Blixa loves Nick, 1985

Peter's Murphy new Album Lion

Lion Album full review.

Announced release will be on June 2 for UK, will include a limited edition. By the previews of the album is heavier and more electronic.

I hope this time the album if less rage oriented, and more focused the feelings.

David J my favorite Bauhaus

A new solo album, debut album of his new group Stellarum.

An Eclipse of Ships

Have a taste of what a great musician can re-interpret Bela Lugosi's Dead by David J.

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Rusted; The Wake album available on January the 13th 2014

Here we start 2014 with good news.

Don't forget to like their page The Wake.

Lisa Gerrard 4-Track sampler

For those who went to the wonderful DeadCanDance 2012/2013 tour, and have the desire of listening more of Lisa Gerrard's voice, download a 4-Track sampler from http://www.lisagerrard.com/
Don't have to mention how amazing was to see the infallible duo Brendan and Lisa performing their  amazing, mature and iconic sound live!
I consider Dead Can Dance a band for mature ear, it is music that becomes more and more valuable with the years to come.

Dark spots around the world (club's list)

This is the best resource of Gothic clubs I have found.

International Goth Club List

I travel often, so for all of you that happens the same .... have fun in a non-traditional manner, consider taking your time to visit some of this places.

Cool people, mind blowing mood and blood!

I personally will add some other clubs I have visited (not in the list)

Cat Club SF, CA A fancy place with New Wave, Gothic Rock, Synth-Pop and tributes. I read they have bondage and A-gogo events s well but I hadn't luck. Cheap drinks ($5USD), very gentle people and you can run into the store owners (those guys selling rarities at town), closed until 5a.m.

La Kalaka Guadalajara, MX Be sure  to check their activity, not every night you can find dark/gothic music. Small place, cheap drinks, national beers, closed until 3a.m.

If you wanna have some references  to the places I have visited in the list ....

The Real Under Mexico City, MX Probably the cheapest place in town to drink a caguama. If you happen to visit it on August or July there is a massive event called VivaGlam, which gathers hundreds of people from every where in Mexico. Music from 80's, Death rock, Goth, Punk, Post-punk, New Wave, live shows, many more...; if you visit it once in a while it is really fun but tends to be repetitive on tracks. also every last weekend of the month the run an event dedicated to goth; In Goth We trust or This is Gothik Rock.

Have you heard of Elisanth?

Elisanth is an alternative model I met on internet a while ago.
She started with some horror and fetish images, and has continue the tradition until lately.

Have you noticed how many of the goth clubs around the world use her image?

Give her the deserved credit, despite we don't know yet if she is very much into gothic, but no doubt her work as a model has a beautiful influence on the gothic aesthetic (or perhaps it should be the other way around?).

Check her Elisant site or some videos and let her grab you to hell!

Bauhaus; inedited videos from 14 August 1982

Best bands are timeless, keep their secrecy; that is no exception to Bauhaus.

31 years have passed for this "new" videos to see the light.
A great snapshot of the band's moments, the downfall of  the beginning.

One of the best bands that have ever existed on planet earth.

Please enjoy, this is Of Lillies and Remains.... The whole set of inedit videos can be found here.

Christian country, compels goth scene?

I recently read an article about the the religion and the effect it has in the economy of a country. Unfortunately I couldn't find any link in English with such data, but in Spanish Protestant Countries. In resume, of the 10 richest countries in the world, 6 has protestantism as the principal cult.

So, what does all this have to do with the goth scene? This debate on how a religious cult and how a social system affects its evolution, has all to do with the sub-cultural scene.

I believe in the authenticity of the goth, punk among others, but I don't think this can be generalized for some other sub-cultures. I got in love with goth scene about 20 years ago, and I'm still learning new stuff every day. Most of my friends were punks, although we shared some goals and objectives, goth is a more specialized and focused expression. Among goths, there is no stone written paradigms, is not a single opinion or trend, is not a teenage sickness, among normal people they just see the same. But this topic is not about trying to convince people about the ideas and philosophy behind goth, this topic is about expressing the authenticity of a movement, a movement that goes beyond country borders.

I would partially define it as an art style, a life expression, a preference for loving the mystical and mysterious ways life has, the left side of the Qabalah. It has nothing to do with the an specific music genre, or a decade, but with a human history which has shown how the dark path is not always the negative.

I have had several times this debate regarding the authenticity of a sub cultural movement and the social conditions to actually provoke it, goth being subject questioned.

Taking the following argument as a start point, hippies, which I'm sure some will argue against what I'm gonna say, but worthy.

Hippies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie), one of the first ideas associated with the hippie movement is drugs, specially marijuana. Why is this? There are several documents talking about this problem. Isn't that the same drug used during the Vietnam war? Isn't that marijuana is perfect for making the majority of the people calm and quiet? "Don't panic, stay calm, peace and love, it will end soon... " I don't really want to start a topic against the hippie movement, out there will be some other thread to discuss and support it.

But this same approach is taken as an argument against the authenticity of the goth movement. If we take two ideas people relate with goth; androgynous and suicide. I will give some of reasons why they would be authentic, non-conditioned and then what does normal "intelectual" people would argue.

Androgynous

* woman solidarity (minorities solidarity) (+)
* no fear of extreme expression (+)
* no doubts regarding our sexuality (+)
* take your art out to the streets. (+)
* tv media, create a perturbed imaged of the self (-)
* confuse youth to have better control over them (-)

Suicide

* no doubt some of us find life a limited and very superficial transition (there is no need to wait) (+)
* the most important act of freedom (+)
* this society doesn't have any real meaning we want to create new ones (+)
* Capitalism doesn't care about people, create an environment where only the strong ones live, the rest commit suicide (-)
* Produce music so that people get depressed, we can induce suicide ideas (-)

Several times I have heard these negative opinions, haven't really found any information on how a government can induce a society to have such feelings, and in a such specialized population, we are still not the majority, so this sounds wrong.

The strange thing now, I have found a massive web content about goth from south america countries (Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, Peru...), I don't really have a explanation why is happening this now.

I remember goth being popular during 80's 90's in my Country (and is not US, UK or Germany), I can justify by telling it was because of the media, but why now? Is it that christian Countries compel goth scene? Is it the crappy famous vampire movie? Has it always being like this for south america?