“Wrapped Around My Heart” — LA Shoegaze Outfit Taleen Kali Confronts the Fractured Feminine in the Video for “Viper”
Breaking a person rarely begins with one spectacular act. More often, it is repetition that does the work: the same insult, the same reduction, the same pressure applied until endurance…
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Austin Psych-Goth Trio The Schisms Unleash a Leather Clad Texas Fever Dream in the Video for “I Learn To Love”
We speak of falling in love as though gravity should handle the labor. The harder truth is that affection asks for practice: the slow unlearning of fear, vanity, possession, and…
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Seattle’s Holy Death Temple Returns With Gothic Synthpop Murder Ballad “Nobody Loved You”
Made your hell from the fire inside Played in flames that burned you alive What went through your head when you lost your mind The true tragedy is the world…
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“Step into the Night” — Then Comes Silence Celebrates Rebirth in Video for “Remaker Redeemer”
Hands in the sky and then we die Our hearts have joined the thousand We take a step into the night Opening our eyes brings a new dawn The Goth…
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Down To The Wire — An Interview With Sad Lovers & Giants
Punk may have changed the musical landscape and proved that anyone with a guitar and a mission statement could start a band, but the years that followed expanded punk’s simplicity…
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New Wave Provocateur Blone Noble to Embark on DOMINATOR 2026 Tour with Hot Hail! and DJ Candy Whiplash
By the second half of September, Blone Noble and Hot Hail! will be moving through the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada on the DOMINATOR 2026 tour, carrying enough synthesizers, theatrical…
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Siouxsie and the Banshees’ “Downside Up” B-Sides Collection Set for First-Ever Vinyl Release
Siouxsie and the Banshees’ long-out-of-print Downside Up, the expansive collection of B-sides and other non-album recordings first released in 2004, will return this fall in newly remastered five-LP and three-CD…
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“Fell in Love With the Smell of Strangers” — Amsterdam Dark Synth Artist Subject Sue Shares Single “Details In The Dark”
Went out three nights in a row Didn’t know what was About to unfold Subject Sue began as an alter ego, but the separation between performer and person has apparently…
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Soft Cell Shares Moving Synthpop Ballad “The Rainbow Room”
There is something almost indecent about hearing Soft Cell look backward with this much grace. For a band that once made sleaze, synthetic dread, cheap rooms, lust, humiliation, and metropolitan…
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Darkwave Duo Veronica & the Dark Particles Make First Contact With Debut Album “Initial Transmission”
Veronica & the Dark Particles sound as though somebody fed a goth club into a deep-space transmitter, waited for the machine to malfunction, and discovered the malfunction had better bass…
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