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A Mesmerizing Industrial Crossover with Fact Pattern and Dread Risks’ “Possession Therapy” EP. February 27, 2021. post-punk.com. Los Angeles industrial trio Fact Pattern have unleashed a new split EP with their friends from Austin, TX, Dread Risks. Rooted in discomfort, moody disgust, and aggression, each group maintains a. AN INTRODUCTION TO POST-SOVIET POST-PUNK WITH PLOHO AND An Introduction to Post-Soviet Post-Punk with Ploho and Molchat Doma. “I grew up in a small town near the Northern capital of Russia. The atmosphere, actually, was gloomy. The power in the city was held in the hands of bandit formations. The city was divided into eight neighborhoods, leading to a constant confrontation. FOOTBALL AND SYNTH-DRIVEN POST-PUNK IN DON'T GET LEMON'S Texas trio Don’t Get Lemon pays homage to legendary footballer Alan Hudson with the earnest, anthemic Working Man’s Ballet. In his youth, Alan Hudson played for Arsenal, Chelsea, Stoke City and the Seattle Sounders, as well as the England national football team. Hudson was talented but his antics riled the conservative English team, who were unable to handle his flair, flamboyance, and ITALIAN POST-PUNK ACT HAPAX EXAMINE THE ROLE OF ART AND The first single from Hapax’s forthcoming EP Exile, the complex Silvery Track is a work conceived during the quarantine age and inspired by the desire to escape from lockdown claustrophobia. “Isolation leads one to reconsider oneself as an individual,” says the Italian band.. “On the other hand, art has paid the highest price by being neglected and set aside. FRONT 242 ANNOUNCE US DATES THIS AUTUMN INCLUDING Cult electronic music legends Front 242 have announced an update on their forthcoming 2021 USA tour dates Pioneering the style they called EBM, or “electronic body music,” the Belgian electronic act profoundly influenced the electronic and industrial music genres. The band, which formed in 1981, also introduced the “Rivethead” style: military gear (flak jackets, camouflage, and combat THE STRANGLERS HONOR THEIR ABSENT FRIEND IN THE VIDEO FOR With a glass at the bar. The new song and video for The Stranglers‘ And If You Should See Dave is a tear-jerker. A memorial to the band’s beloved longtime keyboardist Dave Greenfield, the song is an emotional encomium to the arpeggio-loving genius; the Rick Wakeman of

punk.

CINAMON HADLEY—THE INSPIRATION FOR NEIL GAIMAN'S DEATH Cinamon’s influence on Goth Fashion and culture cannot be overstated. “Death is the only major character whose visuals didn’t spring from me; that credit goes to Mike Dringenberg.In my original Sandman outline, I suggested Death look like rock star Nico in 1968, with the perfect cheekbones and perfect face she has on the cover of her Chelsea Girl album. POLISH POST-PUNK PROJECT MEKONG WARNS THAT PASSIVITY WILL This is the cynical message behind The Hills , the second single of Mekong’s forthcoming End of the World LP. The song sprung from the mind of one half-alienated Portuguese man living in Kracow, Poland. The Hills is minimal yet powerful, hearkening to the likes of classic acts such as Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division SIOUXSIE SIOUX AND ROBERT SMITH Siouxsie Sioux and Robert Smith. 2K. 0. 294. Siouxsie and The Banshees were one of the first post-punk bands to make it big, forming in 1976, and already well onto releasing their second album Join Hands by September of 1979. During the tour for said album, however, the Banshees’ guitarist John McKay and drummer Kenny Morris (both now

