The Death Of Audioccult
EB’s longest-running column snuffs the candles—say goodbye with new sounds from Prurient, King Plague, Posh Isolation, and more. And then, no more.
EB’s longest-running column snuffs the candles—say goodbye with new sounds from Prurient, King Plague, Posh Isolation, and more. And then, no more.
Code Blue—it’s time for some XXX Tales From the Cryptkeeper in a special edition of Audioccult with sounds from Ben Frost, Chelsea Wolfe, Black Cracker and more!
Our column for esoteric riffing + underground music returns. Learn to cook meatloaf to die for and hear new tracks from GHE20 G0TH1K, Ishan Sound and more.
David Psutka’s new LP is an aural avatar of mechanical sounds. Stream the premiere and check out an exclusive interview with the artist inside.
Read excerpts from Audioccult’s notepad, which contains all the strange ideas never published.
What will you be talking about during your office X-Mass party? Maybe some terrible lists—or new music from Future Brown, Visionist, and Violet Poison!
Find out what we had stuck on repeat this year, including tracks from RVNG Intl, Thrill Jockey, 4AD, Ninja Tune, PAN and more.
A guide for the Grinch in all of us, and new carols from Egyptrixx, Blackest Ever Black and more!
H.P. Lovecraft meets Roseanne, Ai Weiwei VS Miley Cyrus, missed psychick connections and more await—plus new sounds from the darkest corners of music!
From a short book on art and writing, read pieces on cultural nihilism and the emotional highs of DJing. Plus, new music by Rabit, Mykki Blanco, Run The Jewels and more.
Which hot musicians are going to be making waves together soon? We have the predictions for you inside—plus new sounds from DUST, John Carpenter and more!
Conspiracies abound in Audioccult, along with new sounds from Objekt, Gucci Mane, Blvck Ceiling, Andy Stott, Oake, Young Echo, Stroboscopic Artefacts, and more.
Find out what’s in the Twin Peaks mastermind’s bathroom, and hear new music from Maluca, xorzyzt, Brenmar, Youth Code, Born In Flamez, and Mumdance!
Enter the underground freak scene in the US from an UnReaL perspective—plus new music from Deathface, Rabit, Kanga, Raspberry Bulbs, and Silent Servant!
From Brooklyn to Los Angeles, explore underground club culture and acid-tinged adventures with Audioccult.
Trapped in a cruel, Internet-free area? Find out how to plug in, and hear sounds from The Bug, Xosar, NVR MND, xorzyzt and more!
Let’s be honest: you don’t know a single thing about music. That’s why you need new tunes from Boothryod, Tamara Sky, Yuji Kondo, Oake and more.
Find the entity of your dreams with Deathface, Dark Entries, Kahn, YNGN, and Demdike Stare!
Dig in, music fans—we have new newness from Milky Chance, Modeselektor and more—with support from Gazelle Twin, Grimes, Vatican Shadow, and Bruxa!
Get the hits you deserve from a pup you can trust: new sounds from Rabit, African Greys, ScHoolboy Q, 2shy and more!
Remember THAT song? It’s here, along with new tracks from El Mahdy Jr, The Bug, CVLT Nation, Animal Bodies, Born In Flamez, XVII, and Perturbator!
Norm MacDonald is America’s funnyman (from Canada). Join the fight in securing him his rightful place on the airwaves.
The romantic sounds of three exclusive premieres from 3 Teeth, plus Godflesh, Ben Frost, Reliq, Wolves In The Throne Room, and The Soft Pink Truth!
If you love dogs as much as we do, are you in for a treat! We’ve got dogs, dogs, new sounds from Sleigh Bells, Pictureplane, Black Pus, and dogs!
How can you tell if your friend or teen is a HealthGoth? Use our handy Audioccult guide, with new tunes from M¥rrĦ Ka Ba, YGNG, Fis, L.O.T.I.O.N. and more!
Keep your fashion game on-point with Audioccult’s style tips and a catwalk soundtrack by Klaus Nomi, Om Unit, Perc, Truss, Vierance, Xosar, Lustmord and more!
This week’s Audioccult tackles censorship—with a hefty dose of battle anthems from SD Laika, The Skull Defekts, Xeno & Oaklander and more.
Nerd out with some serious series spoilers, and replace that lute soundtrack with Pharmakon, Tobacco, Jaws, Marie Davidson, Bremen, WIFE and UNIIQU3!
Reformat your reality with new music from Born In Flamez, Schlohmo, Esben & The Witch, 3 Teeth, Positive Centre, Millie & Andrea and more.
