A BLACK PEOPLE

Dark and brooding sounds for the modern age. Not far from the goth punk explosion, but rooted in punk, and with mature guitar work that woul...

FASHIONABLE LIVING DEATH

A few years earlier, F.L.D. might have become a band of legend, but female fronted moody UK post-anarcho/proto-goth was rather our of vogue ...

LATVIAN UNDERGROUND '93

I know more or less how you people work. Several hundred of you will stop by during the course of the day. You will look at whatever gem I h...

RØSENKØPF

The third (at least) cassette release from these NYC nostalgist visionaries. Dispiritualized features longer dirges with more emphasis on t...

THE INDOORS

Two demos today, both from Reno's THE INDOORS. Old//Older is an excellent foray into dark and serious punk packed with reverb and intr...

COMMUNION

I hope that wherever you are when you listen to this, you are alone. And I hope that you are ready. A relic from 1995, COMMUNION's Their...

SIAMESE TWINS

This is for all of the people who do not have their finger on the pulse. I heard this when I was in Boston in January (our show ruled, by t...

BLIND AMONGST THE FLOWERS

While 1987's Dementia Americana  single is a deliberate goth punk stomper somewhere between early P.I.L. and KILLING JOKE, this unmarked...

AUTONOMY

There's something in the water in Carbondale, Illinois. Last time I was there I swung an axe at some dude's head. It was pretty fukk...

BÜLD

More information about this band (or this release) would be welcomed. It came to me courtesy of a 25+ year old mix tape with nothing more th...

BLISS THE POCKET OPERA

Listening in the future, these songs could have easily been from any number of second tier late '80s goth bands - vocals wailing like a ...

ADAM MOWERY // 30 YEAR HEX

Two different artists making totally different sounds but creating very similar vibes in the process. ADAM MOWERY takes a base of breathy ac...

THE MANUAL AND THE MACHINE

Soundscapes that fall somewhere between early SONIC YOUTH dirges and present day versions of electronically driven bedroom genius. If the mo...

THE HERE AND NOW

Sixteen different bands from all over the DIY spectrum, ranging from CÜLO , BUNNY SKULLS and POSITIVE NOISE to legendary one man noise punk ...

CEMETERY

Some folks are taking the current injection of '80s goth into DIY punk a little more seriously than others, and doing so with frightenin...

BURNT OFFERINGS

Sparse synthesizer driven sounds from this Michigan duo clearly worshipping at the wax covered altar of '80s Wax Trax Records fodder. Th...

DEKODER

Female fronted goth/post punk from Montreal, these songs sound instantly familiar and welcoming. Perhaps it's because this is descendent...

RUTILATED POWERHAUS

This tape comes courtesy of the mind behind ROSENKOPF , and features some of the most enrapturing bedroom synth marches I've ever heard....

STARING PROBLEM

I am beyond enamored with this Carbondale trio (that;s in the south part of Illinois, for the geographically challenged) - breathy and trans...

NUMB TONGUE // NO TASTE

This 1984 comp started the label that would eventually become Empty Record s in Germany who, under their moniker Masking Tapes, were also re...