Welcome to Creepsville — NYC Horror Punks The Brickbats Unearth Lost Album “Let the Goodtimes Rot”
By the mid-’90s, goth had enjoyed about as much daylight as it could stand. Interview with the Vampire made box-office bloodsuckers of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in 1994, and…
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“Release Me From This Web” — Ethereal Darkwave Duo Feyleux Examines the Dark Half of Self on “Shadeweaver”
You can spend years thinking of yourself as easygoing before it occurs to you how much effort it takes to swallow your anger. Swallow it often enough and eventually it’s…
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“What Have You Awakened?” — Madison Darkwave Artist Carrellee Shares Video for “Waiting” Ahead of European Tour With Bragolin
What have you awakened? Cuz I’m already already gone Sometimes you catch yourself talking about a place in the past tense while you’re still sitting in it. Your coat is…
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“Paris te brutalise, t’immortalise” — French Post-Punk Artist Anton Unveils Video for “Serpent Des Villes”
Paris te brutalise, t’immortalise Te brutalise, t’immortalise A city can bruise you and still be the place you most want to remember your name. Paris makes that bargain especially seductive.…
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The Cure’s Robert Smith Promises 2027 Concerts “Bursting With New Songs”
Robert Smith is looking ahead to another year of Cure concerts, with new material expected to feature prominently in the setlists. His latest update follows a busy 2026 of European…
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A Flag Without Wind — Corde Oblique and Andrea Chimenti Confront Lost Ideals in Video for “Senza Vento”
E la felicità è una bandiera a mezz’aria senza vento It is the wind that lifts a flag and sets it dancing; without it, the cloth hangs limp. So it…
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“Bury Me Alive” — DC Goth Rockers Amulet Unveil Video for “I am the Dark,” Produced by Christopher Hall of Stabbing Westward
Bury me alive Watch my flesh decay I am the waking dead I live it every day Some mornings, getting out of bed requires a small act of impersonation. You…
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“Made Them Myself with Glue and Steel” — mayva Builds a Handmade Dark Fantasy in her Video for “turpentine”
Don’t count the stars, they are not real Made them myself with glue and steel I drape the tarp you call your sky I poke the holes with needle eye…
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“Hold Me Close in The Quiet Flame” — Cork Post-Punk Duo Crá Croí Shares Visions From Irish Mythology and a Bleak Future in “Tá brón orm”
Hold me close in the quiet flame Through shadowed paths I hear your name An ancient grove and a city emptied by catastrophe can provoke much the same unease: the…
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Nightcrawler and Carmilla Sioux Expose the Machinery of Deception in “System Lies”
“Everything is under control” becomes a particularly unconvincing reassurance when the officials delivering it are wearing gas masks. Screens repeat the message, documents disappear into a shredder, and a reactor…
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