An ambitious compilation of six Western Canadian bands — a self-proclaimed "hors d’oeuvres tray.” It achieves what it sets out to do and int...

This is the first album of five in the ambitious Walkabout series by Ontario’s House of Not. All the grandiosity of style (and some stunning...

Little seems to be known about this odd, early ’80s post-punk trio from Northern England, their identities to say the least. That mystery on...

Siouxsie and Budgie are always hiding around the corner waiting to jump out and take us by surprise with their next musical innovations. Wit...

Anyone who owns anything by the Jesus and Mary Chain or any other albums done in that same wall o’ sound/trainer-gazing Britpop fashion will...

There’s something comforting about knowing that whatever comes and goes, there will always be a few bands out there that stay true to all th...

German kings of subtlety KMFDM are back in action and boy are they miffed. Seems old Dubya has lit a few fires (beyond those in Iraq) in the...

This compilation represents the ninth instalment of the annual weekend darkwave music festival at the creepy Bolkow castle in Bolkow, Poland...

Spacy, atmospheric, trippy; this would be the soundtrack of the season for your nights spent in with a bag of something green and leafy. The...

If you can’t decide to put on industrial, some P. Furs-type ’80s pop, or something more current like Placebo, give this one a try. It isn’t...

Could anything ever come close to the dark majesty that was Vancouver’s industrial heroes Skinny Puppy? No. But D:O tries and they make it f...

Chugging, jangly Velvet Underground-style guitars roughen up the melodic chick vocals making this Victoria band’s take on pop pleasantly gri...

Long-time English goth-rock group Killing Joke is particularly cranky this time, delivering ten tracks that are heavy and hard, with only a...

Nothin’ like just a man and his piano. Well, a two-person back-up band also, but Mr. "Loo-chuck” and his keys come to the front-and-centre o...

After spending years on percussion for the Bad Seeds, Jim Sclavunos has obviously learned well from lead Seed Nick Cave. Sclavunos’ Vanity S...

Gerrit Thomas (Funker Vogt, Ravenous), between doing music for his own projects and remixing for everyone else, decided several years ago th...

This debut full-length from Ontario’s Johnny Hollow is one to pick up if you need some goth/darkwave that extends outside the reach of the u...

Twenty years ago, there was a band called Bunnydrums. They were from Philadelphia, although people thought they came from the UK. In the pos...

I’ve never seen Siouxsie and the Banshees live, and if this release paints a true picture of their sound on stage, I don’t intend to. So str...

Two years after their self-titled EP, this Toronto ambient/shoegazer pop quartet give us their first full-length. While seven of the ten son...