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Happy birthday Siouxsie Sioux!

Sun, 27 May 2012 13:04:39 -0700

Happy birthday Siouxsie Sioux!

A Darker Shade of Pagan 05/27/12

Sun, 27 May 2012 08:31:23 -0700

A Darker Shade of Pagan 05/27/12:

Pagan sounds from the underground.

Playlist for 05/27/12

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Soriah with Ashkelon Sain - Cehui
NIHITI - Joining the Fire
Led Er Est - Aqua Fuerte
The RaZor Skyline - View of Paradise
Niyaz - Parishaan
Dead Can Dance - Severance (Live)
Exitmusic - The Night
Lower Dens - Nova Anthem
Metal Mother - In the Bones
Soulsavers - Presence of God
Monica Richards - Naiades
Wardruna - Dagr

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Light Asylum - Heart of Dust [OFFICIAL VIDEO] (by...

Wed, 23 May 2012 12:04:12 -0700

Light Asylum - Heart of Dust [OFFICIAL VIDEO] (by mexicansummer)

Directed by Grant Worth and David Riley. New album available NOW at www.mexicansummer.com

▶ Savages: "Husbands" | Tracks | Pitchfork

Tue, 22 May 2012 10:22:44 -0700

▶ Savages: "Husbands" | Tracks | Pitchfork:

This is an amazing track. Aggressive, dark, female-fronted post-punk.

Happy World Goth Day!

Tue, 22 May 2012 07:21:49 -0700

Happy World Goth Day!

Promotional Video for the ARCANA “As Bright as a Thousand...

Mon, 21 May 2012 17:18:31 -0700

Promotional Video for the ARCANA “As Bright as a Thousand Suns” CD (49th Cycle). Available May 28 2012 From http://www.cycliclaw.com

This Ascension members Dru Allen and Cindy Coulter perform live...

Mon, 21 May 2012 17:15:31 -0700

This Ascension members Dru Allen and Cindy Coulter perform live with Trance To The Sun’s Ashkelon Sain at Portland, Oregon’s Lovecraft Club on February 3, 2012. Jeremy George is on drums. Lucretia*Renee is filming. The song “Fearful Symmetry” was originally recorded for This Ascension’s 1992 album “Light And Shade”.

A Darker Shade of Pagan 05/20/12

Sun, 20 May 2012 12:40:37 -0700

A Darker Shade of Pagan 05/20/12:

Pagan sounds from the underground.

Playlist for 05/20/12

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Dead Can Dance - Salem’s Lot (Live)
Lower Dens - Propagation
Monica Richards - Alaric
The Soft Moon vs John Foxx - Evidence
NIHITI - Ghosts and Lovers
Led Er Est - Kaiyo Maru
Emily Jane White - The Black Oak
Poets to Their Beloved - Merel (If I Had Wings)
The Moon and The Nightspirit - Tucskok Az Avarban
School of Seven Bells - Lafaye
Accolade - The Traveler

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Lower Dens - Brains (by ribbonmusic)

Mon, 14 May 2012 11:52:42 -0700

Lower Dens - Brains (by ribbonmusic)

Video

Mon, 14 May 2012 10:59:02 -0700

(via Brendan Perry reveals title of first Dead Can Dance album...

Mon, 14 May 2012 10:51:53 -0700

(via Brendan Perry reveals title of first Dead Can Dance album in 16 years: ‘Anastasis’ | slicing up eyeballs // 80s alternative music, college rock, indie)

Violens’ forthcoming album, ‘True’, finds the...

Mon, 14 May 2012 10:05:33 -0700

Violens’ forthcoming album, ‘True’, finds the Brooklyn three-piece further amplifying their innovative songwriting with a palette of exquisitely crafted sound. The band’s music eludes classification, expertly blending percussive guitar work and silky harmonies, seeking the silver lining yet to be discovered between the sounds we know and love. With a wash of 90s sonic pop drawn from artists like Pale Saints, Cocteau Twins and McCarthy, Violens paint soft watercolor notes across their compositions, adding crucial emotional depth via layered vocal harmonies.

Violens was formed in 2007 by Jorge Elbrecht (a producer, multi-instrumentalist, and founding member of the art company Lansing-Dreiden). Their debut album ‘Amoral’ was self-recorded, self-produced, and is best understood as digital collage; a dark, guitar and synth-pop voyage of melodic and rhythmic collision.

‘True’ shifts course towards a more subtle and desaturated sonic landscape. The album’s first single, “Totally True,” demonstrates this with its stone-washed, semi-improvised feel, celebrating bands like The Chameleons and Martin Newell’s Cleaners From Venus. As the writing process for this second album began while traveling together on tour, it also showcases Violens as a more collaborative effort. Band members Iddo Arad (backing vocals, synths, guitar) and Myles Matheny (backing vocals bass, guitar) had a much larger influence on the songwriting and the album’s sonic direction. Framed by Will Berman’s distinctive drumming, ‘True’ shows the band interacting and reflecting in ways both promising and exciting.

