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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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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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The Beautiful Men of Goth and Post-Punk

The men of goth and post-punk are undeniably some of the most beautiful male specimens to have graced a stage or have played an instrument. In fact, some of them wear…

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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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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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