Trying to find that significant otherworldly being? Woo them with Rick Ross, Bestial Mouths, 3 Teeth, The Panacea, Antwon, Lil Ugly Mane and more.
There are way too many Draculas up in this biz, but at least there’s also fresh music from Kingdom, Vatican Shadow, Sewn Leather, Visionist, and SpaceghostPurrp!
Fire one up and sit back as we reveal some of the music industry’s best-kept secrets—along with Mykki Blanco, Virgin Blood, Le1f, Tombz, Bruxa and more!
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Croc stamping on a human face – forever.
Go on the road as Audioccult travels to London with an iPod full of Zebra Katz, Le1f, Evian Christ, ∆AIMON, Kerridge, Total Freedom, Broken Note and more!
Once again Audioccult rescues mental effluvia floating in limbo, set to new sounds from Visionist, Chelsea Wolfe, King Dude, Nguzunguzu, Theologian, Sd Laika, Antoni Maiovvi, Brenmar, & Forest Swords.
Share your terrible party stories with us, and make a fantastic one in your ears with sounds from Kanga, Nguzunguzu, Total Freedom, Kelela, Tearist, Shlohmo and more!
If your weekend outings are too upbeat, get cvlt in the clvb with Pharmakon, Mondkopf, Killing Sound, Rainer Veil, Vatican Shadow, The Body and Haxan Cloak.
Did you see what the musician on the TV did? Neither did BlackBlackGold… but since Mykki Blanco and Prurient weren’t nominated, he doesn’t particularly care. Here’s what he learned from twitter coverage of the show, though!
This left me speechless—and so did the new sounds from Charli XCX, Pictureplane, T.E.A.M.S., Blackest Ever Black, Azar Swan and more!
Big Internet killed net neutrality—you won’t believe what David Lynch, Venetian Snares, Perfect Pussy, Brenmar, 3 Teeth and NVR MND did then!
What music will accompany this year’s Fashion Weeks? Psychick trend analyst Daniel matches visuals with sounds from Lana Del Rey, Trust, Mondkopf, and more!
Up in the club? Watch for sinister signs while new sounds from Trina, Rizzla, Vessel, S S S S, Wiley, Silent Servant, and Teeth filter through your ears.
Wanna get lucky? Then put sounds from Pictureplane, Deathface, HTRK, Vase, Bart Hess, //Tense//, Vex, and Burial inside you!
2 Dark 2 Die? Avoid boring words and find intriguing sounds from Zebra Katz, Azar Swan, Schlohmo, Purple, and Sofia Reta.
Stay desperately stylish inside and out with Blue Daisy, Textbeak & Kachina, 3 Teeth, Forest Swords & Lee “Scratch” Perry, and Youth Code.
Experience a totally normal day in the world of Audioccult. On the speakers: Evian Christ, Bruxa, Demdike Stare, Lauren Bousfield, Former Ghosts, Xiu Xiu, Secret Boyfriend and some private voicemails from Agent Scully.
Discover a fantastic new industrial album from Deathface, the man behind—and now beyond—”Bloodrave”, along with newness from Kerridge, Azar Swan, ERRAS, Death Grips, and more.
Is your Jingle Dogs CD broken? Why not try soundtracking your single-person romantic holiday with Deathface, Heartsrevolution, Yung Simmie & SpaceGhost Purrp, Azar Swan, Cut Hands, LX Sweat, and Aïsha Devi instead?
Dancing’s forbidden, but we promise we won’t tell if you shake it to new sounds from Nguzunguzu, Madden, Holy Other, ǤƟƉṀØƊƸ ǤVṂΞ666, Davei.d., Excepter, and Fostercare!
Release the bats, and grab some bass from M.I.A., MikeQ, DJ Funeral, Gatekeeper, Total Freedom, RL Grime, Frances Loup and more!
Get some tingles and learn why the Shrek films are the perfect drug.
Have you seen the show? It was good, and so are sounds from Barnett + Coloccia, Magik Markers, Charli XCX, Food For Animals, Blvck Ceiling, Chants, and Seirom.
As Audioccult travels through Japan, take a rest with aural balms and evil auras from Clams Casino, Gnaw Their Tongues, Choronzon, Kelela, and Tropic of Cancer.
Cries for help go unanswered in this special, Japanese edition of Audioccult. With Kelela, Le1f, Perc & Einstürzende Neubauten, Tropic of Cancer and more.
