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Dave Allen of Gang of Four and Shriekback Passes Away At 69

Dave Allen, post-punk’s “Ace of Bass,” was not your typical musician. An original member of Gang of Four and later Shriekback, he was an integral figure behind the burgeong post-punk movement of the…

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Tucson’s No Future Debut Video for Darkwave Reimagining of Elliot Smith’s “Needle In The Hay”

Needle in the Hay, released in 1995 on Elliott Smith’s self-titled second album, stands as one of his starkest and most searing songs. Stripped to its rawest components, just acoustic…

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Former Siouxsie and the Banshees Guitarist John McKay Returns with New Album “Sixes and Sevens” — Listen to “The Blessed West”

John McKay -yes, that John McKay – has returned at long last with Sixes and Sevens, his first-ever solo album and a long-buried trove of unreleased studio recordings. As the groundbreaking…

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Cosey Fanni Tutti Announces New Solo Album “2t2” — Listen to the Haunting Chanting of “Stound”

Cosey Fanni Tutti: provocateur, pioneer, provocatively peerless…returns with 2t2, a nine-track thrill-ride of raw rhythm and electric elegy. Slated for release on her own Conspiracy International this June, the record…

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Scottish Post-Punk Artist Cindytalk to Reissue 1984 Debut Album via Dais Records — Listen to “It’s Luxury”

Cindytalk, the restless, ever-shifting vessel of trans artist Cinder, a Scottish post-post luminary that thrives on disarray, drawing chaos close and splintering it into shards of noise, balladry, catharsis, and…

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The Church Announce “The Singles” North American Tour This Summer

Few bands weather the decades with the quiet, unshakable force of The Church. Five decades deep, and still they smoulder—fresh from the twin triumphs of The Hypnogogue (2023) and Eros…

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Ministry to Embark on North American Tour Performing “With Sympathy” and “Twitch” Era Material — Show at Brooklyn Paramount on May 16th Announced!

In 1983, Ministry’s debut album With Sympathy arrived in an iconic sleeve adorned with roses—a bouquet of condolences that, unbeknownst to most, marked the burial of the record itself. For…

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Peter Murphy Debuts Dark Disco Single “The Artroom Wonder” Featuring Tool’s Justin Chancellor — New Album “Silver Shade” Announced

I’m invoking therein The cannibal sin The pretenders apart Sucked up super smart With cool cat chagrin Peter Murphy charismatically struts in once again with grand panache on his new…

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Kraftwerk: “50 Years of Autobahn” Tour at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn — Review

The moon hung low, a pale, indifferent witness to the spectacle unfolding beneath it. A full Worm Moon eclipse, a century-old theatre, and a band that once built the future,…

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Shoegaze Outfit Resplandor Celebrates 17 Years of Their Album “Pleamar” With Show in The Hague

Resplandor, the long-standing shoegaze act based in the Netherlands, has spent decades carving out a lush and hypnotic presence in the international dream pop and post-punk scene. Led by Antonio Zelada,…

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