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A Hideaway in The Hague — Grauzone Festival 2025 Featured the Best of Post-Punk, Synthpop, and New Wave!

The 2025 edition of the Netherlands long-running Grauzone Festival felt like stepping through the looking glass and into a post-punk wonderland – a three-day summer camp where the clock stopped…

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Post-Punk.com — The Best of 2024

The year 2024 felt like a century, yet it seemingly vanished in a heartbeat. In its wake, an unrelenting surge of extraordinary records made retracing each month feel like unearthing…

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TR/ST Takes the Stage Once More in His Spellbinding Video for “Performance”

There’s a vulnerable beauty in stepping onto the stage and letting your heart lay bare, and with the title track “Performance,” TR/ST captures that very essence. Robert Alfons opens himself…

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Modernwav to Host Two-Day Industrial Darkwave Event in San Diego with TR/ST, IAMX, Spike Hellis, and More!

Modernwav isn’t just another event; it’s a sanctuary crafted by those who live and breathe the underground—true believers in the power of grassroots and DIY culture within the post-punk and…

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TR/ST Debuts Hypnagogic New Single “Dark Day” — North American and European Tour Dates Announced

Robert Alfons, the enigmatic mastermind of TR/ST, returns with another shadowy and compelling modern synthpop single. Titled “Dark Day,” this latest release offers a glimpse of his forthcoming album, “Performance,” slated for release…

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TR/ST Announces New Album “Performance” — Listen to Soaring Synthpop Single “All at Once”

Robert Alfons, the enigmatic force behind TR/ST, returns with a sharpened edge and a soaring new sound. His latest single, “All At Once,” serves as a tantalizing precursor to the…

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TR/ST Debuts Dreamy New Single “Soon” — Autumn European Tour Dates Announced

Asleep I still say it aloud Scared stiff it’s all around We never did call it off, now our organs dried Scared stiff to stone, you liar Fresh off a…

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TR/ST Releases Surprise EP and Cover of Pet Shop Boys’ “Being Boring” with Jake Shears

I came across a cache of old photosAnd invitations to teenage parties“Dress in white” one said, with quotationsFrom someone’s wife, a famous writerIn the nineteen-twenties Robert Alfons, known professionally as…

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TR/ST Signs to Dais Records and Releases New Single “Robrash”

Descending into the neon-lit corridors of Toronto’s underground scene, Robert Alfons, famously known as TR/ST and formerly as Trust, emerged in 2010 like a suave glitch in the matrix. His…

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Cruel World Festival 2024 Announced Featuring Tones on Tail, Duran Duran, Adam Ant, Ministry, Simple Minds, Heaven 17, and More!

In what’s shaping up to be a monumental third annual Cruel World festival, set for May 11, 2024, at the picturesque Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, the lineup…

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