The Hollywood hunk invades our dreams to discuss the allegories of car fetishism, with Tim Hecker, Vatican Shadow, Robert AA Lowe, Andy Stott, reliq and more!
As we build the foundation of our future, work along to a soundtrack featuring Le1f, Soft Metals, Guardian, Cremation Lily, Yunalesca, Silent Servant and more!
Need more than one love? How about 666, with painful emotions! Mmm…fresh Guetta….
Ditch that darkness for some rainbow-flavored sounds from Vatican Shadow, Troller, Puce Mary, Strange VIP, Visionist and Fatima Al Qadiri!
Now head to the after-party with Miriam the Believer, Theologian, White Poppy, Black Cracker, Dracula Lewis, Forest Swords, Crystal Castles and more!
Fight hate with sounds from Mykki Blanco, Azar Swan, AIMON, Bestial Mouths and more!
Ai Weiwei & Miley Cyrus sculpt culture, Wafaa Bilal and Rick Owens turn fashion into politics, Ryan Trecartin and DJ Assault team up and more ‘What If’ weirdness along with sounds from Vessel, Why Beezy, KK Null, Azar Swan, Tropic of Cancer and more.
Find salvation in sounds from Chelsea Wolfe, Delphic Oracle, Lustmord, Author & Punisher, House of LaDosha and more.
Who needs psychiatry when you have the sounds of Purity Ring, Youth Code, Austra, Silent Servant, Trust, Pictureplane, Vessel, and Clipping to soothe your mind.
In this week’s episode: what’s the stylish retro-modern teen wearing and listening to in 2013? Garb your ears in Lustmord, Crim3s, Slava, Chief Keef, and more.
In this week’s dose of aural unease, need some hermetic help? CREEP, Kingdom, Vessel, Soft Metals and more have some spells of their own…
A magickian may never share his true secrets, but we’ll share new music from Crystal Castles, Married In Berdichev, Oake, LIL DEATH and more.
A weekly dose of aural unease: experience the pleasures of the skin as you experience the sounds of Crim3s, Deathface, Shlohmo, The-Drum, Butterclock and more.
Travel back in time with Mykki Blanco, oOoOO, Vår, Brenmar, Pictureplane and more.
Lost in the desert with only the sounds of Pharmakon, Actually Huizenga, Balam Acab, and Wolf Eyes to guide us…
Trip the light chaotic with Regis, Cindytalk, Brenmar and Mike Q, Bruxa and more.
Wear black, ya’ll. Bring it back, ya’ll: Mater Suspiria Vision, Bestial Mouths, Butterclock, Waka Flocka, Tamara Sky and Total Freedom keep you pretty in pitch.
As a new light dawns over Rome, a selection of artists including Grimes, Azealia Banks, oOoOO and more provide a Popetastic soundtrack.
Looking for love? Let M.E.S.H, Fatima al Qadiri, Bong-Ra, Submissions and Pat Benatar soundtrack your next virginal sacrifice.
Diary of an extremely happy man, soundtracked by Married In Berdichev, WMX, Theologian, Gore Tech, Madden, and Pete Swanson.
Lust is the Law! Let the hot sounds of White Ring, Fostercare, Antwon, Dell Harris, and Tempers drip down your skin—no wet-naps required.
Fill your ears with cosmic horror as we go eldritch-style on sounds from Pharoah Chromium, Bruxa, araabMUZIK and Umberto.
The magickal electronics of Igor Wakhévitch, crunkpunk synthgasms with DJ Dog Dick, and more await you in the precision coils of Audioccult.
Stand trial in an ecclesiastical court for the ears with Strange VIP, The Haxan Cloak, Kendrick Lamar, Bong-Ra and Additiv.
In the cold dead white of winter, the sound of fashion springs forward with Zana Bayne, Bruxa, Just Blaze and Baauer.
Explore the ideology of three of Berlin’s blackest magickians, along with new sounds and visuals from Bruxa, Deathface, and Angels in America.
Make the world sound the way you want it to with Current 93, Schwarz Don’t Crack, Rosalind Blair, Teen Witch, Soulja Boy, Diamanda Galas and chopped-up N’Sync.
Out with the old, in with the Now: celebrate a new year and a return to self with sounds from Fever Ray, Grouper, Palmistry, Crcksmrf and more.
Weather the impending Apocalypse with sounds from Ballet School, WMX, Nine Circles, Brenmar, Tropic of Cancer, Trill Scott Heron, and Marnie Stern.
Trust in the sounds of Andy Stott, Blvck Ceiling, Water Borders, NIKE7UP and more in the latest edition of our most abstract column.
