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Los Angeles’ New Wavers Sacred Skin Reach the Breaking Point With Smoldering Rock Single “This Pressure”

Do you feel the same When the camera rolls Will you cower in shame Will you fit this mold Consider how we drift between life’s subtle manipulations and the crushing…

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Madeline Goldstein Returns with Soaring Synthpop Single “Apogee” — New Album out on Artoffact Records This Autumn

There’s an endlessness to living, in the certainty of time, what had started now is ending, what is ending is sublime Madeline Goldstein returns with her latest release, Apogee, a…

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Portland’s Dancing Plague Debuts Video for Existential Darkwave Single “Turn to Dust”

“Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives,” Socrates once mused—a contemplation fittingly…

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Belgian Duo Ultra Sunn Debuts New Single “Wrong Floor” From Forthcoming New Album “The Beast in You”

In the shifting shadows of Brussels’ thriving electronic underground, ULTRA SUNN—duo Sam Huge and Gaelle Souflet—continue their ascent with the announcement of their sophomore album, The Beast In You, set…

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Rhys Fulber Releases Video for Dark Electronic Single “The Abyss,” Featuring Qual — New Album “Memory Impulse Autonomy” Announced

Rhys Fulber, a cornerstone of industrial music through his work with Front Line Assembly, Delerium, and Conjure One, steps into a charged past-future reverie with Memory Impulse Autonomy, his first…

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Bootblacks Return with a Sultry Sax Solo in Their New Wave Single “Only You” — Featuring Chris Vrenna and Benjamin Harrison

What have you lost? You don’t have to say Is it love? Doesn’t have to be that way There is a silence that sits heavier than thunder…a stillness that waits,…

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Los Angeles’ The Discussion Debuts Video for Otherworldly Synth Transmission “Blue Light”

Can you see the wave of colors danceOr the way light moves through electric trance Laura Pleasants, the once-fiery creative force behind Kylesa, now leads the Los Angeles-based post-punk outfit…

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Soft Vein Debuts First Music Video With “Gray Space” From Forthcoming Album “Through Blinds”

Your kiss is soft violence, a cry of defiance A sudden thief in the night Observing love, lust, and the human condition with a blend of passion and detachment, Soft…

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Danish Post-Punk Outfit The Foreign Resort Escape to “Southern Skies” in Their Latest Video

Run into hiding Wanna have some fun Real life is sliding Escape to summer sun There’s something undeniably exhilarating about piling into a travel-worn van with your closest comrades, guitars…

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