Electronic Body Music (EBM) is the motor that drives alternative dancefloors. Diesel-fuelled, aggressive, and sometimes sensual, EBM lives in the tension between discipline and release. Militant rhythms, shouted vocals, and…
It’s hard to work out what Brett Wickens is best known for. He founded Spoons at high school with Gordon Deppe and Sandy Horn in 1979 before moving on the…
Paul Kendall has been moving through British music history since the late 1970s, quietly altering its signal path. He was a member of a post-punk band, Dry Rib, before an…
We have a soft spot for record store clerks. The movie, High Fidelity, was a disappointment, precisely because it missed the point about why they are cool. The workers in…
From Sweden come these images of Test Dept. Shot by Krichan Wihlborg, the British industrial pioneers are captured on stage in Stockholm. Metal percussion has been replaced by laptops, but…
A brace of seasonal songs for your merriment, featuring electronic, pop, post-punk, and alternative artists. Alphakenny-1 – Christmas Time in the Mountains https://on.soundcloud.com/o4HYFe4rUmBxjyjV7J I Am Snow Angel – Silent Night…
Is this really only the first year of the Trump administration? It feels like a lifetime has passed since the Cheeto Mussolini and his cabal of white supremacist billionaires retook…
Bernard Sumner never planned to sing for New Order. As a young man, he wanted to play guitar in his band, Joy Division. That was going well, until frontman Ian…
Armed with a soldering iron and a stack of ABBA singles, Chris Carter became one of the founders of Industrial Records, a member of Throbbing Gristle, and an innovator who…