Black Tape For a Blue Girl’s Sam Rosenthal has joined forces with Aarktica’s Jon DeRosa for an album that merges their ethereal brands of darkwave, titled Eating Rose Petals. Although having a long association of 30 years after DeRosa’s earlier projects opened for artists on Rosenthal’s Projekt imprint, this album marks the two veterans’ first collaboration [..]

 
In May of this year, Chicago industrial/rock band Project .44 celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of The System Doesn’t Work with a new remastered edition. Now, the group goes back even further to its debut release, 1999’s Look Me In the Eye, with GIVE/TAKE announcing a special twentieth anniversary reissue; due for release on Christmas [..]

 
“The world we live in today will never be the same.” So says Dirk Ivens as he releases the new single from his longstanding project DIVE, titled “Black Star.” Presenting his pulsating and darkly atmospheric brand of industrial and EBM, the single offers up the first taste of his upcoming album, Where Do We Go From Here?, due for release on December 11 [..]

 
With a new album on the way, Estonian industrial/goth act Evestus has today unveiled a new standalone single titled “Happy Being Dead.” Despite its morose title, front man and founder Ott Evestus proclaims it to be simply another example of his dark humor, with the song written as an affirmation of life, “pointing out the fact that we should live more, care less, and not drown ourselves in other people’s lives and petty things,” specifically pointing at the ill effects of social media; the artist relates, “The idea for this song came to me when someone said, ‘if you’re not online, you might as well be dead.’ [..]

 
Philadelphia trip-hop and electronic soul duo Decouplr has announced the release of their debut album, Digital Bonfire, in February 2021, with “Cold Sweat” as the first single. The group describes the track as an exploration of the concept of distance in a technological world, with instruments echoing the dissonance between the physical and digital [..]

 
One of modern music’s most celebrated and versatile front men, Greg Puciato has announced a special livestream event to take place on December 11 at 3:00pm PST. Titled Fuck Content and created in collaboration with Jesse Draxler, Puciato explains that the program will be a marriage of different mediums – live performance, studio footage, visual art, and more – “a lot of different elements together,” with the intent of presenting what the artist calls “the modern equivalent of a VHS release you would have bought from a band decades ago, but with more of an arthouse sensibility.” [..]

 
Zachary Johnson has announced the release of his latest EP under the Hex Cassette moniker, titled Get Out. With 100% of the EP’s earnings on Bandcamp to be donated to the Modest Needs charity, which provides assistance to families and workers facing potential poverty, the track serves up an ironic helping of dark synthpop [..]