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A Mesmerizing Industrial Crossover with Fact Pattern and Dread Risks’ “Possession Therapy” EP. February 27, 2021. post-punk.com. Los Angeles industrial trio Fact Pattern have unleashed a new split EP with their friends from Austin, TX, Dread Risks. Rooted in discomfort, moody disgust, and aggression, each group maintains a. AN INTRODUCTION TO POST-SOVIET POST-PUNK WITH PLOHO AND An Introduction to Post-Soviet Post-Punk with Ploho and Molchat Doma. “I grew up in a small town near the Northern capital of Russia. The atmosphere, actually, was gloomy. The power in the city was held in the hands of bandit formations. The city was divided into eight neighborhoods, leading to a constant confrontation. FOOTBALL AND SYNTH-DRIVEN POST-PUNK IN DON'T GET LEMON'S Texas trio Don’t Get Lemon pays homage to legendary footballer Alan Hudson with the earnest, anthemic Working Man’s Ballet. In his youth, Alan Hudson played for Arsenal, Chelsea, Stoke City and the Seattle Sounders, as well as the England national football team. Hudson was talented but his antics riled the conservative English team, who were unable to handle his flair, flamboyance, and ITALIAN POST-PUNK ACT HAPAX EXAMINE THE ROLE OF ART AND The first single from Hapax’s forthcoming EP Exile, the complex Silvery Track is a work conceived during the quarantine age and inspired by the desire to escape from lockdown claustrophobia. “Isolation leads one to reconsider oneself as an individual,” says the Italian band.. “On the other hand, art has paid the highest price by being neglected and set aside. FRONT 242 ANNOUNCE US DATES THIS AUTUMN INCLUDING Cult electronic music legends Front 242 have announced an update on their forthcoming 2021 USA tour dates Pioneering the style they called EBM, or “electronic body music,” the Belgian electronic act profoundly influenced the electronic and industrial music genres. The band, which formed in 1981, also introduced the “Rivethead” style: military gear (flak jackets, camouflage, and combat THE STRANGLERS HONOR THEIR ABSENT FRIEND IN THE VIDEO FOR With a glass at the bar. The new song and video for The Stranglers‘ And If You Should See Dave is a tear-jerker. A memorial to the band’s beloved longtime keyboardist Dave Greenfield, the song is an emotional encomium to the arpeggio-loving genius; the Rick Wakeman of

punk.

CINAMON HADLEY—THE INSPIRATION FOR NEIL GAIMAN'S DEATH Cinamon’s influence on Goth Fashion and culture cannot be overstated. “Death is the only major character whose visuals didn’t spring from me; that credit goes to Mike Dringenberg.In my original Sandman outline, I suggested Death look like rock star Nico in 1968, with the perfect cheekbones and perfect face she has on the cover of her Chelsea Girl album. POLISH POST-PUNK PROJECT MEKONG WARNS THAT PASSIVITY WILL This is the cynical message behind The Hills , the second single of Mekong’s forthcoming End of the World LP. The song sprung from the mind of one half-alienated Portuguese man living in Kracow, Poland. The Hills is minimal yet powerful, hearkening to the likes of classic acts such as Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division SIOUXSIE SIOUX AND ROBERT SMITH Siouxsie Sioux and Robert Smith. 2K. 0. 294. Siouxsie and The Banshees were one of the first post-punk bands to make it big, forming in 1976, and already well onto releasing their second album Join Hands by September of 1979. During the tour for said album, however, the Banshees’ guitarist John McKay and drummer Kenny Morris (both now

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A Mesmerizing Industrial Crossover with Fact Pattern and Dread Risks’ “Possession Therapy” EP. February 27, 2021. post-punk.com. Los Angeles industrial trio Fact Pattern have unleashed a new split EP with their friends from Austin, TX, Dread Risks. Rooted in discomfort, moody disgust, and aggression, each group maintains a. MODERN ENGLISH SHARE NEW 2021 US TOUR DATES ALONG WITH COVID temporarily thwarted the tour plans Modern English had for their 40th anniversary of After The Snow. After a brutal year of lockdown, the band is delighted to announce their rescheduled US tour dates. Modern English will be supported by Ganser in Chicago, Minnesota and Michigan, and by darkwave band Bootblacks in New Jersey, NYC and

Pennsylvania.

AUSTRALIAN POST-PUNK ENSEMBLE SECOND IDOL PUT UP THEIR Australia’s Second Idol announces their raucous debut EP, Defence Mechanisms.The reflective, dynamic five-track album is a solid introduction to the Sydney alt-rock quartet, with Herculean melodies, earnest lyric writing, and skilled instrumentation. NORWEGIAN POST-PUNK OUTFIT PERMAFROST WANDER THE GLOOM OF Norwegian post-punk outfit Permafrost wander through chilly landscapes with a stunning new video for their single Closed Eyes.The track pulses with a relentless, foreboding surge, alluding to a dystopian near future, but offering hope to the listener. CHOIR BOY RETURN WITH A FEAST FOR THE EYES AND EARS IN Salt Lake City's post-punk angels Choir Boy have mined out a real gem from their second studio album, Gathering Swans. The long-awaited video for the audial banquet Eat The Frog, created during quarantine, is a surreal 80s kaleidoscope of lo-fi splendour, with green screen antics aplenty, copious use of wigs, and a little video magic to

create an illusion.

