NYC Synthpop Quartet Book of Love to Release 40th Anniversary Edition of Self-Titled Debut
Some 80s synthpop records do more than withstand their era; they remain a vital part of club culture long after their debut. Forty years after its release, Book of Love’s…
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Malleus Maleficarum — Marie Ann Hedonia Blends Grunge and Experimental Synth in “Lunar Eclipse” EP
A lunar eclipse, astrologically speaking, has a way of shaking loose what we thought we had neatly packed away. Feelings go off-script. Old grief, old longing, old questions can come…
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“In This Void I’m Drifting” — Los Angeles Synthpop Duo Covstline Return With “Hyperspeed”
Surfing through blurred memories Away from reality In this void I’m drifting Our wave crashed at hyperspeed After two years off the grid, Covstline returns with a new single, Hyperspeed,…
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“You Exist Nowhere” — Italian Goth Rockers Christine Plays Viola Share Video for “Desolate Moments”
Torn apart by your diseasewith the head in your handsreveal your true beliefyou exist nowhere Christine Plays Viola have been at the game long enough to know that gloom is…
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The Inevitable Descent — An Interview With Italian Goth Rockers Christine Plays Viola on Their New Album “F.I.V.E. Fear Increases Violent Emotions”
Fear rarely arrives all at once. More often it creeps in by degrees: a crack in the air, a wrong note in a familiar room, a laugh stretched too long…
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“Light Years Away” — Italian Shoegaze Project Black Reverie Debuts With “When the Reverb Ends,” Featuring The Stargazer Lilies
What’s left behind when the reverb ends What were we If no sound remains When the Reverb Ends is a song title that immediately suggests aftermath: the instant when atmosphere…
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NYC Dark Electronic Duo a place both wonderful and strange Return in Icy Video for “It’s Not That Bad, Muffin”
The Catskills rise like an afterthought of God, blue with distance and old weather, their ridges holding the hush of vanished sermons, folk memory, and dream. In those eerie mountains,…
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San Francisco Goth Ensemble Octavian Winters Share Expressionist Video for “Elements of Air” – Tour With Pink Turns Blue Begins Next Week!
Who is the demon And who is the depraved With no laurels of justice There’s no goodness to claim San Francisco’s Octavian Winters returns with “Elements of Air,” a lush…
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“Mountains of Grief, Life is a Game” — Winnipeg’s Tired Cossack Releases Wintry Post-Punk LP “Zima”
To my surprise The devil inside Was nicer than I ever guessed Winnipeg seems like one of those towns where winter seeps into the walls, into your molars, into your…
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Grey Scale Festival Returns With a Two-City Weekend of Post-Punk, Industrial EBM, and Darkwave in Munich and Berlin
Grey Scale Festival returns this summer, bringing the post-punk, industrial, EBM, and darkwave scenes of northern and southern Germany into conversation across a two-city weekend. Split between Munich and Berlin,…
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