Gothic News

We get a lot of mail at NPR Music, and amid the CDs in which the Vitamin String Quartet plays the songs of 30 Seconds to Mars is a slew of smart questions about how music fits into our lives - and, this week, the dos and don'ts of covering other artists' music.

"There's a lot of black here tonight," Peter Murphy remarked, surveying the sold-out, packed-in, rainwater-on-the-leather-pants-stinky crowd at Lee's Palace.

The Religious Sisters of Mercy were recognized for their service in the community at The Luzerne Foundation's annual meeting and reception Wednesday.

Rock fans have spent years lamenting the relatively abysmal state of the genre, complete with obsequious bonding over novel acts that are often elevated from flavors of months to esteemed fortunes as years-long steadfast festival headliners.

All this week we're going to look back over albums from undeniable goth icons and talk about their failures.

Tell me that Richard Corben is doing a new Edgar Allen Poe adaptation, and I'm a happy guy.

Before the Haas Type Foundry released Helvetica in 1957, constructivist sans serif fonts were classified as Grotesk , a term that reflected the dismissive notion of typesetters in previous times.

Bodily waste is widely considered a topic not to be discussed in polite company; it's something to be flushed and forgotten.

As we proved in Monday's entry in the series, the mid-'90s wasn't an easy time for the pioneers of the goth genre.

A curious pattern emerges when studying the just-released hour-by-hour schedule for Lollapalooza 2013: female artists getting the shaft.

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In 1303, King Edward I of England was in Scotland with his army. The monarch's expedition to conquer the Scots is believed to have brought him to a Highland castle which 710 years later has its own fan club and a chilling ghost story.

Deathbed narrations of decadent men fascinate us. These haunted, semi-lucid ravings attract us for their reflective melancholy that dissolves the gaudy veils of wealth and power around rotten cores of misgivings and dejection.

In advance of next week's Upfront presentations by the major networks, we close out this week with word on which of ABC's two genre pilots got a new name and pickup order and which got the dreaded call saying it was a pass this time.

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The website Serenes Forest has confirmed the release of a new piece of downloadable content for the game " Fire Emblem : Awakening." This piece of downloadable content is called The Future Past 1, and was made available for May 9, 2013.

On " Haunted Collector ," John Zaffis and his crew headed to the Hollywood Hills to investigate the house Orson Welles lived in while he was working on the classic film, " Citizen Kane ." The homeowner reported a lot of strange things happening in the night that certainly had the familiar feel of paranormal activity.

HA1 4sker DA1 4 co-founder Grant Hart will release a new solo album, The Argument , on July 22 via Domino Records.

English electro-pop singer-songwriter Charli XCX is still a few months shy of her 21st birthday, but she's already built up one hell of a musical rA©sumA©. Charli, born Charlotte Aitchison, recorded her first album, 14, when she was 14 years old.

Few movements of the rock-and-roll era have proved as vital or influential as the British post-punk scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s.