Nights Out in a Divided City
If you want to immerse yourself in cold war counterculture, ground zero on Thursday, 9 July 2015 is the Sage Club in Berlin. Under the rubric, “Cold War Night Life,”…
If you want to immerse yourself in cold war counterculture, ground zero on Thursday, 9 July 2015 is the Sage Club in Berlin. Under the rubric, “Cold War Night Life,”…
It seems like only yesterday that John Fryer and Louise Fraser released Tales from a Silent Ocean, the first EP from their Muricidae project, but here they are singing back…
William Orbit claims that he can’t play piano, but much of his success is clearly dependent upon his keyboard expertise. The legendary producer and composer is best known for mixes…
Beate Bartel was born in West Berlin. At the end of the 1970s, when she had just left her teens, punk and new wave influences were making their mark on…
Vive la Fête are one of Belgium’s most exciting bands. Their live shows are blistering, high-energy affairs. This is a recording of their full performance at the 2015 Wave-Gotik-Treffen festival…
Gary Gilmore murdered two men and was put before a Utah firing squad. His last words were a Christian blessing, but they are remembered in popular culture as “Let’s do…
Slovenian art-subversives, Laibach, have announced that they will play two dates in the capital of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on August 19 and 20, 2015. We’ll believe it…
Diskodiktator is best known for the contrarian anthem, “Just Say NO to Democracy,” but Johan Billing’s main project also churns out remixes and remakes of classic poptronica. Four years ago,…
Mike Howlett found himself producing many of the key records of the new wave period, but on paper was an unlikely choice: as the bass player in Gong, from 1973-77,…
The loss of Nash the Slash was a terrible blow to Canadian alternative music. Nash had been one of the first successful electronic artists, first with FM and then in…