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Music media and Reddit threads have been eulogizing the death of indie rock for what feels like an eternity. However, those bands they’re mourning is from the early 2000s, when bands like The Strokes made “Is This It” and The Libertines in Britain had “Up The Bracket”. From there, four- and five-piece rock bands cropped up everywhere like Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Von Bondies, Franz Ferdinand, …

Growing up in a tiny city in Sweden where most friends were either huge post-punk fans or completely immersed in Swedish punk music, you would probably think it would have affected a young man’s music taste thus thrusting him into the same musical trajectory as his friends, but the first wave of post-punk in the early eighties just passed by …

If you have your roots in Sweden you should know about the INVSN. If you’re raised on punk and hardcore and all those amazing records generated in Sweden’s most creative region Umeå far up in the north, then you have seen the band members on major stages across the world in different band setups. A beautiful autumn evening in October …

If you have ever had the pleasure of witnessing the live Villagers show in one of its many forms, then you will no doubt agree that frontman Conor O’Brien is that type of artist best enjoyed in real life, because Villagers is about Conor O’Brien’s and his captivating vocals. Far away are the days when O’Brien were criticized of being boring …

Front Line Assembly don’t need to be introduced for fans of the industrial/electronic scene; for more than 30 years the band has influenced countless electronic and industrial bands and musicians across the world. Although they may not get a lot of mainstream airplay, many of their records have managed to break into the industrial/electronic charts. After releasing more than twenty …

At the end of the eighties darkwave crystallized into the Neue Deutsche Todeskunst in Germany where music influenced by goth rock and neo-classical pieces were combined with German-spoken lyrics paying homage to philosophers as Goethe and Nietzsche. One of the pioneering bands released the classic NDT album, also their debut album, “Das Sterben ist ästhetisch bunt” in 1992 and celebrates …