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I spoke with Null Device's Eric Oehler and Jill Sheridan.  Founded in 1995 in Wisconsin, Null Device is constantly experimenting and evolving their sound, drawing a wide variety of influences, passionately fusing everything from bhangra to post-punk to pop to ambient rock into their music. Null Device is always pushing the borders of synthpop, but what is constant is their soaring, catching m...

Speaking to Rikard Tengvall of A Projection. The band first began in 2013 with influences such as The Cure, Joy Division, Interpol and Editors then went on to cut their first three albums which were firmly rooted in the post punk genre. In 2020, the band went through some changes that included their line up, their sound and their label.  Currently, their latest 4th studio album entitled "In a...

Nationally award-winning author, astrologer, feng shui expert, life coach and inspirational speaker is Hawaii's thought leader and celebrated expert Alice Inoue .  Alice has aided hundreds of organizations and thousands of individuals over the past 20 years find a meaningful and joyful existence, combining her vast set of skills and talents with her entrepreneurial drive. Her unique brand of...

Post-Punk New Romantics Candy Coffins released their latest single "Tangled In Teacups " with accompanying video featuring ballet dancers juxtaposed in an urban landscape, produced and directed by The Pierson Collective.    The single is from Candy Coffins' LP called " Once Do It With Feeling, " a 10-track collection with Cure-esque textures and melody.   Lead vocalist and...

Dante-inspired gothic electro-rock trio called DISPEL released their latest LP called "INFERNO."  Produced by Dispel, the album was mastered at the Cage Studios in Coventry, England by Martin Bowes of Attrition.  Based in Cleveland, Ohio, Dispel consist of lead vocalist Ravensea, Sean Gallows (Vocals and Bass) and Scott Dispel (Drums and Keyboards) .  I spoke to Scott Dispel, a founding...

Formed in early 2019 by members of Montreal-based indie artists Room Control, REPO, Scene Noir and Citylake, The Ember Glows is Richard Bunze (Guitar), Kevin Hills (Bass), Martin Saint  (Vocalist and Guitar) and Dan Stefik (Drums).  Long-time friends since their teenage years, personal chemistry and musical synchronicity brought them together as The Ember Glows. With all four of them also being pa...

Alternative music legend Chris Connelly released his latest album,  paying tribute to the iconic Nico , the Velvet Underground muse and one of the most unique, tragic and misunderstood female artists in the history of music called "Eulogy to Christa: A Tribute To The Music and Mystique Of Nico," On this album, Connelly worked with producer and long time collaborator Chris Bruce.  "E...

The Italian gothic metal band based in Berlin, Germany, Vlad in Tears  released their latest 8th studio album called "Porpora" on Metalville Records on September 19, 2022.  The band consist of three brothers who decided to move from Italy to Germany in 2013, Kris (Lead vocalist and keyboards)  Dario (Bass) and Lex (Guitar) . Their bandmate Alex joined them on drums.  Since releasing seve...

Frenchy and the Punk is made up of singer, percussionist, and lyricist Samantha Stephenson and guitarist and composer Scott Helland. Dark times make for dark songs. "Zen Ghost" was written and recorded from 2020 to 2021 where the duo's shadowy sound takes an even darker turn. An inward spin into the pair’s previously unexplored personal planes and interpretations of the insanity of...

Brooklyn-based artist Ronan Conroy released his latest single, "Dark Paradise," a goth rock rendition of the Lana Del Rey classic. "Dark Paradise" is the second release that followed "Double Helix" featuring Julie Dicterow on vocals. The two singles are in Conroy's latest album called "The Slow Death of the Lovemyth," produced, engineered and mastered b...

Junksista consist of the German duo Diana Noir and Boog . The band  formed in 2009 and has since evolved with their mighty fresh eclectic and electric mix of bursting grooves, funky guitars, deep baselines, catchy synth and sensual half sung, half spoken female vocals. They explore all forms of music ranging from 80s dance, funk to dark electro beats. Junksista released their latest 4th studio alb...

It was a pleasure speaking with Los Angeles based Strangelove, the Depeche Mode Experience who are accomplished musicians consisting of Leo Luganskiy as "Ultra-Dave,"  Brent Meyer as  "Counterfeit Martin,"  Julian Shah-Tayler as "Oscar Wilder,"  James Evans as "InTheFletch" and Chris Olivas "Chris -tian O-gner." " STRANGELOVE-The Depeche Mode...

Hailing from Leeds, England, and now based in Los Angeles, California Julian Shah-Tayler, AKA The Singularity Music is a singer, songwriter and producer.  He has recorded over 400 pieces of music and worked with many artists such as Peter Murphy and David J of Bauhaus, guitarists and musicians Mark Gemini Thwaite and Darwin Meiners, rock music collective, Beauty in Chaos and the Grammy Award-winni...

