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When You’re Strange: 5 Gen X Films That Shaped My Goth Goth Heart

When You’re Strange: 5 Gen X Films That Shaped My Goth Goth Heart

Gen X kids of single working moms like me had to figure a lot of things out themselves. These five films helped make sense of the world – outside and inside.

How Leeds Led the Goth Scene

How Leeds Led the Goth Scene

Leeds' the F Club, Ace of Clubs, and the Warehouse are just a few of the clubs that ushered in goth. Ethan Stewart talks with musicians and fans who were there.

Groupthink and Other Painful Reflections on ​Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth

Groupthink and Other Painful Reflections on ​Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth

TOPY and Genesis P-Orridge's knowing adoption of cult iconography and organizing principles quickly slid from satiric emulation to full embrace -- and we all went along with it.

Darkness Illuminates: Goth Punk’s Great Escapism

Darkness Illuminates: Goth Punk’s Great Escapism

While goth punk's theatricality dramatizes concerns about depression and suicide amongst young people today, its safe spaces are inviting to the otherwise alienated and ostracized.

Okkultokrati: Raspberry Dawn

Okkultokrati: Raspberry Dawn

Oslo-based unit takes us down to the dungeon where the jams are dank and the torture is pretty.
Close to the Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica 1975-1984

Close to the Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica 1975-1984

Four musicians reflect on the DIY culture that inspired the spread of electronic music, and on what’s changed in the intervening four decades.
The Casket Girls: True Love Kills the Fairy Tale

The Casket Girls: True Love Kills the Fairy Tale

You know how every John Hughes soundtrack has that one left-field New Wave song in the middle of the latter half? The Casket Girls turned that song into an album.
Annabelle’s Garden: Time’s No Measure (1987 – 1993)

Annabelle’s Garden: Time’s No Measure (1987 – 1993)

For each thing that approaches near-diamond status in terms of having a catchy hook, there are two or three or four pieces that are nothing but lumps of coal.

Light Asylum: Light Asylum

Sam Mickens: Slay & Slake

Out of the Dark and Into the Light: The Horrors and ‘Skying’

The Raveonettes: Raven in the Grave