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Los Angeles Post-Punk Romantics DECEITS Announce Western U.S. Tour With Past Self, 60 Juno, and Night Ritualz

Los Angeles romantic post-punk duo DECEITS have announced a run of May and June tour dates, taking their trademark Latino gloom, bruised romance, and serrated live charge across the West…

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Moya Brennan, Clannad Co-Founder and Beloved Irish Singer, Passes Away at 73

In the far northwest of County Donegal, where the Atlantic presses its weather against the land and the Irish language still shapes daily speech, Moya Brennan was born into a…

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Grey Scale Festival Returns With a Two-City Weekend of Post-Punk, Industrial EBM, and Darkwave in Munich and Berlin

Grey Scale Festival returns this summer, bringing the post-punk, industrial, EBM, and darkwave scenes of northern and southern Germany into conversation across a two-city weekend. Split between Munich and Berlin,…

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Poland’s Dark Decay Festival Launches this June With Selofan, Days of Sorrow, Bragolin, Ductape, Christ Vs Warhol, and More!

Poznań, Poland, is preparing for three nights of darkwave, deathrock, post-punk, and the sort of dawn that finds your eyeliner still intact but your soul slightly rearranged. This summer brings…

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Frankie Fest Returns: Brooklyn’s Queer Underground Gathers to Celebrate Frankie Rex

Frankie Fest is back for 2026, and if you’ve spent any time in this city’s clubs and secret canal barge parties, you already know what that means: a packed floor,…

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Mondlicht in Manhattan — Xmal Deutschland’s Anja Huwe Opens Her First North American Tour in Forty Years

Anja Huwe walked onto the stage at Le Poisson Rouge on Bleecker Street in Manhattan looking like she had just stepped out of some glamourous midnight ambush: fluffy black jacket,…

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Bettina Köster of Mania D. and Malaria! Has Passed Away at 66

Bettina Köster, formidable and trailblazing vocalist, songwriter, saxophonist, actress, and producer, has passed away on March 16th at age 66. Köster began her music career in 1978, playing saxophone for…

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A Long Intermission — Lost ’80s Post-Punk Band Entracte Unearthed for “Imbalance” Full-Length

History has a way of arriving late, wearing a better coat than expected, speaking more clearly than it ever did the first time around. Post-punk had to persist through an…

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The Bolshoi Brothers and Theatre of Hate to Embark on West Coast Tour this Spring

This spring, Trevor Tanner and Paul Clark — longtime collaborators and principal members of The Bolshoi — reunite onstage as The Bolshoi Brothers for a run of West Coast dates.…

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4AD to Release Xmal Deutschland’s Complete Peel Sessions on Silver Vinyl for Record Store Day

In celebration of Record Store Day 2026, 4AD focuses on an archival release that brings a crucial chapter of its history into full view. Available exclusively in-store on Saturday, April…

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