Sacred Bones Records has announced a very special boxset that 4AD are releasing. Xmal Deutschland’s Gift: The 4AD Years is available for pre-order in a 3xLP Transparent Red Vinyl edition, housed in a red slipcase with a 24-page booklet, out on May 09. The extraordinary impact Xmal Deutschland had upon British audiences in the early Eighties is difficult to convey… Read more →
Old school goth punk/post punk band Witch Will Die from South Ural, Russia are set to release their third full-length album Francesca November 1, 2024. As a bonus to Bandcamp customer purchasing the album will also get the Bandcamp-only bonus track, high-resolution cover art, all the lyrics, a bunch of band live photos and a few gtp tabs. Order everywhere… Read more →
Following 2022’s Rough Dimension LP, Noel Skum – aka Andrew Clinco of Drab Majesty – made the radical leap of expanding his psychedelic post-punk vehicle VR SEX into a fully collaborative five-piece band. To christen the new group’s camaraderie, they booked a block of studio time in Glassell Park, swapped skeletal iPhone demos, and “did that classic thing of a… Read more →
Brooklyn independent record label Sacred Bones Records has announced mail-order exclusive vinyl versions of a very special compilation, Early Singles (1981-1982), a map of the foundational movements of Xmal Deutschland, just seconds before takeoff. This compilation contains all the songs from the Schwarze Welt and Incubus Succubus singles, plus bonus tracks, “Kaelbermarsch” and a gritty live version of “Allein,” which… Read more →
This January the NYC event and label SYNTHICIDE that began as a Sunday happy hour at Bossa Nova Civic Club turns 10 and celebrates its anniversary with 4 EVENTS, 3 NIGHTS, 3 VENUES. DJ sets and performances will be held at Bossa Nova Civic Club, St. Vitus, and Good Room. Date details from SYNTHICIDE X and ticket links are listed… Read more →
Sextile are now ready to rage with a serotonin-boosting new album, a new group dynamic, faster BPMs, and an even wilder new direction. Recorded in Yucca Valley, Push bounces and bops at the fringes of hardcore dance music, with the hallmarks of drum & bass, gabber and trance illuminating the record like glow sticks at a ‘90s Fantazia rave. Push… Read more →
On World Goth Day (May 22), Psychic Eye Records released Altar of Shadows, a genre-defining deathrock compilation curated by Winter Zora. The compilation presents a continuum of active bands spanning the past four decades, from deathrock’s earliest days through the current era. Featuring California deathrock pioneers Gitane Demone Quartet (anchor member of Christian Death), the UK’s rebellious Rubella Ballet, Japan’s… Read more →
Canadian dark indie duo TRAITRS have released a new music video for ‘Ghost and The Storm’, the final single to be released ahead of their much-anticipated album Horses In The Abattoir. Based in Toronto, the duo of Sean-Patrick Nolan and Shawn Tucker blend post-punk, goth, and alternative to form their dark music. “Ghost and the Storm’ is exactly that –… Read more →
Los Angeles post-punk band VR SEX have a new EP due April 30th – the 4-track EP Cyber Crimes is available for pre-order in several vinyl versions and digital download via Bandcamp. You can now listen to “Minor Case” off the EP. The band writes, No one is exempt from the world wide web of destruction. A once -innocent digital… Read more →
Boston post-punk band Dame are back with a new self-titled EP exhibiting a fast garage-punk/hardcore sound. The new 7-track EP is out on Virginia indie Beach Impediment Records and is a follow-up to their previous self-titled EP on Charm School Records from 2017. The band will be donating proceeds from the new record to the F2L Relief Fund from now… Read more →
