“I Dream in Chrome” — Los Angeles Outfit Truther Drop Explosive Single “Atom Bomb”
I wanna, I wanna, I wanna I want to change my skin I want to crawl in yours There is, in our age, a soft and shining deceit: danger upholstered…
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62 Dead Balloons Channels Drama, Desire, and Dissonance in Video for Minimal Synth Ballad “Beautiful and Ugly”
All I want is happiness And to feel your lips on mine Soft like a whisper So beautiful and ugly There’s a blunt honesty running through the new single Beautiful…
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NYC’s Some Days Are Darker Explores the Sabotage of Self-Escape in Video for “Take Me Anywhere”
We’re in our Sunday best We’re not praying We’re medicating There’s a moment many people recognize: when something feels wrong, but not urgent enough to confront, and it becomes easier…
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Head Like a Ho Ho Hole? — Too Much Light Mashes Up Nine Inch Nails With “A Christmas Carol” in Anti-Capitalist Holiday Music Video
“Damn you Trent Reznor, you ruined Christmas.” It’s a holiday tradition in the industrial music scene: every December, the same comic resurfaces in group chats and timelines: Trent Reznor barging…
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UK Duo Human Image Documents Grief, Loss, and Impermanence With Hazy Shoegaze LP “Maybe Nothing”
Life arrives without rehearsal and leaves without warning, a sequence of moments already loosening as we try to hold them. Zen Buddhism speaks to this plainly: impermanence as fact, not…
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Belarusian Industrial-Punk Duo Travm Carry Somber Ache in Their Surrealist Video for “Siabra”
Travm’s tale begins on Minsk pavement, two young bodies tuning themselves to the clatter of machinery and the fractured poetics of post-punk. Their world: patriarchal, authoritarian, crushing – made no…
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Austrian Darkwave Duo Elastic Skies Unveil Stripped Down Black-and-White Video for “Torn Apart”
Inside of all The past image and tales Head is stuffed With erring data details Austria’s Elastic Skies kick in the door with Torn Apart, an icy darkwave track that…
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Irish Post-Punk Duo Crá Croí Dance Within a Circle of Flames in Video for “Fires At Dawn”
Hear the sirens call, will we rise or will we fall We’re the poets of the chaos, writing tales of the dead Crá Croí, the Cork-born duo whose name translates…
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The Cold Bloom of Winter — Post-Punk Stalwarts Permafrost Return with “Tears & Bullets” EP
Permafrost returns with Tears & Bullets, a three-track EP released via their own Fear of Music imprint. It arrives with the quiet assurance of a group that has learned how…
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NYC Art-Rockers Ecce Shnak’s “Shadows Grow Fangs” EP Bites Down on Love, Algorithms, and Philosophy
New York City’s art-rock ensemble Ecce Shnak runs on surplus voltage, a band that sounds like five brains arguing happily in real time. At the center is David Roush: composer,…
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