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Verboden Turns 10: The Pacific Northwest’s Premier Darkwave Festival Expands to Three Cities

After a decade of summoning the shadows, Verboden Festival has evolved from a modest Vancouver experiment into one of North America’s most vital gatherings for darkwave, post-punk, and industrial devotees.…

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Bid on Synth History — Kraftwerk Co-Founder Florian Schneider’s Instruments and Memorabilia Up for Auction

At Julien’s Auctions this November, the late Florian Schneider, co-founder of Kraftwerk and quiet architect of electronic modernity, will once again speak through his collection of machines. Nearly 500 of Schneider’s…

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Gary Numan Unearths Lost Telekon-Era Track “Like a B-Film” for Album’s 45th Anniversary Edition

In 1980, Telekon arrived like an electrical storm: a stark, neon-lit meditation on technology and alienation. It was Gary Numan’s third consecutive UK number one and the closing act of…

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Dave Ball of Soft Cell Passes Away At 66

Soft Cell‘s Dave Ball, technician, trail-blazer, the other half of Soft Cell, died peacefully in his sleep at his London home on October 22, aged 66. Born David James Ball in…

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Miki Berenyi Trio Swims in an Liminal Seascape with “Doldrum Days” — Video Surfaces Ahead of Their Final North American Tour

To be bored is to inhabit a peculiar stillness, as if the days have set themselves adrift with no shore in sight. In that hush, every moment carries a secret…

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“Rocky Horror: A Behind the Scenes Look at the Cult Classic” — 50th Anniversary Book of Mick Rock’s Photos

The Rocky Horror Picture Show has been rehearsed for half a century by audiences in basements, boudoirs, and Broadway-adjacent cinemas. As it prepares to mark its 50th anniversary, HarperPop’s new…

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An Annual Gathering of Goths in NYC — A Murder of Crows Festival 2025 Review

The Bowery in September carries its own kind of twilight; a season of half-spent warmth and lengthening shadows, when the city’s heartbeat seems to move underground. In that subterranean rhythm,…

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Albuquerque EBM Project Dot Wall Debuts Quirky and Satirical Video for “Orbit”

A self-described “mutant artist,” Dot Wall straps themselves to industrial electronics as though bound in some dystopian experiment. Pleather, silicone, and chains might restrain the frame, but the music writhes…

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Stephen Luscombe of Blancmange Passes Away At 70

Stephen Luscombe, the English musician whose keyboard work carried Blancmange into the airwaves of the 1980s, has died. He was 70 years old. His partner in the group, Neil Arthur,…

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Indie Darkwave Act The Nouve Prowls the Urban Sprawl in Stark Video for “Wolftime”

Two decades on from their first experiments in small rooms and smaller clubs, Berlin’s The Nouve still sounds like a secret society broadcasting through a broken transmitter. They remain among…

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