PORTLAND POST-PUNK DUO RITUAL VEIL DEBUT "KEEP LOOKING After growing up together in Portland, Oregon's punk scene, longtime friends Aidan Wolfe and Wolfgang Williams joined forces dramatic dance-beat, synth-driven pop passion project known as Ritual Veil. Wolfe and Williams developed a deep affinity for similar genres of music and the desire to create their own, utilizing a common love of the connection between music and visual media TRAITRS TEAR THROUGH RELIGIOUS IMAGERY WITH THE DARK Following the release of their first full-length album Butcher’s Coin, Shawn Tucker and Sean-Patrick Nolan of Toronto post-punk band TRAITRS have begun releasing their next batch of dark post-punk music with Magdalene, their first release on new label Freakwave, a label that was launched at the beginning of 2020. On their days off from touring in February 2019 in Copenhagen, Tucker and Nolan JANITA UNLEASHES POWERFUL COVER OF PETER GABRIEL'S Digging in the dirtto find the places we got hurt. Silken-voiced Janita, an iconic music figure in her native Finland, has enjoyed

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DARKNESS AND LIGHT—BRIGITTE HANDLEY EXPLORES A DIVERSE OF When Australian singer-songwriter Brigitte Handley (The Dark Shadows) began to explore ideas for her Köln - Visions EP, she thought about how she could capture the moods and feelings her adopted city of Cologne gave awe when she first arrived. "I wanted to somehow convey the excitement, fear, uncertainty and wonder I felt in those early moments stepping into a different world that in turn FUNERAL CABARET ARTIST JOANNA GEMMA AUGURI DEBUTS When Joanna Gemma Auguri was a small child, her family emigrated to Berlin. The isolation of immersion in a foreign country at a tender age served as a launchpad for a series of wildly vast life experiences, heartbreaks, intense creativity and personal exploration. These sentiments are expressed in Confession To A Future Lover, the first single from her new album, 11 (due Winter 2021).

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A Mesmerizing Industrial Crossover with Fact Pattern and Dread Risks’ “Possession Therapy” EP. February 27, 2021. post-punk.com. Los Angeles industrial trio Fact Pattern have unleashed a new split EP with their friends from Austin, TX, Dread Risks. Rooted in discomfort, moody disgust, and aggression, each group maintains a. AN INTRODUCTION TO POST-SOVIET POST-PUNK WITH PLOHO AND An Introduction to Post-Soviet Post-Punk with Ploho and Molchat Doma. “I grew up in a small town near the Northern capital of Russia. The atmosphere, actually, was gloomy. The power in the city was held in the hands of bandit formations. The city was divided into eight neighborhoods, leading to a constant confrontation. BERLIN DUO FIXED LENS FOCUS ON OLD-SCHOOL POST-PUNK Championing the spirit of Joy Division, Killing Joke, and The Chameleons, brand new ingenues Fixed Lens emerged in March 2021 from the smoke-filled basements of Berlin's DIY punk scene. Truly exemplifying the concept of Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft, Fixed Lens nods to the roots of the Berlin electronic scene in six tracks of cold, driving machine beats and ethereal synths weaving FUNERAL CABARET ARTIST JOANNA GEMMA AUGURI DEBUTS When Joanna Gemma Auguri was a small child, her family emigrated to Berlin. The isolation of immersion in a foreign country at a tender age served as a launchpad for a series of wildly vast life experiences, heartbreaks, intense creativity and personal exploration. These sentiments are expressed in Confession To A Future Lover, the first single from her new album, 11 (due Winter 2021). POLISH POST-PUNK PROJECT MEKONG WARNS THAT PASSIVITY WILL This is the cynical message behind The Hills , the second single of Mekong’s forthcoming End of the World LP. The song sprung from the mind of one half-alienated Portuguese man living in Kracow, Poland. The Hills is minimal yet powerful, hearkening to the likes of classic acts such as Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division SIOUXSIE SIOUX AND ROBERT SMITH Siouxsie Sioux and Robert Smith. 2K. 0. 294. Siouxsie and The Banshees were one of the first post-punk bands to make it big, forming in 1976, and already well onto releasing their second album Join Hands by September of 1979. During the tour for said album, however, the Banshees’ guitarist John McKay and drummer Kenny Morris (both now NEW ORDER AND PET SHOP BOYS ANNOUNCE 2021 DATES FOR THEIR Synth music titans New Order and Pet Shop Boys have announced the rescheduled dates of their eagerly awaited 12-date North American “Unity Tour”, set back an entire year due to the havoc the coronavirus pandemic is continuously causing for international touring itineraries.. Today both bands announced the new itinerary for their co-headlining tour in September and October 2021. THE ART OF PARTIES: SIX ESSENTIAL SONGS BY JAPAN The Art Of Parties: Six Essential Songs By Japan. 136. 0. 2. A self-taught musician is a curious thing, and Japan was a whole group of them. Over the course of four albums they shapeshifted from tarted-up New York Dolls lookalikes, to ethereal sleaze merchants, finally graduating to cultivating an air of untouchable beauty and

