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News: The deliciously dark Matt Malone & The Holy Spirits head to Aotearoa/New Zealand on tour.
We were highly impressed by Matt Malone & The Holy Spirits’ 2023 album ‘For The Term Of My Natural Life’ (see my review here), and Matt Malone has announced he is taking this dark gothic epistle on tour through Aotearoa/New Zealand this month. Malone says of the tour: I’ll be doing a series of shows …

Track: The Horrors release the shimmering anthemic single ‘More Than Life’ ahead of ‘Night Life’ album release in March.
It’s close to the 20th anniversary of the iconic The Horrors and today they release the fourth single off their forthcoming and much anticipated album ‘Night Life’, out through Fiction Records and Virgin Music Group. With the core duo of vocalist Faris Badwan and bassist Rhys Webb, the band’s additional new members are Amelia Kidd …

Premiere: Italy’s Varanasi unveil video for the track ‘L’odore della notte’ off their evocative album ‘Cattedrali per principianti’
It’s an irritating side to this reviewing malarkey that you sometimes miss little treasures along the way, and certainly the album release by one of my beloved Italian bands, the dark and gothic Varanasi, fell victim to this overload during the Christmas hiatus. At the end of the year they released their album ‘Cattedrali per …

Premiere: Jo Meares’ Silver Bullets eviscerate the target with the fin de siècle gothic attack of ‘Lone Gun’.
We’ve been openly stalking Jo Meares for many years now to the extent he would be justified if he took out a restraining order against Backseat Mafia. The fact remains, however, that he is a prodigious talent and whatever he turns is mind to, it will be remarkable. We are therefore catatonic with excitement to …

LIVE: Tomorrow’s Ghosts Festival Announces Line Up
Peter Hook & The Light will be headlining Saturday night at the annual goth festival in its spiritual home of Whitby on the east coast, hot on the heels of Halloween. Hooky & The Light will be presenting Joy Division: A Celebration, taking festival goers back to the gothic roots that began it all. They’ll …

Live Review: Emily Breeze -The Barrel House, Totnes 13.10.2023
In early 2023 Emily Breeze released her latest album ‘Rapture’ to critical acclaim and has been hoping to be an overnight success – all be it, one twenty years in the making. Support slots for James and Sleaford Mods have brought her to the attention of a disparate clan of music lovers a widely varied …

Interview: John Robb Chats About His New Book Covering The Entire History Of Goth
Never one to do things by halves, John Robb’s recently published book – “The Art of Darkness – The History of Goth” – has gone above and beyond what mere mortals would attempt. Bulldozing through the 650-page barrier, it’s a monumental piece of work, covering ancient history, troubled poets and the piss-drenched corners of shopping …

News: Drab Majesty announces new EP accompanied by haunting and ethereal new single ‘Vanity’ featuring Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell, ahead of appearance at Hobart’s Dark Mofo Festival
Today Drab Majesty have announced details of a new EP, entitled ‘An Object in Motion’, to be released on August 25th via Dais Records. Along with the announcement, they have shared the anthemic and ghostly single ‘Vanity’ featuring a rare guest vocal appearance from Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell. The track is a heavenly slice of Arctic …

Album Review: The Telescopes focus on a dreamy, gothic sonic landscape in their shimmering and psychedelic new album ‘Of Tomorrow’, with European dates announced
The legendary The Telescopes return to the fray with their new album ‘Of Tomorrow’ – their astonishing fifteenth album and the fifth released through Tapete Records. Meeting somewhere in the dark corners of the universe with the Velvets, Leonard Cohen and JAMC in an absinthe-soaked bacchanalian dive bar, this is a band that emits a …