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The Church Rides Again With Their Latest Single “Western” — New Album “Lacuna” Announced!

At sundown, even a familiar landscape can begin to feel strange, its ordinary landmarks suggesting places you might once have visited in a dream. On Western, The Church gives that…

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Catherine Ringer, the Extraordinary Voice of Les Rita Mitsouko, Has Passed Away at 68

Catherine Ringer, vocalist, songwriter, and co-founder of French new wave duo Les Rita Mitsouko, has died at age 68. Her children announced her death in a statement to AFP, confirming that she…

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Celebrating 30 Years of mital-U — Exploring the Swiss Label’s Catalogue Through Grauzone, mittageisen, The Vyllies, and More!

The history of mital-U begins well before there was a label to put on a record. In July 1979, Bruno Waser met members of the Lucerne band CRAZY at a…

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Soft Cell Shares Moving Synthpop Ballad “The Rainbow Room”

There is something almost indecent about hearing Soft Cell look backward with this much grace. For a band that once made sleaze, synthetic dread, cheap rooms, lust, humiliation, and metropolitan…

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Ontario Project Fear Maintenance Shares Heavy Cover of Joy Division’s “Shadowplay”

Joy Division’s Shadowplay has been covered enough times to qualify as communal property, which means anybody taking another swing at it ought to bring a crowbar. Fear Maintenance does. The…

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Mentallo & The Fixer Bring Landmark Album “Where Angels Fear To Tread” to Vinyl for the First Time

Texas electro-industrial veterans Mentallo & The Fixer are returning to one of the defining records in their catalog with a newly remastered edition of Where Angels Fear To Tread, due…

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UK Post-Punk Outfit 1919 Shares Video for “Last Dance of The Departed” — First New 7-inch Since 1983 Announced!

You’ll be food for a hawk if you live like a lamb the hours decay like a corpse in the sand eternity calls and we’re singing for the damned There…

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Dead Voices on Air Finds Strange Forms Inside the Seams in New Album “Mothcomma”

For nearly four decades, Dead Voices on Air has occupied a peculiar territory between industrial music, abstraction, improvisation, and the frayed edges of song. Mark Spybey has spent that time…

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Ministry Shares Video for “Burned Out” — Announces Final Album “Hate To Go (Take Out Or Delivery)” and Farewell European Tour

I’M NOT SURE IF THIS WORLD SURVIVES I CAN’T TELL YOU WHAT’S TRUTH OR LIES IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU’RE LEFT OR RIGHT WE’RE ALL DEAD UNLESS WE ALL UNITE …

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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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