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“In a Vintage Mugler Negligee” — Sweet Love Under Tyranny Shares Seductive Synthpop Single “Viva L’Amore”

I will be there in a vintage Mugler negligee come and go, take your troubles away… Viva l’amore! Long live love, without pain. Everybody knows the bargain is impossible, which…

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Where’s the Light in the Dark? — Los Angeles Romantic Post-Punk Duo Deceits Share “The First Day Of Fall”

Where’s the joy in this all? Where’s the light in the dark My hands hide my tears, I feel so lost This first day of Fall Summer does not end…

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“You Say I’m Crazy, Well Yeah I Know” — Los Angeles Dark-Pop Artist Sun Spoiler Chases a Dopamine Mirage in “Hallucinations”

Stumbling down the walk of fame Amanda Bynes is on my brain Just wrote a letter to Josephine She’s the girl who stole my dopamine Desire is a rotten eyewitness.…

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Members of The Wake and Sunshine Blind Collaborate in Los Tres Mortales — Watch Video for Debut Single “Bourbon”

Bourbon has ruined romances, started fistfights, improved lies, destroyed judgement, and convinced generations of perfectly reasonable people that singing at 2:17 in the morning was an excellent idea. Los Tres…

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“I am the Enemy” — Berlin Post-Punk Veterans Golden Apes Confront the Half-Damaged Self in Video for “Resistance”

Every definition closes off certain possibilities. Naming an experience can help us understand it, but a name can also become a verdict, reducing a person to one fixed account of…

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When the Fireworks Fail — Australian Dream Pop Duo dusk2dawn Light the Fuse in Video for “It Kills Me Every Time”

Every spectacle contains a private bargain with disaster. Fireworks make that bargain visible: powder and metal are prepared for beauty, ignited at close range, and trusted to travel in the…

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Trentemøller and Mew’s Jonas Bjerre Turn Night Terrors Into Daydream Pop in Video for “Terrified”

Fear often does its most elaborate work while the body sleeps. Dreams build disasters without waiting for evidence: rooms close around us, familiar faces become unreadable, and futures that never…

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Electronic Art-Pop Artist Sonic Anonymous Confronts Grief, Addiction, and Veteran Homelessness in “Be Good Tonight”

War does not always end when a soldier comes home. For many veterans, the battlefield survives as memory, vigilance, sleeplessness, and estrangement from a civilian world that seems to have…

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German Post-Punk Project HEILSTATT Bridges History and Modern Division on Debut Album “Korridor” — Watch Video for “Die Brücke”

Hier und da verbrannten zwei Welten. Hier und da: die Brücke. Martin Falkenstein has spent years making music that stares into old forests, old legends, and old wounds. As the…

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TVAM and Riki Invoke Ancient Magic, Heartbreak, and Timeless Love in Ethereal Goth Dirge “The Sorrow”

A lament begins where ordinary speech reaches its limit. Across Irish and Scottish Gaelic traditions, keening gave bereavement a communal voice, allowing grief to rise through repeated cries, elongated vowels,…

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