Music

Originally published on New Times on December 3, 2015 By Deidra Funcheon Death in June is a British post-punk band that has been around since 1981. According to one reviewer, "Early DIJ is...

Originally posted on New Sounds on December 2nd 2018 By John Schaefer Norwegian band Wardruna creates music born of Nordic history, Norse runes and nature - and is led by multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Einar Selvik, who...

    Originally published on The Paris Review on  April 20, 2018 By Michael A. GonzalesIn 1998, when I was a writer for Vibe magazine (which was the leading black culture journal), I went to London...

  Dark Ambient 101 Originally published on This Darkness By Michael Barnett Dark ambient is a genre that is still quite a mystery, even to many dedicated fans, though it’s been around for...

Originally Posted  by Hendrik Slegtenhorst on October 31, 2018 The cantata considers themes of mortal hypocrisy and divine judgment. The cantata’s bass recitative first bewails the ubiquity of impurity, then insists, in arioso, that, nonetheless, in Christ...

Pardise Lost Gothic Metal Source: Wikipedia   Heavy metal music is perceived by many members of the goth subculture as the "crass, crude macho antithesis of everything that their music represents". In contrast to the "softer" and "more...

Front 242 Source: Wikipedia 1978–1987 The term electronic body music was coined by Ralf Hütter of the German electronic band Kraftwerk in 1978 to explain the more physical sound of their album The Man-Machine. DAFfrom Germany used the term "Körpermusik" (body music) to describe...

UB40 Originally published on Encyclopedia Britannica By Peter Silverstone In several regional British cities, the distinct late 1970s combination of economic turmoil, unemployment benefits (effectively an arts subsidy), and art school punks resulted in...

Originally posted on Vulture By Sean O'Neal On December 7, venerated indie label 4AD released deluxe reissues of all three albums by This Mortal Coil, effectively rereleasing their ethereal dream-pop into our...

The Classical Gothic Music   "On January 4, 1996, Phoebus (Daniel J. Stern) compiled a list of Classical Gothic music from the suggestions of various net.goths, and then posted that article to...