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GHOST ANNOUNCE 'PHANTOMIME' FIVE-SONG COVERS EP OUT MAY 18 "JESUS HE KNOWS ME" TRACK & VIDEO OUT NOW - New Webisode Chapter 17: Nap Time Live Now  https://i.ghost-official.com/Chapter17 Fresh off winning Best Rock Album of the Year at the iHeart Radio Music Awards, Ghost announces the coming of PHANTOMIME, a five-song covers EP intended from the...

Girls Under Glass release video 'We Feel Alright', taken from the forthcoming new album "Backdraft"... GIRLS UNDER GLASS unveil the black and white video 'We Feel Alright', which is also the first single taken from the forthcoming album "Backdraft".  After a long hiatus the Hamburgian gothic rockers return with fiery new tracks that take the best elements from the...

Inspired by the Greek queen of the Underworld, Persephone, The Funeral March has released five new songs during the season of transition between death and rebirth. These new tracks whisper of dreams, murmur of despair, cry out in madness, and reflect on hope and loss. The new EP, Persephone calls upon the influence...

BLACK NAIL CABARET unveil the lyric video 'Sister Sister' as the first single taken from the forthcoming experimental album "Woodlands Memoirs". Under the banner BLACK NAIL CABARET AND FRIENDS, the Hungarian duo and three closely befriended musicians have created a one-off rather analogue and organic project that is different from their usual avant-garde synth pop style by transforming their own songs into thrilling cover versions. Please see...

NYC-based NEVARIS and music legend BILL LASWELL present 'Dub Sol', previewing debut 'Reverberations' LP FOR FANS OF: Bill Laswell, Carlos Santana, Lee Perry, Loud Apartment, Material, Method of Defiance, DJ Krush, DJ Logic, Will Bernard, Scientist, Hieroglyphics Ensemble, Sly and Robbie GENRES / STYLES: dub, funk, afro-latin rhythms, turntable, fusion, improvisation, alternative, instrumental MOOD: Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Spacey,...

BEBORN BETON unveil new single 'I Watch My Life on TV', taken from forthcoming new album "Darkness Falls Again"! BEBORN BETON offer a second tasty bite lifted from their forthcoming full-length "Darkness Falls Again". The laid-back synth pop anthem 'I Watch My Life on TV' is now unveiled and available...

Nightly meetings in a dimly-lit basement studio is where Texas-based darkwave band, In A Darkened Room and ultimately the debut album, Sorrows were born. Sorrows is the culmination of the release from the repetition and seclusion brought on by the pandemic. The title is a fitting "black umbrella" under which...

When industrial bass artist, Bug Gigabyte heard TikTok star, Kamarah Rae's “a cappella” rendition of Sam Smith's "Unholy" with her lyrical re-write, he immediately felt inspired. He wanted to write a full track sampling her vocals while adding his own. So..... he did.   "When I first heard her version, it...

Darkwave duo, Luna Del Luna recently dropped their debut self-titled EP. The inspiration behind the release comes from real life emotional and physical trauma and abuse that haunts the vocalist's mind daily. Says vocalist Luna, "Every soul deals with their nightmares and scars differently, and mine is through music and writing my thoughts...

French darkwave band, Divine Shade has just unveiled  their new single, "Stars".  The track was performed live during Divine Shade's set in support of Gary Numan's 2022 UK tour. The song's theme is simple. It addresses the concept of our "inner child" disappearing over time. Says, Rémi Thonnerieux, "I wrote this song to talk...