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“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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Bands

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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K-Goth Trio Past Self Examines What Society Extracts From the Soul in Video for “제물 / Jemul”

In an instant, your anxiety turned into fear. Every sacrifice needs an audience. In older ceremonies, the victim did more than die: one body was converted into communal relief, the…

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“In The Graveyard of My Heart” — Watch Pissoir Des Dieux’s Video for “24/7” From Their Forthcoming Self-titled Debut LP

Strange to dream of you forever Even though I am wide awake The internet has abolished one of heartbreak’s few mercies: absence. Distance once allowed an attachment to lose oxygen,…

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Song Premiere

Kontravoid Announces New Album “Sound of the Void — Listen to New Track “Without”

Some artists move between genres as tourists, collecting a new set of surfaces with every release. Kontravoid moves differently. Across skeletal coldwave, heavy EBM, freestyle-informed electro, industrial club music, and…

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Bands

“Oh, What Happens Next?” — Los Angeles Post-Punk Trio Mirror of Venus Open Their Hearts in “Unlock the Door”

I never felt like this before When you close your eyes, unlock the door And I know you are right When I look into your eyes Oh, what happens next?…

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“You Say I’m Crazy, Well Yeah I Know” — Los Angeles Dark-Pop Artist Sun Spoiler Chases a Dopamine Mirage in “Hallucinations”

Stumbling down the walk of fame Amanda Bynes is on my brain Just wrote a letter to Josephine She’s the girl who stole my dopamine Desire is a rotten eyewitness.…

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“I am the Enemy” — Berlin Post-Punk Veterans Golden Apes Confront the Half-Damaged Self in Video for “Resistance”

Every definition closes off certain possibilities. Naming an experience can help us understand it, but a name can also become a verdict, reducing a person to one fixed account of…

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When the Fireworks Fail — Australian Dream Pop Duo dusk2dawn Light the Fuse in Video for “It Kills Me Every Time”

Every spectacle contains a private bargain with disaster. Fireworks make that bargain visible: powder and metal are prepared for beauty, ignited at close range, and trusted to travel in the…

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