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Love & Rockets US Dates May & June 2023

Love & Rockets add more 2023 shows

Love and Rockets have announced more tour dates for 2023, these are in addition to the previously posted May shows. Love and Rockets 2023 Tour May 20: Cruel World Festival, Pasadena, CA May 21: Fox Theater, Oakland, CA (Tickets) May 24: Sandy Amphitheater, Salt Lake City, UT (Tickets) May 26: Roseland Theater, Portland, OR SOLD OUT May 27: Roseland Theater, Portland, OR (Tickets) May 28: Moore Theater, Seattle, WA (Tickets) June… Read more →

The Cemetary Girlz - L'Envol du Corbeau

The Cemetary Girlz – L’Envol du Corbeau

Manic Depression Records presents L’Envol du corbeau by The Cemetary Girlz – a dark, gothic, melancholic, post-punk tinged album. The band has been around for 16 years, touring alongside The Chameleons, The Damned, Cinema Strange, Danse Society, and many others, playing international Goth festivals Wave Gotik Treffen, Gothic Pogo Festival, Lumous Gothic (Finland), Woodgothic (Brazil), Gotham Nights (Norway), has established… Read more →

Randolph & Mortimer - The Incomplete Truth

Randolph & Mortimer – The Incomplete Truth

Industrial, Synth, New Beat, EBM act Randolph & Mortimer from Sheffield, England has a new album out today, The Incomplete Truth is an 8-track 45 minute-long homage to everything the act loves about electronic music. The brief for this album was simple, every track had to be strong enough to fit in the R&M live show so all killer and… Read more →

WitchHands - No Gods No Masters

WitchHands – No Gods No Masters

Colorado Springs based death rock / gothic rock band WitchHands have announced a new album No Gods No Masters featuring eight tracks of spooky, catchy, deathrock! The new album is an international collaboration with guest performances from Raven Rissy of Hem Netjer and Hollow Kid from Mexican greats Huecodark. No Gods No Masters will be released April 15th and a CD… Read more →

My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: Evil Eye Tour 87-97

My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: Evil Eye Tour 87-97

My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult have added more dates to their #EvilEyeTour with special guests ADULT and KANGA! Tickets go on sale via the My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult site on Friday, March 10 @ 10am local. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult will be performing a classic set list reflecting their first 10 years… Read more →

New Order - Blue Monday

Blue Monday lost $100,000

Peter Hook, bassist of New Order describes how “Blue Monday” the best-selling 12-inch single in music history managed to lose $100,000. The single was released 40 years ago, on March 7, 1983 and to this day it holds the record as the top-selling 12-inch single in recording history. Peter Hook explains that it all came down to indie label Factory… Read more →

Kill Shelter & Death Loves Veronica - The Sex Tape Sessions EP

Kill Shelter & Death Loves Veronica – The Sex Tape Sessions EP

Kill Shelter & Death Loves Veronica’s first multimedia collaborative work, provocatively entitled The Sex Tape Sessions, has been leaked early. Various pre-release bootleg cassettes and VHS tapes are now in circulation ahead of the official release which is scheduled for Friday March 17th. The Sex Tape Sessions EP includes two new tracks as well as two remixes of material from… Read more →

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Happy 24/2 Day!

Happy 24/2 Day! We made it to another 24/2 Day and the opportunity to celebrate Electronic Body Music (EBM) and the band Front 242. Here is a full show recording of Front 242 performing live at Kåren in Gothenburg, Sweden on April 26,1987 restored from VHS by YouTube channel Kompakt Mode. Front 242 setlist: Agressiva Rerun Time Master Hit No… Read more →

The Nightmares - Séance

The Nightmares – Séance

UK band The Nightmares have announced their debut album, Séance, set for release April 7th on Equal Vision Records and Venn Records (UK/EU). Centered around recurring themes of death, love and mourning, The Nightmares create a dark, yet hopeful noir pop sound. Today, the quartet have released their anti-Valentine’s single, the fittingly-named “Heartless.” Showcasing their goth and post-punk influences, the track has a seemingly melancholic demeanor with tranquil vocals… Read more →

Johnathan | Christian - Strip Me

Johnathan | Christian – Strip Me

Los Angeles-based Johnathan Mooney and Stockholm’s Christian Granquist otherwise known as the Trans-Atlantic post-punk project, Johnathan|Christian have released their latest EP, Strip Me and music video for the title track. The EP tells a story through a trilogy of songs, “Strip Me,” “Sway Back” and “This Too”.  The topics addressed in the trilogy include acknowledging the fear of rejection, love’s often finite nature,… Read more →