The stars are out, but they shed no light: sit in the shadows with Youth Code, Reliq, Black Sheep Screaming, and the InMostDark.
What rules the Body Politic? Passwords to knowledge include Teen Witch, Total Freedom, AIMON, Hecq and more.
Where we’re going, we won’t need eyes to see. Ears might help, however, if you crave the aggressive pound of Total Freedom, X-Files gothstep and Crystal Castles-brand holy chanting.
Did Rihanna and Azealia pirate seapunk? Who cares, when there are sounds from Vatican Shadow, Crystal Castles and Clicks & Whistles to dive into!
Travel through the apocalyptic soundscapes of EB’s Daniel Jones as he presents a year’s worth of experimental mixtapes that foretell the vicious majesty and angelic noise of the End Times.
Sick of hearing ‘Every Day is Halloween’? Grab some dark new sounds to make your October 31st the blackest ever.
Vatican Shadow, Star Eyes, Brooke Candy, ∆AIMON and more when EB editor Daniel travels to Rome. A trip report, of sorts, but with more fog.
Trap music and Renaissance art in the same setting might make art (or, possibly, music) purists yell ‘Suffering saviors!’ in a funny Sylvester the cat voice, but from EB editor Daniel’s perspective, it’s a perfect fit.
In a world where EBM can be fresh, non-cheesy and legitimately cool, how will the makers of fluorescent goggles and baggy bondage pants feed their families?
Dark clothes, darker music: discussing goth from a post-goth view, and listening to new music from Haleek Maul, Bestial Mouths, Chris Travis and Ethelwulf, and Death Grips.
SOUNDTRACK FOR MUMMY FANS ONLY: Chelsea Wolfe, The-Drum, Supreme Cuts, Trill Scott Heron, Purity Ring, Nun, and Why Beezy.
This one’s a pro-click, thanks to White Ring, MADDEN, Umberto, Craxxxmurf, Massacooramaan, Diamanda Galas, and Vatican Shadow.
Transcend your mental genres with Hirsute Pursuit, A$AP Mob, Submissions, SpaceGhostPurrp, Fostercare, and more. Not Gucci. Not Goth. Just plenty of BlackBlackGold audio.
Get purified with 2AMFM, Birds of Passage, Alberich, Svreca, Regis, Rrose, Vatican Shadow, Coil, Six Six Seconds, The Cathode Terror Secretion, Christian Cosmos, and Holy Other.
Play What Thou Wilt: get blacked-out with audio evil from CVLT Nation, Triple Six Sound Club, Ash Borer, BlackBlackGold, Total Freedom, The Virgin Prunes, and more.
Light a candle. Draw the required sigils. Now, raise your arms above your head and slowly, gently, exhale your soul. You won’t need it here. This is Audioccult, and it’s time to get low. I’ve spent the last 27 hours hopping between a riverside field and a concrete warehouse, dumping toxic waste and audio crud into … Continued
The living no longer matter; we feed on and regurgitate our dead in ways that would make their ghosts scream if they hadn’t already been recycled into eco-friendly iPod cases.
Light a candle. Draw the required sigils. Now, raise your arms above your head and slowly, gently, exhale your soul. You won’t need it here. This is Audioccult, and it’s time to get low. After a hearty chit-chat with some Gucci officials, I ascend into brand crap heaven. GG no more, it’s a BlackBlackGold lifestyle. … Continued
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Light a candle, blahblahblah: WHAT THE HELL IS UP FACEBOOK. Out of all the Tumblr-culture whatever type things, I’m pretty sure mine was the only thing to not try to cash in somehow. I never made shirts or stickers or anything, because I have nothing to sell. I just talk about music and fashion that … Continued
Light a candle. Draw the required sigils. Now, raise your arms above your head and slowly, gently, exhale your soul. You won’t need it here. This is Audioccult, and it’s time to get low. Luck is against me. I sit and stare at my screen but inspiration does not come. My mind breeds nihil, while … Continued
Light a candle. Draw the required sigils. Now, do you have your Magick Mirror? The secret of mirrors is: they’re ALL magic, because they reflect the falseness of Physical Reality, rather than the truth of Spirit. Or some bullshit, who cares. This is Audioccult, and it’s time to get low. HEY KIDS!!! It’s time for … Continued
Light a candle. Draw the required sigils. Now, raise your arms above your head and slowly, gently, exhale your soul. You won’t need it here. This is Audioccult, and it’s time to get low. Some like it hot. Some like it running screaming at the wall and punching it furiously and tearing down the curtains … Continued
Light a candle. Draw the required sigils. Now, raise your arms above your head and slowly, gently, exhale your soul. You won’t need it here. This is Audioccult, and it’s time to get low. At times it’s very easy to escape into the massively overused adjective ‘dark’, especially when it comes to music. Maybe you … Continued
