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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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Gene Loves Jezebel to Release 40th Anniversary Vinyl of Breakthrough Album “Discover” — Includes Bonus Live LP “Glad To Be Alive”

I’ve been a ball of fire in your arms desireAnd I’ve been wondering, where it is you’re hiding Gene Loves Jezebel will celebrate the 40th anniversary of their breakthrough third…

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Echo & The Bunnymen Announce First Album of New Songs in 12 Years: “Apples for Isaac” — Watch Video for “Brussels is Haunted”

Here’s to beauty and melancholy, here’s to Annik and Pascal To L’Archiduc and frozen Stolly, to Jean-Luis, un rascal After twelve years spent carrying one of post-punk’s great catalogues through…

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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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