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Industrial-Glam Maverick Raymond Watts, aka PIG, Puts “An American Ideal of Beauty” Under Surveillance in Brutal New Video

An ideal is usually sold as an aspiration: polished, desirable, harmless. Repeat it often enough, and it becomes a measurement of success; attach it to a nation, and it begins…

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Gene Loves Jezebel to Release 40th Anniversary Vinyl of Breakthrough Album “Discover” — Includes Bonus Live LP “Glad To Be Alive”

I’ve been a ball of fire in your arms desireAnd I’ve been wondering, where it is you’re hiding Gene Loves Jezebel will celebrate the 40th anniversary of their breakthrough third…

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Echo & The Bunnymen Announce First Album of New Songs in 12 Years: “Apples for Isaac” — Watch Video for “Brussels is Haunted”

Here’s to beauty and melancholy, here’s to Annik and Pascal To L’Archiduc and frozen Stolly, to Jean-Luis, un rascal After twelve years spent carrying one of post-punk’s great catalogues through…

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Soft Cell Celebrates the 80s Disco Scene With “In Heaven (When I Dance With You)”

Soft Cell’s “In Heaven (When I Dance With You)” comes striding out of Danceteria with a lipstick grin and enough downtown perfume to turn the subway into its own discotheque. Marc…

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“Do the Trumpolini!” — Devo’s Gerald Casale Mocks MAGA Tyranny in Video for “Just Do It!”

The blue man said tonight“Freedom never been a right.”“Everybody’s going to have to fightSo get ready for a bloody night.” There are moments when a nation hears its foundations cracking…

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Joy Division’s “Eternal (Live)” Announced — A 14CD/2DVD Box Set Featuring 16 Performances and Previously Unseen Footage

Joy Division’s studio recordings can feel sealed inside negative space: precise, cavernous, and fixed within the severe architecture Martin Hannett built around them. Onstage, that architecture sweated and buckled. Stephen…

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Editors Scramble Across Tokyo in Video for “The Rush” — New Album “Surface, Echo & Sound” Announced!

Editors have announced their eighth studio album, Surface, Echo & Sound, and shared its latest single, “The Rush.” The 11-track record arrives on October 30, 2026, via Play It Again…

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Johnny Marr Announces “The Age Of Everything” — Watch Video for Album Opener “Spin”

I spend all day looking for a sign I wait all week for something to find And it takes so long just to take my time There’s too much coming…

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Synthpunk Veterans Damage Release “How To Talk To Humans” Remix EP

Some bands require a guitar to prove they are angry. Damage emerged from Orlando in the early 1980s and solved the problem with analog synthesizers, live drums, and vocals indicative of…

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Robert Smith Says The Cure’s Next Album Is Done as Eden Gallup Joins Live Lineup, Deep-Cut Festival Sets Continue, and Olivia Rodrigo Duet Debuts

The Cure’s return to the European festival circuit has already brought a new live lineup, a run of deep-cut setlists, and Robert Smith’s latest cross-generational collision with Olivia Rodrigo. It…

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