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Black Marble Keeps Calm Amidst the Clamor of NYC in Video for “It Always Comes to Me”

Charm is one of the stranger forms of social currency, because its value depends on everybody agreeing, for a moment, to overlook the arithmetic. The charmer gets the favour, the…

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“It’s Not Enough” — Black Marble Has Too Many Options, But No Satisfaction in Video for “Anything”

When the Rolling Stones recorded “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” in 1965, dissatisfaction came crackling through transistor radios amid advertising pitches, postwar consumer plenty, sexual frustration, and the suspicion that…

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Black Marble Returns With Video for “Jim Carol New Year” — New Album “Life in Small Spaces” Announced!

If you want to be countedIf you want to be seenThen you can never be freeNot me Black Marble, the long-running solo project of synth musician Chris Stewart, will return…

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Mondlicht in Manhattan — Xmal Deutschland’s Anja Huwe Opens Her First North American Tour in Forty Years

Anja Huwe walked onto the stage at Le Poisson Rouge on Bleecker Street in Manhattan looking like she had just stepped out of some glamourous midnight ambush: fluffy black jacket,…

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Alan Vega’s First Two Solo Albums to be Reissued and More! — Watch New Video for “Ice Drummer”

The Vega Vault Project and Sacred Bones Records continue their meticulous excavation of Alan Vega’s sprawling posthumous archive, unveiling newly remastered editions of his highly influential 1980 self-titled debut solo…

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Brooklyn Post-Punk Outfit Lathe of Heaven Explores Cascading Self-Awareness in Their Video for “Oblivion”

Cascade Familiar and strange Stirring behind your eyes Brooklyn’s Lathe of Heaven slices through genre boundaries, carving out their own vivid niche between punk, new wave, and post-punk on their…

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NYC Post-Punk Outfit Lathe of Heaven Have Visions of a Lost Earth in Their Video for “Aurora”

Lost in pure devotion Crossing oceans lying next to you Lost in pure devotion Tracing heaven lying next to you NYC post-punk outfit Lathe of Heaven heralds the release of…

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Shake Your Shibuya — Sextile Returns From Tokyo With Video for “Women Respond To Bass”

No more teeth Life is bleak **** your dollar Los Angeles synth-punk agitators Sextile charge into the strobe-lit abyss with their new album yes, please., out May 2nd via Sacred…

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Past Meets Present in Anja Huwe’s Video for Xmal Deutschland Mashup “PolarForest” — European Live Dates This Summer

Anja Huwe has never followed a straight line in her artistic journey; instead, she is guided by a synesthetic sense of connection between color, form, sound, and even time. With…

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Sextile Channel NYC House Parties in Their Video for “Freak Eyes” — New Album “yes, please” Announced

Los Angeles duo Sextile forgo the comfort of repetition in favor of re-invention. Melissa Scaduto and Brady Keehn chase the next thrill with an unwavering zeal for all things from…

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