The charts for March, 2010 are now online. The top five bands are:

• Psyborg Corp.
• Everything Goes Cold
• Broken Note
• Shiv-r
• Centhron

Visit the chart section to see the top ten bands for each of the four genres currently covered in the charts.

Some of the most recently updated band pages:

• Carbon Based Lifeforms
• Tristraum
• Xotox
• Broken Note
• XMH
• Squarepusher
• Richard Devine
• Last Step
• Mono No Aware
• Cervello Elettronico
• The Flashbulb
• Left Spine Down

The Alternative Electronics charts for February, 2010 have been updated. The top five bands are:

• Everything Goes Cold
• Broken Note
• Lucidstatic
• genCAB
• ESA

For a complete overview of the four genres currently covered in the charts, head over to the chart section.

Tag clouds have been added to the gear pages of equipment used by five or more bands. The tags are generated based on the genres of the bands using each piece of gear.

The first monthly Alternative Electronics charts for 2010 have been released. The top five bands are:

• Everything Goes Cold
• Lucidstatic
• Broken Note
• Panic Lift
• DYM

Take a look at the chart section for a listing of the top ten bands this month for each subgenre.

Some of you may have already noticed that there is a new article up detailing the five most-used pieces of analog music equipment in the Alternative Electronics database.

Also the gear listed on band pages is now organized by gear type; hopefully this makes it somewhat easier to browse through a band's gear, especially those who use a ton of equipment (ie. Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Neuroactive, Covenant, Autechre, cEvin Key, Velvet Acid Christ, to name a few).

More pages updated over the past few weeks:

• Everything Goes Cold
• Anhedonia
• Synnack
• C/A/T
• Andraculoid
• 5F-X
• HIV+
• The Rorschach Garden
• Edgey
• Monokrom
• Controlled Collapse

The charts have been updated again for this month. Bands that made the biggest gains are:

• Broken Note
• DJ Scotch Egg
• DYM
• Yade
• 16Volt
• The Peoples Republic of Europe

New and updated band pages include:

• DYM
• 100blumen
• IC 434
• Heimstatt Yipotash
• Cyanide Regime
• Ionic Vision
• Darkmen
• Duran Duran
• The Future Sound of London

More new and updated band profiles added over the past week, again in some cases with the help of the bands:

• Skoyz
• New Order
• Roughhausen
• The Peoples Republic of Europe
• Frontrunner
• Keef Baker
• Mesh
• NOVAkILL
• genCAB
• Severed Heads

Users can now adds comments to band, gear and article pages.

Well this news is almost a week old at this point but for anyone who didn't see it already, Alternative-Electronics was featured in a post by Tom Shear of Assemblage 23.

Tom posts regularly about various topics relating to music gear and electronic music in general. His blog can be found at waveformless.blogspot.com.

Some new band pages have been added this week and some existing profiles have been updated with the help of the bands themselves. Check them out:

• Assemblage 23
• Modulate
• Headscan
• The Crystalline Effect / Shiv-r
• Simon Schall
• Yade
• FGFC820
• K-Nitrate
• Psyborg Corp.

The charts for November, 2009 have been updated. Looks like Ambassador21 jumped way ahead of everyone else and Broken Note dropped to #2. Keep in mind that the way the charts are calculated tends to favor lesser-known bands, so these are probably the most "underground" music charts around.