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KILLING JOKE ANNOUNCE 40TH ANNIVERSARY BOX SET Killing Joke are celebrating their 40th anniversary this year with two editions of special career-spanning Fortieth Anniversary Ultimate Collection box sets.. The first version is a set of 16 double CDs, including expanded editions of each of the band’s 15 albums, plus a collection of further bonus material, priced at $232. DETRITI RECORDS FOUNDER'S DARK SYNTH PROJECT ASCENDING In contrast to previous Ascending releases, Istintiva Bellezza is a Synth-pop / Coldwave / New wave record, crafted in the contrasted wake of bands such as Boy Harsher and Selofan. Davide chose “E tu reagisci” as the album’s first single “because is probably the song with the strongest lyrics in this album the themes are more or less the same I usually face in my other projects

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A Mesmerizing Industrial Crossover with Fact Pattern and Dread Risks’ “Possession Therapy” EP. February 27, 2021. post-punk.com. Los Angeles industrial trio Fact Pattern have unleashed a new split EP with their friends from Austin, TX, Dread Risks. Rooted in discomfort, moody disgust, and aggression, each group maintains a. AN INTRODUCTION TO POST-SOVIET POST-PUNK WITH PLOHO AND An Introduction to Post-Soviet Post-Punk with Ploho and Molchat Doma. “I grew up in a small town near the Northern capital of Russia. The atmosphere, actually, was gloomy. The power in the city was held in the hands of bandit formations. The city was divided into eight neighborhoods, leading to a constant confrontation. BERLIN DUO FIXED LENS FOCUS ON OLD-SCHOOL POST-PUNK Championing the spirit of Joy Division, Killing Joke, and The Chameleons, brand new ingenues Fixed Lens emerged in March 2021 from the smoke-filled basements of Berlin's DIY punk scene. Truly exemplifying the concept of Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft, Fixed Lens nods to the roots of the Berlin electronic scene in six tracks of cold, driving machine beats and ethereal synths weaving FUNERAL CABARET ARTIST JOANNA GEMMA AUGURI DEBUTS When Joanna Gemma Auguri was a small child, her family emigrated to Berlin. The isolation of immersion in a foreign country at a tender age served as a launchpad for a series of wildly vast life experiences, heartbreaks, intense creativity and personal exploration. These sentiments are expressed in Confession To A Future Lover, the first single from her new album, 11 (due Winter 2021). POLISH POST-PUNK PROJECT MEKONG WARNS THAT PASSIVITY WILL This is the cynical message behind The Hills , the second single of Mekong’s forthcoming End of the World LP. The song sprung from the mind of one half-alienated Portuguese man living in Kracow, Poland. The Hills is minimal yet powerful, hearkening to the likes of classic acts such as Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division SIOUXSIE SIOUX AND ROBERT SMITH Siouxsie Sioux and Robert Smith. 2K. 0. 294. Siouxsie and The Banshees were one of the first post-punk bands to make it big, forming in 1976, and already well onto releasing their second album Join Hands by September of 1979. During the tour for said album, however, the Banshees’ guitarist John McKay and drummer Kenny Morris (both now NEW ORDER AND PET SHOP BOYS ANNOUNCE 2021 DATES FOR THEIR Synth music titans New Order and Pet Shop Boys have announced the rescheduled dates of their eagerly awaited 12-date North American “Unity Tour”, set back an entire year due to the havoc the coronavirus pandemic is continuously causing for international touring itineraries.. Today both bands announced the new itinerary for their co-headlining tour in September and October 2021. THE ART OF PARTIES: SIX ESSENTIAL SONGS BY JAPAN The Art Of Parties: Six Essential Songs By Japan. 136. 0. 2. A self-taught musician is a curious thing, and Japan was a whole group of them. Over the course of four albums they shapeshifted from tarted-up New York Dolls lookalikes, to ethereal sleaze merchants, finally graduating to cultivating an air of untouchable beauty and

