Tag: Post-Punk

Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace cover

The Beauty and Creativity of 80s Postpunk Culture

Author Andi Harriman celebrates the one-year anniversary since the release of Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace: The Worldwide Compendium of Postpunk and Goth in the 1980’s. In early 2012, The Postpunk Project was simply an idea—Andi Harriman and Marloes Bontje had a dream to document and reveal the historic and creative aspect of the influential 1980s alternative scene that… Read more →

Cemetery - Wind And Shadows

Deathrock Re-issue: Cemetery – Wind And Shadows

Gothic Music Records of Finland is re-releasing Cemetery’s album Wind And Shadows and is calling it one of the best Deathrock albums of the year — the release is available for pre-order now and will be available November 30th, 2015. Chicago’s Cemetery sold-out debut album Wind And Shadows, originally released earlier this year via Mass Media Records, brings the energy of… Read more →

The Underground Youth - Haunted

Manchester Post-Punk: The Underground Youth – Haunted

The Underground Youth from Manchester, UK return with their new release Haunted. The nine-track album will be released September 7, 2015 on Fuzz Club Records. The Underground Youth blend the sounds of shoegaze, post-punk and psychedelic rock with their own hauntingly beautiful twist. The creative project of Craig Dyer was started in 2008 and is currently based in Manchester. Since… Read more →

Dessau - Isolation

Isolation – Dessau: Revisit Industrial classic from 1988

Released as a 12″ single in 1988 on Carlyle Records, “Isolation” from Dessau remains an industrial dance classic track to this day. Dessau was the musical creation of John Elliott of Nashville, Tennessee. Elliot started his career as a punk rock drummer for Nashville band Clovebottom and later worked with Actuals, later known as Factual. After several years of being… Read more →

New Order - Music Complete

Restless: New video from New Order

New Order has released the music video for “Restless,” the first single from New Order’s new album Music Complete. The New Order line-up of Bernard Sumner, Gillian Gilbert, Stephen Morris, Tom Chapman and Phil Cunningham have announced the release of their new album, Music Complete, out on September 25th, 2015. This is to be the first New Order album without original… Read more →

Jaguardini - Sleep Walker

New release: Jaguardini – Sleep Walker

Jaguardini from Harrisonburg, Virginia combine the sounds of old videogames and synthesizers with various styles of electric music to create its new album Sleep Walker. As a score to Robert Weime’s 1920 German Expressionist horror film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this album was written to unfold with the narrative and convey the inner psyches of the characters on-screen. With… Read more →

Double Echo - La Danza

Liverpool Post Punk: Double Echo – La Danza

Double Echo released La Danza a few months ago with Finnish label Gothic Music Records and will soon release a remastered version of their 2013 album Phantomime that will include two bonus tracks. The band made up of Chris Luna and Ash Lerczak was founded in Liverpool in 2012 and is a creating music that is fascinating back-to the basics and… Read more →

New Order - Music Complete

New Order single released: Listen to Restless

“Restless” is the first release from New Order’s new album Music Complete. The New Order line-up of Bernard Sumner, Gillian Gilbert, Stephen Morris, Tom Chapman and Phil Cunningham have announced the release of their new album, Music Complete, out on September 25th, 2015. This is to be the first New Order album without original bassist Peter Hook. The long awaited album… Read more →

Bleib Modern - All Is Fair In Love And War

Bleib Modern – All Is Fair In Love And War

All Is Fair In Love And War is the title of the debut album by Bleib Modern from Bamberg, Germany. The band, once a one a solo project of Philipp Läufer, was founded around 2014 and now has five members working on their coldwave-postpunk style of music. The album has been released on Brazilian label Wave Records from São Paulo… Read more →