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Mark Tighe, founding member and guitarist of post-punk band 1919 has passed away

[dropcap]Mark [/dropcap]Tighe, founding member and guitarist of original Post-Punk 1919 has passed away. There are no additional details regarding his passing at this time. The band were formed Bradford, England in late…

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Tom Edwards, Guitarist and Musical Director for Adam Ant, passes away

[dropcap]Tom[/dropcap] Edwards, guitarist and Musical Director for Adam Ant has passed away yesterday from suspected heart failure at Kennedy Hospital in Cherry Hill, NJ. He was only 41 years old. More…

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X-Mal Deutschland inspired runway show at Berlin Fashion Week

Fashion designer Julia Seeman has shown her love for German post-punk band X-mal Deutschland in her latest runway show at Berlin Fashion Week. One of the dresses is even inspired…

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The avant-garde glory of Virgin Prunes | Watch four concerts from 1983

One of the most creative and original and dare I say it “gothic” of all Post-Punk bands could very well be the Virgin Prunes. The band was formed by a group…

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Slowdive premiere ‘Star Roving’

[dropcap]Shoegaze[/dropcap] legends Slowdive have premiered today their first new track in 22 years years, the shimmering Star Roving via Dead Oceans—with visuals by Nathan David Smith. The track assumed to be the…

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Happy 70th Birthday David Bowie | ‘No Plan’ EP and video released

[dropcap]David Robert Jones[/dropcap], aka David Bowie, was born on January 8th, 1947. To mark The Man Who Fell To Earth’s 70th birthday—a new EP of music has been released along…

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Nine Inch Nails premiere the shoegaze/industrial hybrid track ‘Burning Bright (Field on Fire)’

[dropcap]Last[/dropcap] week we got the official announcement of the new Nine Inch Nails EP Not The Actual Events. Today a marvelous experimentation has surfaced from the long awaited new material…

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Watch a rare Media Blitz interview with Tones on Tail—with live footage!

Some of you into Christian Death and Specimen may recognize Media Blitz, a cable access television program from the Los Angeles area—mostly active around the mid 80’s. On October 1tth…

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Eldritch Boulevard | The Sisters of Mercy’s Andrew Eldritch and Patricia Morrison interviewed on Cable TV

In 1988 on The Super Sonic Super Channel, an awkward albeit charming interview occurred in promotion of The Sisters of Mercy’s second album Floodland. The cable tv interview features a…

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On this Day in 1976 Malice—The Band That Would Become The Cure—Played Their First Gig

In October of 2016, Lol Tolhurst released his book Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys which included an intimate recounting of The Cure’s early days. The band in its very first…

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