Classic Bands Archives — Page 4 of 128

Shoegaze Legends Lush to Release 35th Anniversary Edition of “Gala” Compilation Album

In the early nineties, when shoegaze was still an unnamed fever dream, Lush’s 1990 album Gala arrived like a telegram from another dimension. It stitched together EPs and stray singles…

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Bay Area New Wave Rockers Candy Whips Release “Moonlight” Covers EP

You are here and so am I Maybe millions of people go by But they all disappear from view And I only have eyes for you The 1950s were a…

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Old-school Deathrockers Altar De Fey Return in Silent Film Inspired Video for “Judith With The Head Of Holofernes”

The story is ancient, yet it cuts with fresh steel: Judith of Bethulia enters the tent of Holofernes, pours his goblet, watches him slump into stupor, and with his own…

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An Annual Gathering of Goths in NYC — A Murder of Crows Festival 2025 Review

The Bowery in September carries its own kind of twilight; a season of half-spent warmth and lengthening shadows, when the city’s heartbeat seems to move underground. In that subterranean rhythm,…

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Positive Punk Icon Richard Cabut (Brigandage) Releases Poetic Travelogue “Ripped Backsides: Postcards from Beneath the Pavement”

Richard Cabut (also known by his NME byline, Richard North) is a familiar name to fans of the punk band Brigandage, where he played bass, designed artwork, and helped steer…

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Stephen Luscombe of Blancmange Passes Away At 70

Stephen Luscombe, the English musician whose keyboard work carried Blancmange into the airwaves of the 1980s, has died. He was 70 years old. His partner in the group, Neil Arthur,…

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A Prickly Woman Bulldozes Her Way Over Sparks in the Video for “Porcupine”

Uninvited to the big soiree ‘Cause she rubs the folks the wrong, wrong way Rough around the edges, you might say Nothing wrong with that is what I’d say Just…

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Beggars Banquet Podcast Series to Launch Featuring Martin Mills, Gary Numan, Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, The Cult, The Bolshoi, and More!

States of Independence is a living excavation of the subterranean world that shaped the sound of modern independent music. Across thirteen episodes of its first season, the new podcast series…

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Xmal Deutschland’s Fourth and Final Album “Devils” to Receive Limited Edition Vinyl Reissue

Hamburg’s Xmal Deutschland carved their place in the early 1980s with jagged guitars, choral keys, and Anja Huwe’s unmistakable voice carrying across the gloom of the North German port city.…

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Pulp to Release 30th Anniversary Edition of “Different Class” — 4 LP Set Includes 1995 Glastonbury Performance

“We don’t want no trouble, we just want the right to be different. That’s all.”⁠ The champagne fizz and E’s & Wizz of 1995 drifts back across the years like…

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