NYC Post-Punk Veterans CALLA Release “DE FACTO,” Their First Studio Album in 19 Years
New York’s indie scene of the late 1990s and early 2000s has since been reduced to an “indie sleaze” scrapbook sprawled across social media. At the time, however, it was…
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Austin Darkwave Project Mass Minor Gives Divine Intervention the Day Off in Video for “Get Up”
We created the problem. We prayed for the solution. Maybe God isn’t coming to save us. Get up. There comes a moment in the miserable comedy of human existence when…
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“In The Dead of the Night” — Italian Darkwavers This Eternal Decay Unveil Surreal Video for “Violate”
Show me your face In the dead of the night at the edge of your eyes The erotic imagination has always been a marvelous little troublemaker, forever confusing the sacred…
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Arizona Duo Black Tapestry Takes The Cars’ “Drive” out for a Dreamy Darkwave Spin
Who’s gonna pay attention To your dreams? Yeah, who’s gonna plug their ears When you scream? The realization that love cannot save someone determined to destroy themselves is profoundly unsettling.…
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NYC Synthpop Artist Primitive Heart Serves Grapes, Glamour, and Downtown Decadence in Video for “Steady (Vile Remix)”
There was a time in New York City when beauty was considered a perfectly legitimate reason to make an absolute spectacle of yourself. The downtown avant-garde of the late 1970s…
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“A Distant Dream” — Dutch Coldwavers Desinteresse Share Video for “Falling Faces” Ahead of New Album “A Picture”
Dreams are better than things you’re told, all these changes, keep me alone Anyone who has ever wished they could hop into a time machine and go back to the…
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Musique Machine Channels Final Girl Instincts on Retro Synth EP “Scream Queen”
Processor brain, is it the same? Are you in pain? Who’s to say? When it’s time to see the light Live your life twice or thrice Western civilization has had…
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“For Your Eternity I Would Bleed” — Twin Ritual Find Love at First Bite on Sunset Synthpop Single “Just Like a Vampire”
I won’t ever need the sunlight As long as I can call you mine Vampire romances have a peculiar idea of considerate courtship. Somewhere between the first kiss and the…
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Vienna Industrial Project Manufracture Music Confronts a Civilization Running on Indifference With “System Apathy”
The agony of bleeding machines A melody in shadow decay The apathy of broken routines Our history is fading away Humanity possesses a remarkable capacity to remember, yet an equally…
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Sacramento Shoegazers Soft Science Make Room for Less in Video for “Without,” Highlighting Their Fifth Album, “Sand”
The mind can be a terribly indulgent landlord: old arguments settle in, borrowed expectations take the best room, and worry renews its lease without ever paying a cent. After a…
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