Darker Waves Festival Returns with 2026 Lineup Featuring Morrissey, The Smashing Pumpkins, Adam Ant, Simple Minds, Gary Numan, The Psychedelic Furs, The Damned, and More!
Darker Waves has unveiled the lineup for its 2026 return to Huntington Beach, California. The single-day festival takes place Saturday, November 14, with Morrissey and The Smashing Pumpkins topping a…
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Poland’s Dark Decay Festival Launches this June With Selofan, Days of Sorrow, Bragolin, Ductape, Christ Vs Warhol, and More!
Poznań, Poland, is preparing for three nights of darkwave, deathrock, post-punk, and the sort of dawn that finds your eyeliner still intact but your soul slightly rearranged. This summer brings…
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Frankie Fest Returns: Brooklyn’s Queer Underground Gathers to Celebrate Frankie Rex
Frankie Fest is back for 2026, and if you’ve spent any time in this city’s clubs and secret canal barge parties, you already know what that means: a packed floor,…
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Montreal’s Douce Leans into Desire and Dead-Eyed Detachment With “Xanax and Coffee” EP
Montreal’s Douce Angoisse comes on like a bad idea dressed in couture: sleek, severe, and fully aware of the damage it might do. This independent French darkwave/coldwave project deals in…
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Darker Waves Festival Returns to Huntington Beach in November 2026
Darker Waves Festival is scheduled to return to Huntington Beach, California, on November 14, 2026. No lineup has been announced yet. The festival is currently directing fans to sign up…
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“Give ’em The Axe” — Philly Post-Punk Four-Piece Positronix Share “Ascension Day”
YOU’VE GOT TO NOT FADE AWAY LINE UP FOR THE ASCENSION DAY Love, these days, can feel like a subscription model: overpriced, full of hidden fees, and somehow still sold…
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“As Shadows Grow Tall” — Dutch Post-Punk Outfit Bragolin Returns With “I Don’t Like What It Does to Me”
To wait for more, to vanish at sea. Vanish into death on hands and knees. It’s the floor that’s all that’s left to eat. It that gnaws onto the soles…
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“I Control My Destiny” — Toronto Post-Punk Act Modele Shares Bold Synth-driven Single “Now It’s Mine”
In my mind That I could only want to trust your god Now it’s mine I control my destiny Toronto duo Modele (aka Chris Huggett and Nathan Wiltshire) deal in…
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Ottawa Darkwave Duo Violentene Unveil “Victims Of Light” EP — Includes Two New Songs “Overcome” and “Beginnings”
Violentene’s new EP, Victims Of Light, has the pale glamour of a city seen through a rain-streaked cab window at 2 a.m., all angles, reflections, and private wreckage dressed up for…
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Madeline Goldstein Radiates Defiant Unity in Video for Luminous Synthpop Single “One Star One Body”
The mind is not a ghost riding inside the body, but a movement of the whole being, like a wave that cannot be separated from the sea. To be fully…
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