refined, worldly

KILLING JOKE ANNOUNCE 40TH ANNIVERSARY BOX SET Killing Joke are celebrating their 40th anniversary this year with two editions of special career-spanning Fortieth Anniversary Ultimate Collection box sets.. The first version is a set of 16 double CDs, including expanded editions of each of the band’s 15 albums, plus a collection of further bonus material, priced at $232. DETRITI RECORDS FOUNDER'S DARK SYNTH PROJECT ASCENDING In contrast to previous Ascending releases, Istintiva Bellezza is a Synth-pop / Coldwave / New wave record, crafted in the contrasted wake of bands such as Boy Harsher and Selofan. Davide chose “E tu reagisci” as the album’s first single “because is probably the song with the strongest lyrics in this album the themes are more or less the same I usually face in my other projects COMPILATIONS ARCHIVES post-punk.com. La Danse Macabre, a dark, nostalgic compilation series released through At Sea Compilations, releases its ninth album with an eclectic lineup of underground bands and young newcomers. In this collection, Stockholm’s. View Post. The Trevor Project, founded in 1998, is the leading national organization providing crisis CRUEL WORLD FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2022 LINEUP WITH THE DAMNED The Cruel World music festival has unveiled its lineup for the 14th of May 2022 at Brookside at the Rose Bowl. After waylaid plans due to the pandemic, the one-day festival announces Morrissey, Bauhaus, Blondie, and Devo as the headliners, supported by Violent Femmes, the Psychedelic Furs, Echo & the Bunnymen, The English Beat, Public Image

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ROSA DAMASK PLUNGES INTO THE DEPTHS OF DARKNESS WITH The St. Petersburg artist, Nastia Reigel, explores the dark terrain of post-punk under her alias Rosa Damask with the new album, Memorials.Out on July 2nd via DKA, Reigel plunges into the depths of melancholy with echoing, somber guitars, vocals that whisper from beyond, and the funereal march of a steady, reverbed drum beat. ICELANDIC POST-PUNK TRIO KÆLAN MIKLA RETURN WITH THEIR Each goes their own way By themselves, invisible. Iceland’s spellbinding witchy trio Kælan Mikla return with a stunning new video for the hypnotic Ósýnileg, their second new song since 2018’s critically acclaimed album, Nótt eftir nótt.. It follows Sólstöður, which came out in April of this year.. The clip, directed by Arna Beth, is a gorgeous series of landscapes, many from

the

LISTEN—TRUE BODY AND DIGITAL HELL COLLABORATE ON FANTASTIC We love a collaboration, and this fantastic split release from dream-pop outfit True Body and Digital Hell is a winner. Out now via Funeral Party Records, True Body/Digital Hell unfurls six completely unique, compelling ‘music for end times.’ The split is as diverse as the musicians themselves. CHOIR BOY RETURN WITH A FEAST FOR THE EYES AND EARS IN Salt Lake City's post-punk angels Choir Boy have mined out a real gem from their second studio album, Gathering Swans. The long-awaited video for the audial banquet Eat The Frog, created during quarantine, is a surreal 80s kaleidoscope of lo-fi splendour, with green screen antics aplenty, copious use of wigs, and a little video magic to

create an illusion.