Light a candle. Draw the required sigils. Now, raise your arms above your head and slowly, gently, exhale your soul. You won’t need it here. This is Audioccult, and it’s time to get low. The last week has been a pretty good one. Spending time busting on gothstumes at a giant German festival made me … Continued
Light a candle. Draw the required sigils. Now, raise your arms above your head and slowly, gently, exhale your soul. You won’t need it here. This is Audioccult, and it’s time to get low. I’ve sort of hit the point where the only time I go to a party is if I’m throwing it myself. … Continued
Light a candle. Draw the required sigils. Now, raise your arms above your head and slowly, gently, exhale your soul. You won’t need it here. This is Audioccult, and it’s time to get low. You might recognize the photo above as a ‘classic’ piece of artwork from the great AIDS-3D. I chose this as the … Continued
Light a candle. Draw the required sigils. Now, raise your arms above your head and slowly, gently, exhale your soul. You won’t need it here. This is Audioccult, and it’s time to get low. I get money. You get funerals. Actually, I get Funerals too. I’ve watched these two evolve gently, from post-witch whatever to … Continued
Light a candle. Draw the required sigils. Now, raise your arms above your head and slowly, gently, exhale your soul. You won’t need it here. This is Audioccult, and it’s time to get low. Undoubtedly the biggest thing to happen in the last week was My First Chelsea Wolfe Show. I sincerely hope it won’t … Continued
Light a candle. Draw the required sigils. Now, raise your arms above your head and slowly, gently, exhale your soul. You won’t need it here. This is Audioccult, and it’s time to get low. My coworkers tend to think of me as not a particularly pop-oriented guy. This is true, up to a point; my … Continued
Another week, another chance to throw that shade at you. The last week gave us some essential and primary releases as well as a selection of visuals that will leave you saying, ‘Damn! That was definitely a thing I just watched!’ Are ya ready, boots? Start walkin’! Night Slugs label boss Bok Bok is one … Continued
This is an open letter inviting you to explore a special selection of audio/visual pleasures culled from my own musical and artistic associations and associates. This is the cult of audio. The NYC duo CREEP opened the week with an ethereally beautiful remix of School of Seven Bells‘ ‘Lafaye’, taken from their beautiful new album … Continued
And you thought you were so unique.
The ex-Throbbing Gristle members rework “Unflesh” into a soft but glitchy banger. There are some remixes that were just made to be—the synchronicity between remixee and remixer just bristling with raw potential. This new Carter Tutti remix of Gazelle Twin’s “Unflesh” is certainly one of them. It’s the fusion of two different spatial movements in the track that lends it its undoubted power. On one … Continued
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THE RESULTS ARE IN: Kendrick Lamar is amazing and pretty much everything else is bad (except for Lady Gaga’s keyboard stand, a highlight of the evening). Diplo won twice and a lot of people thought that anything to do with Bruno Mars was the Best Thing in the year. Adele “messed up” her performance but it could have … Continued
Frankie Knuckles’ anthem “Your Love” was the defining psalm for a whole generation of ravers. The lush beat, flickering melody punctuated by impassioned vocals and hypnotic circularity can make your goth teen ditch black rags for a floral hoodie and blindly fall in love. We’re bringing it to your attention today because it’s the anniversary of … Continued
Even if you’re a fan of extremely expensive stage shows with a man on it, you’ll also probably dig this.
Do you like those subtle sounds when someone whispers? Or the way scratching wood sounds? Do you get weird tingles when you listen to recorded breathing sounds? You are not alone.
Is this the most soothing video of the week? Watch artist Graham Dunning turn a turntable into a kind of drum machine by mechanically altering vinyl records and stacking all sorts of stuff on the record player. The experiment was conducted at Lime Wharf Machines Room as part of the Rhythm & Drone // Research & Development residency in September 2015. The … Continued
Beat those cold-weather blues with our guide to surviving after summer!
Get in the mood with Pictureplane, The X-Files, Beavis & Butthead, OG OC hardcore and—of course—Taco Bell.
Burn a pyre of floral crowns as you blast this mix featuring New Model Army, Strawberry Switchblade, Tear Garden, Skeletal Family and more!
