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Australian Post-Punk Ensemble Second Idol put up Their “Defence Mechanisms”

Australia’s Second Idol announces their raucous debut EP, Defence Mechanisms. The reflective, dynamic five-track album is a solid introduction to the Sydney alt-rock quartet, with Herculean melodies, earnest lyric writing,…

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Molchat Doma Announce New Wave Sadness World Tour

Belarus’s 3 princes of melancholy, doom, and gloom Molchat Doma have announced that they will be traversing the globe on their ambitious New Wave Sadness tour, starting this autumn. Kicking…

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Norwegian Post-Punk Outfit Permafrost Wander the Gloom of Frozen Landscapes in “Closed Eyes”

Norwegian post-punk outfit Permafrost wander through chilly landscapes with a stunning new video for their single Closed Eyes. The track pulses with a relentless, foreboding surge, alluding to a dystopian…

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Dark Songstress ANIQO Debuts Surreal Video for “Must Surrender”

Berlin-based artist Anita Goß, known as ANIQO, moves between the extremes like a ping-pong ball. With a commitment to minimalism and an appetite to blend “light and dark” in her innovative…

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Cruel World Festival Announces 2022 Lineup with The Damned, Bauhaus, Blondie, Devo, Echo & The Bunnymen, Morrissey, and More!

The Cruel World music festival has unveiled its lineup for the 14th of May 2022 at Brookside at the Rose Bowl. After waylaid plans due to the pandemic, the one-day…

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New Releases

Darkness and Light—Brigitte Handley Explores a Diverse of Palette of Sounds in Her “Köln – Visions” EP

When Australian singer-songwriter Brigitte Handley (The Dark Shadows) began to explore ideas for her Köln – Visions EP, she thought about how she could capture the moods and feelings her…

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Cruel World Undead? Festival Hints That it will “Go Forward” in 2022

Is the Cruel World Festival making a comeback in Spring of 2022, and more importantly, will it still involve Devo? Or for that matter, any other of the acts on its…

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Bands

TRAITRS Tear Through Religious Imagery with the Dark Romance of “Magdalene”

Following the release of their first full-length album Butcher’s Coin, Shawn Tucker and Sean-Patrick Nolan of Toronto post-punk band TRAITRS have begun releasing their next batch of dark post-punk music with Magdalene, their first release on…

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Song Premiere

Portland Post-Punk Duo Ritual Veil Debut “Keep Looking Down” From New EP

After growing up together in Portland, Oregon’s punk scene, longtime friends Aidan Wolfe and Wolfgang Williams joined forces dramatic dance-beat, synth-driven pop passion project known as Ritual Veil. Wolfe and Williams…

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Video Premiere

Icelandic Post-Punk Trio Kælan Mikla Return with Their Magical Video for “Ósýnileg”

Each goes their own way By themselves, invisible Iceland’s spellbinding witchy trio Kælan Mikla return with a stunning new video for the hypnotic Ósýnileg, their second new song since 2018’s…

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