SubKult 2026 (Photographed by Krichan Wihlborg)
The 2026 edition of the SubKult music festival.
The 2026 edition of the SubKult music festival.
Keith LeBlanc, who passed away in 2024, was an innovative drummer who developed sounds and styles that shaped hip hop and electro-industrial music.
In 1973, Stephen Mallinder (universally known, simply, as Mal) joined a musical collective that included two friends, Richard H. Kirk and Chris Watson. The top song on the charts that…
There are artists who build a career in straight lines – and then there is Ben Watkins, whose catalogue sprawls like a circuit board. The copper lines trace a complex…
To some people, Dave Baker is that pub pianist who accompanies them on Carpenters and soul sing-alongs at North London venues. To others, he is that DJ with the eclectic…
Futurepop took the structure of EBM, the hooks of synth-pop, and the atmosphere of modern club music as its starting point. Then, it sharpened and focussed them into something that…
Darkwave has always lived in the space between the dance floor and the graveyard. Emerging from the post-punk and new wave currents of the late 1970s and early 1980s, it…
The Swedish photographer, Krichan Wihlborg, met up with one of the country’s most interesting EBM acts and came back with some images to share.
It is impossible to talk about pop in Sweden without a nod to the quartet who conquered the world from Polar Studios. Long before syntare was a word, Benny Andersson…
Space disco emerged in the late 1970s as a gleaming, synthesizer‑driven offshoot of disco that swapped mirrorballs for starfields and limousines for rocket ships. It took the groove and hedonism…