Interviews

Friedrich Wilheim Murnau’s Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror) is widely acknowledged not just as a classic of German Expressionist cinema but also as the silver screen’s first interpretation of Bram Stoker’s genre-defining vampire classic Dracula ...

This may be the Year of the Dog according to the Lunar calendar, but make no mistake — when it comes to brash, brazen rock and roll, 2018 is set to be the year of Thunderpussy. This quartet of four ...

Listening to a Ghost Box release is like stepping into a forgotten world, alien yet familiar to our own.  It’s a place where the future has intruded on the past and both have learned to co-exist in harmony, yet a ...

“I understand there are lifestyles which this court does not understand” – Judge William F. Ager Jr., on sentencing GG Allin in an assault case in 1989. Kevin Michael Allin. GG Allin. One and the same person. Except…not really. Not ...

The Damned are 40 this year and still punk as fuck. Or goth as fuck. Or something in between that was never quiet the Ramones or Bauhaus, but Dave Vanian dressed like a vampire and Captain Sensible wore gonzo plaid. ...

Resembling the lovechild of H.H. Holmes and a silent era siren, when it comes to dark music there is only one Jill Tracy. As a singer, pianist, and performer, she conjures a timeless netherworld that opens up the portals to ...

Decadence is a hothouse flower that bears the richest blooms at night. Shadows mask the lurid and yet, heighten and enhance the atmosphere of the lush and the languid. Faces and dark acts that few whisper and even less shout. ...

“Neon glyphs flash across the alley – blinking kanji. Hues of garish pink and red emerge, language of the night. Your android partner: a deadly weapon, just like you. She’s draped in the radiance, wearing it as camouflage. A prototype: ...

There isn’t very much surf punk music splashing out from the Scottish town of Falkirk, and there’s a very good and simple reason for this: there is no surfing of any kind there, or in the surrounding area. However, seemingly ...

Love or hate the name, synthwave seems to be here to stay. Although many of the artists associated with the genre appear to reject the label, there is no denying the appeal for seventies/eighties soundtrack inspired electronica is on the ...