DEAD CAN DANCE DEBUT JAPANESE ARCHERY INSPIRED SHORT FILM Listen to Dead Can Dance’s music for the film here or your preferred streaming service.. Dead Can Dance also have rescheduled their A CELEBRATION – LIFE & WORKS 1980 -2021 2021 October North American Tour for this autumn. Brendan Perry, Lisa Gerrard, and CO will kick things off at the San Diego Civic Theatre, with several California dates following in Los Angeles and San Francisco. CRUEL WORLD UNDEAD? FESTIVAL HINTS THAT IT WILL "GO Is the Cruel World Festival making a comeback in Spring 2022, and more importantly, will it still involve Devo? Or any other of the acts on its mind-blowingly impressive post-punk and new-wave-themed stacked lineup? On the 5th of June, 2021, the festival’s social media posted a teaser, with Devo’s Whip It as a soundtrack, showing a notebook with the Cruel World logo, “SPRING 22,” “GO CURRENT SYNTH POP ACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW The pure synth pop of Stereopolina is an addictive rush of epic club tracks that you’ve yet to hear. On Институт Культуры и Отдыха (Institut Kultury I Otdyha), the St. Petersburg artist’s vocals sound absolutely irresistible over the melancholy-tinged songs that can easily make you dance or cry.Stereopolina is the contemporary answer to 80s pop acts such as

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WATCH ROBERT SMITH DUET WITH CHVRCHES' LAUREN MAYBERRY IN Earlier this year Smith made a contribution to the Gorillaz’ Song Machine series, Strange Timez, and has had a long history of appearing on other bands’ albums and numerous side projects (and even having his own: The Glove). In a flurry of cryptic tweets this week, the Cure frontman playfully sparred with the singer for the Scottish indie-pop band’s singer Lauren Mayberry, who once

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A Mesmerizing Industrial Crossover with Fact Pattern and Dread Risks’ “Possession Therapy” EP. February 27, 2021. post-punk.com. Los Angeles industrial trio Fact Pattern have unleashed a new split EP with their friends from Austin, TX, Dread Risks. Rooted in discomfort, moody disgust, and aggression, each group maintains a. BERLIN DUO FIXED LENS FOCUS ON OLD-SCHOOL POST-PUNK Championing the spirit of Joy Division, Killing Joke, and The Chameleons, brand new ingenues Fixed Lens emerged in March 2021 from the smoke-filled basements of Berlin's DIY punk scene. Truly exemplifying the concept of Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft, Fixed Lens nods to the roots of the Berlin electronic scene in six tracks of cold, driving machine beats and ethereal synths weaving FUNERAL CABARET ARTIST JOANNA GEMMA AUGURI DEBUTS When Joanna Gemma Auguri was a small child, her family emigrated to Berlin. The isolation of immersion in a foreign country at a tender age served as a launchpad for a series of wildly vast life experiences, heartbreaks, intense creativity and personal exploration. These sentiments are expressed in Confession To A Future Lover, the first single from her new album, 11 (due Winter 2021). POLISH POST-PUNK PROJECT MEKONG WARNS THAT PASSIVITY WILL This is the cynical message behind The Hills , the second single of Mekong’s forthcoming End of the World LP. The song sprung from the mind of one half-alienated Portuguese man living in Kracow, Poland. The Hills is minimal yet powerful, hearkening to the likes of classic acts such as Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division SIOUXSIE SIOUX AND ROBERT SMITH Siouxsie Sioux and Robert Smith. 2K. 0. 294. Siouxsie and The Banshees were one of the first post-punk bands to make it big, forming in 1976, and already well onto releasing their second album Join Hands by September of 1979. During the tour for said album, however, the Banshees’ guitarist John McKay and drummer Kenny Morris (both now BRAVE NEW WORLD—AN INTERVIEW WITH GARY NUMAN A belated happy 60th birthday to Gary Numan! Our colleague Phil Blackmarquis caught up with Gary Numan for an interview at the Trix in Antwerp, before his gig there that night. They talked about the new album, inspirations, Trent Reznor, John Foxx and how the main riff of Are Friends Electric? was discovered by mistake. CINAMON HADLEY—THE INSPIRATION FOR NEIL GAIMAN'S DEATH Cinamon’s influence on Goth Fashion and culture cannot be overstated. “Death is the only major character whose visuals didn’t spring from me; that credit goes to Mike Dringenberg.In my original Sandman outline, I suggested Death look like rock star Nico in 1968, with the perfect cheekbones and perfect face she has on the cover of her Chelsea Girl album. EDDIE WUEBBEN OF SEXTILE HAS PASSED AWAY On October 5th, Eddie Wuebben of Sextile passed away. In Sextile, in addition to playing guitar, Eddie was known for his excellent synth performances utilizing vintage Korg MS-10s and MS-20s, which helped the band conjure a fusion of EBM and Synth-Punk, that authentically evoked the visceral vibes of late 70s and early 80s Post-Punk on the band’s 2015 debut LP A Thousand Hands, and its THE DEATH OF ROZZ WILLIAMS ON APRIL 1ST, 1998 On April the 1st, 1998, Rozz hanged himself in his West Hollywood apartment. He was 34 years old. Many people initially thought his suicide was an April Fool’s Joke, and it took a while for it to sink in that Rozz was really gone. 20 years later, April 1st fell on Easter Sunday—a fitting holiday that marked the anniversary of Christian