Iconic shoe gaze/postpunk collective  A Shoreline Dream Ryan Policky and Erik Jeffries just released the full LP called " Loveblind " via L atenight Weekend Records following their critically acclaimed album "Melting" (2020).  The sixth full-length album from the prog-goth shoegazers dives into the recollections and desires of the past while gazing in a wash of sound waves poin...

The alternative, indie rocker trio from Toronto called ON released their self-titled album on September 16, 2022 via Indiestructible Records . Guitarist, Steve Fall , says is "a document of friendship navigating explores in pain, and hope. Looking at the world with a collaborative effort to document what we see, witness and feel through songwriting and chemistry as a band." ON creates so...

I spoke to groundbreaking electro-dub duo Ree-Vo.  The duo from Bristol, England, Andy Spaceland and T. Relly  recorded, produced and mixed their debut LP called "All Welcome on Planet Ree-Vo" ( Dell' Orso Records/ SRD) at Bristol's Christchurch Studios, known as the home of the Mezzanine-era of Massive Attack's most commercially successful album. In spring of 2022, Ree-Vo...

After her success with CHIASM  and John Fryer 's album " Missed the Noise" which reached #1 in the prestigious DAC album charts, Emileigh Rohn jumped right into her next adventure with renowned Belgium composer Jean-Marc Lederman (The Weathermen, Fad Gadget, Front242, Ghost & Writer with Frank Spinath from Seabound, and so much more.) Their new collaboration called Rohn-Lederman...

I spoke to Australian musicians  Ant Banister, Andi Lennon, Leticia from the band and Jarrad Robertson. Sydney Australia's lead vocalist for Post Punk outfit Sounds Like Winter and Sequential Zero, Ant Banister is also the founder of record label Mantravision Productions.   Sounds Like Winter released three albums: Initiate, Sticks and Stones and Fight the Stairs.  Sea Lungs is the musical co...

Since the start of her musical journey with Dead Can Dance, Lisa Gerrard has created her own unique singing style. Her voice is her instrument that helped to establish the reputation of 4AD in the early 80s.  As a highly acclaimed film composer winning a Golden Globe for her work on the score for Ridley Scott' s Gladiator with Hans Zimmer, she also composed many other prominent features and a...

Legendary bass guitarist , punk rebel, genuine geezer, singer, author and music journalist, Jah Wobble is one of the founding members of Public Image Limited (PIL), along with John Lydon, formerly of the Sex Pistols. After PIL, he embarked on a number of successful solo projects and collaborations, including the Invaders of the Heart and the Human Condition. His autobiography, entitled Memoirs of...

Greek avant-garde singer songwriter, Lia Hide just unveiled her highly anticipated full-length LP, The Missing Fourth Guest, taken from Plato's Timeaus on Conch Town Records. Hide is classically trained. Her songwriting is simple, pop, structured and lyrical, yet bears progressive music elements, embedding glitch and jazz fragments, cinematic guitars and orchestral layers, electronic sub dron...

This is my interview with two of the founding members of the Skeletal Family - Stan Greenwood and Karl Heinz. Formed in Keighley, West Yorkshire, England during the early 1980’s out of the band ‘The Elements,' Skeletal Family took their name from the title of the song “Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family” from the 1974 David Bowie album, Diamond Dogs. Skeletal Family gained popularity...

Here is my interview with Volker Zacharias of Girls Under Glass. Girls Under Glass, one of the pioneers in the German darkwave and dark electro music scene was founded in the spring of 1986 in Hamburg, Germany by Thomas Lucke, Hauke Harms and Volker Zacharias.   After the brilliant last album "Zyklus," released in 2005, the band is back with a new full-length album called "Backdraft...

Kill Shelter is UK based alternative artist and producer Pete Burns.   His unique work blends elements of post-punk and contemporary electronica and heavily processed guitars.  His critically acclaimed debut album “Damage” and the subsequent collaboration with Norwegian dark electronic artist, Antipole called  “A Haunted Place”, sold out in a matter of weeks. His remix portfolio includes cult name...

London-based trio, Decommissioned Forests is a collaboration between post-progressive multi-instrumentalist  Daniel Vincent (The Resonance Association), industrial electro-punk Max Rael (History Of Guns) and experimental musician, CG artist, and film-maker Howard Gardner   (Non-Bio, Pillars of Golden Misery). Brought together by a shared love of outsider luminaries such as Coil, Current 93, Cluste...