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John Carpenter Official shares a second look at his forthcoming collection, 'Anthology II (Movie Themes  1976-1988)', set for release on October 6th via Sacred Bones. 'Anthology I' continues the celebration of his compositional genius via an excellently sequenced collection of some of his most iconic pieces of music from his extensive filmography, all newly recorded with his musical collaborators Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter. Following the previously shared album opener "Chariots of Pumpkins" from Halloween III, today he offers up the newly reworked version of '69th St. Bridge' from Escape From New York - a dynamic track that encapsulates the futuristic and gritty nature of the film and the intensity and urgency of the protagonist's mission via the use of throbbing bass lines, driving rhythms, and electronic textures. Carpenter comments: "This piece played during a chase across an imaginary bridge. Isaac Hayes was going after Kurt Russell,

Noir Bizarre's IHaveADreamPop! Electric Underground Railroad event is happening on September 8 and 9 at VAE Raleigh. This two-day event will feature live music, vendors, and DJ sets inside VAE's main gallery. Free and open to the public. The event starts at 12:30 PM. Le Bizarre Noir (NOIR BIZARRE) “STRANGE BLACK” is a play on words and reclaiming the idea that exploring works by people of color is often unbeknownst to a mainstream audience who had no idea we existed. Daniel Chavis wants to include everyone who is “strange and black” regardless of their background or sexual orientation, “offering something between Hillbillies and Hip Hop.”   Noir Bizarre is a mobile multimedia event covering the "grey" areas of Bohemia and Afrofuturist creatives. We invite the local Triangle community to experience the bohemian side of this Black Futurist manifesto in art, music, and other endeavors.  Learn more about  Noir Bizarre's IHaveADreamPop! Event DetailsWhere: VAE Raleigh

Bauhaus Staircase is the upcoming fourteenth studio album by English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), and the fourth since their 2006 reformation. It will be released on 27 October 2023 by White Noise Records. The title track was released as a single on 22 August. During 2020's COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom, OMD frontman Andy McCluskey "rediscovered the creative power of total bloody boredom", writing the majority of what would become Bauhaus Staircase. Bandmate Paul Humphreys had recently become a father, which delayed his mixing of the album.Humphreys notes that the record also includes older songs that OMD "wrote for previous albums and couldn't find a way to finish." Its release – set for 27 October 2023 – was preceded by a single, the title track, on 22 August. The title is derived from the Oskar Schlemmer painting, Bauhaus Stairway (1932). McCluskey has stated that the album is likely to be OMD's last. Track Listin

The Underground Youth's eleventh album, 'Nostalgia's Glass', was just released on Fuzz Club Records.  The album is available now as a Fuzz Club store-exclusive edition limited to 250 hand-numbered copies on 180g clear-pink vinyl, as well as 180g clear-blue vinyl and CD Stream/Purchase now via the & in the bio "The aim became to create a collection of songs that paid homage to our back catalogue, whilst implementing all that had been learnt along the way. I attempted to dissect not only the positive but the negative elements of nostalgia, primarily the romanticisation of the past, be it the politics of a country, the controversial legacies of film and musical icons or the sentimental idealisation of long dead toxic relationships." Craig Dyer

Beggars Arkive have announced a vinyl reissue, out October 6th, of the second Fields Of The Nephilim album The Nephilim, released 35 years ago by Situation Two/Beggars Banquet in 1988, and not pressed on vinyl since then. The album is pressed on golden brown vinyl and is expanded to a double LP. Formed in 1984, Fields of the Nephilim is the creation of vocalist and front man Carl McCoy. Highly influential, especially in the world of goth, but also within the metal and electronic genres, their legacy endures to this day. You can hear their influence on bands like Swans, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Explosions In The Sky, Wolves in The Throne Room, Behemoth and more. The Nephilim was recorded in a former courthouse in the Somerset countryside where defendants who were sentenced to death were hung. “Moonchild” is the band’s best known song due to it reaching #28 in the UK single charts, and LouderSound called it a classic and said that it “perfectly encapsulates this era of the band: it h

New live album from The Jesus and Mary Chain out now, feat. tracks from ‘Psychocandy’, ‘Darklands’, ‘Automatic’, ‘Honey’s Dead’, ‘Stoned and Dethroned’, ‘Munki’ and ‘Damage and Joy’. Available on gatefold 180g double LP and CD. The black w/ white splatter version is limited to 2000 copies and exclusive to the Fuzz Club and Mary Chain stores. - - - - - - - - - - - - Recorded at the Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles in 2018, ‘Sunset 666’ is a new live aIbum from The Jesus and Mary Chain, due out August 4th 2023 on Fuzz Club. In 1990, a young American band, full of a precise kind of noise and darkness, were special guests on the US tour being undertaken by a group who had noise and darkness, poise and catharsis of their own. The young band: Nine Inch Nails. Those headliners: The Jesus and Mary Chain. Almost thirty years later, an invitation was extended. Would the Reid brothers care to reverse the roles and open for Nine Inch Nails on their own North American tour? Trent Reznor had been a