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A Mesmerizing Industrial Crossover with Fact Pattern and Dread Risks’ “Possession Therapy” EP. February 27, 2021. post-punk.com. Los Angeles industrial trio Fact Pattern have unleashed a new split EP with their friends from Austin, TX, Dread Risks. Rooted in discomfort, moody disgust, and aggression, each group maintains a. BERLIN DUO FIXED LENS FOCUS ON OLD-SCHOOL POST-PUNK Championing the spirit of Joy Division, Killing Joke, and The Chameleons, brand new ingenues Fixed Lens emerged in March 2021 from the smoke-filled basements of Berlin's DIY punk scene. Truly exemplifying the concept of Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft, Fixed Lens nods to the roots of the Berlin electronic scene in six tracks of cold, driving machine beats and ethereal synths weaving FUNERAL CABARET ARTIST JOANNA GEMMA AUGURI DEBUTS When Joanna Gemma Auguri was a small child, her family emigrated to Berlin. The isolation of immersion in a foreign country at a tender age served as a launchpad for a series of wildly vast life experiences, heartbreaks, intense creativity and personal exploration. These sentiments are expressed in Confession To A Future Lover, the first single from her new album, 11 (due Winter 2021). POLISH POST-PUNK PROJECT MEKONG WARNS THAT PASSIVITY WILL This is the cynical message behind The Hills , the second single of Mekong’s forthcoming End of the World LP. The song sprung from the mind of one half-alienated Portuguese man living in Kracow, Poland. The Hills is minimal yet powerful, hearkening to the likes of classic acts such as Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division SIOUXSIE SIOUX AND ROBERT SMITH Siouxsie Sioux and Robert Smith. 2K. 0. 294. Siouxsie and The Banshees were one of the first post-punk bands to make it big, forming in 1976, and already well onto releasing their second album Join Hands by September of 1979. During the tour for said album, however, the Banshees’ guitarist John McKay and drummer Kenny Morris (both now BRAVE NEW WORLD—AN INTERVIEW WITH GARY NUMAN A belated happy 60th birthday to Gary Numan! Our colleague Phil Blackmarquis caught up with Gary Numan for an interview at the Trix in Antwerp, before his gig there that night. They talked about the new album, inspirations, Trent Reznor, John Foxx and how the main riff of Are Friends Electric? was discovered by mistake. CINAMON HADLEY—THE INSPIRATION FOR NEIL GAIMAN'S DEATH Cinamon’s influence on Goth Fashion and culture cannot be overstated. “Death is the only major character whose visuals didn’t spring from me; that credit goes to Mike Dringenberg.In my original Sandman outline, I suggested Death look like rock star Nico in 1968, with the perfect cheekbones and perfect face she has on the cover of her Chelsea Girl album. EDDIE WUEBBEN OF SEXTILE HAS PASSED AWAY On October 5th, Eddie Wuebben of Sextile passed away. In Sextile, in addition to playing guitar, Eddie was known for his excellent synth performances utilizing vintage Korg MS-10s and MS-20s, which helped the band conjure a fusion of EBM and Synth-Punk, that authentically evoked the visceral vibes of late 70s and early 80s Post-Punk on the band’s 2015 debut LP A Thousand Hands, and its THE DEATH OF ROZZ WILLIAMS ON APRIL 1ST, 1998 On April the 1st, 1998, Rozz hanged himself in his West Hollywood apartment. He was 34 years old. Many people initially thought his suicide was an April Fool’s Joke, and it took a while for it to sink in that Rozz was really gone. 20 years later, April 1st fell on Easter Sunday—a fitting holiday that marked the anniversary of Christian

