Two punk-adjacent pioneers — Siouxsie and Iggy Pop — will headline this year’s edition of Goldenvoice’s Cruel World festival in Pasadena. Cruel World taps into the many veins of goth-rock, new wave and post-punk that […]
Photo Credit: Drew H. Cohen / CC by 3.0 A new Michael Jackson biopic is in the works at Lionsgate with director Antoine Fuqua attached. The film will explore the legendary musician’s life in a […]
With three spinoffs arriving soon and one about to end, The Walking Dead universe is seeing a resurrection on streaming. This might sound like an unexpected development if one considers that the franchise’s flagship series […]
Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Pocket Casts | YouTube | RSS For the first episode of the New Year, The Story Behind the Song is celebrating the 40th anniversary of A Flock of Seagulls by diving into their new wave […]
This article was originally published in 2016, days prior to David Bowie’s death. It has since been updated in celebration of what would have been his 76th birthday on January 8th, 2023. Ever felt overwhelmed […]
Eurythmics are celebrating 40 years of “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).” The new wave classic dropped on January 4th, 1983, and both Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart took to social media to acknowledge the […]
SongVest is the world’s first music marketplace where fans become investors by purchasing fractional shares of music royalties. Here’s how the revolutionary service works for everyone involved. The following was created in collaboration with SongVest, […]
Manuel Göttsching, an influential German musician best known for his work on modular synths, died Dec. 4. Ullstein Bild/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ullstein Bild/Getty Images Manuel Göttsching, an influential German musician best known […]
Musician Terry Hall of The Specials performs on the Main Stage, at the Isle of Wight Festival in Seaclose Park, Newport, Isle of Wight, England, on June 14, 2014. Yui Mok/AP hide caption toggle caption […]
Photo Credit: Deadmau5 / CC by 3.0 The Sandbox developer Animoca Brands has officially purchased a majority interest in deadmau5-founded “music metaverse gaming platform” Pixelynx. Hong Kong-based Animoca Brands, which arrived on the scene in […]
In his rolling, sonorous, Polish-accented English, veteran director Jerzy Skolimowski explains how he became a donkey whisperer. “I make a very close bond with the animal,” he says. “Every time I was not doing anything […]
NIGHTWISH has once again postponed its previously announced Asian tour. The trek was called off less than a month after NIGHTWISH singer Floor Jansen revealed that she was “cancer free” after recently undergoing surgery to […]
Rock and pop music has been obsessed with its own past almost from the start: by 1959, a New York record store called Times Square was doing a roaring trade in what it called “oldies”, […]
First Trailer for Palindrome. © 2020 – London New Wave Share This Video
20. No Regrets (2005) Ballads were seldom Girls Aloud’s forte – they were better at songs with bolshie attitudes, which seemed to suit their personalities – but No Regrets is the exception that proves the […]
The latest issue of Rock Candy magazine celebrates the making of SAXON‘s game-changing New Wave Of British Heavy Metal album “Wheels Of Steel” with a 10-page mega feature including new interviews with every band member […]
Thanks to a delightfully aloof performance from Jenna Ortega, Netflix’s updated Addams Family adaptation Wednesday has been a runaway hit. In one unforgettable scene, Ortega’s Wednesday Addams lets her guard down for a bit and breaks […]
If I had a dime for every time I hear Latinos aren’t a monolith, I’d be rich enough to run for mayor of Los Angeles. Yet news stories about Latinos still largely veer between the […]
Simon & Schuster, the publishing giant and home to Bob Dylan’s new book of essays The Philosophy of Modern Song, is issuing refunds for the limited autographed edition because, as it turns out, Dylan technically […]
Anti-conformist French film-maker Jean-Marie Straub died peacefully at his home in Switzerland on Sunday, the Swiss National Film Archive announced. He was 89. Straub was a peer of many greats from the French New Wave […]