Cracknation has announce the line-up as well as ticket information for COLD WAVES VI being held in Chicago September 29 – October 1. METRO + SMART BAR 9/29 • 9/30 • 10/1 FRONT 242 • KMFDM • STABBING WESTWARD • COLD CAVE • OHGR • SEVERED HEADS • PANKOW • ASSEMBLAGE 23 • DRAB MAJESTY • IVARDENSPHERE • ACUMEN NATION… Read more →
UK post-punk band Siberia will release its debut album Turning Back Tides via the SwissDarkNights label on April 20th. The band from Reading and Swindon exhibit a melodic guitar-laden alternative and goth sound that will be on display as part of the roster of groups scheduled to play at the Gotham Sounds Festival in Hilden, Germany on April 29-30 — joining Siberia will be Holygram, Under The Skin, Whispering Sons, Children On Stun,… Read more →
LA-based Bestial Mouths latest remix album (STILL) Heartless has been released on Cleopatra Records and is available via Bandcamp – the album includes remixes by Ludovico Technique, The Horrorist, Die Krupps, Zanias, and more. The band is currently touring North America and plays its second show tonight in NYC at The Bowery Electric hosted by Arkham Gothic Club. (STILL) Heartless by Bestial Mouths Read more →
The French / German synthpop-minimal wave duo of Coco Gallo and Stéphane Argillet Peine Perdue are releasing a new 4-track EP Histoire d’une Ame on March 20th via the Electronic Emergencies label. The EP tells a story that was inspired by 80s cult movie Therese, directed by Alain Cavalier, about the mystical suffering of a nun who becomes a saint. Expect nebulous acid wave… Read more →
Die Selektion have revealed the title to their long-awaited new album – Deine Stimme Ist Der Ursprung Jeglicher Gewalt is due May 30th, 2017 on aufnahme + wiedergabe and the group have announced new performance dates: March 11 – Hamburg – Knust * March 19 – Heidelberg – Halle02 * March 22 – Brussels – Magasin4 March 23 – Paris – Point Éphémère March 24… Read more →
Wax Trax! Films is ready to present its documentary Industrial Accident: The Untold Story of Wax Trax! Records produced and directed by Julia Nash, daughter of co-founder Jim Nash and current president of Wax Trax! Records. Included in the film are interviews with Al Jourgensen, Franke Nardiello, Jello Biafra, Luc Van Acker, Paul Barker, Ian MacKaye, Marston Daley, Trent Reznor, Richard… Read more →
Italian post-punk band Der Himmel Über Berlin new 10-track album Amnesia will be released by French label Unknown Pleasures Records on April 15th. The band from north-east Italy have an original sound with influences of Bauhaus, Joy Division and Sisters of Mercy. Amnesia is the follow-up to the 2015’s Emesys EP and during extensive touring they have shared their dark sound on… Read more →
Cherry Red Records has announced the release of Silhouettes & Statues A Gothic Revolution 1978-1986 – a 5 CD study of the UK’s post-punk Gothic movement. A year in the making and packed with big names, underground obscurities, artist recollections and unseen photographs, it’s due June 2017. Here is the track listing: Disc One: Joy Division – Shadowplay The Birthday Party… Read more →
Electronic / cold-synth musician Crystalline Stricture has released Undigital a new EP on Belfast’s TONN Recordings available via Bandcamp and features creations of electronics sounds influenced by early Human League, Gary Numan, Massive Attack, Leftfield, and Aphex Twin. Also check out the 5-track album Terminal Decline released in December. Undigital by Crystalline Stricture Read more →
NYC-based dark alternative duo Tempers are set to release their new EP Fundamental Fantasy February 24th via The Vinyl Factory. Written on the island of Stromboli at the Volcano Extravaganza festival in 2016, the new 5-track EP by the duo consisting of Jasmine Golestaneh and Eddie Cooper creates an emotional and tonal tension of sensual and mechanical impulses. Their brand of dark electronica sets… Read more →
