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Arizona Duo Black Tapestry Takes The Cars’ “Drive” out for a Dreamy Darkwave Spin

Who’s gonna pay attention To your dreams? Yeah, who’s gonna plug their ears When you scream? The realization that love cannot save someone determined to destroy themselves is profoundly unsettling.…

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NYC Synthpop Artist Primitive Heart Serves Grapes, Glamour, and Downtown Decadence in Video for “Steady (Vile Remix)”

There was a time in New York City when beauty was considered a perfectly legitimate reason to make an absolute spectacle of yourself. The downtown avant-garde of the late 1970s…

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“A Distant Dream” — Dutch Coldwavers Desinteresse Share Video for “Falling Faces” Ahead of New Album “A Picture”

Dreams are better than things you’re told, all these changes, keep me alone Anyone who has ever wished they could hop into a time machine and go back to the…

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Musique Machine Channels Final Girl Instincts on Retro Synth EP “Scream Queen”

Processor brain, is it the same? Are you in pain? Who’s to say? When it’s time to see the light Live your life twice or thrice Western civilization has had…

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“For Your Eternity I Would Bleed” — Twin Ritual Find Love at First Bite on Sunset Synthpop Single “Just Like a Vampire”

I won’t ever need the sunlight As long as I can call you mine Vampire romances have a peculiar idea of considerate courtship. Somewhere between the first kiss and the…

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Vienna Industrial Project Manufracture Music Confronts a Civilization Running on Indifference With “System Apathy”

The agony of bleeding machines A melody in shadow decay The apathy of broken routines Our history is fading away Humanity possesses a remarkable capacity to remember, yet an equally…

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Sacramento Shoegazers Soft Science Make Room for Less in Video for “Without,” Highlighting Their Fifth Album, “Sand”

The mind can be a terribly indulgent landlord: old arguments settle in, borrowed expectations take the best room, and worry renews its lease without ever paying a cent. After a…

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Multimedia Artist and Synth Chanteuse Carmen Burguess Returns with Alluring Single “El Mar”

Porque no vienes a buscarme? Por qué me ignoran así? Me niegan el sol y el mar… Over the course of their nearly 20-year-long tenure, Argentinian (by way of Berlin)…

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Death Becomes Her — An Interview With Trve Darkwave Artist Die Tödin on Her Self-Titled Compilation via Heartworm Press

“It is about hiding nothing” German grammar gives death a masculine identity, an administrative decision Die Tödin has taken the liberty of correcting. With an arresting voice, a fine ear…

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ZEU Turns Industrial Decay into Coal-Stained Gothic Rock on “Blind Among the Rust” and “Beyond Life and Death”

We all want something better, bright and shiny dust. Fake names to hide within, blind among the rust Northeastern Pennsylvania has always seemed peculiarly suited to its own species of…

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