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“I’m By Your Side to Burn” — An Interview with Seattle Synthpop Chanteur Hot Hail! on “Hope In Hell”

But I’m drained white and shellshocked and going blind From staring at this funeral pyre But I’m by your side to burn If that’s what it comes to in the…

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NYC Post-Punk Collective London Plane Shares Video for Their Reimagining of Bronski Beat’s “Smalltown Boy” (A Refugee Song)

Bronski Beat’s Smalltown Boy was never polite pop product; it was a getaway note set to a drum machine, a public wound dressed in nightclub chrome. Every second of it…

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“A Feast for the Flies” — Tom Waits Joins Forces with Massive Attack for Protest Song “Boots on the Ground”

Now who the hell are these federal pricks? Hiding in the senate like a bloated ass tick Air conditioned fuckstick loafers Sittin in a room full of army posters Day…

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“History Repeats. Who Hears?” — Chicago’s Anomaly Report Chronicles Collapse on “Beautiful Terrible Things”

‘Twas the night ’fore tomorrow, world leaders convened, Each vying for patents on powers unseen. With treaties half-written and handshakes half-shook, They plotted dominion over resources untook. Anomaly Report have…

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The State of the Union is Bleak — Bleak Gospel Shares Anti-Authoritarian Punk Single “The Grabber”

Words like daggers, sharp but cheap, A broken trust, a promise to keep. The shadows dance, the crowd obeys, Their hope consumed in his charade. America feels like a constant…

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Chinese-Indonesian Darkwave Artist Ony Godfrey Unveils Video for Imperialist Decree “Let Them Eat War”

Traitors, rivals, and nemesis All of them shall perish into ashes Kiss my hand and do as what I say And you will have a position in my empire He’s…

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NYC Darkwavers MIDNIGHTCHOIR Stand at the Steps of Capitalism in Video for “Girls” — New LP “Debtors Disco” Out Now!

You’re a rabbit that no longer runs A cop planting evidence just for the fun You’re lusting for something that no one has done And you’re on to something now…

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Melbourne’s Ohms Measures the Machinery of Modern Misery with “No Chance”

No chance to grab the chance that submits to you. What good’s a house when you’re in debt on your room? Clutching straws in hopes economies boom. Pipe dream’s seeming…

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NYC Darkwave Activists MIDNIGHTCHOIR Weather the News Cycle in Their Satirical Video for “No Country”

If you find it hard to wake up My clock says now or never We’ve got shackles to sever There’s no way to sit this one out The 24 hour…

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Dark Electronic Outfit Ex-Hyena Cloak Themselves With Campy Cult Ritual in Video for “This Is Your Love”

The cult, with its siren-song of certainty, is but destiny’s counterfeit coin: it offers the illusion of freedom while binding the spirit in invisible chains. To join is to surrender…

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