What happens when industrial musicians get older? Apparently, they listen to a lot of Tom Waits and Nick Cave and classic jazz and blues and make an album that’s spooky in an entirely different way than might be expected. Chris Randall’s The Devil His Due is an album full of stories of evil and loss, […]
Positron! Records “mission statement” proclaims they release “eclectic music by eccentric artists.” A statement of such magnitude generates a cautious approach. Just what is eclectic anyway? Eclectic artists’ off the top of my head quickly, I’d say: the Orb, Boards of Canada, Amon Tobin, Shpongle, and for good measure throw on some Aphex Twin, Kraftwerk […]
The crunching tin in the first few seconds of the track “System Check” could fool you into thinking this is electro. It’s not. Nor is it any thing mechanical as the band’s title would lead you to believe. Even the cover is deceiving, showing a very sad little girl in what seems to be her […]
There’s a club night in San Francisco call Bondage A Go-Go. It is my all time favorite industrial dance club because it strayed from the predictable format of Joy Division and Front 242. Not that I don’t love those bands, but you can’t fucking dance to Bela Lagosis Dead. Not unless you’re into looking like […]
