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The 50 Best Post-Punk Albums Ever

The 50 Best Post-Punk Albums Ever

Explore 50 of the most brilliant, impactful, innovative, and controversial albums of the classic post-punk era, the reverberations of which will be felt for generations.

Universal Energy: An Interview With Cabaret Voltaire’s Richard H. Kirk

Universal Energy: An Interview With Cabaret Voltaire’s Richard H. Kirk

Following a decade-plus break from official studio albums, Cabaret Voltaire are back with a bevy of releases that shows the electro icon empowered, recharged, and as mired in dissonance and drum beats as ever.

Chance Versus Causality: An Interview with Cabaret Voltaire

Chance Versus Causality: An Interview with Cabaret Voltaire

Cabaret Voltaire's Richard H. Kirk talks about two new collections of the legendary post-punk band's early music, an upcoming new album, and how he prefers to listen to music.

Industrial Punk: Here’s a Finger, Now Form a Band!

Industrial Punk: Here’s a Finger, Now Form a Band!

For Throbbing Gristle's Genesis P-Orridge, punk's sonic harshness was welcome but it did not go far enough.

The Best Album Re-Issues of 2014

The Best Album Re-Issues of 2014

The music world saw reissues from all over the genre map, spanning classic rock titans to electronic music legends.
Cabaret Voltaire: #7885 (Technopunk to Electropop 1978-1985)

Cabaret Voltaire: #7885 (Technopunk to Electropop 1978-1985)

For the first time, both sides of the post-punk/industrial/techno pioneers are collected in one place.

2011: Music’s Most Electronic Year Yet

Various Artists: Bustin’ Out 1984 – From New Wave to New Beat

Techno’s Labor Force, Rock’s Betrayal, and the Birth of the Fascist Groove Thing

Techno’s Labor Force, Rock’s Betrayal, and the Birth of the Fascist Groove Thing

There’s a prevalent notion throughout techno and house music of human beings becoming well-oiled machines, or even merging with machines, a vision in keeping with Kraftwerk’s utopian Man Machine futurism or the dignified Soviet toil of Dziga Vertov’s The Man With a Movie Camera.

Cabaret Voltaire: The Original Sound of Sheffield ’78/’82 Best Of