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Early 80s Chicago Post-Punk Outfit The Penthouse Plants Returns with “Dancing in the Dark” and More!

Born on Chicago’s North Side in the early 1980s, The Penthouse Plants were the kind of artful post‑punk curiosity whose reputation rarely drifted beyond city limits. Led by singer‑songwriter John…

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Chilean Artist Diego RQ Releases Brooding Noir Single “The Vamp Who Took Your Name”

Diego RQ’s The Vamp Who Took Your Name arrives straight out of the shadows on a lost Betamax tape found in a thrift-store crypt. A Chilean-born storyteller fluent in the…

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Dark Pop Artist Brittany Bindrim Rallies Against the Authoritarian Creep in Video for “Ever So Slowly”

The value of yesterday Guides me still and you’ll obey This bridge is the only way Unless you burn it down Brittany Bindrim slips back into the glow and glare…

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And It Was Night Makes an Eerie Debut with Burton-Esque Dark Synth Pop Single “The Fever”

A prison in a prison Insidious addiction It takes me out of Space and time In The Twilight Zone’s The Fever (1960), Franklin Gibbs arrives in Las Vegas with the…

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Philadelphia Shoegaze Outfit Flatwaves Opens Up a Box of Sugar Coated Memories in Their Video for “Lorraine”

You were a baddie slashing tires But time wore away All your thorns Now I carry all your flowers In times when shadows lengthen and the air quivers with unrest,…

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Ashes and Diamonds — Members of Bauhaus, PiL, and Sade Unite for New Single “On A Rocka”

Three lives in music, three cities, three distinct pasts: Bauhaus/Tones On Tail/Love and Rockets’ arch glamour and experimentation, Sade/Sweetback’s low-lit and elegant basslines, Public Image Ltd./The Pop Group’s irreverent, abstract…

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David Byrne Takes on the “Edgy and Untraditional” With Quirky New Single “The Avant Garde”

And when we go there you will observe It’s a passionate life, it’s a head of a curve It’s deceptively weighty, profoundly absurd Well, it’s whatever fits Somewhere between an…

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Melbourne Post-Punk Outfit High Control Group Beams Through the Cathode Rays in Video for “Hole in Heaven”

Everything eventually connectsAnd in hindsight all makes senseTheres no coincidencesJust cooperative incidence It happens as if by accident, though some older part of you knows the choreography was set long…

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Philly Post-Punks Wax Jaw Flex Their Queer Muscles in Exuberant Video for “Lace Up”

Wax Jaw’s Lace Up barrels forward with the unshakable urgency of a last-call confession and the knowing grin of someone who’s been there before. Born out of Philadelphia’s restless live…

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A Floral Arrangement — Bara Hari’s Video for “A Flower in His Garden” Channels 60s Splendor and Rebellion

Burn away the signs of life My fingertips are roaming For something else to hold me Cause skin and bone don’t own me and neither will you It comes early,…

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