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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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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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Oppenheimer MKII Returns in Ghostly Cathode-Ray Video for “Oh My Mind Is a Storm” — New Album “Embrace the Dark” Out Soon!

Oppenheimer MKII’s Oh! My Mind Is a Storm is paranoia rendered as pop machinery: compact, severe, oddly catchy, and built around the sense that the private mind has become a…

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British Post-Punk Outfit The Snake Corps Reissue Cult-Classic Debut Album “Flesh on Flesh” on Vinyl and Expanded CD

The Snake Corps’ cult classic debut Flesh on Flesh is back in physical circulation, with the album newly reissued in two 2026 editions: an expanded and remastered CD from Iconoclassic…

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