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We Get Mail: Can You Build The Perfect Cover Song?
May 16th, 2013
We get a lot of mail at NPR Music, and amid the CDs in which the Vitamin String Quartet plays the songs of 30 Seconds to Mars is a slew of smart questions about how music fits into our lives - and, this week, the dos and don'ts of covering ...
Nine Inch Nails bassist Eric Avery quits band
May 16th, 2013
In a post on Facebook Nine Inch Nails bassist (founding member of Jane's Addiction) Eric Avery has announced that he won't be touring with Nine Inch Nails. Says Avery: "its with very mixed emotions I tell you all that I'm pulling out of NIN. I know. its been a tough ...
For the first time in 15 years, electronica pioneering act Leftfield is recording new material that will be heard for the first time when Leftfield will appear at The Playground Festival the 7th June at Brixton Academy. Says Neil Barnes: "A lot of people were bugging us to make a ...
Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy has just started the Mr. Moonlight Tour, celebrating 35 years of Bauhaus as we reported earlier.
Murphy, who has started working with producer Youth (Killing Joke, The Verve) on the follow up to his 2011 solo effort, "Ninth" (Nettwerk), will spend 3 months touring North America and ...
Shows that rocked Toronto last week
May 16th, 2013
"There's a lot of black here tonight," Peter Murphy remarked, surveying the sold-out, packed-in, rainwater-on-the-leather-pants-stinky crowd at Lee's Palace.
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Shows that rocked Toronto last week
Luzerne Foundation honors Sisters of Mercy
May 16th, 2013
The Religious Sisters of Mercy were recognized for their service in the community at The Luzerne Foundation's annual meeting and reception Wednesday.
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Luzerne Foundation honors Sisters of Mercy
Album Review: Savages – Silence Yourself
May 16th, 2013
Rock fans have spent years lamenting the relatively abysmal state of the genre, complete with obsequious bonding over novel acts that are often elevated from flavors of months to esteemed fortunes as years-long steadfast festival headliners.
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Album Review: Savages - Silence Yourself
Google has launched a competitor to Spotify, Deezer, Rdio etc. Yes, the mogul has launched itself on the music streaming market (something we talked about not so long ago actually) in order to defend the market position of its Android mobile product offering one can assume.
The on-demand subscription music service ...
All this week we're going to look back over albums from undeniable goth icons and talk about their failures.
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The Five Most Disappointing Goth Albums: Bauhaus, Go Away White
Last night I received a mail from the PR-agent from the Luxembourg based act Monophona if I could check his band out. You could think, 'so what?', but I get hundreds of these mail each week, and usually I don't bother checking them out. Why? The mails often have no ...
Zarthas, the self-proclaimed electrorockers from Oulu, Finland are back with their 2nd album entitled "Spit/Ignite". The album will be released via Violent Journey Records on June 7th 2013. Zarthas released their previous album in 2011 and since then the line-up has grown with a second guitarist now in their ranks. ...
80sObscurities presents: Miko Mission – ‘Two For Love’
May 15th, 2013
This 80sObscurities was founded by DJ Rexx Arkana to showcase old, often unknown or forgotten acts and tracks from the decade when electronic music was truly the new wave. Rexx Arkana has been a club/radio DJ and promoter since the mid-80s and headlined festivals on several continents and currently holds ...
Review: Richard Corben’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ #1 Is a Near-Perfect Adaptation of Poe
May 15th, 2013
Tell me that Richard Corben is doing a new Edgar Allen Poe adaptation, and I'm a happy guy.
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Review: Richard Corben's 'The Fall of the House of Usher' #1 Is a Near-Perfect Adaptation of Poe
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May 15th, 2013
Before the Haas Type Foundry released Helvetica in 1957, constructivist sans serif fonts were classified as Grotesk , a term that reflected the dismissive notion of typesetters in previous times.
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Bodily waste can help solve the energy crisis, author says
May 15th, 2013
Bodily waste is widely considered a topic not to be discussed in polite company; it's something to be flushed and forgotten.
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Bodily waste can help solve the energy crisis, author says
Siva Six strike further with 15-track EP ‘Superstition’
May 14th, 2013
The much awaited "The Twin Moons" album put Greece's best dark electro export product Siva Six right back in the spotlight, on dancefloors and on stages across Europe. The new "Superstition" EP holds no less than 15 songs including exclusive new songs and multiple new remixes from the current album ...
Cynical Existence returns with 6-track EP ‘Beholder’
May 14th, 2013
2 months after the release of the brand new video for Cynical Existence "I'm Broken", Sweden's raging act Cynical Existence returns with a brand new single, or rather EP, "Beholder". The 6-track download release offers the first new material from artist Fredrik Croona since his debut-album "Come Out And Play" ...
As we proved in Monday's entry in the series, the mid-'90s wasn't an easy time for the pioneers of the goth genre.
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The Five Most Disappointing Goth Albums: The Cure, Wild Mood Swings
Dutch dark electro act Schwarzblut has revealed 2 studio reports from the recording of their 3rd album. The yet untitled new album will be out on Alfa Matrix in Spring 2014. More Schwarzblut news at www.schwarzblut.com and facebook.com/schwarzblutband .
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80sObscurities presents: Kissing the Pink – ‘One Step’
May 14th, 2013
This 80sObscurities was founded by DJ Rexx Arkana to showcase old, often unknown or forgotten acts and tracks from the decade when electronic music was truly the new wave. Rexx Arkana has been a club/radio DJ and promoter since the mid-80s and headlined festivals on several continents and currently holds ...
Full Lollapalooza schedule revealed
May 14th, 2013
A curious pattern emerges when studying the just-released hour-by-hour schedule for Lollapalooza 2013: female artists getting the shaft.
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Full Lollapalooza schedule revealed
#1: Undertow
May 14th, 2013
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#1: Undertow
Haunted castle: The ruin with a colourful past
May 14th, 2013
In 1303, King Edward I of England was in Scotland with his army. The monarch's expedition to conquer the Scots is believed to have brought him to a Highland castle which 710 years later has its own fan club and a chilling ghost story.
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Haunted castle: The ruin with ...
On May 4th, Depeche Mode played in Nice, France in front of 9000 French Depeche Mode fans. Our Side-Line photographer Vivi Ball was there and made a bunch of pictures. You can view them below in the photo viewer. And if you were there just maybe you will recognize yourself ...
A new Bruderschaft track pops up out of the blue: ‘Falling’
May 13th, 2013
Out of the blue, we finally get a brand new Bruderschaft track! Out now via Alfa Matrix is the track "Falling" which comes as a single edit (the actual album edit will be different). The track is right now available via the label's Bandcamp page and will also soon hit ...