Throughout 2011 Violens kept up a virtual songwriting diary on their website, posting musical sketches as part of a continuous dialogue with their fans. In keeping with this practice, Violens will be premiering a song from ‘True’ each month leading up to the release of their LP. The first offering is “Unfolding Black Wings” (the band’s aural approximation of a Goya etching), a nod to ‘Daydream Nation’-era Sonic Youth and Thinking Fellers Union. While the song’s lyrics reflect upon a sort of unimaginable winged beast, the music conveys its attack with a forward-marching rhythm as unorthodox guitar tunings provide manic chord changes and blistering single-note melodies.

Then there’s “When To Let Go,” a classic mélange of guitar pop (not unlike ‘Sonic Flower Groove’-era Primal Scream) and 60s harmony groups (Zombies, Beach Boys, The Millennium). The song “Watch The Streams” features 60s ghost organs and a Brill Building pop beat that coalesces with stacked vocal harmonies. And then there’s “All Night Low,” a driving, fast-paced song with acid-drenched squalls of buzzing guitar and discord.

Violens condemns the very age we live in by singing it – twisting and mutating it – mutilating it, wearing its skin. Their music is forged of the third eye and of the fourth dimension, part architecture and part air, yet they are wholly rock: chiseled digital marble. There is real tangibility here: this is a group whose members are working together towards a common musical goal. More than ‘merely’ being a series of ethereal ideas and great guitar sounds, on ‘True,’ Violens ties everything together with creative arrangements, original melodic ideas and passion.

On April 17th, Violens will release a limited edition 7” for the single “Totally True,” backed with the non-album track “Something Falling.” The ‘True’ LP is scheduled for release May 15th on Slumberland Records (Frankie Rose/The Pains of Being Pure at Heart/Crystal Stilts).

Tour dates will be announced starting in early Spring.

"We aren’t some emo-ass niggas, whining about shit. But we like Bauhaus, Radiohead; we listen to..."

Mon, 14 May 2012 09:57:44 -0700

“We aren’t some emo-ass niggas, whining about shit. But we like Bauhaus, Radiohead; we listen to other alternative shit that a lot of these dudes don’t listen to.”

- Yonnas Abraham of BLKHRTS. The future is black

"Internet radio has certainly changed the landscape a lot,” Wilson says. “But I still believe in the..."

Mon, 14 May 2012 09:52:48 -0700

““Internet radio has certainly changed the landscape a lot,” Wilson says. “But I still believe in the power of live radio, college radio, noncommercial radio. Even though I’m aware people have all sorts of options for getting turned on to new music, I still really believe in the medium of radio, I’ve been a real champion for that. There’s nothing like having a live human being on the radio bringing you music and all the current happenings.””

- ‘Bats in the Belfry’ celebrates 20 years on the dark side - Boston.com

Alexis Petridis on The Height of Goth | Culture | The Guardian

Mon, 14 May 2012 09:50:48 -0700

Alexis Petridis on The Height of Goth | Culture | The Guardian:

“They inadvertently created a great British pop culture document, by turns unwittingly hilarious, fascinating and incredibly boring.”

A Darker Shade of Pagan 05/13/12

Sun, 13 May 2012 06:02:01 -0700

A Darker Shade of Pagan 05/13/12:

Pagan sounds from the underground.

Playlist for 05/13/12

The following is an encore presentation of A Darker Shade of Pagan from 03/27/11.

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Julianna Barwick – Flown
Esben and The Witch – Eumenides
Metal Mountains – Silver Sun
Silver Summit – Acadia
The Unthanks – Gan to the Kye
Blood Ceremony – The Great God Pan
Pandemonaeon – Eater of Sorrow
Arkona – Liki Bessmertnykh Bogou
VocaMe – Petron Pavlon
Rajna – Cycleades

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Dead Can Dance sets Aug. 9 release date for first new album in 16 years | slicing up eyeballs // 80s alternative music, college rock, indie

Tue, 08 May 2012 12:20:47 -0700

Dead Can Dance sets Aug. 9 release date for first new album in 16 years | slicing up eyeballs // 80s alternative music, college rock, indie:

“It will be a spring album to coincide with both natures awakening and the groups subsequent rebirth.”

A Darker Shade of Pagan 05/06/12

Sun, 06 May 2012 06:01:33 -0700

A Darker Shade of Pagan 05/06/12:

Pagan sounds from the underground.

Playlist for 05/06/12

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The Moon and the Nightspirit - Fenybe Tero
Faun - Das Tor
School of Seven Bells - When She Was Me
Accolade - Lost Faire
Poets to Their Beloved - Desert’s Voice
Lower Dens - In the End is the Beginning
Memoryhouse - Kinds of Light
Fever Ray - The Wolf
Dead Can Dance - Nierika

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A Darker Shade of Pagan 04/29/12

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 06:02:44 -0700

A Darker Shade of Pagan 04/29/12:

Pagan sounds from the underground.

Playlist for 04/29/12

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Poets to Their Beloved - Silent Prayer
Mirabilis - World Indifferent
Memoryhouse - All Our Wonders
School of Seven Bells - Kiss Them For Me
Austra - Spellwork
Mariee Sioux - White Fanged Foreverness
Now, Now - The Pull / Prehistoric
Soriah with Ashkelon Sain - Temicteopan
Sharron Kraus - Evergreen Sisters
The Moon and the Nightspirit - Felleg Utjan

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Trobar de Morte “The Silver Wheel” Teaser (by...

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:48:22 -0700

Trobar de Morte “The Silver Wheel” Teaser (by Shamain666)