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Ambient Artists Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri Share Morphine Raum Performance Video for “In The Eastern Wild”

At Morphine Raum, in Berlin, the usual hierarchy of performance had been quietly dismantled. There was no stage, no riser, no architectural cue separating the artist from the audience. Abul Mogard and Rafael…

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Philly Duo KEWL HAZE Shepherd Psych-Pop and Madchester Groove Into “Suburban Sherpa” LP

Party favours, private jokes, panic, and a pile of battered studio gear: that is the perfume hanging over Suburban Sherpa, the outstanding debut LP from Philly duo Kewl Haze…and it…

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“It’s All in Your Hand” — Boston Dystopian Post-Punk Outfit PROLES Channel Cult Horror in Video for “The Following”

Your fantasy your forgery You can turn it on But its killing me There was a certain 1980s horror logic that understood the television set not as furniture, but as…

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“Losing Humans for an Arms Race” — Johnny Dynamite Shares Video for Melancholic New Wave Track “Sunday Gloomy Sunday”

Steady for your arms embrace But it’s Sunday gloomy Sunday America likes to call itself civilized while selling the machinery of ruin with a glossy, toothy smile. We bless ourselves…

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NYC Synthpop Quartet Book of Love to Release 40th Anniversary Edition of Self-Titled Debut

Some 80s synthpop records do more than withstand their era; they remain a vital part of club culture long after their debut. Forty years after its release, Book of Love’s…

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Malleus Maleficarum — Marie Ann Hedonia Blends Grunge and Experimental Synth in “Lunar Eclipse” EP

A lunar eclipse, astrologically speaking, has a way of shaking loose what we thought we had neatly packed away. Feelings go off-script. Old grief, old longing, old questions can come…

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“In This Void I’m Drifting” — Los Angeles Synthpop Duo Covstline Return With “Hyperspeed”

Surfing through blurred memories Away from reality In this void I’m drifting Our wave crashed at hyperspeed After two years off the grid, Covstline returns with a new single, Hyperspeed,…

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“You Exist Nowhere” — Italian Goth Rockers Christine Plays Viola Share Video for “Desolate Moments”

Torn apart by your diseasewith the head in your handsreveal your true beliefyou exist nowhere Christine Plays Viola have been at the game long enough to know that gloom is…

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The Inevitable Descent — An Interview With Italian Goth Rockers Christine Plays Viola on Their New Album “F.I.V.E. Fear Increases Violent Emotions”

Fear rarely arrives all at once. More often it creeps in by degrees: a crack in the air, a wrong note in a familiar room, a laugh stretched too long…

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“Light Years Away” — Italian Shoegaze Project Black Reverie Debuts With “When the Reverb Ends,” Featuring The Stargazer Lilies

What’s left behind when the reverb ends What were we If no sound remains When the Reverb Ends is a song title that immediately suggests aftermath: the instant when atmosphere…

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