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Berlin’s Güner Künier Shares Video for Frantic Synthpunk Single “Downtown” — UK and EU Tour Dates Announced!

Güner Künier’s Downtown has the cheeky grin of a person who has finally found the exit from the small town in her skull and decided to make the getaway in…

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Soft Cell Announce Final Album “Danceteria” — Watch Video for Title Track!

After nearly five decades together, Soft Cell are preparing to draw the curtain on one of British pop’s most enduring and influential partnerships. Marc Almond and Dave Ball’s sixth studio…

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They Might Be Giants Celebrate 40 Years at Brooklyn Steel Residency

Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wondersWhat the part that isn’t thinking isn’t thinking ofShould you worry when the skull head is in front of you?Or…

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“Why So Glum?” — Sacramento Post-Punk Party Goths Creux Lies Return With Batty Video for “Jubilate”

Drifting through its grasp together Gilding guide this blood for me Pull me close, release me never Feeling fangs so tenderly Ahead of their gig at Wave Gotik Treffen in…

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“I’m By Your Side to Burn” — An Interview with Seattle Synthpop Chanteur Hot Hail! on “Hope In Hell”

But I’m drained white and shellshocked and going blind From staring at this funeral pyre But I’m by your side to burn If that’s what it comes to in the…

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Vincent Gargiulo Finds the Bruised Poetry of Banality With “Somewhere, Here on Earth”

Somewhere here on earth On the grass in the moonlight making out Awake by spangled morning bells You’d think we’d be over this hippie shit by now Vincent Gargiulo has…

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Berlin’s Güner Künier Unleashes Neue Deutsche Welle Mischief in Video for “Kes”

Neue Deutsche Welle was never merely a genre tag; at its best, it was a license for mischief, machinery, and bad behavior. Güner Künier carries that lineage into Kes, a…

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“History Repeats. Who Hears?” — Chicago’s Anomaly Report Chronicles Collapse on “Beautiful Terrible Things”

‘Twas the night ’fore tomorrow, world leaders convened, Each vying for patents on powers unseen. With treaties half-written and handshakes half-shook, They plotted dominion over resources untook. Anomaly Report have…

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Catherine O’Hara Passes Away At 71

The great Catherine O’Hara – Delia Deetz, Lola Heatherton, Moira Rose, Sally, Cookie Fleck, and a procession of other indelible souls – has left us at seventy-one. She was born…

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Chicago Post-Punk Outfit Body Shop Uploads an All-Star Cast in Their Video for “Sex Body”

Local drive acceleration Digitally enhanced hallucination There’s a moment near midnight—December thinning to its last breath—when rooms loosen, and people forget their facades, gathering briefly as a collective. Chicago’s Body…

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