Fad Gadget Archives — Post-Punk.com

LastCraft’s New Wave Tarot A Divine Tribute To 80s Post-Punk

Collage artist Amanda Lee Stilwell of LastCraft Designs is a longtime veteran of tarot, having studied the craft for the last two decades. Several years ago, Stilwell decided to create…

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Revisiting The Prophetic Lyrics of Frank Tovey and Fad Gadget

Quarantine, the rise of fascism, and the relentless news cycle has everyone caught in a hellish loop of anxious doomscrolling. As we greedily lap up salacious headlines and news clips…

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Zachery Allan Starkey’s Nightmarish “No Security” Is a Dystopian Anthem

“There is no security. There is no security.” Zachery Allan Starkey has been a vulture gnawing the carrion of New York City, spitting out the gristle and grime in a…

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Mute Re-Releases Rowland S. Howard’s “Teenage Snuff Film” and “Pop Crimes”

One of the seminal figures of Australia’s post-punk movement, Rowland S. Howard put his melancholic, atmosphere-soaked stamp on Young Charlatans, then played alongside Nick Cave and Mick Harvey in The…

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News

The Best of Fad Gadget Issued on Vinyl for the First Time⁠—Celebrating 40 years Since Frank Tovey’s Debut Single

Mute have announced a double silver-vinyl release of The Best of Fad Gadget, out on the 6th of September 2019. The compilation is available for the first time on vinyl,…

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Hansa Studios: By The Wall 1976-90 | Watch the 90 min documentary about the important Berlin recording studio

One of the most important studios in music history is Berlin’s Hansa Studios—just around the corner from Potsdamer Platz in West Berlin. This is where David Bowie recorded his masterpiece Heroes,…

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Mute: A Visual Document to feature 320 pages of archival material curated by Daniel Miller

Mute is arguably one of the most important independent music labels of all time, and certainly most successful and prolific. Since founding the label to release his debut single, The…

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An interview with Douglas McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb and Fixmer/McCarthy

On September 8th—right outside of the legendary nightclub Berghain in the Cantine area,—Post-Punk.com had the pleasure of interviewing EBM and Industrial music legend Douglas J. McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb and…

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Birthdays

Remembering Fad Gadget’s Frank Tovey | Celebrate his life by watching this full 1984 concert shot at the legendary Hacienda in Manchester

Frank Tovey is the legendary artist behind the avant-garde synth project Fad Gadget—a project that started in 1980 when Tovey sent a his demo tape of Back To Nature to Mute Records…

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Depeche Mode | Construction Time Again

On August 22nd, 1983—synthpop legends Depeche Mode came into their own with the release of their third studio album Construction Time Again. The album was recorded at John Foxx’s Garden Studios…

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