How Vampires Became Rock Stars
The mythical creature of ancient folklore relentlessly feeds on our creative works, and through generations, we willingly succumb to the vampire made rock star.
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‘The Art of Darkness’ Unburies Goth Music’s Beginnings
John Robb’s The Art of Darkness unburies an estimable wealth of knowledge of goth music and can sit comfortably beside the works of Greil Marcus and Jon Savage.
Gothic Tribes: The Cure’s Lol Tolhurst Explores Pop Music’s Dark Artists
Tolhurst’s goth music history intimately details the mercurial movement, interweaving personal memories and descriptions of the “architects of darkness”.
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
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
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
While goth punk’s theatricality dramatizes concerns about depression and suicide, its safe spaces are inviting to the otherwise alienated and ostracized.
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
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
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)
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.