by Dislocated Flowers Music is where I go when I wish to step out of current time and space. There is no Control mechanism in there playing on my conscious or unconscious mind telling me I must, should or am obliged to be doing something or other. It is my place of Zen or a form of meditation if you prefer. It’s the only place where everything external stops other than the immediate Now and I feel at peace in my own world. I like to put sounds together to see what will happen. Often with words, sometimes not. The way they synthesise is an endless source of enjoyment and wonder to me. I never ..read more

by Matt Vowles We are the goth rockers, Black Angel, from Los Angeles (even though I hail from 80’s England) and have just released an extended version of our debut album “The Widow.” Initially released in October 2019, some may think this is a little quick for an extended version. But while the first version was awesome, something wasn’t quite right. It was mastered for the “headphone and streaming” generation, and it just didn’t have the bollocks it needed for a Goth/Post-punk album – not the ones I grew up listening to. I should have gone with my gut, I shouldn’t have catered to this popul ..read more

by Scarlet Smith Growing up as a Tempe child but switching places in the outskirts of SoCal or forced to go to church every Sunday, took its toll. I found myself at darker times and darker places of wanting to let go. I may have seemed happy to some, but I wasn’t… I felt trapped and I didn’t like any of it. And it didn’t help that I had an attention problem or that I kept falling ill… Listen to the album while reading the text. In the Beginning I kept thinking to myself: “Why do my parents keep moving us?”, “Why don’t they vaccinate me?!? I keep getting sick from my classmates at school or da ..read more

by Royce Davis I started playing with bands in 1997, and all I cared about was playing live, seeing people see and hear me. I wasn’t concerned with whether they liked it or hated it, so long as they felt something. Here we are, 20-something years later, and not much has changed for me, but the rest of the world is a different animal entirely. Listen to the EP while reading the text. I’m not shy exactly, but I am fairly quiet, relaxed, and prefer to go unnoticed unless I’m on stage. I have been addicted to performing since I did a school play in the third grade. When I perform, I get to be som ..read more

by Adam Majdecki-Janicki We live in funny times. The Artist writes his best song for seven years, suffers mental breakdowns, heartbreaks, crazy life situations, misunderstandings, self-doubt, rehabs, and other things that people might encounter in 7 long years. The song is finally ready. He records it. It takes a week. He releases it. Nobody buys it. In the meantime, The Kid makes a beat on his iPhone; it takes him 3 minutes. He drops it. Someone buys it for $50, to rap about „bitches” over the mindless loop. The Kid buys more chewing gum. Listen to the album while reading the text. We live i ..read more

by Fervency The Nine Unknown Men is the new album by Danish dark-wave romantics, Fervency. A concept album, each song is one of nine sacred books, protected by one of the nine guardians entrusted with the ancient knowledge, wisdom, and technology deemed too dangerous for mankind to possess. Listen to the album while reading the text. Formed by Ashoka the Great, after his final, bloody victory (260 bc) the Emperor realized knowledge had to be safeguarded – the true responsibility of rule being that of peace and harmony and the seeds for the first secret organization were sown. Their mandate to ..read more

by Luna Blanc Le’ts start in the middle. Many years after both Josh and I, separately, had had music running through our veins and had already been the air we breathe. Although, mine in the form of a dream and Josh’s as his reality. Let’s start in the middle. In a retail store in the big and unknown county of Fairfax, in northern Virginia, where Luna and Josh met. Listen to the album while reading the text. First Encounter I, Luna, remember pacing outside the entrance of a big retail store where I had an interview scheduled to start in 15 minutes, going over my lines, my experience. It was so ..read more