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Post-Punk Revival Artists A – B24k Gold 800beloved A-Frames A Place To Bury Strangers A Spectre Is Haunting Europe About Paris Adjective Antarctica Angelica Kult Antenna Apartment Apollo Heights ROSA DAMASK PLUNGES INTO THE DEPTHS OF DARKNESS WITH The St. Petersburg artist, Nastia Reigel, explores the dark terrain of post-punk under her alias Rosa Damask with the new album, Memorials.Out on July 2nd via DKA, Reigel plunges into the depths of melancholy with echoing, somber guitars, vocals that whisper from beyond, and the funereal march of a steady, reverbed drum beat. ICELANDIC POST-PUNK TRIO KÆLAN MIKLA RETURN WITH THEIR Each goes their own way By themselves, invisible. Iceland’s spellbinding witchy trio Kælan Mikla return with a stunning new video for the hypnotic Ósýnileg, their second new song since 2018’s critically acclaimed album, Nótt eftir nótt.. It follows Sólstöður, which came out in April of this year.. The clip, directed by Arna Beth, is a gorgeous series of landscapes, many from

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CHOIR BOY RETURN WITH A FEAST FOR THE EYES AND EARS IN Salt Lake City's post-punk angels Choir Boy have mined out a real gem from their second studio album, Gathering Swans. The long-awaited video for the audial banquet Eat The Frog, created during quarantine, is a surreal 80s kaleidoscope of lo-fi splendour, with green screen antics aplenty, copious use of wigs, and a little video magic to

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LISTEN—TRUE BODY AND DIGITAL HELL COLLABORATE ON FANTASTIC We love a collaboration, and this fantastic split release from dream-pop outfit True Body and Digital Hell is a winner. Out now via Funeral Party Records, True Body/Digital Hell unfurls six completely unique, compelling ‘music for end times.’ The split is as diverse as the musicians themselves. DEAD CAN DANCE DEBUT JAPANESE ARCHERY INSPIRED SHORT FILM Listen to Dead Can Dance’s music for the film here or your preferred streaming service.. Dead Can Dance also have rescheduled their A CELEBRATION – LIFE & WORKS 1980 -2021 2021 October North American Tour for this autumn. Brendan Perry, Lisa Gerrard, and CO will kick things off at the San Diego Civic Theatre, with several California dates following in Los Angeles and San Francisco. CRUEL WORLD UNDEAD? FESTIVAL HINTS THAT IT WILL "GO Is the Cruel World Festival making a comeback in Spring 2022, and more importantly, will it still involve Devo? Or any other of the acts on its mind-blowingly impressive post-punk and new-wave-themed stacked lineup? On the 5th of June, 2021, the festival’s social media posted a teaser, with Devo’s Whip It as a soundtrack, showing a notebook with the Cruel World logo, “SPRING 22,” “GO COLLAPSING SCENERY DEBUT COLD CAVE REMIX OF "THE GREY Since their formation in 2013, Collapsing Scenery two fertile and febrile minds, Don De Vore (Ink & Dagger, Lilys, The Icarus Line, Amazing Baby) and Reggie Debris straddle the gap between music, art, film, and politics by soaking up experiences and immersing themselves in different cultures as they traverse the globe. The Grey Cardinal, remixed by Cold Cave, is a hypnotic chillwave track WATCH ROBERT SMITH DUET WITH CHVRCHES' LAUREN MAYBERRY IN Earlier this year Smith made a contribution to the Gorillaz’ Song Machine series, Strange Timez, and has had a long history of appearing on other bands’ albums and numerous side projects (and even having his own: The Glove). In a flurry of cryptic tweets this week, the Cure frontman playfully sparred with the singer for the Scottish indie-pop band’s singer Lauren Mayberry, who once LEGENDARY SISTERS OF MERCY PRODUCER JIM STEINMAN DEAD AT Legendary Sisters of Mercy Producer Jim Steinman Dead At 73. A total eclipse of a broken heart, as the music world fell into sadness today, with news of Monday’s passing of legendary songwriter, composer, and producer Jim Steinman. He was 73.

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