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Los Angeles Post-Punk Outfit Agender Hits Back Hard in the Video for Their Rhythmic Single “Action Reaction”

Los Angeles post-punk outfit Agender slashes through the static with Action Reaction, a track that bites and claws at the raw nerve of modern existence. It grips like a vice,…

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Los Angeles Artist Sehseiyah Shatters and Unravels in Gothic-laced Avant-Industrial Pop EP, “620”

Will I make it out of this alive? Is it me or am I still paranoid? Am I still paranoid? Sehseiyah (FKA The Bedroom Witch) rips through expectations with 620,…

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Texas Darkwavers Haunt Me Conjure 80s Horror, Nosferatu, and Dracula in New Album “Watch You Bleed”

San Antonio’s Haunt Me sprang from the restless mind of vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Darius Davila, who launched the project in February 2021. That same year, he unleashed both a debut…

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Los Angeles Darkwave Trio th3 L3p3rs Explore Seduction and Self Destruction in Their “Tragic Blondes” EP

I feel her crawl inside my skin Beauty wrapped in dark sin Paralyzed by Angelic eyes But you’re a demon in disguise Austin’s Th3 L3p3rs drag ‘80s new wave, ‘90s…

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Kiss Me in the Dark — Philadelphia’s Forest Circles Debuts Romantic New Dreampop Single “Embers”

Close your eyes and tell There’s something more, it’s meant to be And I was wrong, I looked away You know the truth, is it too late A love slipping…

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A Hideaway in The Hague — Grauzone Festival 2025 Featured the Best of Post-Punk, Synthpop, and New Wave!

The 2025 edition of the Netherlands long-running Grauzone Festival felt like stepping through the looking glass and into a post-punk wonderland – a three-day summer camp where the clock stopped…

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Budapest’s Choke City Captures the Spirit of Classic Dark Alternative Rock With Their “Growing Gash” EP

Do not dare to ever tell That you would be there In this bed you’ve made Of thorns and pain Budapest hums with history, its streets thick with the weight…

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Distorted Synths and Brutalist Beats — Death Palmz Revives the Raw Nerve of Old-School Industrial and Synthpunk

Get up Paralysis from indecision Opportunity is fiction Death Palmz detonates like a fever dream—raw, restless, and relentless. Born from the circuitry of Austin, Texas, Jon French (Exotic Fruitica) sculpts…

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Quebec Minimal Synth Duo Frissons Release “Full Moon Nights” Maxi Single — Watch Video for “Bathe Me (In Scented Oils)”

Annick Giroux, once the voice of Cauchemar, channels her unorthodox range into French words that flicker like candlelight on old stone walls. Meanwhile, Nathaniel Hébert, known for his Cronenberg project,…

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Budapest’s Redeye Black Tears Releases Tenebrous Gothic Rock Album “Cuddling Monsters”

(your) revenge is my purpose (my) revenge is my faith gunshot wounds are my stigma I’m a man-made god of hate Redeye Black Tears (REBT) rises from the depths of…

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