Born before a real template for witchy vibes was set, NIKE7UP offered up dark and twisted reconceptualizations of pop music. This mixtape is packed the the alternate-dimension pop vibe he created—it’s the perfect way to say goodbye to summer and hello to the season of the Witch.
This incredible S13 mix blends deep cuts from goth, post-punk, EBM and deathrock—highly worth revisiting, or discovering for the first time.
Who doesn’t love ASMR unboxing videos? We hope you enjoy this one, complete with a bunch of ASMR cues such as ‘a box’ and ‘opening a box’. What’s inside, though, is even better.
Lists are basically the best thing about going on the Internet. We’ve got plenty, and here’s another!
From Supynes in Lithuania to Sustain-Release in New York, here’s your ultimate guide to this summer’s premiere avant-garde summer music and art festivals.
The elegant alt-pop singer filled out our latest ABC column with wise maxims about death, nose jobs, and the mainstream music industry.
A ghoulish selection of tracks to fill your October nights with tricks and treats—sounds for nightfalls, shapes under sheets, real witches and elder young gods.
In the final part of our Goth Parenting Guide, we please your teen with 3 Teeth, Bruxa, and tricks to getting that evil teen to like hip-hop and techno.
Out of the Batcaves and into the streets: pimp your goth teen’s taste with Bestial Mouths, Haus Arafna, Shadowlust and more!
Take your teen down the left-hand path with the first part of our extremely personal and subjective recommendations—from Prurient to Neurosis!
Hear Ultrademon’s new album Voidic Charms, with a track-by-track review as the Coral Records boss takes us through his latest summoning from the depths.
Stay made in the shade with our “hot” summer guide!
Legendary 4AD etherealists Cocteau Twins are obviously the best band—but why? This edition of Audioccult takes a closer look.
DJ, promoter, and EB writer Daniel Jones travels through the underground of Japan as his blackest ever gold alias. Join him on his drunken adventures through Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, and download an exclusive live DJ set from one of his shows.
From his trendsetting fashion to his influential molding of pop’s landscape, here’s a few of the reasons to worship at the altar of Kanye
Looking to beat the heat? Soak your eyes in our icy game!
What did you miss? Nothing, thanks to our weekly roundup of all things Essentially EB.
Cold SALEM, warm socks, and hot new magazines: here’s a few of EB editor Daniel’s favorite things.
Discover our favorite articles and events, compiled from the beginning of the first day of EB.net’s redesign.
The duo’s dark new slab of audio oppression may just be their finest work yet: “It’s delicate, but sometimes dying is too.”
You want to know what’s been going in our ears this week, reverberating our cochleas and sending broader vibrations throughout our bodies and by extension our audio-addled souls? That’s a coincidence: here’s this week’s Editor’s Choice.
Gucci Mane, Xiu Xiu, Bestial Mouths, Nightmare Fortress, Mykki Blanco, Diva Dompe and more in this week’s A/V roundup VIDEODROME.
If you’re interested in modern day culture or have a Facebook profile (our deepest condolences to Gucci Goth, now BlackBlackGold, who is no longer part of that exclusive club –booo Facebook!) you couldn’t have missed it: Sunday was Breaking Bad day! On July 15th, the first episode of Season Five in the epic TV show … Continued
We had a pretty intense time at this year’s Melt! Festival. This was thanks partly to our extracurricular activities (which we’ll get to in a moment) but largely thanks to a fantastic lineup: surrounded by favorites like AlunaGeorge, Todd Terje, Chairlift, Zola Jesus and Squarepusher, we just felt overwhelmed by the amount of things to … Continued
For the last eighteen months or so, I’ve been obsessed with the murder of a young Washington schoolgirl and the captivating search for her killer. There’s been almost constant rain, lots of shady dudes creeping around, and more than one psychotic breakdown among those involved. To put it simply, the past year and a half … Continued
Alexander Geist may have been born in England, but that velvety voice is pure Berlin. The singer is a little bit Bowie, a little bit Dietrich, and all class. His debut single Bad Language is rich, succulent disco-pop in the old tradition, melancholic yet sensual: this bad boy got soul. The single, released by Haute … Continued
M.E.S.H. knows how to make us m.o.v.e. Berlin-based producer Jaime Whipple‘s work falls somewhere between the jittery vibe of juke and the punch of house, with some seriously sick remixes under the belt as well. We already showed you his killer edit of Alba Kingz‘ ‘ Unsere Gegend’ in Monday’s Audioccult, and today we’re pleased … Continued