body Music) fused hard, minimal beats with provocative lyrics and aggressive performances. Born from a stark, pulsating response to post-punk and ...