Category: Interview

Bellhead – The The Empty

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Brand new cover single from our favorite Chicago Bass duo. I love when you look at instrumentation and it is listed as “High Bass” and “Low Bass”. Always loved this record from alt thrash band Le Tigre. The dueling bass guitars definitely make the tone feel weightier while maintaining the blistering pace. The vocals are spewed with the perfect amount of vitriol and it surfs the pipeline between nostalgia and modern.

BELLHEAD

The The Empty | BELLHEAD

In case you have never heard the original 🙂

released February 14, 2026
BELLHEAD
Karen Righeimer ~ Low Bass / Vocals
Ivan Russia ~ High Bass / Vocals / Drum Programming

Le Tigre “The The Empty” written by Johanna Fateman / Kathleen Hanna

Management Consulting David Schock

Recorded & Mixed by Neil Strauch
Mastered by Carl Saff
Artwork by Karen Righeimer / Design by Igloo Vacuum

A must see live band with lots of exciting shows coming up

Rohn – Lederman – “Volcano”

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Brand new release on Les Disques De La Pantoufle from one of my favorite collaborations, legendary Belgian composer Jean- Marc Lederman (The Weathermen, Ghost & Writer, The The, Fad Gadget, Gene Loves Jezebel) and Detroit vocalist/producer Emileigh Rohn (Chiasm) who are always pushing the boundaries of modern emotional electronica. I love the bravery of Emileigh’s lyrical style, a flowing beat poetry of gushing ideas without pretense. Effortlessly matching the sonic composition between human experience and visual imagery. I just don’t get enough songs that make the hairs on my arms stand up, locked in a perfect moment like “There’s So Much to Share”

Rohn – Lederman – Volcano

released March 6, 2026

Artwork by Erica Hinyot

I’m always amazed when hearing a new Rohn-Lederman album by the level of craft. How following every tone, each decision, the level of thought and precision. It is important to follow the heart and create a mood when making music. Jean-Marc and Emileigh certainly make something beautiful and emotive. What really sets it apart in the modern landscape is their dedication and experience creating forms and move the listener. The lyrics are some of the darkest Emileigh has ever written, but with a glimmer of hope, which is maybe the best we can hope for in this tragic timeline.

Favorite Track: Paper Plane – Rolling waves and splashing dissonance in sounds of endless motion. There is something about this track that transports me to a youthful blur of imagination. Emileigh’s wispy fantastical vocals are captivating and pure. I love where this song transports my mind.

The Russian White – Funeral Art

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The Russian White – Distortion Production artist from Reading Pennsylvania with a new terror disco release on October 4th 2024 just in time for the spooky season. Cathedral pageantry organs and demonic chants set the stage for a sinister tale of synthesized anguish. Masterfully mixed and mastered by Tim Heireth who highlights Tom’s vocals of spewed vulgarity at an uncaring god.

Funeral Art | The Russian White (bandcamp.com)

Produced by Tim Heireth and The Russian White
Mixing:Time Heireth
Mastering: Eric Broyhill at Monsterlab

Tom Rhymer: Vocals,Synths, Beats
Michael Colon: Synths, Effects

John Jacobus: Guitars on Vampire Drugs and Black Nikes
Dan Milligan: Drums on Black Nikes
Andrew Straubel:Guitar on Vampire Drugs
The Number H: Vocals on Funeral Art

This is an album of sinister specters singing New Order “Corruption and Lies” hooks in a post-apocalyptic concrete bunker. That narrative line between science fiction and supernatural terror. A glorious synthesis of era and genre clashing together into something fresh and disconcerting.

Favorite Tracks: Vampire Drugs – I love the glitchy witchhaus vibes of this slowly expanding burner. Tom’s overlapping vocals of distorted rage ghost and clean expressive emo create a clashing barrier of modern and traditional that hits you right in the heart.

We Disappear – This track really captures that retro New Order meets filthy sensual club glitch. It’s dangerous, fresh and modern in an infectious way that makes steam rise from the dancefloor.

I love the mysterious blend of modern electronica and homage to the traditional past. Be on the lookout for live performances. This is a band at the top of my must see live soon list.

Albie Damned – Self Sabotage Part I: The Fantastical Absurdist Ballet of Whimsically Orchestrated Catastrophes

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Albie Mason (Scary Black) from Louisville KY is one of the most criminally underrated talents in modern goth. In addition to his visceral and dynamic gothgaze music, he is an accomplished visual artist with credits that include our own album cover for Amaranth Gothtimism. With this ambitious new project Albie Damned we enter a mythic fantasy of self-exploration complete with corresponding visuals in the style of Adventure Time. The music is such a drastic change showing the range of Albie’s talent. Track 2 Open World has an amazing 8 bit Bat Out Of Hell du wop feel that got it’s hooks in me early. The guitar work is full of complex phaser shoegaze adding depth of character to the cartoon vampire vocals. The beats here are simple and accessible, but the concepts and construction make raw emotional brilliance behind of mask of cartoon theme songs. The effect is quite staggering. I’m genuinely baffled I am one of 8 people who have bought it on bandcamp so far.

Self Sabotage Part I: The Fantastical Absurdist Ballet of Whimsically Orchestrated Catastrophes | Albie Damned (bandcamp.com)

Track 4: Torch delves deeper into the dungeon. Adds some trip hop flavor and darker rasping Scary Black style vocals. These songs all feel like individual adventures with a loose connection. Track 6: Everynite is a dream of flying over the shadow realm, full of Andrew Eldrich swimming through a sky of glitter. Wicked guitar licks to accent the journey. Track 10 : I Can’t Dance pours on the sleaze and motion of a filthy mini boss. Loving the falsetto harmonies here to prop up the main villain.

I know Albie intended this as a side project to work through some things between Scary Black releases, I hope he comes back and gives this it’s due. Something beautiful, dark, with a veil of innocence that makes it vulnerable and true. I’d love to see a full compliment of the drawings to match up as music videos to the songs.

Video premiere of Seaside Tryst ““Foam In The Ocean”

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This was the press release, so OBVIOUSLY I was all in 🙂

” Foam in the Ocean”, from Seattle, Washington garage-pop, post-punks SEASIDE TRYST is their take on the Hans Christian Anderson classic “The Little Mermaid” which is arguably one of the more devastating allegories of queer longing.  In the original story, instead of becoming a beautiful, Disney-fied woman following a kiss, Ariel disappears forever after she turns into foam in the sea.”

New release from the Seattle WA DreamGoth band full of dark post punk driving bass and elegant Galaxy 500 dreampop. Lovely energy of wistful exploration crashing into isolation. The vocals are warm bright eyes searching an alien place. The video really embraces the caring culture of the queer community. I was an immediate fan.

Filmed and created by Ashley Nieves

SEASIDE TRYST:

Avery Kanode – vocals, guitar

Frankie Champagne – synth, samples

Ryan Pangilinan – bass

Jesse Peoples – drums

Different Places | seaside tryst (bandcamp.com)